Live Music Thursdays
Summary: Each Thursday we podcast video of one song from a live music performance filmed in WBEZ's studios. Subscribe on iTunes.
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Watching Superchunk perform at last week's Pitchfork Music Festival reminded me what a great live band they are. It inspired me to dig up this video from their Sound Opinions appearance last January.
At SXSW this year our colleagues at Sound Opinions were wowed by Merrill Garbus' band, tUnE-yArDs. It's easy to see why: The African-influenced funk on her latest album, w h o k i l l, is catchy enough to make curmudgeons overlook her eccentric typesetting and get down on the dance floor.
A few weeks ago we shared our video of Arcade Fire performing "Sprawl II" on Sound Opinions.
Shawn Rosenblatt is a recent Columbia College graduate who records prodigiously as Netherfriends.
Mountain Man is a music group made up of three women.
It's difficult to describe the cultural space Arcade Fire currently occupies. On the one hand, they recently won a Grammy for "Album of the Year', by definition moving them into the upper echelon of working musicians.
Last year we tried a little experiment with our friends at the Tall Ship Windy here on Navy Pier. During the attraction's lunch break we invited musicians to climb aboard the pirate ship to play a few songs. We called it Pirate Radio.
