end of an era

first off, i'd like to sincerly thank every single person that's made this show possible. in the almost 15 months the show was around, we had just under 70 guests on. i think that's pretty amazing for just being a college show. we got the chance to meet so many people and do a lot of cool things. it's seriously been a dream come true.
also, big congrats to Steph for graduating! live it up in the real world missy!!
first, stephen from last avenue called in. remember them? good sh*t. they recently announced the addition of two new members! alex coronado will be on guitar and michael louis vinci is on vocals. they'll be doing some fun things over the summer, so keep your eyes and ears open for that!
we closed out our run with nick and aaron from the fireship. they had their final show as a band last night and it was amazing. we partied cinco de mayo style with jarritos, taco dip, and juice. we taught nick a new hand motion and dropped some f-bombs.

a "going out with a bang" playlist:
3OH!3 - House Party
Cobra Starship - Hollaback Boy
The Box Social - KCMO
Motion City Soundtrack - L.G. Fuad
The Starting Line - Bedroom Talk
Direct Hit! - Snickers or Reece's (Pick Up the Pieces)
The Scissors - Hard as Fuck
Jack's Mannequin - Holiday From Real (Acapella)
Against Me! - Stop!
Last Avenue - Why You Got So Many Bananas?
Start Trouble - Let's Get Fucked Up
AM Taxi - Dead Street
Pepper - Give It Up
Say Anything - The Futile
Butch Walker - Diary of a San Fernando Sexx Star
Digital Mindy - Popular
The Flavor Savers - Mustache Ride
Ben Folds - Rockin' the Suburbs
Jon Drake & the Shakes - Gustav
Backseat Boyz - Tame the Whip
The Fireship - Coasts
The Fireship - Apostle
The Fireship - Paper Tigers
Treaty of Paris - Rollerskates

if you haven't seen, you can download almost every single interview we've done, for absolutely 100% free right here

please give LMC Radio a listen! they're super solid and have a great passion for music. they've even been known to play some songs from republic of lights, hemmingbirds, and the fireship! they're on every sunday out of UIC from 4 to 6. also check out Diamonds and Pearls Radio who are on from 2 to 4 every thursday.
steph and i are anything but done from this whole "music scene" thing. we teamed up with stories from a scene and will be bringing you videos, reviews, and up-to-date news on all things happening in local music! we'll also be working with jesse of the aesthetic/genius behind midcoast audio to bring you podcasts!! hopefully that will be going by the beginning of summer.

thank you again, a million times over. this had been the best time of my life.
-kristen

I Can Hear Myself Levitate

and it sounds pretty dang cool.
but really, I Can Hear Myself Levitate is a neat-butt band. Chris and Al from said band were in this week. we rioted it up, broke out of some shells, and took names. check them out at Bottom Lounge on May 21st! details here

this week's music
Bruno Mars - Just the Way You Are
Cavashawn - Out of My Mind
Archie Powell & the Exports - Moving to the City
October Fall - Second Chances
Blink 182 - What's My Age Again?
Punchline - A Universal Theme
Ha Ha Tonka - Usual Suspects
Kevin Andrew Prchal - Opryland Hotel
State and Madison - Wolfman
The Academy Is... - The Phrase That Pays
Interpol - Evil
Third Eye Blind - Never Let You Go
AM Taxi - Fed Up
Death Cab For Cutie - Brothers on a Hotel Bed
I Can Hear Myself Levitate - Body Heat
I Can Hear Myself Levitate - Coldest Abyss Of Your Heart
I Can Hear Myself Levitate - Eskimo Kiss


time to turn it down a notch.
next week is it.
sly is going kaput.
it's been a really great run.
i mean, really great.
like, super great.
gr8 great.
we're closing out our time with Nick and Aaron from the Fireship.
i'm just going to offer you this and hope that it's enough to get you to tune in

Disorderly Conduct indeed

Happy Day After Easter! Where the breakfast of choice is microwaved peeps. (seriously, don't knock it until you try it.)
We kicked off last week's show with Matt Ayo of Stay Golden calling in. His band opened up for Medina Lake on Saturday at Metro! If you know what's what, you know Matt Leone of Medina Lake experienced some misfortune (i'd rather say lots of bad words but i'm refraining) last year and this was his first show in several months. It's great to have him back!
Living Out Loud was up next, who are now our youngest guests to date! They have awesome taste in television (Spongebob and Adventure Time) and play a mean Train cover.
Disorderly Conduct was after them. What you can expect from a bunch of 17 year old boys happened. They were quite the bunch and left us with no dull moments. You can watch part of it here:

These two groups of munchins played at Durty Nellie's in Palatine on Saturday also. from the texts Steph sent me, it was a good time.

songs:
Lucas Carpenter - Frowny Face Away Message
The Aesthetic - Alone Tonight
June - I'd Lose Myself
This Is Me Smiling - The Movies
Stay Golden - Tip Top
Stay Golden - Make Believe
The Graduate - Interlude
Jeremiah Higgins - Lean
Living Out Loud - Animal
Jack's Mannequin - La La Lie
Punchline - Whatever I Want, Whenever I Want
Lorene Drive - A Song In the Key of Sex
The Fireship - Paper Tigers
Disorderly Conduct - Let's Make a Memory
Treaty of Paris - Colleen

we're ticking down. we only have two shows left. this week I Can Hear Myself Levitate will be in the studio to amuse and entertain and play songs for us.
next week The Fireship is back in for round three. please please please don't miss it. we have a few things planned. it'll be a great time.

"on drugs equals eggs"

it. was. a. hot. one. literally. like, the studio was scorching. michael j. fann was doing his best to keep us all cool. but you know, sometimes it's hard when there are so many hot people in a small, confined area.
ryan and tom from empires (yeah, that empires.) joined us for the first hour. tom got deep about their new record, ryan remembered his good ol' talk show days.
last we all knew, they were still pushing to be the first unsigned band to grace the cover of rolling stone. keep your peepers open for the results from the second round of voting to see if they made it through!
check them out next month at beat kitchen as well

hour two: ryan powers (comeback special!), mason's case (third comeback special!), and model stranger (SLY debut!) destroyed. in a good way. and not literally. we got creepy with our questions and sweated together. model stranger also mentioned their signing they were going to have at tower records.
but for real, they played a show last night at beat kitchen. it was definitely something special.

the beautiful music we played:
Cobalt & the Hired Guns - Of Summer
Stay Golden - Make Believe
The Shams Band - Working Man
Empires - Voodooized
Empires - Hello Lover
Empires - Bang
The Heyday - Good Old Days
Mark Rose - Everything
Ryan Powers - Be My Baby
Model Stranger - Dreams and Bones
Mason's Case - Knots
The Format - She Doesn't Get It

after those three stupendious bands played, Mark Rose, Lucas Carpenter and Prom Band played a very delightful show.
Mark played this sweet, awesome song. i've never heard it before! (sarcasm)


plan of attack for tonight: ha ha tonka at jbtv tonight

Ah-more Bear and Mole-hill

it's been like new-friend central this year on SLY! this week we had Armour Bearer (pronunciation above) and Molehill come in. we got rick roll'd. we talked about sneezes. there was some sexual harassment. we had good times.

music!
Matt Ryd - Wondrin'
Armour Bearer - Too Many Doors, Too Many Directions
Armour Bearer - Snowglobe
Empires - Dreamer
The Noise FM - The Vault
October Fall - Caught in the Rain
Molehill - Untitled
Molehill - Jumper
Molehill - Money Life
Molehill - I Hope You're Happy
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now i  want to start this next part off with saying that i really really like you. like you're one of coolest people i've ever met and stuff. and i'm glad to have known you. but like that one Unwritten Law song, all good things come to an end and this has been a long time coming.
SLY radio is nearing the end. we know, we know...you're probably screaming and crying and ready to smash your computer. you probably are getting ready to do this:

but wait! don't! we have good news!! first, we really like huey lewis and the news. second, we returned your video tapes for you. third, we got you that stray cat you asked for. fourth, we have some exciting stuff planned for this last month!

next week we have a lot of fantastic men coming in to spend time with us.
we may have an extra super special guest the first hour (don't quote me on that) but we are for sure having Ryan Powers, Matt of Mason's Case, and Model Stranger in!
we're currently working on a line up for the 21st
the 28th is when I Can Hear Myself Levitate is coming in!
and because we like to have a good time, our super ultra last show happens to coincide with The Fireship's final show!
what? the fireship isn't going to be a band anymore!?no, where the f*** have you been the last month!? no, but really. it's going to be extra super special and a very good time. we love those guys and couldn't be happier to close out our run with them!

Hello. How are you? It's been awhile. We hope everything has been going very well with you. We had a break but came back this week with a very large bang. New BFFs Archie and Adam from Archie Powell & the Exports graciously joined us. We talked about how eating too many soy beans screws with your estrogen (it's true, ask Steph.) and Cash Cab. "Why did you talk about Cash Cab?" you may by asking us. Well, dear friend, Archie, Adam, and their friend were on it!

After they played us two rousing tunes, Republic of Lights made a very strong comeback. Fights were had about raccoon face. They talked about their BFF. They played some neat songs. Their cd is still (and probably always will be) up for download fo' free HERE.

lovely songs we played:The Sowing Season - Homecoming
Archie Powell & the Exports - Skip Work

Archie Powell & the Exports - Enough About Me

Archie Powell & the Exports - The Darndest Things
Jack's Mannequin - The Mixed Tape

This Is Me Smiling - You're Alright

Koo Koo Kanga Roo - AOA

Republic of Lights - Lotus
Republic of Lights - Got You Surrounded
Republic of Lights - 22 Cent Stamp

All these wonderful gents and lady played a show on Friday together! From the texts Steph sent me, it was a rip-snortin' good time! She said Bob Morris was there!
I went to The Frantic's EP release show last night with The Fold, The Downtown Struts, and another band I'm sure was fantastic but unfortunately missed their set because I was in transit. Sad face. It was a party.

A Very Merry SLY St. Patrick's Day

we had our new friends from Late in the Playoffs come by! we talked about past great band like Walrus and jammed some tunes! Field of Vision was also anticipated to come in, but unfortunately their GPS took them to Chicago Heights so they all called in from a parking lot!!

music
Flatfoot 56 - Breakin' the Law
The Graduate - All At Once
The Flavor Savers - People
Late in the Playoffs - You Won't
Late in the Playoffs - Living Proof
Mason's Case - 11:59 (SLY Session)
Mumford & Sons - Winter Winds
The Reason - Brilliant Disguise
The Spill Canvas - 3685
Field of Vision - About That...
Michael Louis Vinci - Love Will Set Us Free



we're off on the 24th for Spring Break! Michael J. Fann is down south somewhere partying it up. he sent us this picture. looks like he's having a good time:


catch us back on the 31st with Archie Powell & the Exports and Republic of Lights (comeback special!)

MOTHER F**KING PUNCHLINE

it's a proven fact that Punchline is Kristen's favorite [active] band. it's also a proven fact that Chris Fafalios of Punchline called in this week! he shared with us his fond memories of when the band once recorded in Chicago and a delicious Mexican restaurant he would always go to! our new friends in Audiences came in to the studio and killed it!
check out Punchline at Reggie's tomorrow with Barely Blind and the Composure
and/or Audiences at Lincoln Hall with Automata and Robbers!

music:The Academy Is... - Attention
Mother Culture - Sold Your Voice
Quietdrive - Take a Drink
fun. - Walking the Dog
Punchline - Coyotes in B Major
Punchline - Greatest. Party. Ever.
Stay Golden - Make Believe
The Fireship - Paper Tigers
The Heyday - Thick & Thin
Audiences - Mountainesque
Audiences - Audiences

you know what's cool? supporting people!
be a cool people and listen to LMC Radio on Sunday from 4 to 6 on UIC Radio! (how convenient, that's the same time and station we're on!)
they care for Michael J. Fann, therefore they are good people. here's a picture of them with him and the cool band the Warm Ones!

Romanced by Angels! (free music downloads too)

Steve and Kevin of Romancing the Angels graced us with their divine presence! (end angelic references)
They played dope-ass songs for us in studio! We talked about Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster! Check them out at Reggie's on April 24th!!!!

MUSIC WE PLAYED
Unwritten Law - She Says
The White Stripes - My Doorbell
The Starting Line - Making Love to the Camera
Republic of Lights - 38 and First Street
Devin Davis - Moon Over Shark City
Shelby Pollard - Wonderwall
Stay Golden - Make Believe
The Shams Band - We've Never Met
State & Madison - This Is a Risk
The Sowing Season - Arbor Day
Third Eye Blind - Thanks A Lot
This Is Me Smiling - The Movies
Punchline - Whatever I Want, Whenever I Want
Audiences - Mountainesque
The Matches - Wake the Sun
Model Stranger - She Don't
Archie Powell & the Exports - Fighting Words
Romancing the Angels - Nowhere Near
Romancing the Angels - Spite the Devil
Romancing the Angels - Infinite

BambiFarr!

We had our buddies in BambiRaptor come back to the studio!!! Doug and Roger staked their claim for a second time and brought Gary! Gary brought his wife Rachel KatzmanFarr who is a fantastic singer/songwriter! They both have newly released CDs!!!!
Rachel's music and art!
BambiRaptor's music!

Spongebob Squarepants Intro
The Apples in Stereo - Energy
The Audition - You've Made Us Conscious
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
The Boy Least Likely To - Warm Panda Cola
Company of Thieves - Past the Sleep
Death Cab For Cutie - Brothers on a Hotel Bed
The Dog & Everything - Long Ride
Family Force 5 - Replace Me
The Fireship - Ferdinandea
Hawthorne Heights - Niki FM
The Fold - Gravity
The Graduate - Bet It All
Jack's Mannequin - La La Lie
June - Machine and the Line
Keane - Everybody's Changing
Rise Against - Blood To Bleed
BambiRaptor - Border Patrol
Rachel KatzmanFarr - Morning Light
BambiRaptor - Away We Go
Rachel KatzmanFarr - Ayloo

Happy Valentine's Hang Over!

Chad from Draft Week hung out with us for a bit! We previewed most of their new cd (sounds tight!) that's due out some time in the near future. Keep your eyes and ears peeled for it!

tune-skis:
The Black Keys - Howlin' For You
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Band Called Catch - For the Sake of It
I Can Hear Myself Levitate - The Coldest Abyss In Your Heart (Live at Audio Tree)
Chase This City - Rest of My Life (SLY Session)
Kink Ador - Stop on By
The Phoenix Philosophy - Flirting With Disaster
Windsor Drive - Shine
The Aesthetic - Personal Jesus
Flatfoot 56 - Hoity Toity
Mason's Case - Never Again
The Noise FM - The Vault (Live @ Cicero's)
Super Happy Fun Club - Victims
Aktar Aktar - The Best Part
Chaperone - Fed on Coal
Lights Resolve - Long Way To Go
The Format - Oceans
Draft Week - For Now
Draft Week - Sunday Had to Happen
Draft Week - Purple Tornado
Draft Week - New Crusades


later that night Kristen saw The Noise FM at Beat Kitchen.

TWO FOR ONE!! IT'S A FIRE SALE.

2.3.11
Josh of Digital Tour Bus came by to enlighten us all things good! Dude is only 20 but knows. his. sh*t. Michael S. also visited us and melted our hearts and faces with some beautiful in-studio songs.
here's one now!!

Mark Rose - Everything
Just Surrender - Crazy
Bad City - Take Me For a Ride
We Are the In Crowd - Both Sides of the Story
Bowling For Soup - A Really Cool Dance Song
Senses Fail - The Fire
Michael S. - Rewind
Michael S. - Mark Me Down
Jon Drake & the Shakes - Gustav (Radio edit)
The Rocket Summer - So Much Love

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2.10.11
As always, we brought you lots of technical errors. We pushed through like we do and brought you Hemmingbirds in studio! They played some sick songs for us which will be up on our youtube soon!

what we played:
Muse - Knights of Cydonia
10-4 Elanore - Austin's Song
Third Eye Blind - Narcolepsy
Lorene Drive - A Song In the Key of Sex
Derek Nelson & the Musicians - Sidestreets of London
So Many Ways - I Tore Kristen a New Moon
Fitz & the Tantrums - Rich Girls
Secret Secret Dino Club - Upside Down (Spin Me All Around)
Direct Hit! - Rockaway Beach (Ramones cover)
The Shams Band - Working Man
Empires - Dreamer
Fireworks - Detroit
The Minneapolis Henrys - All's Fair
Jeremiah Higgins - Write That Story
Jupiter One - Countdown
Phoenix - Lisztomania
Quietdrive - Rush Together
Hemmingbirds - Treetops



Next week Draft Week will be in the studio!
After the show, check out The Noise FM at Beat Kitchen!

it was another big ol' Palatine High School reunion this week!
we had Rich and Jonny from TurningDownToday in and they killed it.

here's a picture of the gym we all graduated in:

here's kristen when she was in lacrosse senior year (bench warmer)

(know that i'm having problems formatting this stupid post)

check their site out for shows and junk HERE!!!

stuff we played:
Devin Davis - Transcendental Sports Anthem
Terrible Things - Terrible Things
Archie Powell & the Exports - The Darndest Things
The Phoenix Philosophy - Flirting With Disaster
Gardening, Not Architecture - Proof (Storm Remix)
The Heyday - Good Old Days
Matt Ryd - Pieces (SLY Session)
Ludo - Skeletons On Parade
Flatfoot 56 - The Rotten Hand
Say Anything - Walk Through Hell
Direct Hit! - More of the Same
Ryan Powers -Be My Baby
Windsor Drive - Under the Weather
I Fight Dragons - The Power of Love
TurningDownToday - Unbroken
TurningDownToday - Anything More
TurningDownToday - Time


have a beautiful weekend and get stoked up for next week! we have Digital Tour Bus and Michael S. dropping by. it's sure to be rad-tastic.
now i'm going to watch me some Arrested Development.

greatest. party. ever.

Four months ago plans were made for the Fireship to pay us a visit again and bring with them kazoos.
Sticking to their word, Nick and Aaron were in this week and didn't disappoint. They even brought us some new friends to play with! Shelby Pollard who is a fantastic blues musician as well as Bobbi and Eric from Chicago HOPES. Besides a fabulous party, it was also a family affair!
Now the reason we had all these beautiful people in is simple: Benefit Show. Chicago HOPES is an organization that helps homeless children in Chicago. The show The Fireship and Shelby are playing helps tutoring programs.
Really cool part: philanthropy (not to be confused with THIS) Helping out people is way-cool and not done as frequently as it should be. Of course there are some perks besides feeling good: there's a gnarly raffling that will be happening as well as your chance to eat dinner with the bands (guaranteed if you purchase the VIP tickets. you also get a sweet gift bag with a candle made from crayons!)
BUY TICKETS HERE
this will be one show you won't want to miss!!!


tunes
Ace Enders & a Million Different People - The Only Thing I Have (The Sign)
Archie Powell & the Exports - All Tuckered Out
The Graduate -  Marla Singer Doesnt Take Standardized Tests (Disposable Smile)
Capehart - Atop the Clouds
The Format - She Doesn't Get It
Last Avenue - Since You Asked
The Aesthetic - Alone Tonight
The Reason - Is It Just Me?
fun. - I Wanna Be the One
Treaty of Paris - Currents
New Politics - Give Me Hope
State and Madison - Prom Mrs.
United Federation of Planets - I'm the Black Smoke
Urbanites - The Common Cure
Shelby Pollard - Don't Move
The Fireship - Paper Tigers
The Fireship - World War Wonderful (Kazoo version)
Shelby Pollard - Around Here

I predict a riot

after a weekend of feeling under the weather, tending to a new puppy, partying hardying, and renewing my cpr/aed cirtification, i can finally write this up.
we had our second show of the new year and our friend Chris of Silhouette Radio and new friends Republic of Lights came by the studio! we stuck to our SLY character and brought you technical difficulties, a few laps ran around the student center, and killer music.

catch Chris live at Black Hearts Bar on the 26th
and Republic of Lights on the 25th at Double Door with our friends The Noise FM, Hawley Shoffner, and Snow n Charm
(both 21+)

MUSICPunchline - Coyotes in B Major
Shelby Pollard - Around Here
Empires - Strangers
Jon Drake & the Shakes - Margie
Against Me! - New Wave
Ha Ha Tonka - Pendergast Machine
Michael S. - Rewind
The Rails - All the Words
All-American Rejects - Swing, Swing
The Fireship - World War Wonderful
The Academy Is... - About a Girl
Silhouette Radio - Everything in Motion Pt. 1
Silhouette Radio - When It All Feels Right

Jon Drake & the Shakes - Rattles and Snakes
Windsor Drive - Chasing Shores
Republic of Lights - Lotus
Republic of Lights - Got You Surrounded

Republic of Lights - 38 and First Street


22 Cent Stamp live in studio



Saturday night we whooped it up for Steph's 22nd birthday!
our friends Michael Louis Vinci, Cobalt & the Hired Guns, and the Fireship all performed at Mike's apartment. our friends Snow n Charm, the Noise FM, Hawley Shoffner, and State and Madison were there too! we got shut down by The Man (Mike's landlord) in true rock n roll fashion and everyone drank to their heart's contenet (except me. i'm straightedge.)
here's some sick-nasty-awesome pictures

it feels moderately ok to be back!

we had to push through some technical difficulties before we started yesterdays show, but it all worked out and i left one of her jump drives in the back of the studio computer! but i digress..i also now have a cat on my lap which makes this ten times more difficult.
we had our good buddies Kevin Andrew Prchal and Steph and Sam from Stories From a Scene in as well as my wonderful canadian friend melina!
Kevin is doing this cool thing where he wants to come play in your living room. no joke, we saw him at steph chi's last week doing just that. see? here's a picture

 if you're interested email him at kevinaprchal@gmail.com and set up a date!

tunes:i fight dragons - no kontrol
this is me smiling - nothing to no one
model stranger - dreams and bones
mumford & sons - the cave
the noise fm - do ya think i'm sexy (live at cicero's
republic of lights - lotus
gym class heroes - taxi driver
pet lions - i will track you down
kevin andrew prchal - terrified!
kevin andrew prchal - another fool (in love with you)
kevin andrew prchal - castle


SHOWS.
tonight catch our friends Cobalt & the Hired Guns and Matt Ryd with Dot Dot Dot at Metro
as well as The Fireship, United Federation of Planets and The Violet Eyes at Elbo Room!

tomorrow Empires and The Fraduate are at Lincoln Hall

wednesday night Snow n Charm is at Elbo Room and Pet Lions are at Schubas! listen to their new cd HERE


-Kristen