Our interview guest for our second episode and first Guest Curator for June is visual artist Maura Walsh
genre: Metal
Our First Friday new music roundup for June 2021. A feast of ten tunes and videos from a wide range of indie, punk, and metal artists from the Chicago area for your listening and viewing pleasure.
Featuring 90 minutes of heavy music from some of Chicago’s best metalcore and genre-adjacent groups featuring scene veterans Veil of Maya, Born of Osiris, Dead to Fall Oceano to hard-hitting newer bands such as VCTMS, Erabella and Atlanta is Burning.
Presenting our First Friday new music list for May, 2021. This month we’re featuring a variety of different […]
Today we’re celebrating curator Melissa Flowers’ birthday. For her birthday, Mel curated a 90-minute playlist of some of her favorite bands from many different scenes and genres from our area.
“I spend the better part of my life creating and listening to music. Over the last 10 years […]
We’re thrilled to announce our Stoner Doom Volume 2 playlist for this week’s, 4/20 celebrations. For this list, […]
We’re thrilled to announce our Stoner Doom Volume 2 playlist for this week’s, 4/20 celebrations. As part of the release of the list we selected Chicago doom metal/stoner rock quartet Black Road as our featured artist for the month of April. Suzi, the lead vocalist from Black Road is one of the co-curators for this volume and we will be featuring her selections along with a few other notable bands over the next week.
Our Guest List curator for April is drummer and educator Chris Avgerin. Chris is well-known across multiple genres in Chicago’s music scene and has an impressive resume of projects and bands including Nequient, Varaha, Hedgehog and The Fox along with being respected as a session and live drummer. We asked Chris to curate a 90 minute playlist of music featuring bands from Chicago that he really dug and also interviewed him to get his background and perspective being a professional musician getting through a year of the pandemic.
Presenting our First Friday new music list for April, 2021. This month we’re featuring a variety of different […]
Hardcore punk music in general is cathartic for me. I eat it and breathe it daily. All of the bands I’ve played in have been fast hardcore punk bands, it’s really a style that identifies with me. With my photography, I’m all about capturing the raw emotion. Especially with Artists that move around and come off more intense, abrasive, or scary. It feels like a chain reaction with the audience. The whole room is engaged. That’s my favorite. I love being in the front and actually being a part of the show.
Presenting our First Friday new music list for this month. We’re tweaking the format to include new music […]
Our guest curator for February is Shane Merrill of Empire Productions. Shane is one of the more well-known […]
Here’s our Best 20 of 2020 Playlist. Each of us contributed five tracks from Chicago artists who released […]
Here’s the Listener’s Choice playlist for 2020. Thanks to all the folks who nominated a great selection of […]