Category: Live performances
Greetings from the ‘swingers capital of the midwest’: Hear the Darling Suns play live! (Episode 247)
Chicago indie band the Darling Suns (Robert, Lindsey, John and Charlie) joined the show this week for for a live performance of their fantastic song “Raspberry Homecoming” (from “Midnight Feelings”) and hot dogs from Johnny’s Red Hot Hots in Naperville….
Chicago music/songwriting legend Jim Peterik performs outside Revolution Brewpub (Episode 242)
Music legend Jim Peterik (Ides of March, Survivor, countless songwriting credits throughout the past 50 years) joins me for a fantastic meal provided by Revolution Brewpub (2323 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647). When I realized the iconic Jim Peterik…
Previewing the Homegrown Arts and Music festival with Aaron Williams and the Daily Herald’s Brian Shamie (Episode 240)
This week, I’m joined by musician Aaron Williams, creator of the The Homegrown Arts & Music Festival, and Brian Shamie, multiplatform editor and Sound Check columnist for the Daily Herald.
Stellar West: They’re young, they’re accomplished and they eat pizza (Episode 229)
Stellar West has racked up a solid list of credits and acknowledgments over their relatively short career. AP said they were an “under 21” band to watch. They played Riot Fest. They made the finals to open up for Metallica…
Listen to a live musical preview of ‘Take Me’ with Jon Langford and actors Nicole Bloomsmith and Carmine Grisolia (Episode 227)
“Take Me” debuts at the Strawdog Theatre Company on May 20. Co-created by the team of Mark Guarino and Jon Langford (Waco Brothers, Mekons, lots of amazing things), “Take Me” is “a comic fantasia about searching the vast universe for answers when all along they may be found inside.”
That train overhead? It’s the ‘L.’ That amazing performance? It’s the return of the War on Peace. (Episode 221)
The War on Peace (Grahm, Steven and Jeremy) returns to Car Con Carne for another hard-to-believe-it-was-done-in-a-car performance! They previewed the new song “High School” from the forthcoming EP, “Mutual Destruction” and joined me for fabulous Tacos Al Pastor from Taqueria…
Episode 218 – Bummed Out in good spirits as they eat pizza in Franklin Park
Chicago area band Bummed Out jumps in the car for pizza and a performance!
Three bands. Two Brothers Roundhouse. One podcast. (Episode 215)
Three different artists perform live in the car after talking and eating off the fantastic menu at Two Brothers Roundhouse in Aurora!
Episode 213 – Two Chicago classics: AM Taxi and Lou Malnati’s (LIVE AM TAXI PERFORMANCE)
Excellent Chicago band. Iconic Chicago pizza.
Live, from the Autobarn Mazda of Evanston floor: Hi Ho and OUTDrejas (Episode 203)
Car Con Carne ends 2018 with two incredible live performances on the showroom floor of Autobarn Mazda of Evanston!
