Podcast revamping

Hey, all! We're in the process of revamping the show to make it even more awesome for you. The downside of this is, it's gonna take us a bit longer to get things out to you til the revamp is complete. We've got the regular weekly showlist below, and promise to get this week's podcast out to you ASAP. Since time doesn't stand still, though, check out a quick written run-down of live stuff in town this week, and check back soon for this week's podcast!
<3, Susan.

UPCOMING SHOWS:
8/13 – The Breeders @ Double Door
8/13 – The Blissters @ Betty's Blue Star
8/14 – Art Brut @ Subterranean
8/15 – Tapes n Tapes, Art Brut @ Green Music Fest
8/15 – Sass Dragons @ Ronny's
8/15 – I Fight Dragons @ Martyr's
8/15 – Unicycle Loves You @ Empty Bottle
8/16 – Catfish Haven, Murder By Death, Lucero @ Green Music Fest
8/18 – The Pretenders, Cat Power, Juliette Lewis @ Aragon Ballroom
8/19 – Coheed & Cambria @ CharterOne Pavillion

Playlist and Podcast for August 6, 2009

Sorry for the slightly belated posting this week! There was so much good music to pack in to this week's show, we took a little longer to put it together in order to give you more show and festival previews! The podcast can be downloaded here, and can also be played using player in the right-hand bar. As you probably know, this weekend's big Chicago festival is probably the biggest of the whole summer, Lollapalooza, and we have festival picks for each day, as well as afterparty previews and other local goodness, so sit back, and enjoy the show!
<3, Susan.

PLAYLIST:
Lou Reed – Walk On The Wild Side
King Sparrow – The Wreckage
Kings of Leon – Sex on Fire
The Raveonettes – Love in a Trashcan
Kaiser Chiefs – Everyday I Love You Less and Less
Bon Iver – Skinny Love
The Decemberists – Sixteen Military Wives
Neko Case – People Got A Lotta Nerve
Band of Horses – Funeral
Of Montreal – Disconnect the Dots
Depeche Mode – Enjoy The Silence
Fleet Foxes – Sun It Rises
Silversun Pickups – Kissing Families
Ezra Furman and the Harpoons – Take Off Your Sunglasses
The Killers – All These Things That I've Done
Ben Folds – Rockin' The Suburbs
Andrew Bird – Scythian Empires

UPCOMING SHOWS:
8/6 – The Decemberists, The Heartless Bastards @ Metro
8/6 – Andrew Bird @ Schubas (SOLD OUT)
8/7 – King Sparrow @ Subterranean (w/ The Flying Eyes)
8/7 – TV on the Radio @ Double Door
8/7 – Band of Horses @ House of Blues Chicago
8/7 – Arctic Monkeys @ Metro
8/7 – Peter Bjorn and John @ Cubby Bear (FREE!)
8/7-8/9 – Lollapalooza Music Festival
8/8 – The Raveonettes @ Empty Bottle
8/8 – Fleet Foxes @ Metro
8/8 – Dan Auerbach @ Schubas
8/8 – Ezra Furman & the Harpoons @ House of Blues Chicago
8/9 – Deerhunter @ Logan Square Auditorium (all ages)
8/11 – Caw! Caw! @ Schubas
8/11 – Plastic Crimewave Sound @ Abbey Pub

Indiesomnia's Lollapalooza 2009 Festival Picks:

FRIDAY (August 7):
Andrew Bird, Bon Iver, Kings of Leon, Ben Folds, Of Montreal, Depeche Mode, Fleet Foxes, The Gaslight Anthem, Heartless Bastards, Peter Bjorn & John

SATURDAY (August 8):
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Animal Collective, Arctic Monkeys, TV on the Radio, Ezra Furman and the Harpoons, Delta Spirit, Federico Aubele, Ida Maria, Los Campesinos!

SUNDAY (August 9):
Lou Reed, The Killers, Silversun Pickups, Neko Case, The Raveonettes, Kaiser Chiefs, Band of Horses, Jane's Addiction

Playlist and Podcast for July 30, 2009

Here we go again, another week in Chicago and indie music. We are currently seeking LOCAL BANDS to record short interviews to be used in the show starting soon--please email us at indiesomnia@gmail.com to find out more and join the fun! This week's podcast can be downloaded by clicking here, or you can play it online using the player at the top of the right-hand navigation on this page. Be sure to check out the live music this weekend at the Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival, and enjoy the show!
<3, Susan.

PLAYLIST:
Flight of the Conchords – Foux du Fafa
The Blissters – Electric
Sufjan Stevens – Decatur
Social Distortion – Ring of Fire
Elephant Gun – Guts In
Cat Stevens – I Think I See The Light
Mission of Burma – That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate
Casiokids – Gront Lys I Alle Ledd
They Might Be Giants – Particle Man
Electric Six – She's White
The Part V – The Thoroughs
Material Issue – Valerie Loves Me
Sad Accordions – Moustrap
Mitch Hemann – Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

UPCOMING SHOWS:
7/30 – Elephant Gun @ Ronny's
7/30 – Sad Accordions @ The Nite Light Cafe
7/31 – The Blissters @ Beat Kitchen (w/ Otter Petter, Penthouse Sweets)
8/1 – The Loneliest Monk, Alla, White Mystery, and more @ Milwaukee Ave Arts Festival (The Whistler Stage)
8/1 – Blah Blah Blah, Michael Columbia, and more @ Milwaukee Ave Arts Festival (Crown Stage)
8/1 – Pomegranates @ Subterranean
8/3 – Pete Yorn @ Park West
8/4 – Casiokids @ Schubas
8/4 – The Part V @ Empty Bottle

Playlist and Podcast for July 23, 2009

So here it is, better late than never! This week's podcast can be downloaded in mp3 format here, or you can listen online using the handy-dandy player on the right-hand side of the page! Be sure to check out the page for the Wicker Park Festival if you're thinking of heading out to it this weekend, too!
And if you haven't taken a look-see yet, check out this review I did of the 2009 Pitchfork Music Festival!
Take care, and see you next week!
<3, Susan.

PLAYLIST:
The Gories – Hey Hey We're The Gories
Elvis Perkins – All The Night Without Love
Berlin – Masquerade
My My My – Best Laid Plans
Stellastarr* – Sweet Troubled Soul
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll
Franz Ferdinand – Womanizer
The Dead Weather – Treat Me Like Your Mother
Death From Above 1979 – Black History Month
Jonny Rumble – Opportunities
Darling – We Are Strong
I Think Everything I Say – Shallow (So We Don't Drown)
The Brandnames – Black And White Camera
Snowsera – Sun Meets The Sea

UPCOMING SHOWS:
7/24 – Morningwood @ Metro (FREE with RSVP)
7/24 – I Think Everything I Say @ Phyllis' Musical Inn
7/24-7/25 – The Wrens @ Schubas
7/25 – Elvis Perkins @ Subterranean
7/26 – Elvis Perkins, Margot and the Nuclear So & So's @ Wicker Park Festival (free)
7/26 – My My My @ Taste of Lincoln Avenue
7/26 – Darling @ The Whistler
7/26 – Jonny Rumble @ Schubas (w/ Electric Touch)
7/27 – Lauren Hubert @ Elbo Room
7/28-7/29 – The Dead Weather @ Vic Theater (all ages)
7/29 – El Ten Eleven, Coltrane Motion @ Schubas

Playlist and Podcast for July 16, 2009

It's a big week for Chicago festivals, one of the two major summer indie rock festivals based out of Chicagoland is happening this weekend—Pitchfork Music Festival. We're not affiliated with it at all, but we did want to give you a taste/preview/whatever of the festival (and be sure to check out our Pitchfork Picks at the bottom of this week's blog post), as well as give you some other ideas for stuff going on in town this week. You can download your copy of the podcast here, or listen in on our online player. Either way, enjoy the show!
<3, Susan.

PLAYLIST:
The Thermals – Here's Your Future
The Dutchess and The Duke – Reservoir Park
Cymbals Eat Guitars – Wind Phoenix
Built To Spill – Conventional Wisdom
Blitzen Trapper – Silver Moon
Yo La Tengo – Sugarcube
The Flaming Lips – Fight Test
Sass Dragons – Gone Hoggin'
Picture Books – Rockets Don't Go To Chicago, Andy
Women – Black Rice
Video Daughters – Tri-State Area Blues
Japandroids – Heart Sweats
Tenniscourts – Swimming Pool
Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
M83 – Don't Save Us From The Flames
The Black Lips – Hippie Hippie Hooray
Beirut – Mount Wroclai (Idle Days)

UPCOMING SHOWS:
7/16 – A Lull @ Bottom Lounge
7/16 – Video Daughters @ The Mutiny (Free Show!)
7/16 – Tenniscourts (DJ set) @ The Burlington
7/17–7/19 – Pitchfork Music Festival
7/18 – Sass Dragons @ Ronny's
7/18 – The Dutchess and The Duke @ The Hideout (Pitchfork After Party)
7/18–7/19 – The Loneliest Monk, Asa Ransom @ EP Theater (limited tickets)
7/19 – Blitzen Trapper @ Empty Bottle (Pitchfork After Party)
7/20 – Picture Books @ Empty Bottle (Free Show!)
7/21 – Lovvers, Psychedelic Horseshit @ Empty Bottle

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Indiesomnia's (un)Official Picks for Pitchfork:
DAY 1: Built To Spill, Yo La Tengo
DAY 2: The Black Lips, Beirut, Wavves, The Dutchess and the Duke, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Disappears
DAY 3: The Flaming Lips, Grizzly Bear, The Walkmen, The Thermals, Blitzen Trapper, Women

Playlist and Podcast for July 9, 2009

And so continues the summer chock-full of Chicago music, in-town and here on the podcast. The latest episode is available for download here, or you can listen online using the player at the top of the right-hand navigator on the website. Check out local music! Highlights of this week's music festivals include West Fest and The World's Largest Block Party! Enjoy the show, and see you next week for more music!
<3, Susan.

PLAYLIST:
Mannequin Men – Massage
Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions – Fool For You
Blondie – Sunday Girl
Headlights – Centuries
INXS – Need You Tonight
LCD Soundsystem – Movement
Fountains of Wayne – Too Cool For School
The Fiery Furnaces – The End Is Near
Moritat – Noise
Kasabian – Fire
Shipwreck – Rabbit in the Kitchen
The Lost Cartographers – Butterflies Fall
Violent Femmes – Kiss Off
The Kills – Sour Cherry
Local Natives – Airplanes
Deer Tick – Little White Lies
Oasis – Wonderwall

UPCOMING SHOWS:
7/9 – The Fiery Furnaces @ The Hideout
7/9 – The Lost Cartographers @ Reggie's
7/10 – Mannequin Men @ Metro (album release)
7/10 – The Features @ Schubas
7/10 – Fountains of Wayne (acoustic set) @ Park West
7/10 – My My My @ World's Largest Block Party (south stage)
7/11 – Ben Folds, Headlights @ World's Largest Block Party (main stage)
7/11 – Fake Problems @ Beat Kitchen
7/12 – Moritat @ Reggie's
7/12 – The 1900s @ West Fest (main stage)
7/12 – Elephant Gun @ Street Fest
7/14 – Jeremy Keen and the False Starts @ Double Door
7/14 – Peter Murphy, Venus Infers @ House of Blues Chicago
7/14 – Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band @ Metro
7/15 – Deer Tick @ Empty Bottle

Playlist and Podcast for June 25, 2009

Another day, another dollar. You know how it goes. In the case of Indiesomnia, it's another week, another great set of music. This week's podcast can be downloaded here, or played online using the player at the right-hand side of the page. There are (as usual) lots of sweet shows going down in town this week—take a gander at the showlist for some ideas! You can get your daily schedules for the Taste of Chicago here, and that Yearbooks track I mentioned in the show is available, along with a nice little writeup of the band, through the Chicago Rock Music Examiner blog. That's about it for now. Take care, and have a good week!
<3, Susan.

PLAYLIST:
Rufus Wainwright – Instant Pleasure
Kaiser Chiefs – Never Miss A Beat
Sonic Youth – Sacred Trickster
Love – Hey Joe
Clock Hands Strangle – Distaccati
The Appleseed Cast – Fight Song
Johnny Cash – God's Gonna Cut You Down
Cities and Thrones – A Most Dangerous Game
Kid, You'll Move Mountains – Make It Sing
King Khan and the Shrines – 69 Faces of Love
Busted Creek – Buried Alive
Clem Snide – Fill Me With Your Light
The Yearbooks – Season of Love
The Rikters – Take Time
Emiliana Torrini – Sunny Road
The Ponys – Double Vision
Sufjan Stevens – Chicago

UPCOMING SHOWS:
6/25 – Busted Creek @ The Elbo Room
6/25 – Black Horse @ Cobra Lounge
6/26 – The Appleseed Cast @ Subterranean
6/26 – Jay Reatard @ Bottom Lounge
6/26 – Kid, You'll Move Mountains @ Taste of Chicago
6/27 – The Rikters @ Beat Kitchen (Album Release Show)
6/27 – I Think Everything I Say @ Silvie's Lounge
6/27 & 6/28 – Sonic Youth @ Vic Theater
6/29 – Deleted Scenes @ Empty Bottle (FREE!)
7/1 – Finding Fiction @ Abbey Pub

Playlist and Podcast for June 18, 2009

Here it is, another week of Chicago and independent music. The official schedule for Lollapalooza was just released, and you can now buy tickets for individual days (in case you haven't shelled out for a 3-day pass, but still would like to see some of the bands). This week on the Festival Front, be sure to check out the lineups for MOBfest and Taste of Randolph Street. This week's podcast can be downloaded in mp3 format here, and you can also listen in online using the online player on the right-hand side of the page.
Enjoy the show!
<3, Susan.

PLAYLIST:
X – Los Angeles
Belle and Sebastian – Your Cover's Blown
The Dandy Warhols – Bohemian Like You
King Sparrow – The Wreckage
Eagles of Death Metal – Speaking In Tongues
The Assembly – If They Exist
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Shuffle Your Feet
Michele Ari - Pretty
The Lemonheads – Mrs. Robinson
The Handcuffs – Jet Baby
Tom Vek – C-C (You Set The Fire In Me)
Violent Kin – Blue Eyes
Pinback – Fortress
Arlo Guthrie – Coming Into Los Angeles
The Church – Under the Milky Way
The Clash – Rudie Can't Fail

UPCOMING SHOWS:
6/18 – The Assembly @ Darkroom
6/18 – Incredible Shrinking Boy @ Fiesta Cantina
6/18-6/20 – X @ Double Door
6/19 – The Loneliest Monk, Soy Un Caballo, Conductive Alliance @ Schubas
6/19 – The Lost Cartograpers @ Morseland (CD Release Show)
6/19 & 6/20 – The Lemonheads @ Abbey Pub (6/20 w/ The Handcuffs)
6/20 – The Church @ House of Blues
6/22 – King Sparrow @ Schubas
6/22 – The Sea and Cake @ Jay Pritzker Stage (Millennium Park)
6/23 – Violent Kin @ Double Door

Playlist and Podcast for June 11, 2009

And here we are again, another week, another podcast! This week's show can be downloaded in mp3 format here, and you can also have a listen on the webplayer on the right-hand side of the page. This week's playlist and upcoming showlist follow! Enjoy!
<3, Susan.

PLAYLIST:
Amy Winehouse – You Know I'm No Good
Starlight Mints – Eyes of the Night
Human Sexual Response – Jackie Onassis
The Beta Band – Dry The Rain
Incredible Shrinking Boy – Fall For Me
Eric Burdon and War – Spill The Wine
Elephant Gun – Tax Returns
Blitzen Trapper – Furr
Metric – Help I'm Alive
Mannequin Men – Private School
Cake – Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
Backyard Tire Fire – The Places We Lived
The Kills – Love Is A Deserter
The White Stripes – Walking With A Ghost
The Raveonettes – Experiment in Black
Vic Chesnutt – Warm
Wilco – Poor Places

UPCOMING SHOWS:
6/11 – The Starlight Mints @ Bottom Lounge
6/11 – Elephant Gun @ Beat Kitchen (17+)
6/11–12 – Vic Chesnutt @ Empty Bottle (w/ Jonathan Richman)
6/11–12 – Art Brut @ Schubas
6/12 – PJ Harvey @ Riviera Theater
6/12 – Incredible Shrinking Boy @ The Hideout
6/12 – The Injured Parties @ Darkroom
6/13 – Geronimo! @ Ronny's
6/13 – Phoenix, Amazing Baby @ Park West (all ages)
6/14 – Passion Pit @ Empty Bottle (SOLD OUT!)
6/14 – Metric @ Metro

Playlist and Podcast for June 4, 2009

And we're (finally) back from our extended break, and couldn't be more excited to play the best music Chicago has to offer for you again! :D The latest podcast can be downloaded here, and/or can be played via webstream using the online player on the right-hand side of the page. As always, I have some sweet music to play for you, and this week's big summer festival is the Metronome Celebration. Enjoy, and I'll see you next week for a new show!
<3, Susan.

PLAYLIST:
The Who – I Can't Explain
Art Brut – Good Weekend
Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
Franz Ferdinand – No You Girls
The 1990s – You Made Me Like It
Louis XIV – Your Shoes Are The Star Of The Show
Blah Blah Blah – Why Am I The Only One Laughing
Jarvis Cocker – Angela
The Arcade Fire – Rebellion (Lies)
Smoking Popes – Grab Your Heart And Run
David Bowie – Ashes To Ashes
Department of Eagles – No One Does It Like You
John Vanderslice – Fetal Horses
The Fratellis – Got Ma Nuts From A Hippy
Traffic – John Barleycorn
Jenny Lewis – Acid Tongue
Supertramp – Take The Long Way Home

UPCOMING SHOWS:
6/4 – The New Standards @ Hideout
6/5 – Jenny Lewis @ Park West (all ages)
6/5 – White Mystery @ Schubas
6/5 – Blah Blah Blah @ Martyrs
6/6 – Smoking Popes @ Double Door
6/6 – John Vanderslice @ Metronome Celebration (day), Empty Bottle (eve)
6/6 – IAMX @ Subterrranean
6/7 – Blah Blah Blah @ Moonshine
6/8–6/12 – Art Brut @ Schubas