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Welcome to a new season of Vinyl Fridays on the Blue Island Radio Podcast!  

Breaking the seal on the 2025 season Brandon and AP Lindsay welcome guest DJs Chantala Kommaniranh & Mallory McClare, the owners of one of their favorite local record stores, Beverly Phono Mart. Listen as they kick off the new season with soulful selections from their personal collection while Brandon struggles to keep up with his fuzzy dime store clunkers. 

Who's ready to spend christmas with satan? Oh, then you've come to the right place because on today's show, the last of 2024 will bring you the music of James White, Teddy & Akim, Gefilte Joe & The Fish, Dead Moon, Evil Beaver, Alicja Trout, Count Sidney & His Counts, Bad Girls and more!

Thanks for listening. See you next year!

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This week's episode of Vinyl Fridays was recorded at The Rock Island Public House on Saturday, July 27th with DJs Jeff Gilman aka This Margin Walker, Stacey Goldschmidt aka DJ Stacey/DC, and Brandon aka DJ Silver Boots! 

You will hear: Spandeau Ballet - Tom Tom Club - David Bowie - Sonic Youth - Iggy Pop - Marcel Wave - Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Rapeman - John Maus - Gang of Four - A Certain Ratio - Sparks - Wedding Present - Echo & The Bunnymen - Elvis Costello - Tpm Waits - Jay Retard - Drunk Mums - International Vortex League - The Raveonettes - Let’s Active - Robyn Hitchcock - Billy Bragg - Chain & The Gang - The Sugar Cubes - Sleater Kinney - PJ Harvey - Solid Space - Neutral Neutrals - Pottery - Bryan Ferry - The Breeders - The Headcoats - The Coathangers - The Cure - Siouxsie & The Banshees - Depeche Mode - New Order

Vinyl Fridays theme song by Dazzleflage
Bed music: Apache by Jorgan Ingmann
            Apache by The Incredible Bongo Band

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On today's episode of Flashback Friday it's Brandon's birthday and he leans heavy into the garage and punk tunes on this. Give it a listen and tell Brandon how bad he sounds on the mic.

This flashback was recorded about 17 years ago at WBAR, which is the student run radio station at Barnard College in New York. Every summer they would open up the station to pretty much anybody who wanted to do a show and of course, I was one of those people. I haven't listened to this recording in about 15 years and I'm sure it's full of mistakes and bad segues but hey, I'm pretty sure the music was pretty decent! Anyway, leave a comment and let me know what you think because there's probably going to be more!

This is the first episode of the Blue Island Radio Podcast talk show Burning Bridges. For this first episode we welcome Dave Brown (Rock Island Public House) and Brian Lisula (shit talker) to our new outdoor studio to talk about burning bridges, figuratively and literally, and then some.

On today's episode Brandon plays songs in honor of some of the day that are often overlooked, like National Bikini Day, Take Your Plant for a Walk Day, World UFO Day and so many more! Thanks for listening.

Songs of protest, pride, anger, survival, frustration, despair, hope and struggle, a struggle that's been going on for far too long. Sadly, when a lot of these songs first appeared the artists who wrote them probably had no idea that they'd still be relevant, still be fighting for peace & equality some 40 - 50 years ago. If you're still struggle with how we got here or looking for causes you can donate to here is a small list of resources.

Thank you for listening, go in peace.

Donate: https://www.blackvisionsmn.org

https://www.knowyourrightscamp.com/legal

https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/

https://www.joincampaignzero.org/

https://www.naacpldf.org/

https://www.aclu.org/

https://blacklivesmatter.com/

Recorded on May 22nd, 2020 Brandon & AP Lindsay man the phones and talk to a couple of listeners, and talk about this day in history.

Hi, this is Brandon, and on today's episode I'll be speaking with musician "Scary" Larry Montet, who has been in and around the Chicago music scene for more than 30 years. Not only that but he is also my cousin. We talk about some the bands that were in and around Blue Island back in the early days, some of the joints he hung out at on the north side, and the difficulties of keeping a band together. His long running band The Gravetones have a new record that they are up and we'll take a quick listen to one of the tracks 2 pennies 1 ride. Thank for listening.