This week we welcome artist extraordinaire Jesus Correa to the monkey cave. We discuss his 2009 Rockford mayoral race experience, history in the music scene and art community, and Dave’s love of pixelated women. Call our Hotline at 815-315-9552.
Featuring music by:
Spoon
Jesus Correa
Vic Ruggiero
Blaming Tim
Otter Petter
Intro by The Flaming Lips
by Alex Danger Stewart
What: The Clams, Abbot Smile, Woo-Man and the Banana, KAM!
When: January 28
Where: Subterranean, Bucktown, Wicker Park, Chicago, IL
Why are you so damn slow? It’s a complicated answer. Also I had school work and a surprisingly socially active weekend. Get off my back.
I’m not entirely sure of what today’s date (The 5th maybe) is but I went to a very good show last week. Desperate to avoid my RA’s attempts to force socializations, I made my way up to the scenic Wicker Park neighborhood for a night of local rock. I didn’t go completely blank and uninformed. I’ve seen the Clams once before at CJ’s Lounge in Rockford and I’ve enjoyed Clams guitarist/bassist Brett Daniels many times in his other (ed note: former band) band, White Moose. Once I arrived I was slightly disappointed to find that the Clams were headlining. It’s not that I don’t like hearing new bands or wasn’t willing to wait around for the Clams to play (I had already shelled out $8 at the door. Get it? Shelled? Clams? Oh my). But I don’t really like new things. If I could, I would see the bands that I like play exclusively with each other all of the time. Plus I wasn’t really in the mood for Psych-Pop. Since I started going to school here last August almost every new Chicago band I’ve seen has drawn from the same tradition of garagey, reverb drenched, fuzzed out, shoe gazey pop. It’s as if a whole generation of bands (and by that I mean like 20 people) all bought the Jesus and Mary Chain’s Psychocandy and the Nuggets box set and decided to start bands. Not that I’m complaining. I love both of those releases and prefer the previous adjectives to most others. But sometimes I’d like to hear some variety. … More
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It’s just the Sock Monkey Crew this episode bcuz our scheduled guest decided to have a baby. Pat bares his soul to our audience and cries like a televangelist caught in a sex scandal. More RAMI talk (hopefully the last for a while), X-treme drinking games, and ourselves. Jim Hanke also makes an appearance via voice mail. Make sure you listen at the end of the episode for our extreme commercial.
Featured music by:
Big Science
Strange Arrangement
Robbers
Mike Droho
Son Of Rams
Elections
Intro by Nirvana
What: Joie De Vivre, Empire Empire, etc etc etc
Where: The Beat Kitchen, Chicago, IL
When: January 16, 2010
Why is this Significant? Joie Motherfucking Headlined The Beat Kitchen!
So last weekend I made my way up to the Beat Kitchen on the scenic north side of Chicago. Yes, last week. I don’t work fast, I work smart. Ok, I don’t work very smart either. And to be honest, someone beat me to posting a review. She had that shit up before I even woke up on Sunday. You should go read it here (http://reviewsic.com/2010/01/17/in-review-the-beat-kitchen-116/). It’s pretty good, save one glaring disagreement (more on that later). Since the other writer covered most of what I have to say about music, I’m gonna ramble a bit.
If anyone has ever encountered me at a Chicago show, they’ve probably had a conversation that went something like this, … More
Now that the Rockford Area Music Industry Award nominations are online and official, we decide to alienate more people by talking about Jesus, The RAMI Awards, and stuff we presume to know about. None of us will ever be nominated (again) for a RAMI after this one.
Featured music by:
The Color Morale
Britches and Hoes
Bloom
Hall and Oates
Judah the Lyrical Rev
Neko Case
Intro by The Beatles
We welcome Marky Hladish, Dustin Currier, and Tristan Hammond from The Felix Culpa on the eve of the release of their new album, Sever Your Roots. We play some songs from the album along with a live performance from the Culpa. Of course we talk about a bunch of silly crap as well.
Be sure to check out their CD release show at The Metro in Chicago this Saturday, January 23.
Sock Monkey Sound goes punk and garage as we welcome two former members of Egan’s Rats, Keelan McMorrow and Jason Judd, who also chose this weeks playlist. We discuss their experiences as musicians, artists, and their experience opening up for The Misfits.
Featuring music by:
Proles
Egan’s Rats
Modern Primitives
Screw City All-Stars
The Phenoms
Egan’s Rats and The Misfits photos by Aaron Spain www.noir.com
Friend of the show Kevin Schwitters weighs in on some of his favorites of the last decade. Boom!
by Alex Danger Stewart
2009 was very much a transitory year for me. Late last year, I made a conscious decision to stop being an asshole about new indie rock and open my ears to new music. There are a few reasons for this. I was growing tired of (re)listening to the same Mission of Burma, Radiohead, and Voidoids albums over and over, tired of my top ten lists being generated by thinking of the ten (or fewer) new albums that I bought that year and placing them in an arbitrary order, tired of not recognizing any music from the best publications’ year end lists, and tired of being known as the 90s guy (don’t get me wrong, music from the 90s is invariably better). Also, I was losing my sanity in a very real way (still am, technically) and my insides were craving music of a more sensitive nature. So I made the decision to end 2009 being much more aware and involved with releases by new, smallish bands. I actually made it my New Years’ Resolution. Most normal, responsible people may have resolved to do markedly better in school, or get a girlfriend, or lose 30 lbs because they care about such things. I cut my hair, stopped doing shots, and started listening to Grizzly Bear. I’m ok with my choices. Are you? … More
