Geronimo! joins us for an in studio interview and live performance. Topics include the craptastic We Are The World 2010 video, musical influences, band history, An American Tail, blah blah blah. We introduce a new game, The Quote Game.

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Musician, comedian, and Tap Me Games grand beardmaster David Ballard sits in on this weeks show. He talks about how he left Rockford to pursue riches in a far away land called Chicago working on interactive games with Tap Me Games, the impact of marketing and social media (as if he’s an expert or something), and we play a round of Word Association with David.

Featured music by:
Field Music
Common Loon
The Controver Sea
The Braves

Intro by Monty Python

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Jon Marks from Hey Champ joins us for love… Sock Monkey Style! We talk a crap load about Jon’s history, as well as how Hey Champ has been busting ass for the last year and a half. We have a special Valentines Day request by Simon Brown; this one goes out to his special lady Megan.

Featuring music by:
Fable and the World Flat
Simon Brown
Cool Kids w/ Hey Champ
Eastern Blok
Hey Champ

Intro by Al Green

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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

Here’s the clean version of the Throwdown Ad. A bunch of folks think this one is funnier.

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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Nicholas Papaleo from Picture Books talks to Chip about the band, the Chicago scene, and other stuff about music. Be sure to check out www.greatestshowever.com to download songs from Picture Books, Venna, Kid You’ll Move Mountains, and Crayolala.

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