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

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.

Nicholas Papaleo from Picture Books talks to Chip about the band, the Chicago scene, and other stuff about music.

Jim Hanke from Kid You'll Move Mountains joins us for some holiday cheer and a live performance. We discuss his former band El Oso, all ages shows, his current band, and his hatred for Mr. Hanky the Christmas Poo. Eww! Music by The Rikters, Kelly Steward, fun, The Duchess and The Duke, Picture Books, Jim Hanke.

It's the first part in a duo of episodes on the Rockford Area Music Industry Awards, and possibly the last part as well once Ditzel hears this. RAMI award winner Dave Pedersen joins us to discuss his experience winning a RAMI with his band The Shizams. SockMonkeySound.com contributing writer Alex Danger Stewart is along for the ride also as we play a new game 'Get Positive'. We try to have a conversation about what the RAMI's are and our opinions on the award but we seem to get Ditzeled at every corner.

We welcome Dave DeCastris and Zach Staas of Silent Kit / Donkey Boy USA to Sock Monkey Sound to talk about John Madden, Andy Whorehall, Nirvana, and The Replacements.

We got a chance to sit down and interview Heather Perry and the _____s after a show at CJ's Lounge in Rockford, IL.

We tight roll our jeans with Jesse Carmona & Phil Goudreau from Crankupmadonna.

Everybody has musical skeletons in their closet and on this special edition of Sock Monkey Sound we clean out ours on The Pleasuredome!

The SMS Nerds in full force to talk about pop culture, Boner Stabone, Local H, crowd surfing, the Grunge Era, Halloween Shenanigans!