March 26, 2022 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #614)

9:00 AM The Dells • Trains & Boats & Planes • The Dells Sing Dionne Warwicke's Greatest Hits • Cadet

9:03 AM Lucinda Williams • Gentle On My Mind • Funny How Time Slips Away: A Night of Country Classics • Highway 20

9:07 AM Heidi Serwer • Pine Needles • Palm Tree on the Drywall • self-released

9:13 AM Aldous Harding • Tick Tock • Warm Chris • 4AD

Concert review: Sparks at Copernicus Center, Chicago, IL (March 19, 2022)

Perhaps the dominant theme of the Edgar Wright documentary The Sparks Brothers is the importance of persistence. Ron and Russell Mael have pursued a distinct artistic sensibility for over five decades, with patches of success in various parts of the world. The Maels now find themselves on the upswing in their home country, aided a great deal by the aforementioned documentary, along with their first feature film (for which they wrote the story, and co-wrote the screenplay and songs) Annette. 

2021's so-called Summer of Sparks has helped Sparks to headline the biggest venues of their career in many parts of the country where they weren't in vogue for most of their career. Their current North American tour brought them to the Copernicus Center on a Saturday night. A converted old movie palace in the northwest Chicago neighborhood of Jefferson Park, which has one of the largest Polish populations in the city, the Copernicus Center holds roughly 1900 people, and if not all, most of those seats were filled with an enthusiastic crowd who ate up everything their longtime (or medium term or new) heroes dished up.

March 19, 2022 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #613)

9:01 AM Amythyst Kiah • Love Will Tear Us Apart • single • Rounder

9:04 AM Doleful Lions • Only In My Dreams • single • self-released

9:07 AM Bloodhype • Relax • Pictures of Our Dead Intercom System • self-released

9:14 AM Hollie Cook • Full Moon Baby • Happy Hour • Merge

March 12, 2022 CHIRP Radio Playlist (Show #612)

6:01 AM Sweet  • Windy City • Off the Record • Capitol

6:09 AM The Detroit Cobras  •  Right Around the Corner  • Life, Love and Leaving  •  Sympathy for the Record Industry 

6:11 AM Narrow Adventure • Sad Little Dog • Narrow Adventure • Space Case

6:15 AM John Doe • Never Coming Back • Fables in a Foreign Land • Fat Possum

March 5, 2022 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #611)

9:00 AM Massive Attack • Rush Minute • Heligoland • Virgin

9:05 AM Gladys Knight & The Pips • All I Could Do Was Cry • Nitty Gritty • Soul

9:08 AM Dalibor Cruz • 01 • 21 de Agosto, Macayuri • Chicago Research

9:13 AM The Weather Station • Taught • How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars • Fat Possum