CHIRP: Chicago Independent Radio Project

The Chicago Independent Radio Project is working to secure a broadcast license for a new community radio station in Chicago that is committed to local, independent programming, and generally furthering the causes of localism, diversity, and independence in broadcasting. We are working to convince Congress and the FCC to remove existing barriers to the granting of low power FM radio licenses in urban areas, including Chicago. We hope you'll join the fight.

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12.03: Mike Scales - Top 15 for 2008 in CHIRPlog
12.03: Weekly Voyages Tues 12/2 to Mon 12/8 in Events
12.02: Caitlin Lavin’s Top Ten of 2008 in CHIRPlog
12.01: Chris Siuty’s top ten of 2008 in CHIRPlog
11.29: Bring a canned good to Metro’s ‘Home for the Holidays’ shows Dec. 19-28 in To Do List
11.24: Get Mixed Up with Canasta in CHIRPlog
11.24: Weekly Voyages Mon 11/24 to Sun 11/30 in Events
11.21: Robert Wyatt Remixes Hot Chip in CHIRPlog
11.20: 1992 VMA’s in CHIRPlog
11.19: Artist Spotlight: Daedelus in CHIRP Spotlight

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Record Review: Butcher Boy, Profit in Your Poetry
Posted by Elizabeth R. on September 17, 2008 around 1pm

Some quick facts for the gentle reader:

* Butcher Boy is a 7 piece outfit out of Glasgow, Scotland.
* Lead singer John Blain Hunt hosted successful pop night The National Pop League (immortalized in the Camera Obscura song “Knee Deep at the National Pop League”) in Glasgow up until this past summer.
* According to band mate and lead guitarist Basil Pieroni, Butcher Boy is named for a Booker Prize-winning novel by John McCabe: “It’s beautifully written, dark, disturbing and makes fun of stifling small town mores with the blackest of humour.”
* Their first album, Profit in Your Poetry was released last year in the UK by London-based label (and club night of the same name) How Does it Feel to Be Loved?. Profit will make it stateside via Red Eye Distribution on October 7th.
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Indie Pop Festivals
Posted by Elizabeth R. on June 24, 2008 around 10am

A strategically timed business trip brought to me to New York in time to catch days two through four of the NYC Popfest, the 2nd year of a festival that “brings together the very best local indiepop bands, to showcase alongside special guests who’ve been knocking our socks off from too far away” (see www.nycpopfest.org for a full line up). The festival took place at a number of venues in the city, mostly concentrated around the Lower East Side and Williamsburg, including the very cozy Cake Shop, which has nurtured many recent up-and-coming New York indie pop bands. Fellow popsters from Australia, Sweden, the UK, and Finland, as well as Seattle and the North East also represented. Sadly I missed festival opener, Sweden’s Love is All, but the rest of the festival was by no means an anticlimax. Events ended with a “Recovery BBQ and Farewell Party” at Brooklyn’s Union Pool, by which time you really had a feeling of being with a bunch of friends, chatting, buying one another beer for as long as you could still stay awake, and swapping CDs. The festival organizers were able to cultivate an impressive sense of community amongst the indie pop fans. Below a quick round-up:
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