#93XRT

[raspberryconverse]

I have no words. Now the two people who made my experience interning at XRT so good are gone and my heart is broken.

— Coley 💗💜💙 Bisexual people exist (she/her) (@raspberrychucks) Jan 22, 2023 January 22, 2023 at 01:57PM via Twitter https://twitter.com/raspberrychucks

[jimflanigan]

Back to the Beach ... sort of

Are you ready for a meandering post with lots of links that will eventually take you all the way to Chicago for a nice surprise? Well, read on then. When I got in my car yesterday, I was pleased to see sand on the passenger seat. That may not make sense to most folks, but I live for being in and around water. People look at me funny when I tell them that I feel more comfortable being in water…

[damiannasworld]

Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom, Chicago 17.11.22

📸 Jennifer Rosiere for 93XRT

[catb-fics]

Just rewatched vans interview with 93xrt at lollapalooza 2015 on his birthday, because what else would I do before I fall asleep, and he mentions that no one got him anything for his birthday😭😭 I know they were obviously on tour and busy and I also feel like guys don’t tend to do birthday presents as much as girlies but I’m like COME ON, my baby boy deserves to be SPOILED ROTTEN, it made me so sad ahahahaha

Boys are so crap at birthdays aren’t they? Me and my bf were just talking about this a few days ago and we were comparing how much of a fuss I make of my friends on their bdays and how the most he’ll do is buy his mates like a pint or something 😭

Van did say he got a Man Utd shirt from a fan though so at least he got something!

[pidge-poetry]

Foals at Lollapalooza Chicago | 4th August 2023 | by Lyla Lane for 93XRT

[fuckyeahspoon]

Just announced!! Riot Fest late night show on Sept. 20. Tickets go on sale tomorrow but there’s also a presale today. You can use the code 93XRT 😄

[sinceileftyoublog]

Cracker & Camper Van Beethoven: David Lowery’s Touring Family

Cracker

BY JORDAN MAINZER

To the casual music listener, they’re the type of bands whose songs you’ve heard and maybe you know well, but upon hearing their names, you respond, “Who?” Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven topped Billboard’s Modern Rock Tracks chart with “Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now)” and a cover of Status Quo’s “Pictures of Matchstick Men”, respectively, at a point in time. The former’s “Low”, if you grew up listening to 93XRT like I did, was inescapable, its chorus (“I'll be with you girl / Like being low / Hey, hey, hey like being stoned”) immediately recognizable, even if a stranger were to sing it a capella minus the Southern rock riffing. Camper Van Beethoven’s “Good Guys and Bad Guys” was used in Bio-Dome, which I know only because, for some ungodly reason, I watched a Pauly Shore double feature the morning of the co-headlining show between the two bands at Lincoln Hall.

I mention the two bands’ moments of popularity not to emphasize the fact that they had a few hits nor to decry that they should have had more--and don’t get me wrong, they should have--but to argue that songs like these fit well within both the albums they appeared on and lead singer/songwriter/guitarist David Lowery’s discography. Sure, Cracker’s the meat-and-potatoes, country-influenced band co-led by a rockabilly looking, bellowing Johnny Hickman, with pedal steel guitar playing that can make you swoon, while Camper Van Beethoven’s the jangly art punk collective with songs that simultaneously inhabit and make fun of their subjects, from hippie culture to the embrace of pastiche. And on the contrary, it’s easy to say that Lowery himself is the tying thread (or, on Sunday, violinist Jonathan Segel, who sat in with both bands). 

Camper Van Beethoven

The truth lies in the middle with a wink and a nod, which their setlists exemplified. Camper’s keyboarding jaunt “We Saw Jerry’s Daughter” satirized the same Deadhead fandom that caused Cracker to open their set with a cover of Jerry Garcia’s “Loser”, featuring a Hickman guitar solo that would impress even the late man himself. The two bands’ universes clashed when Cracker performed “King of Bakersfield”, a fake California romanticism that Lowery himself acts upon with Camper, asking the audience to take some “deep yoga breaths.” (“It’s good to see Santa Cruz left its mark,” another band facetiously joked after Lowery made the “yoga” comment.) And, okay, let’s give Segel some credit, too: His fiddling playing style on Camper songs like “Picutres of Matchstick Men”, “She Divines Water”, and the “Kashmir”-meets-“Hava Negila” medley has the same affect as Matt "Pistol" Stoessel’s (of Cracker) pedal steel, providing a little shine to the gruff and tumble. As Camper’s “She Divines Water” ended on a Cracker-like slow note, with Lowery’s guitar and Segel’s violin fading, Lowery joked, “That’s actually a race to see who can play the last note on the song...but I’m gonna get him cause I’m gonna play it tomorrow on the plane.”

Eventually, Cracker had to cut their set short. They started late, plagued by sound issues, and ended early, Lowery’s voice shot from his gravel pit singing on “Teen Angst”, “Low”, and main set closer “Euro-Trash Girl”. There were many more Kerosene Hat songs on the original setlist, but the band instead opted for an encore cover of Bob Dylan’s “The Man in Me”. Really, the whole night felt like one big show, the cliche of two sides of the same coin ringing ever true. I’ll still be able to hear the slow burn of Camper’s “All Her Favorite Fruit” and Cracker’s Hickman-led “Another Song About The Rain”, even when the fruit on the tree dies, even when the rain stops.

[heckerleash]

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[ifuckinglovestvincent]

ryanarnoldrocks: With only an acoustic guitar, @st_vincent tore up our little stage for a handful of listeners. Afterwards she spent time with the airstaff. So gracious, so generous with her time. Whenever an artist thanks you and your radio station for playing their record and supporting them from the start, I’m reminded just how important our jobs are. Thanks for the songs and the reminder, Annie. See you in January! 📷 @jillweindorf

[8iunie]

93XRT Radio | Chicago, 30.07.2022

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[raspberryconverse]

RT @93XRT: We'll pay tribute to our best friend in the whole world beginning at 10am on 93XRT. Thanks to all who have sent messages to the XRT Family and Lin's Family. Your love is felt and appreciated.

— Coley 💗💜💙 Bisexual people exist (she/her) (@raspberrychucks) Jan 24, 2023 January 24, 2023 at 12:54AM via Twitter https://twitter.com/raspberrychucks

[jimflanigan]

A Tale of Two Concerts

How in the bloody hell did I end up at this show over the weekend? Some say it’s because I’m Father of the Year. I volunteered to take my 15-year-old daughter and her friend to see the feminist punk band Destroy Boys. You may remember them from their haunting ballad “I Threw Glass at My Friend’s Eyes and Now I’m on Probation.” Anyway, I took these two lovely young ladies into Chicago to Metro to…

[damiannasworld]

Chicago 30.07.22

📸 Fabio Germinario for WWD Japan

[eltoriz]

Rock the windy city! #rocktheyacht #heineken . . . . . . . #Chicago #illinois #navypier #Michigan #lake #michiganlake #beer #cruise #life #Mexican #latinx #life #93xrt #drunk #party #music #Sunday #evening #architecture #hand #colorful #mysticblue (at Mystic Blue Cruises)

[fieldofpain]

i love playing art teacher and judging the art teacher im subbing for in the process. like dont make ur kids listen to 93xrt jfc

[brokethedrawer]

Brilliant, touching interview with Roland and Curt that covers a lot of ground, including some discussion of their upcoming album. Looks like the date was Oct. 22, 2021.