Pure Hype Archives

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6/21/1996

“Radio Boy Fanclub” a.k.a. “ Emmy Bright Quintet” (Saleem Dhamee, Ryan P. J(...)

11/2/2007

(URtA|NS

9/6/1996

1-900-STALKER

7/14/1998

100s of 1000s (Lara Cohen, Jamison N. Duffield), Tac-Tic!, Gerty Farish

10/23/1998

2 hr DTs

7/27/2001

36 Invisibles

5/1/1998

40K

3/13/2009

A Farewell To Pat Reisinger: Featuring The Butts, Vee Dee, The Yolks, White Mystery & Tyler Jon Tyler

Tonight Pure Hype bids farewell to its longtime sound guru, interviewer, talent booker and boner-proponent Pat Reisinger with an extra-long edition featuring some of his favorite local bands, including first time Pure Hypers as well as old favorites. Listeners are encouraged to call in and make fun of corn and/or Nebraska. NOTE: Tonight's show will begin at 7pm.

5/26/2000

A-Z Consolidated

1/16/2009

Action Finger

2/16/2007

Adam Griffin of Brenmar

11/14/1997

Adequate Brothers

5/13/2005

AM Syndicate

5/16/2008

Animal Law

While the band may cringe at the use of comparisons, references have already been made to (early) Swans, Khanate, Bauhaus, Harvey Milk, Joy Division, The Goslings, My Bloody Valentine, Flipper, Saccharine Trust, Einsturzende Neubauten, etc. On top of that, most of their compositions are purportedly love songs

9/22/1995

Anti-Victim

4/18/2008

Antietam

" ...The Louisville rock trio boasts a taut chemistry and ravishing rawnwss that confirm what a great band is supposed to sound like. Much of the threesome’s communicative vibe can be attributed to the husband-wife team of bassist Tim Harris and vocalist/guitarist Tara Key. But the interplay is also due to fluid songwriting and Key’s inimitable guitar skills. No "Best Guitarists" list is complete without her name." The Absolute Sound - Bob Gendron

12/18/1998

Anziano Starship

9/19/1997

Anziano Starship

1/21/2000

Archer Prewitt

4/21/2006

Arks

12/15/2000

Art Loinz

7/20/2007

Ashtray Boy

Ashtray Boy has been lying low here in Melbourne, but certainly not thrown in the towel, oh contraire! Since 2005 when we began to play with David Nichols (Cannanes, Huon, Grey Tapes, Driving Past �.. that�s enough, really David you are almost greedy)

8/8/2003

Ashtray Boy

Ashtray Boy has been lying low here in Melbourne, but certainly not thrown in the towel, oh contraire! Since 2005 when we began to play with David Nichols (Cannanes, Huon, Grey Tapes, Driving Past �.. that�s enough, really David you are almost greedy)

8/31/2001

Ashtray Boy

Ashtray Boy has been lying low here in Melbourne, but certainly not thrown in the towel, oh contraire! Since 2005 when we began to play with David Nichols (Cannanes, Huon, Grey Tapes, Driving Past �.. that�s enough, really David you are almost greedy)

12/10/1999

Ashtray Boy

Ashtray Boy has been lying low here in Melbourne, but certainly not thrown in the towel, oh contraire! Since 2005 when we began to play with David Nichols (Cannanes, Huon, Grey Tapes, Driving Past �.. that�s enough, really David you are almost greedy)

12/20/2002

Ashtray Boy (interview and new album preview)

Ashtray Boy has been lying low here in Melbourne, but certainly not thrown in the towel, oh contraire! Since 2005 when we began to play with David Nichols (Cannanes, Huon, Grey Tapes, Driving Past �.. that�s enough, really David you are almost greedy)

5/23/2003

Astomatous

9/14/2001

Authority Abuse

2/11/2000

Autoliner (formerly Life on Mars)

8/24/2007

Avagami

Avagami was formed in Chicago in 2005 by Matt Espy (drums, electronics, see: Atombombpocketknife, The Reputation) and Eric Lebofsky (vocals, saxophone, electronics, see: unusual drawings) when the two met through Craigslist. Both were looking to push the pop envelope, and incorporate improvisational techniques into a song structure. Their music incorporates elements of Prog, New Wave, Noise, and Krautrock, as well as Burlesque, Lounge, and Psychotherapy (Gestalt.)

8/29/2003

Bang! Bang!

11/16/2007

Beach Patrol

“The music of Beach Patrol is timelessly catchy pop/rock, distinguished not just by style but also by some of the finest songwriting exhibited in years. These are songs you like after one listen, love after five listens, and can't live without after 20 listens.” ---Lord Rutledge, Now Wave Magazine

2/2/2001

Behold! The Living Corpse

6/18/2010

Ben Billington

11/27/2009

Beryl Turner+ Guests Live Mix

10/15/1999

Bevis Frond

4/12/2002

Bible of the Devil

4/7/2000

Bible of the Devil

11/12/2004

Big Buildings

8/27/2010

Bil Vermette

Private-press synth wizard, creator of 1984's Katha Visions and the perfect crossover of New Age/Tangerine Dream synthwork returns to performing out of a decade-long hermitage. Unmissable.

9/16/2005

Billy Carter Band

9/9/2005

Bird Names

2/11/2005

Bird Show

5/9/2008

Birthday Suit

3/5/2004

Bishop Allen (recorded 2/28/04)

1/29/2010

Black Math

7/16/2010

Black William

6/16/2000

Blamaday

11/10/1995

Blanche

2/28/2003

Bleary

2/4/2005

Blower

10/7/2005

Bobby Conn

5/5/2000

Bobby Conn

4/13/2007

Bold Ones

3/11/2005

Boozefighter

11/12/1999

Bosco & Jorge

8/13/1999

Bosco and Jorge

10/25/1996

Bouncing Balls

1/29/2010

Brain Idea

5/2/2003

Brendon Massei, Jennifer Convertibles

10/4/1996

Brian McMahon

12/5/1997

Brian McMahon / Mark Henning

11/17/2000

Bright Lights

8/25/2000

Bright Lights, Jen Turrell

4/3/2009

Brighton, MA

"Brighton, MA is a band from Chicago, IL with a sound that could have come from Athens, GA. Named after frontman Matthew Kerstein’s hometown, Brighton, MA (and) falling somewhere between a drunken Bob Dylan and The Flaming Lips, the band cultivates a crossbreed of psychdelia and folk music that is utterly dynamic." -David Feltman, Scope Magazine

6/8/2007

Broad Tosser

10/8/1999

Brokeback

4/9/1998

Brother J.T. (first broadcast 4/24/98)

11/7/2008

Bundle of Fags

1/23/2004

Buy Bullets

1/15/2010

Caboladies LP

Lexington, KY emigres Caboladies (Flowerman, Carl Calm)lay down beds of digital glide, sweeping synth burble, and runaway gong keybar as the eye opens on planes of calm. Double long session recording for upcoming LP release interspersed with guest sets. Proceedings start at 7PM.

5/11/2001

Calvary

3/4/2005

Camaro Rouge

3/31/2000

Cash Audio (fomerly Cash Money)

3/17/2000

Cats & Jammers

3/1/1996

CD RELEASE PARTY #3, featuring Prichard and Dingle

3/23/2001

Cheer Accident

8/18/2000

Chicago Underground Duo

6/25/1999

Chris Mills

7/10/2009

Chris Riggs/ Matt Endahl

Chris Riggs (Graveyards, Traum, Dead in Michigan) -guitar/ electronics Matt Endahl -keyboards, electronics Midwestern out-free-noise whatever improv touring on their recent Holy Cheever Church cassette. Outer limits meets Michigan inner-weirdo.

11/10/2000

Christine Back

9/4/2009

Cleemann

Downbeat indie pop from Denmark

11/20/2009

Cloud Mouth

2/2/2007

Cococoma

1/12/2007

Cola Wars

7/4/2003

Cold Heaven

9/29/2000

Competitorr

6/8/2001

Country Teasers (recorded 5/27/01)

9/1/2006

Coupleskate

6/15/2001

Currituck County

11/19/1999

Currituck County

7/16/1999

Cyanide

9/13/2002

Cyndi Elliott

8/17/2007

Daily Void

2/8/2008

Darling

Darling was formed in the fall of 2003 out of angst of living at our parents place and spending the same $10 a night on Old Style at the same crappy bar. Darling has persisted in Chicago these past 4 years, in and out of the hibernation of wintertime, and has played with the likes of Make Believe, The Robot Ate Me, Red Crayola, and Norfolk and Western. Darling was recently review in Bootleg magazine and here is a brief excerpt, "Ground is Sound is beautifully frantic, a drawn out eruption of restrained emotion, like a long dream laced with tension."

12/10/2004

Darling

2/5/2010

David Daniell and Douglas McCombs

10/1/2004

David Singer and the Sweet Science

3/27/2009

Daylight Robbery

"You don't have to be a music critic to hear a little John and Exene in this south-side three-piece's male-female vocal interplay, but Daylight Robbery doesn't stop with X—their recent four-song seven-inch for Residue Records combines the short sharp bursts of late-70s west-coast bands like the Bags and the Wipers with the present-day energy of sweat-soaked Pilsen house shows. If they keep up the smash-and-grab songwriting of tunes like "Washtenaw" and "Cut the Line" they could be one of the stronger bands to emerge from the Chicago punk scene in recent years." -Brian Costello, Chicago Reader

3/10/2006

Days Off

6/20/2003

Dead Reckoning, The Repos

8/17/2001

Dead Steelmill

2/4/2000

Dearborn SS

1/11/2002

Deeds Not Words

7/23/2010

Dense Reduction/ Notice Recordings

Morphing setup with Dense Reduction/Illusion of Safety/Burke+Bird Duo. Total studio takeover.

9/11/1998

Descendro Allegro

3/29/1996

Dianogah

6/9/2000

Disaster Action Team

4/14/2000

Dolce Volante

2/1/2008

Donald of The Virgins

"Your window to brag that you knew the Virgins when is about to close. Until last year, they had no label, no shows and no record, so knowledge about this cool New York band was strictly by hipster word of mouth. Donald Cumming and Wade Oates met while modeling on a Ryan McGinley shoot in Mexico and decided to start a band to play the songs that Cumming had been recording in his East Village bedroom. They had barely recruited Nick Zarin-Ackerman and Erik Ratensperger and sent out demos before they were opening for Patti Smith and Sonic Youth and touring with Jet. It didn't hurt that the model Jessica Stam was seen wearing their T-shirt backstage at the Lanvin show. As for the actual music (expect a major-label album in the new year), think the Strokes you can dance to." - New York Times

11/6/1998

DragKing

4/20/2001

Drexel

10/5/2007

Druids of Huge

Wizards of the forest.

11/7/2008

Dungen

Dungen recorded a short session when they stopped by WHPK on Sunday afternoon, November 2nd. We may be airing the tape for the first time as part of tonight's show.

2/19/2010

E.T Habit + Christmas Woods

5/5/2006

Eleventh Dream Day

10/2/1995

Elliot Sharp

10/22/1999

Ether Frolics

7/23/2004

Exalted

11/15/2002

Exit Parade

8/6/1999

ExPermanentz

9/17/2004

Ezurate

10/20/2000

Ezurate

7/28/2000

Faces in the Dirt

6/26/2009

Faceworker/ Cloaked Light

Steve Hauschildt of Emeralds, and Joe Raglani of himself got a heartbreaking amount of gear stolen at this year's No Fun Fest. Two Chicago-area heavy synth meditation jam units, and leaders of Catholic Tapes and Young Tapes, come together to record a benefit cassette to help the above put things back together. Heavy arpeggiation territory ahead.

7/3/2009

Fag Cop

Fans of the Oblivians revel in moronic pizza garage.

11/30/2001

Fast Product

10/11/2002

Faun Fables

10/30/2009

Feedbacula

2/18/2005

First Coat

6/6/2003

First Coat

7/19/1996

Flavor Channel

1/19/1996

Flying Luttenbachers

8/9/2002

Fourth Rotor

11/13/2009

Frank Rosaly

10/14/2005

Freakwater

12/1/2000

Fred Lonberg-Holm and Michael Zerang

8/13/2010

Free Improv Series: Frank Rosaly

Frank Rosaly is a drummer and composer currently living in Chicago. He has been involved in the improvised and experimental music community for 10 years where he has become an integral part of the Chicago scene, navigating a fine line between the vibrant improvised music, experimental, rock and jazz communities. He contributes much of his time to performing, composing, teaching, as well as organizing musical events, while also touring regularly domestically and internationally. Curated by Brian Sulpizio

8/6/2010

Free Improv Series: Jayve Montgomery

Reconciling the past with the future, JayVe Montgomery’s work is time traveling to the pre(-)sent, the gift of now. His work reveals his adherence to improvisation and chance as a way to explore evolutionary learning and unintended subjective meaning through random being. Curated by Brian Sulpizio

11/14/2008

Frigates

3/22/1996

Frontier

10/24/2008

Fucked Up

First broadcast of a short set recorded when the band stopped by WHPK during the afternoon of October 23, 2008.

12/18/2009

Gabe Beam

Electroacoustic, acoustic, and live electronics set from the Toledo, Ohio native. Gabe Beam stopped by the WHPK studio on November 6 and recorded this live set for future broadcast (tonight).

8/6/2004

Galactic Inmate

3/24/2006

Gays in the Military

3/26/2004

Gays in the Military

12/20/2002

Geoff Greenberg

4/27/2001

Geoff Greenberg

1/28/2000

Geoff Greenberg

10/2/2009

Gino Robair/Andrew Royal/Aaron Zartzutzki

Bay area percussionist and improviser Gino Robair on (most likely) percussion and electronics with Andrew Royal on strings, and Aaron Zarzutzki on no-output turntable and electronics

10/11/2002

Gizmo

3/20/2009

Golden Birthday

"A typical Golden Birthday song, at least on the album, combines a metronomically repeated, often somewhat fussy percussion loop—galloping low toms, flickering drum machine—with heavily treated guitar and organlike synth tones that weave around the chord progression more than they follow it, implying the melody with negative space rather than stating it outright. Sullivan’s vocals, which he tends to submerge in reverb, are more confident and competent than you’d expect from looking at him—with his close-cropped, lopsided haircut and awkward, gutter-fashionable thrift-store outfits, he could pass for part of the art-damaged indie-pop scene that values yelpy enthusiasm over actual talent. But his singing is more Donovan than Dan Deacon." - Miles Raymer, Chicago Reader

6/9/2006

Grimble Grumble

12/3/2004

Grimble Grumble

10/3/2003

Grimble Grumble

8/10/2001

Grimble Grumble

4/24/2009

Gun

Gun are firm believers in the American dream. Pure Americana. Shameless, overindulgent excess. Blood, bricks, roadkill, and fireworks in a blender. Welcome to Indiana.

6/2/2000

Happy Supply

7/26/2002

Head of Femur

9/7/2007

Headache City

2/20/2004

Health & Beauty

11/7/2003

Hideout CD Release Preview

4/26/1996

High Mass Systems

12/5/2008

Hollows

4/30/1999

Hoodoo Hoedown

3/6/2009

Horse in the Sea

"The fusion of {Joel} Janis’ gently lilting voice (at points reminiscent of the Decemberists’ Colin Meloy) and minimalist acoustic guitar melodies with {Kyle} Andrews’ florid pop production style and ear for gratifying hooks has resulted in the kind of record that gradually sinks it teeth into you and refuses to let go" - Reveille Magazine

1/12/1996

Hot Smokes

3/18/2005

Hymn

3/3/2006

I-Attack

4/6/2007

Ian Wadley

8/1/2003

Insect Deli, NIINIMAA, Loachfillet

9/21/2001

J.R. Truckdriver

2/15/2008

Jack Moves

5/14/2010

James Ferraro: "On Air"

11/8/1996

Jaws of Life

4/16/2010

Jeff Host

5/8/2009

Jeremy Jay

The Jarvis Cockers, Serge Gainsbourgs and Jonathan Richmans of the world appear to be a dying breed in our digital age. Even though we're constantly showered with new artistes, these larger than life figures and their observational eyes, erudite lyricism, and an ability to look like they live their songs have been sadly thin on the ground. Jeremy Jay...generally succeeds by injecting some Modern Lovers pub rock and sedate, new wave synths into his tales of hipper than hip youth and romantic encounters enjoyed beneath the glare of a disco ball. The result is a stripped back, lo-fi sound that attempts to thrust images from the modern world into the context of a vintage Godard film. -Charles Ubaghs, The Quietus (recorderd May 3 for broadcast May 8)

6/11/2010

Jesus Crisis

12/1/1995

John Darnielle (of the Mountain Goats)

1/12/2001

John Greenfield

6/4/1999

John Greenfield

1/9/1998

John Greenfield

12/17/1999

John Greenfield’s Rock Band

3/7/2008

Johnny and the Limelights

"They sang songs about summer and kissing and pizza parties. They asked us if we knew what 69 means." -Jason Shanley, Radio Free Chicago

1/22/2009

Josh Burke

Crystal tones blooming.

1/19/2007

K.K. Rampag

Dudes hanging out, playing some records, chit-chat -- no live set

1/26/2007

Kaspar Hauser

8/4/2000

Kayla (from Feaze)

6/30/2000

Kelly Hogan

5/14/1999

Kelly Hogan

7/17/1998

Kelly Hogan

12/13/2002

Kelly Kessler And The Wichita Shut-Ins

8/18/1995

Kill

3/8/2002

Kim

12/19/2003

Krembone

9/6/2002

Krembone

1/4/2002

Krembone

11/20/1998

Kung Fu Rick

7/9/2010

Lake Breeze

4/4/2008

Large and Lovely

Featuring WHPK's own Dave Mcquown

6/12/2009

Lechuguillas

Lechuguillas are a band starting in Chicago.

6/25/2004

Leon Chance & the Long Shots

6/21/2002

Leon Chance and the Long Shots

1/16/2004

Littleman Complex

6/23/2000

Liz Skillman

4/10/1998

Lobstar

11/9/2007

Locrian

“Last night I went to see some music downtown at Nihilist, an artspace converted from an industrial building into a home-built loft inhabited by any number of amps, records, and weirdos. The second of four acts was a local duo called Locrian, who built a huge pillar of feedback, right on top of my head. One guy started picking an acoustic-electric guitar while the other shouted into a echoed out mic, both of them way too close to their amps, guitar feeding back, mic feeding back, keyboards pounding and probably also feeding back somehow. They each had a big mess of pedals to get a big swirling, pummeling sound, real nice low end from the keys, sometimes the hint of a melody or progression lurking under the squeal, and when the guitarist plugged in the electric, things got nuts. It ended with both sweaty and prostrate before their cabinets, and they were really cool and appreciative and gave me a cool cd-r! Anyway, if you are in Chicago and like loud noise, Locrian is awesome.” - from brokenpants.com |||||||| The above songs are sections of a live peformance in Chicago, recorded by sound engineer Tanadej (DJ) Siriwattaprayoon.

4/5/1996

Log Letters

7/9/1999

Loraxx

9/23/2005

Love Story in Blood Red

9/22/2000

Lozenge

11/1/2002

Ludenscheid, Ninja Mind Control, Ninja Sound Patrol

6/27/2003

M. Fix

11/14/2003

M.O.T.O

4/21/2000

M.O.T.O.

11/17/1995

M.O.T.O.

5/21/1999

Macabre

8/16/2002

Magnus

3/19/2010

Mako Sica

3/30/2007

Mannequin Men

2/26/2010

Marketing

Anthony Levin-Decanini on card reader, Ryan Dunn on open circuit reel-to-reel, and Andrew Scott Young on cello.

4/17/2009

Maximum Wage

Ian and Paul were in a band together. Ryan and Paul were in a band together. Paul was the vital link, really. Kinda sounds like Takeshi Terauchi, Joe Meek, Ray Davies, and Edwin Collins started a band with the guy from The Submarine Races and the guy from The Lanterns singing.

9/20/2002

Me and My Ship

12/19/2008

Mean Sea Level

3/21/2003

Melomane

9/30/2005

Members of Spires that in the Sunset Rise

1/22/2010

Memory Pearl

Cascades of half memories of pure tones. Crystal voices emerge and retreat. The view begins to slide.

12/15/2006

Merry Widowers

8/27/1999

Metalux

12/5/2003

Metaluxx

11/5/1999

Mick Turner

2/24/2006

Mighty Narwhale

4/11/2003

Millimeters Mercury

4/19/2002

Millimeters Mercury

7/6/2001

Millimeters Mercury

10/21/2005

Minotaur

3/14/2003

Miss Alex White

1/16/1998

Mooter

5/10/1996

Mount Shasta (9 PM)

8/24/2007

Mr Russia

MR RUSSIA has emerged from the wreckage of contemporary rock music, and set a new standard within the independent Chicago music scene. These grave digging purveyors of a No Wave, post Chicago Sound, unload grinding, jolting, and thunderous double bass gui

11/11/2005

Mr. Rudy Day

8/23/2002

Mr. Rudy Day

1/26/2001

Mr. Rudy Day

6/18/1999

Mr. Rudy Day

5/8/1998

Mr. Rudy Day

4/19/1996

MX-80 Sound

5/27/2005

Na

3/22/2002

Napalm Cowboy

9/8/2000

Nautical Almanac, Panicsville, Gunshop and Vertonen

8/20/2010

NEON MARSHMALLOW Showcase: Dolphins into the Future

Belgium's own cetacean son/ Taped Sounds honcho sits in on strange synths, bubbling tapes, and the sound of aquatic life.

2/9/1996

New Rob Robbies

9/3/2004

Night Moves

11/21/2003

No band

8/22/2003

No Band

8/15/2003

No Band

7/25/2003

No band

5/9/2003

No band

10/4/2002

No band

7/13/2001

No band

6/22/2001

No band

5/4/2001

No band

4/6/2001

No band

3/16/2001

No band

3/2/2001

No band

2/16/2001

No band

1/5/2001

No band

12/29/2000

No band

12/22/2000

No band

11/24/2000

No band

9/1/2000

No band

8/11/2000

No band

4/28/2000

No band

1/14/2000

No band

11/26/1999

No band

2/8/2002

No Band -- Maroons Basketball

1/25/2002

No Band -- Maroons Basketball

1/18/2002

No Band -- Maroons Basketball

11/21/2008

Nobunny

12/2/2005

Noise Fest 2005 with Robb Drinkwater and Brian Labcyz

5/25/2007

Notary

8/20/1999

November’s Doom

1/8/2010

Ono

8/28/2009

ONO

1/13/2006

Oscillating Innards, Mark Solotroff (Bloodyminded screamer solo), and Vertonen

5/30/2003

P1xel and the Chronic Network

5/23/2008

Panda Riot

Panda Riot is now a 3 piece hailing from Chicago, IL. They create tiny sonic bliss-outs and swirl-pop sing- a longs.

9/26/2003

Pedal Steel Transmission

11/8/2002

Pedal Steel Transmission

7/16/2004

Pedestrians

1/29/2010

Permanent Records special

5/21/2010

Permanent Showcase: Shearing Pinx, Running, Nu Sensae

TORN UP. Face shredding punk/trash, CS blackmetal, and free spazzz units from British Columbia and Chicago blast yr set to pieces. Catch them later at the Bakery. Going to melllllt.

10/31/2003

Phantom Creeper & Buh Zombie of the Goblins

3/3/2000

Phenomenal Cat

2/27/2009

Pillars &Tongues

8/2/1996

Pine Top 7

5/18/2007

Pink Reason

1/8/2010

piss piss piss moan moan moan

10/27/2000

Pistolero

10/24/2003

Plague Bringer

4/26/2002

Planck Length

5/18/2001

Planck Length

2/9/2001

Planethrower

10/26/2007

Plastic Boner Band

The hardest boning band in show business.

9/7/2001

Plastic Crimewave and the Fake, Shackamaxon

2/25/2005

Plastic Crimewave, Fursaxa

9/3/1999

Pointed

7/17/2009

Poppets

All Sweden!

1/8/2010

PPPMMMONO?

noise/electronics/drums experimenters piss piss piss moan moan moan and noise/no-wave/synth/performance art band Ono, together

9/17/1999

Prescriptions

4/9/2010

Prichard

6/22/2007

Prichard

4/25/2008

Primordial Mornings

Lap steel noise

5/18/2007

Psychadelic Horseshit

2/1/2002

Punch in the Face, 14 or Fight

1/20/2006

Quatre Tête

4/11/2008

Radar Eyes

"Music to listen to"

8/30/1996

Rattlecake (morning broadcast)

11/2/2001

Reagan National Crash Diet

12/8/2000

Reagan National Crash Diet

9/10/1999

Rebecca Gates

12/9/2005

Recent Photo

5/1/2009

Red Denizen

Happy May Day! Pure Hype salutes the workers of the world by hosting Red Denizen in our record library. Born on the 4th of July 2006, Red Denizen is Laurence Ludwig, Adam Kroos, and Chris Ott. Coming from Chicago bands M.O.T.O. and Paper Bullets, Red Denizen is heavily influenced by their old bands. Mixture of Punk, Rock n' Roll, little bit of blues, and off key song writings. Most Red Denizen songs are 2 minutes long, and all of them were written not sober.

4/29/2005

Red Eyed Legends

12/7/2007

Reds and Blues

Painting a picture of Reds and Blue, the band dances between cacophony and calm, chanting around progesque keys, heavy drums, and drony bass. The band was formed by Ellen (of ZZZZ) in the spring of 2006. Fuzzy on reality, the noir sound moves from the cabaret, to the open road, to the far ends of the imagination. Ju Ju Pow Wow!

7/30/2010

Riggs/Royal/Merkey

HCC boss/scrape guitarist Chris Riggs hits Chicago for a new session with violinist/wire mangler Andrew Royal (of Wummin) and gloop electronics seer Madalyn Merkey (Irma Vep Tapes). Get weird.

11/22/2002

Rob Ray, Vertonen, Pod Blatz

3/28/2008

Rock Falls

Annie was born and raised in rock falls, which is the moniker she has adopted for her music. here are some other things about her: 1. she sings and plays the guitar and the ukelele. 2. her songs are sweet, concise, intimate, occasionally sad, and always sincere and lovingly presented. 3. all of her songs are written on her living room floor, which is where she also sits when recording them on her tascam 4-track tape recorder (the porta03. it's the black model before they switched to blue). 4. speaking of blue, that is annie's favorite color. 5. she is mind-blowingly great at parallel-parking. 6. she really hopes that you like her music.

2/13/2004

Rope

6/14/2002

Rope

5/25/2007

Royal Pines

7/15/2005

Royalchord

10/15/2004

Sainte Chapelle

5/12/2006

Sallah

4/23/1999

Sally Timms (with Rebecca Gates)

5/7/1999

Salome

2/6/1998

Salome

4/27/2007

sawgrass

12/3/1999

Scepter

4/23/2004

Scotland Yard Gospel Choir

9/19/2003

Scotland Yard Gospel Choir

4/18/2003

Scott Tuma

6/15/2007

Screaming Yellow Zonkers

9/24/1999

Seafoam, Gunshop

5/3/2002

Service Anxiety

9/21/2007

Shopping

Committed to the things committment demands.

9/15/2000

Silverado

5/16/1997

singsong/peoria

6/25/2010

Slag Heap

5/3/1996

Slink Moss and the Flying Aces

5/16/1996

Smog

9/28/2001

Smoke

12/11/2009

Snow Angels

Rock'n'roll X-mas covers -- the tradition continues! Chicago Garage super group.

10/9/2009

Soft Targets

9/14/2007

Soft Targets

Soft Targets form in summer 2004 after the breakup of Reagan National Crash Diet with Chris Auman, guitar/vocals and Carol Bales, bass (Reagan National Crash Diet, Coupleskate). Soft Targets is a power duo. Winter 2004 Perry Finch (Vambo Marble Eye, The Finches) joins on drums. Soft Targets is a power trio. Carol departs. Soft Targets is a power duo. Tina Finch (Smitten, The Finches) joins on bass. Soft Targets is a power trio. Reg Shrader (Seam, Circus Lupus, The Paperbacks) joins on guitar. Soft Targets is a power quartet. Tina gets pregnant and departs. Tim Davison (Fairmount Girls, The Clerics) joins on bass. Soft Targets remain a power quartet. Perry leaves on drums. Dave Potter (Lustre Kings) joins on drums. And then, and then, AND THEN Tim Davison leaves. Dan Kiss joins on bass. Soft Targets remain a power quartet.

7/2/2010

Space Faces

8/26/2003

Special live Radio DaDa: Joseph Hammer, Professor Cantaloupe, Letizia Casta ñeda

11/9/2001

Spindrift

3/15/1996

Squirm

5/26/2006

Sseepage

2/29/2008

Stanley Ross

"Dreary songs. Foggy Americana pierced by the occasional freight horn, sung by a man who seemed to be channeling England and Ireland, drinking in a frothy ale and wolfing down bangers, elbowing up with hard working old men, their eyes as clouded as the windows of a gilded age saloon." -Dan Duffy

10/8/2004

Stanley Ross

7/30/1999

Star Phase 23

10/24/1997

Star Vehicle

11/1/1996

Star Vehicle

1/5/1996

Star Vehicle

1/30/2004

Starlister

5/10/2002

Starlister

5/28/2010

Suckling Pigs

Do you like no wave? Do you like Hott Jazz?

4/25/2003

Swansea Mass

7/12/1996

Sweetback

7/20/2001

Systemic Infection

8/11/1995

T.V. Set

4/13/2001

Tallulah

12/1/2006

Team Band

11/4/2005

Telenovela

8/30/2002

The Afflictions

2/22/2002

The Afflictions

4/3/1998

The Aluminum Group

2/15/2002

The Ancient Greeks

2/22/2008

The Automatic Stinging Machines

"The Automatic Stinging Machines rock in a way that only the Automatic Stinging Machines can ... A bit like '60s era British spy rock, with an even harder edge ... they have dirty lyrics ... And they're a barrel of lubed-up monkeys live, pulling on-the-spot stunts ... " -Sloop Biederman, dailylimerick.net

4/17/1998

The Bartlebees

11/6/2009

The Blackbelts

5/19/2006

The Blow

2/10/2006

The Busy Signals

10/3/2008

The Butts

3/6/1996

The Cannanes

8/5/2005

The Carnys, Attic Ted

6/29/2001

The Carving Knives

5/4/2007

The Cathy Santonies

3/7/2003

The Children’s Hour

11/10/2006

The Clerics

7/12/2002

The Clerics

2/23/2007

The Dead Superheroes Orchestra

6/11/1999

The Detested

5/31/2002

The Dishes

7/23/1999

The Dishes

7/2/1999

The Downwinders

5/21/2004

The Drapes

6/4/2004

The Dutchmen

10/28/2005

The Electric Set

7/18/2003

The English Softhearts

10/1/1999

The Fairmount Girls

4/28/2006

The Fake Fictions

4/1/2005

The Fake Fictions

10/6/2000

The Flippy Babies

6/13/2003

The Functional Blackouts

10/20/1995

The Geezers

10/10/2003

The Georges

3/31/2006

The Goddamn Shame

10/19/2007

The Goodnight Loving

(Rebroadcast)

The Andy's were born in the same hospital where their parents met. They learned to crawl, walk, and even talk together. Shared their first kiss together in fact. Austin and Zach actually met one another through MySpace after they had been simultaneously searching both Milwaukee area swingers, and Neil Young. Eventually, the four boys met through Colin, who had been working on assembling a pop-group for an upcoming ABC pilot. The stars aligned that day friends, and the results are in the ratings. Look for

3/16/2007

The Gut Reactions

7/27/2007

The Half Rats

1/19/2001

The Hamicks

10/13/2000

The Handsome Family

9/12/2003

The Holy Ghosts

2/16/1996

The Howards

4/4/2003

The Kallikak Family

1/25/2008

The Krunchies

"The Krunchies are the sonic equivalent of a brutal beating. There's no need to overanalyze – it's simple call and response type songs with dual boy/girl screamers, slashing chords played at breakneck pace kept in line by ultra tight drumming" -Terminal Boredom

8/27/2004

The Krunchies

8/12/2005

The Latest

9/5/2003

The Latest

5/22/2009

The Lifestyle Choices

Forties for breakfast. Not fastening your seatbelt. Unprotected sex with strangers. Listening to punk rock. Are you making good lifestyle choices? Listening to this show would be a good way to start.

9/2/2005

The Locks

3/9/2001

The Lofty Pillars

11/3/2000

The Mabels

12/16/2005

The Manners

7/6/2007

The Mans

5/17/2002

The Means

7/31/2009

The Midwest Beat

8/24/2001

The Mistreaters

4/5/2002

The Ms

3/1/2002

The Mushuganas

5/29/2009

The Names That Spell

the names that spell use drums, more drums, guitars, bass, keyboards, accordian, trumpet, saxophone, ukulele, zither, computer noisies, voices& many other devices to create our * ., . . we are committed to being unpredictable, and the music we play we play for ourselves,so obviously we are big businessmen. we operate a big business. every day we have to deal with shareholders, crockholders, moneyminglers, and paperpushers.,. and every day we make one hundred scillion transactions through our state-of-the-art mobile transmitter/receiver device machine. even though this is very hectic for us [and has even caused some of us to overfeed the parakeet], we still perform live constantly. and we don't outsource our number crunching to incompetent Bot-Drones. we painstakingly handcraft all of our numbers to look exactly the same, so at the end of the day we can invent our own taxes.

1/7/2000

The Nerves

3/29/2002

The Paperbacks

6/29/2007

The Passerines

2/9/2007

The Passerines

2/3/2006

The Passerines

4/8/2005

The Passerines

12/19/1997

The Permanentz

3/6/1998

The Polkaholics

8/2/2002

The Prehistorics

5/19/2000

The Puta-Pons

7/21/2000

The Returnables

1/7/2005

The Safes

7/9/2004

The Secret Order of the Black Hand

9/26/2008

The Smith Westerns

12/21/2007

The Smith Westerns

A bunch of dirty boys playing filthy rock music.

12/12/2008

The Snow Angels

X-Mas covers rock-and-roll supergroup featuring Wes Sleigh (organ) Santa Coz (Bells-drums), Kris Maas (Git), Rey N. Deere (skins), December XXV (bass). This is the second December in a row for this holiday treat -- destined to be a WHPK tradition!

12/14/2007

The Snow Angels

X-Mas Songs featuring... Chris Maas (Vee Dee, Brides) Don December XXV (Vee Dee, Screaming Yellow Zonkers) Kevin Kringle (Krunchies, Busy Signals) Rey N. Deere (Mannequin Men)

4/14/2006

The Soft Targets

5/16/2003

The Standing Nudes

4/22/2005

The Straits

3/23/2007

The Stranger

1/27/2006

The Submarine Races

11/18/2005

The Thin Man

1/6/2006

The Titmice

5/24/2002

The Tuffets

10/17/2003

The Tyrades

9/25/2009

The Unholy Two

7/7/2000

The Unshown

3/15/2002

The White Outs

7/22/2005

The World Record

3/9/2007

The Yolks

4/10/2009

These Wonderful Evils

"Taking their name from The Shakers’ 1967 Swedish psych classic, These Wonderful Evils are largely the product of guitarist Zak Boerger and draw equally on the traditions of garage psych and proto-punk and slightly more erudite folk and minimalist approaches to sound-as-song, prizing intuition above all else as an organizing tool. Their debut album, ‘Regine Flory’ is a sideways attempt at that hoary chestnut “the anti-war record,” and in a 2008 review, The Wire magazine said, “there’s a lonesome edge to the music that would situate it outside of any particular historical tradition and closer to the mystery school of regional private press obscurities. The acoustic tracks skirt the fringes of American primitive without particularly sounding like anyone else, but it’s the elegiac fuzz settings that really make the album stand out." - Issueprojectroom.org

4/2/2004

Thin Man

10/19/2007

Thomas Function

(Rebroadcast)

Cast in the golden furnace of Ra.

5/15/2009

Thomas Function & White Mystery: Summer Breeze Preview

Two fine Summer Breeze '09 acts preview the next days festivities! A brief word about T-Funk: "Thomas Function's bright, charismatic melodies are carried through a straight up beating, thumping, chiming rock n roll delivery. Signature bright keys and round classic rock bass drum set the top and bottom plateaus for the insanity. Classic, but somehow it comes off in a shiny new package. Like a tack piano on steroids. All because of the smart production and great song-writing going on in this band. And who can deny the patented melody-belt of Josh's vocal stylings? These are the type of musicians the record execs woulda trekked down to the swamp to sign a few decades ago...askin directions toward "that rock n roll genius sound". It just reeks of authentic, classic instant smash-hit wonder syndrome. And it keeps on pouring out of their pens in direct proportion to the booze pouring down their lovely pop-singin throats." - Tic Tac Totally! Records ...HEY! Thomas Function headline WHPK's Summer Breeze on Saturday, May 16th....and White Mystery will be playing too!

7/24/2009

Tiger Hatchery

Megatons heavy free skronk from the Brotzmann/ Weasel Walter star system. Members of Forbes/Young duo, Lechuguillas, and Druids of Huge.

9/28/2007

Tijuana Hercules

The Chicago trio Tijuana Hercules specializes in a raw brand of swamp shake, rattle and rockabilly. John Vernon Forbes sets his gravel pit of a voice against a frenetic backwoods stomp and dirty, fuzzed-out garage rock guitar licks.

6/1/2001

Tiny Hairs

12/4/2009

Tirra Lirra

7/14/2000

Tokyo Expando

10/27/2006

Tom Feldmann & the Get-Rites

12/6/2002

Town & Country

7/6/2007

Turpentine Brothers

Boston garage/punk/dirtbag/ R&B dynamos.

1/18/2008

TV Ghost w/ Dead Luke

Playing with special guest Dead Luke (solo project from dead hookers, occasional member of pink reason): "Oozing out of the sewer grates of Lafayette, Indiana over the last year, Television Ghost are an eerie and pugnacious band who are pushing rhythmic noise to it's inevitable apex by drowning the listener in subliminally perverse noodles of sound, which all fit somehow in place to concoct a truly contentious and staggering monstrosity." -Victim of Time

8/7/2009

TV Set

7/29/2005

Twin Wrecks the Memory

3/21/2008

Tyler Jon Tyler and Mother of Tears

1/26/1996

U.S. Maple

7/31/1998

Uhr

8/25/2006

Unconscious Pilot

11/3/2006

Unique Chique

9/27/2002

Uno-A-Go-Go Festival Preview with Eearwig Spectre, Dirt Wolf, and Jeremiad

3/14/2008

US Girls

10/29/1999

Usurper

10/24/2008

Vamplifier

12/28/2007

VEE DEE

VEEDEE is your public mental health system and if you get the choice, leave with your dignity. hope is a christian word; kill science with belief. VEEDEE has grown a garden as good as goD's ,they sit on our tounge an ignorant sod. VEEDEE is hari freakrock prefered by old dudes, acid casualties, BIKER gangs, priests, AND don juan de flays.

11/30/2007

VEE DEE

VEEDEE is your public mental health system and if you get the choice, leave with your dignity. hope is a christian word; kill science with belief. VEEDEE has grown a garden as good as goD's ,they sit on our tounge an ignorant sod. VEEDEE is hari freakrock prefered by old dudes, acid casualties, BIKER gangs, priests, AND don juan de flays.

9/24/2004

Vee Dee

4/9/2004

Velcro Lewis and His 100 Proof Band

2/18/2000

Vertonen, Coeurl

3/19/2004

Viking Moses (a.k.a. Brendon Massei)

4/2/2010

VIOLENCE II

6/28/2002

Vulture

2/23/2001

Vulture

7/26/1996

Vuva La Squnge

10/5/2001

Warmdesk

7/11/2003

Warmdesk, Matt Mercer

8/13/2004

Weather

10/16/2009

White Prism

New Chicago based dual synth CS nu-new-age goons Ben Billington (Tiger Hatchery, Druids of Huge) and Josh Burke (Sky Limousine, Futuresport) laying down some padded mind's eye nonsense.

2/12/2010

WHPromK

WOW! Another year, another Prom. Remember to dress real nice! 8pm Bundle of Fags Mickey Johnny & the Limelites

5/10/1996

Windy and Carl (7 PM)

10/25/2002

Winter Carousel, False Sex

5/12/2000

Winter Vacation

6/1/2007

Wolfden

3/5/2010

Wummin

6/15/2003

X27

8/3/2001

X27

5/25/2001

Yum Yum

10/22/2004

Zelienople