Champaign Is Also A Band
One songwriter, one song. Podcast about stories & songs of Champaign-Urbana music. In each episode Sven sits down with a person from the C-U music scene to hear the story & the background of a favorite song they’ve written.
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Episodes
Monday Apr 20, 2020
Monday Apr 20, 2020
Link to Paul's Bandcamp: https://paulkotheimer.bandcamp.com/
Link to Paul's recent Hoot from Home video: https://youtu.be/JIA985BHV_0
Link to Paul's Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp7VaMCTBPBXelIZ_1r45CA
Link to Episode 18: https://champaignisalsoaband.podbean.com/e/episode-18-paul-kotheimer-lets-hang/
Sunday Apr 19, 2020
Sunday Apr 19, 2020
Link to zoey. : https://zoeyy.bandcamp.com/
Link to thotcrime: https://thtcrime.bandcamp.com/releases
Link to This Is A Stick Up! : https://thisisastickup.bandcamp.com/
Link to Episode 16: https://champaignisalsoaband.podbean.com/e/episode-16-melody-wachtel-of-this-is-a-stick-up-goth-girlfriend/
Saturday Apr 18, 2020
Saturday Apr 18, 2020
Link to Chickadee Sermon: https://www.facebook.com/thechickadeesermon/
Link to Sunshine Daydream: https://www.facebook.com/SunshineDaydreamMusic/
Link to Episode 36 with Olivia: https://champaignisalsoaband.podbean.com/e/episode-36-olivia-tasch-of-the-chickadee-sermon-town-to-town/
Friday Apr 17, 2020
Friday Apr 17, 2020
Link to Primitive Lights Bandcamp: https://primitivelights.bandcamp.com/
Link to Episode 10 with Tim: https://champaignisalsoaband.podbean.com/e/episode-10-tim-mcgee-of-primitive-lights-funeral-attire/
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
Link to Zoe's Senior recital : https://facebook.com/events/s/zoes-senior-jazz-piano-recital/183668892943128/?ti=icl
Link to her work as Zzo: https://therealzzo.bandcamp.com/
Link to EPISODE 15: https://champaignisalsoaband.podbean.com/e/episode-15-zoe-willott-of-zzo-steal-the-show/
Friday Apr 10, 2020
Friday Apr 10, 2020
Sven pulls up a chair to chat with Anika Emily about her favorite song "Finish Line." We talk about songwriting, open mics, a tattoo, and kittens!
SONG: Finish Line
ALBUM: Perimeter Road Studio Singles
BANDS: Solo, but briefly Pop Punk Band: Free Fall Out Boy Concert
Favorite treat: Coffee
Photo credit: Andrew John
REFS:Harmony
Improvisation
Capo
Open Chord
Barre Chord
Keys
Head Voice
Chest Voice
Tessitura
Melisma
R&B
The Canopy Club
Champaign-Urbana Open Mic Nights
Tori Leppert
Riptide - Vance Joy [Song/Video]
Espresso Royale
Odesza [Band]
Floozies [Band]
Perimeter Road Sound Recording
Adam Porter (EP 26)
F*ck Finals at The Canopy Club
Espresso Open Mic
Latte Art
Simple Latte Art instruction [Video]
Coffee Fest
Navy Pier
Graham's 318 Coffee House
Friday Mar 27, 2020
Friday Mar 27, 2020
CW: anxiety, mental health, and mention of suicide
*Updated version of song that has cleared samples*
In this episode Sven interviews Chase Scott about his song "Fuck." We talk about panic attacks, Chase's first big shot, and The Instant Pot. So grab your Playskool cassette player, grab your favorite Onyx tape, pretend it's not "Bacdafucup" and sip on some kombutcha as we talk about life and hip hop.
SONG: Fuck
ALBUM: 4 Shitz N Gigs
BANDS: Chase Baby and Trouble Chasin'
FAVORITE TREAT: Kombucha
PHOTO BY: Boots Howard
REFS:
Panic Attack
Playskool Cassette Player
Camelot Records
MTV Party to Go - Compilation
Wu-Tang Clan
Onyx
Bacdafucup [Album]
Digital Underground
The Body/Hat Syndrome [Album]
Freestyling
Fuck [video]
The Canopy Club
Blackbird
Cowboy Monkey
The Accord
The Highdive
Mike 'N Molly's
Machine Gun Kelly
Sedgwick & Cedar
DJ Kool Herc
J Dilla
Q-Tip
A Tribe Called Quest
De La Soul
Common
Jay Moses [Spotify]
TheGr8Thinkaz
Gr8SKY
Mother Nature
Jeff K%nz
Truth AKA Trouble/ Sandman Slimm
Gatson (EP 24)
JRel
Gwalla Boys
Moe Pesci
Thee Delinquents
Rogue Tendency
The Champaign Cypher Series
Instant Pot
Big Treezz
Chasin' Treezz
Friday Mar 13, 2020
Friday Mar 13, 2020
Even though my guest Mike Carpenter would rather be lonely he was willing to chat with me about his song "I'd Rather Be Lonely," being in a band in high school, creating the perfect set list, audiences, and his favorite non-musical thing. Grab yourself a Captain and Diet and settle down for CU music insight 18 years in the making.
SONG: I'd Rather Be Lonely
ALBUM: Elegantly Wasted (Re-released: Apple, Spotify, Amazon, and YouTube.)
BANDS: Sagacity, Made, Civilian, Decadents, and Mojo: A Tribute to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Favorite treats : Captain & Diet / w/ mixed nuts
REFS:
Audioslave
Captain Rat and the Blind Rivets
Led Zepplin [Band]
Ramble On
Blues Scale
George Thorogood
The Virginia Theatre
State Farm Center
Joe Walsh
American Girl [Song]
Cowboy Monkey
The Simpsons
Free Fallin'
Full Moon Fever [Album]
The Mars Volta [Band]
Trope
Agnosticism
Ryan Groff (Ep 35)
Perennial Sound Studio
Decadents [Decadents First Album]
Channing Murray Foundation
Deck 16 [Band]
Missing the Point [Band]
Weiskemp Screen Printing
PC Paintbrush
McKinley Foundation
The Canopy Club
ZOSO [Led Zepplin Tribute Band]
Memphis On Main [Closed 2018]
The Iron Post
The City Center
Blackbird
Mike N Molly's
Seven Saints
Pour Bros. Craft Taproom
Neil St. Blues
Clark Bar
Rose Bowl Tavern
The Elbo Room
The Cubby Bear
The 200 Level
Bruce Springsteen
Roselita [Song]
Champaign Showers Podcast Network
Ayo Dosunmu injures knee [Video]
The 200 Level Episode about Ayo Dosunmu
Alfred Hitchcock
Jurassic Park
Vertigo
Stairway To Heaven [Song]
2001: A Space Odyssey [Movie]
Stanley Kubrick
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Super 8 Camera
Blockbuster Video
There Will Be Blood [Movie]
Paul Thomas Anderson [Director]
Boogie Nights [Movie]
Martin Scorsese [Director]
Good Fellas[Movie]
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood [Movie]
Quentin Tarantino [Director]
Little Women [Author: Louisa May Alcott]
Little Women [Movie]
Gretta Gerwig [Director]
Friday Feb 28, 2020
Friday Feb 28, 2020
**LINK TO DONATE TO GIRLS ROCK C-U**
Sven settles down to talk with Olivia Tasch about the song Town to Town. We discuss the existence of "Comfort Folk" as a genre (briefly), gush over the amazing campers at last year's Girls Rock C-U Camp, sip coffee, and nibble on chocolate... all while Erin Valle (ciLiving.tv) shoots B roll.
SONG: Town to Town [Spotify]
ALBUM: Town to Town [Spotify]
BANDS: The Chickadee Sermon, Sunshine Daydream, Pinch of Grace
Favorite treats : Coffee/Dark Chocolate
Photo By: Olivia Tasch
Refs:
Cole Bridges and the Overpass (EP 25)
Devil in a Woodpile
The Merry Travelers (EP 33)
Bones Jugs
Perennial Sound Studio
The Grateful Dead
Dark Hollow [Wikipedia]
I Know You Rider [Video/The Grateful Dead]
I Know You Rider [Wikipedia]
Distance from Urbana, IL to Denver, CO :: 998.3 mi (via I-70 W) [Source Google Maps]
Rose Bowl Tavern
The Iron Post
Girls Rock Champaign-Urbana Affiliate [Facebook]
Girls Rock Champaign-Urbana Affiliate [Official Website]
Girls Rock Camp Alliance
The IMC
"Amy Found a Bird" [FB Live Video]
DONATE TO Girls Rock C-U HERE(in case you missed the link at the top)
Amara Yoga & Arts
Living Yoga Center
Eco-Community (Ananda Liina)
Competitive Dance [wikipedia]
Friday Feb 14, 2020
Friday Feb 14, 2020
Sven takes the pod on the road and chats with Ryan Groff in his Perennial Sound Studio. We talk about the song: Turn It On off the album A Life In the 21st Century. We sip on Oat Milk Harvest Moons from Avionics, talk about getting political, and Ryan reveals who Elsinore will be at The Great Cover Up February 14th, 2020. Listen all the way to the end to hear the big reveal!!!!
SONG: Turn It On
ALBUM: A Life In the 21st Century
BANDS: 206,The Last Resorts, Turtle Triumph, Ryan Groff & Brent Byrd (brief duo), Green Jenkins, Elsinore, Milford Men, Linea Crux
Favorite treats : Oat Milk Harvest Moon from Avionics and a Pekara Cinnamon Roll
Photo credit: Della Perrone
REFS:
Trump's Tweets
Trump Tweeting from the Toilet?
Queens of the Stone Age
Songs for the Deaf [Album]
First it Giveth [Song]
Mastodon
Marshall Full Stack
Les Paul
Radiohead
15 Step [Song]
In Rainbows [Album]
The General [Song]
Yes Yes Yes [Album]
Phoenix
The Smiths
Anti/Beyond [Band]
David Byrne
Talking Heads [Band]
Psycho Killer [Song]
Rocky [Movie]
Rocky [Soundtrack]
Gonna Fly Now [Song] [several versions exist]
Ben Folds 5
Precinct Committeeperson
Mike Ingram [For Recorder]
Mike n' Molly's [Closed] [reopened as part of Seven Saints]
Seven Saints
Cowboy Monkey
Highdive - The Accord [Closed]
Rose Bowl Tavern
The Blackbird
The Art Theater
The City Center
The Great Cover Up
Harry Potter
Ha ha! Did you really think Ryan would reveal who Elsinore was for The Great Coverup 2020??? ;-) THANKS FOR LISTENING!