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Feb 18, 2025

There’s cool shit happening in Lombard. For this episode, I led a chat with four interesting (and super-cool) creatives:

  • From the Unmasked Coven, a queer + neurodivergent-owned space, are owners Sarah and Faeth. 

  • Also from Unmasked Coven: Jesse, the person behind the productions happening at the Unmasked...


Feb 5, 2025

Dyslexicon is the soul-searching and emotionally-driven creative outlet of multi-instrumentalist Dan Hart. It’s metal. It’s punk. It’s prog. It’s cool.

 

Dan joins me just as the second Dyslexicon album, Dracula at Sea, is available for streaming. At one point during the conversation, I call him a “mad...


Jan 30, 2025

I love a good record store, and for this episode, I’m focused one of the greatest record stores in Chicago history: The Flip Side.

 

The Flip Side: Where Chicago Rocked is a new book about the birth, innovation, success and eventual end of the Flip Side chain. To talk about the book, I’m joined by co-author...


Jan 26, 2025

I’m a sucker for broody, synthy, hooky post-punk, and that’s what you’ll get on the debut from Milwaukee band Seances. The album, “Power is a Phantom,” comes out on February 13th, and I’m joined for lunch by Eric Arsnow -singer, bassist, founder of Seances.

We recorded outside Poochie’s in Skokie (3602...


Jan 25, 2025

Kansas-based singer/songwriter Aud Whitson is about to release her stark, authentic EP, “A House That Can’t Get Quieter,” on February 7.

 

I caught up with her while she was in Chicago to talk about her songwriting, as well as the very DIY method she used to record the EP - voice memos on her iPhone.

 

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