CHIRP Radio Podcasts

David Manilow is the Creator and Executive Producer of the Emmy Award and James Beard Award-winning television series “Check, Please!”, celebrating its fifteenth season on PBS stations throughout the country. David has interviewed more than 500 chefs and restaurateurs and been named one of the top ten most important people in the Chicago restaurant scene. Recorded and produced by Brian Heath

Features interviewer Josh Kessenich spoke with Sasami Ashworth, known as SASAMI on the heels of the release of her newest single ‘Callous.’ She dished to CHIRP Radio about the tour so far, how she made the shift from French horn to synthesizers further earning her nick-name of ‘Synth Queen,” and that’s not all. Tune in to get the whole scoop. Produced by Amanda Roscoe Mayo (@AmandaRMayo)  Photo by Daria Kobayashi Ritch

Bri the Barefoot DJ can regularly be heard Monday nights at 8pm on CHIRP Radio. She can occasionally be seen onstage, but more often in the booth, with the Curious Theater Branch (29th Annual RhinoFest coming January 2018 to the Prop Thtr!). After ten years of telling people on the east coast she was "from Chicago" even though she actually grew up in Crystal Lake, Bri finally moved to Edgewater in 2011, where she still lives with her wife, Nico, and their two thumbcats. Produced and recorded by Brian Heath

Ashley Holman is ¼ of the local Chicago party punk band So Pretty. She also is the co-founder of Chicago-based collective The Pretty Pit Skill Share. She is a relentless seeker of inclusion and destroyer of hierarchies. She has been described as a “Professional life-changer, expert screamer, aggressively positive and affirming” by people much cooler than her.  Thinks green rooms are stupid status symbols and donuts are delicious. Not a great writer of bios. Recorded and produced by Brian Heath

Terri Lynne Hudson is an actor and performance artist living in Chicago. She has most recently appeared in an opening act for the Fly Honey show and is in the cast of the upcoming webseries "Symbiotic". She has done storytelling at The Stoop and the Sex Positive Show. Produced and recorded by Brian Heath

Ben Lanz is a touring member of The National, making his own music under the moniker LANZ. Features Director Amanda Roscoe Mayo caught up with him at The National’s Homecoming Festival in Cincinnati to find out more about his newest release, Hoferlanz II, a complicated album with enticing twists, turns, and earworms. Beyond the album they discuss the acquisition of double zip jumpsuits and the lauded six hour performance of  ‘Sorrow’ by The National at MoMA PS1 in 2013. produced by Amanda Roscoe Mayo @AmandaRMayo photo by Amanda Roscoe Mayo

Chicago based Courtesy sat down with Marites Valesquez in the CHIRP studios to talk about their new release "Hey," how the band got their start in Memphis continuing despite various members moving to Chicago over the years through file sharing and technology. They dive into their influences musically, ASMR and how anything can be sound!   Produced by Marites Valesquez photo by Alexa Viscius

Jeremy Schaefer has shared stories on stages all over Chicago and the Midwest.  He’s participated in The Side Project Theatre’s Festival of Storytelling for the past four years as well as performed in This Much Is True, Adult Education, You’re Being Ridiculous, Story Sessions, Story Club, Chicago Solo Theatre, Guts n’ Glory, Elgin Fringe Festival, Chicago Fringe Festival, IndyFringe Festival, and more.  He tours educational storytelling assemblies to school audiences with the support of Urban Gateways.  He is also the co-producer of The Sidesplitter at Laugh Out Loud Theater.

London based Jake Lee makes music under the moniker Sidewalks and Skeletons. The music is dark and dimensional. Features interviewer Lee Gomez caught up with him in Chicago. Ever wondered why each Sidewalks and Skeletons album ends with a post-metal track? Or what Witchhouse is? Tune in to find out! Produced by Maxwell Carter

Tyler Clark is a writer, musician, and CHIRP DJ from Chicago. His storytelling work includes local appearances with Mortified, Story Lab, and Story Club, as well as national appearances on the Mortified podcast and upcoming Netflix series The Mortified Guide. When he's not telling tales, he writes for Consequence of Sound and sings with the Blue Ribbon Glee Club. Every Thursday night from 6-8 p.m., he also plays his favorite songs on his CHIRP Radio show, Local Mythologies.

On this week's podcast CHIRP Volunteer, Jessi DiBartolomeo, sits down with local artist Cupid Youth. They talk about his most recent EP CYEP, meeting Porches on the street, and much more. Produced by Jessi DiBartolomeo

Features interviewer Miranda Phelps sat down with Dessa, a member of hip-hop group Doomtree, who just released her latest solo record Chime. They spent time discussing the album, what it’s like to travel alone as a woman, her new book, and the incredible fan reception of Chime. Produced by Amanda Roscoe Mayo (@AmandaRMayo)

Adam is a writer and comedian from Chicago, IL. His first publication, a book of musing and rants called; 'Animals on Buses'  won him the Chicago reader award for Best Non-Fiction Writer of 2017. An award he won do to the love of his friends and the fact that Samantha Irby did not know she was running.

“We promote consciousness and empowerment through powerful music and lyrics.” Sam, local rap artist known as Fury sat down with Features Director Amelia Hruby to discuss her inspiration origins, how she came to rap, and building community through DIY community. Produced by Robert Patterson

Lawrence Peters is a country singer, songwriter, drummer, bandleader, DJ, and America’s preeminent electric washboard player, with a music career spanning thirty-plus years.