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My back is broken! I’m interviewing Bollweevils again! RIOT FEST 2021 (Episode 655)   The Bollweevils kicked off my Riot Fest weekend with a fun backstage interview. We talked about their new music on Red Scare, Pete’s Hollywood good looks, the pleasures of gin and Dr. Doom teaming up with Sub-Mariner.   #RiotFest2021   MY BACK IS BROKEN! YOU SHOULD SHARE MY PODCAST AGAIN!

Guitars Over Guns. Sounds great to me. The Humanity is the Genre Festival is happening 9/25, from 12-6:00 p.m. in the courtyard of the historic landmark Mt. Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church in Bronzeville. Joining me for this episode DJ Lady D and Yin Waster, two musical acts who are part of the overall collective behind the festival and its mission to make kids’ lives better… through music.

Three chefs, one show! Chicago Gourmet’s “Hamburger Hop” event is happening right now, and joining me to talk about it are Chef Daniel Pineda (Whiskey Business), Chef Yani Sanchez (Takito) and Chef Michael Hernandez  (Azul). We’re talking burgers. We’re talking food. We’re talking Chicago. Join us!

The Beverly Art Walk strolls into its 8th year with another fantastic event on Saturday, 9/18. Spanning from 95th to 111th Streets, Walden to Western Avenue, this year’s walk includes 100 artists, pop-ups, gallery exhibitions, home studio visits and more! Joining me to talk about this year’s event are Music Curator Chris Castaneda and artist Preston Thomas.

This week on The Daily Life of Frank, he talks about his daughter wanting to listen to the podcast, the new meds he is on, recaps his Labor Day weekend, remembers 9/11, shares a dad joke, and more!

Musician and composer (and former Chicagoan) Marcus Norris is the Chicago Philharmonic’s new composer in residence. You can see his epic piece, “Glory,” performed in the Philharmonic’s season opening production OUT OF THE SILENCE this Sunday (9/12) at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts.   One of the things we talked at length about is how Classical music is a blind spot for people under the age of 60, myself included. He talks about how he discovered and fell in love with Classical, and how he approaches compositions.   As he mentions in the podcast, he’ll be at the Out of the Silence performance on Sunday. Be sure to say hi!

A loose collective of musicians delivered one of the year’s tightest sets of music. The Joy Thieves recently put out their first full-length (“American Parasite”), and gave us the cathartic, drive fast, live-without-consequences, kind of music that the end of summer was made for.   And when I say “loose collective,” The Joy Thieves’ 50+ member roster also includes current, former and touring members of Ministry, Stabbing Westward, Nitzer Ebb, Revolting Cocks, Pigface, KMFDM, Marilyn Manson, , Blue October, Black Needle Noise, 16VOLT, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, and more.

Frank shares about his time in New Orleans, how school is going for his son so far, his Labor Day plans, reads some parenting tweets, watching All Elite Wrestling in the theater and much more!

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Full list of parenting tweets via BuzzFeed here:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/asiawmclain/brutally-funny-parenting-tweets

Mid-90s. Chicago. Bands across the city were swept up in a record company feeding frenzy the likes of which we’d never see again. You know the names of some of the bands, as a handful were able to establish a fairly large footprint. Others have sadly faded into the ether.   Somewhere closer to the latter of those two distinctions is one of my favorite artists of that era: Pulsars… a band that got one album on Almo sounds, the label started by the guys who founded A&M Records.   Almo did okay out of the chute with a band called Garbage in 1995, and it served to reason that perhaps Pulsars… Dave and Harry Trumfio… would follow down that road to success when their debut came out in 1997.   Alas, they only got one album out of Almo, and their plans for world domination quietly fizzled out at the turn of the century.   Well, they’re back. Kinda. Lost Transmissions is a collection of song versions that Almo rejected, some unreleased stuff and general stuff that’s been sitting on the shelf.   Joining me tonight is Pulsar Dave Trumfio,  a guy whose career as a music producer started before Pulsars put out their album, and has continued to skyrocket ever since.  He’s worked with Wilco, OK GO, the Mekons, Built to Spill, Pigface, My Morning Jacket, the Rentals, Grandaddy, and Wayne Kramer.

Frank and his family are back from vacation and he recaps the full rundown including his son’s gas problem, going into Dad mode, being addicted to claw machines, and more. Plus he talks about his son’s first day at kindergarten, and more!