Barry Owen
@barryo.bsky.social
Chicago, music, politics, pizza, #mubb www.owenadvocacy.com All opinions are personal Board Member CHIRP Radio chirpradio.org Tell your smart speaker to play CHIRP Radio!
Loving new record from Kansas band Sweeping Promises, You Say I Romantacize. Best song in rock music history about an entenmologist?? No matter, this album rips. First heard on @chirpradio.org! sweepingpromises.com
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Props to the dude at US Open trying to bring back the dumb & dumber haircut
No album this year makes me want to dance in inexplicable, limbs-flailing, deeply awkward and fun ways like this Plum album does RIYL: The B-52's, Talking Heads, Devo, Sweeping Promises, Ava Luna, Elvis Costello, post-punk with new wave style
Plum: Bodies in Motion
Read Nina Corcoran’s review of the album.
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If you’re feeling the loss of Dolly and are seeking an outlet, tune in to @chirpradio.org for some live DJs honoring her and her music
Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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I’d like to see a major news outlet run this story: “Why are we in a trade war with Canada?” Start with the ramifications and impact it will have here and in Canada. Then conclude with the simple answer: because the president is a madman and his administration are all compromised, corrupt cowards.
CHIRP Record Fair returns at Sound and Gravity fest! Sept 3-4, 4-9pm at Rockwell on the River; Sept 5, 2-7pm at Athenaeum Center. Free & open to all — records, CDs & more! Details: chirpradio.org/recordfair #chirprecordfair #chirpradio
What a great profile of @chirpradio.org DJ Mary Nisi in @chicagoreader.com chicagoreader.com/music/chicag...
Mary Nisi, DJ and radio host - Chicago Reader
Mary Nisi talks about CHIRP's fight for low-power radio, the launch of DJ company Toast & Jam, and her all-woman party Hot Flash Dance.
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One of the best seventh inning stretch efforts I’ve seen in a while. What a legend #Mr.T www.mlb.com/video/mr-t-s...
Mr. T sings Take Me Out To The Ball Game | 08/14/2026
Mr. T sings Take Me Out To The Ball Game during the 7th inning stretch
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We're thrilled to announce the return of the CHIRP Record Fair, popping up at Sound and Gravity: 🎵 Sept. 3 & 4 at Rockwell on the River from 4-9pm 🎵 Sept. 5 at the Athenaeum Center from 12-7pm Vinyl, CDs, DVDs cassettes & books * Support independent radio * Free & open to all We ❤️ physical media!
Check out CHIRP Radio's Website Launch Party: 2010s Again! at Bramble Arts Loft! via @CHIRPRadio chirpradio.org/events/2010s...
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What songs are must-haves for our 2010s Again Party? 👾🪩🔮👽🕺🏻 We’re celebrating the launch of our new website with the decade that brought us our old one back in 2012. **Drinks and light bites on us, but the dancing’s on you! Grab tickets now at the link in our bio. **@brambleartsloft #CHIRPRadio
Blanche’s confirmation sends this administration and the GOP further into lawlessness. If there are any guardrails left, and democracy survives, every sad little suck up criminal like Blanche should live on in utter ignominy. Never be able to eat a cheeseburger in peace.
This is too much. Shitting silently in the corner behind a sheet at a dinner party and having an orgasm is a great party trick…these freaks 😂
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 4w agoOh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
Parenting the Strong Willed Child in the little free library next to the park 👌
Cranked this in the car today. still one of my fave albums of the last 20 years. No skips. One of their shows at the bottle prob in my top 5 favorite shows youtu.be/Z-pmoIL3eHk
Menomena - Friend and Foe | Full Album
YouTube video by Pawesome Pal
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🎟️💰🎟️There's just over 24 hours remaining to get 50/50 raffle tickets, with your chance to take home a *minimum* of $2665! 🎟️💰🎟️ Get yours: chirp5050.org The more tix we sell, the bigger the jackpot - don't miss your shot!
Kesha - Tick Tock
ALT: Kesha - Tick Tock
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Yolo? Yo, no! It’s the 2010s again! On August 15th at Bramble Arts Loft we’ll send off our old 2010s website in decade-appropriate style, and show off our brand new website and apps! Buy tickets at buff.ly/BwLKDuH. #CHIRPRadio #2010sAgain #CHIRPLaunchParty
The Cubs were the very last major-league team to play the anthem before every game. PK Wrigley thought playing it every day — in peacetime as well when the country was at war — cheapened it.
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · last mo.A fan got smacked for not standing for the anthem and the Cubs’ response was meh, they figured it out
Yeah right, adding 250+ parking spaces will reduce parking in the neighborhood. The mallification of Wrigley expands. A good neighbor doesn’t build a parking garage next to your apartment/condo/house apple.news/Aayq5tKpWRVu...
Wrigleyville Neighbors Demand Changes To Cubs Parking Lot Expansion — Block Club Chicago
Neighbors want city officials to require the Cubs to meet landscape and stormwater standards, citing concerns over traffic, trees, lighting and privacy.
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CDC is no longer surveilling outbreaks caused by campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia. What could go wrong?
Ian Weissman, DO@drianweissman.bsky.social · last yr.The CDC quietly scaled back a surveillance program for foodborne illnesses. As of July 1, a critical surveillance program is monitoring for only two pathogens instead of the usual eight. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Dems should slam airwaves in Northern WI, Minn, and Northern MI, with hard negative ads on the environment right now. With heat dome and wildfire smoke, they might even break thru to some diehard GOPers
Unconfirmed reports that the cause of death was oral cyclosporia, aka diarrhea mouth. There has been a contained outbreak of this violent & foul condition in the DC area since January 2017
A single death in immigrant detention is unacceptable. Mamuka Artmeladze was the 50th person to die in ICE custody during the second Trump administration, according to ABC News. ACT: Join NIJC's action list to help us stop future funding for ICE and CBP: immigrantjustice.org/subscribe
Listening to SML’s Spontaneous Music Live and this might sound crazy but I’m thinking this group of musicians and their music might/should have historic relevance like some of the Miles Davis fusion stuff. Just amazing musicians creating vital music. Tx SML and @intlanthem.bsky.social!
