An old friend of Radio Free Chicago, Steve Damien, has resurrected his popular old radio show on WLUW from a few years back, "The Retrospective." Similar to those great rock docs that BBC Radio has been doing for ages, Steve would provide a complete oral history of a band insterspersed between interview segments with the artists and iconic songs representing different eras of the band. Now, instead of making an appointment to sit down in front of your radio at a particular time each week, Steve is posting one episode each month on MySpace (www.MySpace.com/retrospectiveChicago) where you can listen anytime via the magic of the Internets.
Spinning on The Retrospective right now is the full story of The Magnetic Fields. Then, on Thursday, you can tune into February's Retrospective feature, Leonard Cohen. As of right now, The Retrospective is about 95% recycled content, however, maybe if we flood Steve's InBox with a daily barrage of accolades, we can coerce him into producing some brand new episodes soon.
Thanks for the feedback guys...
The Retrospective is now back on WLUW, Tuesdays at 10am. Starting Sept, 2009.
For updates visit theretrospective.org or stevedamien.com
All shows are free to download or burn, feel free to request burns or suggest artists.
Posted by: Stevedamien | 10/08/2009 at 02:38 PM
I, personally, think this is best suited for the web and hopefully he sticks with it...possibly bringing brand new content to music geeks ears.
Posted by: Mark B. | 01/29/2007 at 11:44 PM
this is great to know. steve's show was one of the first radio shows we tuned into when we moved to chicago. i looked forward to it each week. i am glad he has decided to continue it on the web. time to start thinking of bands i would like him to do.....hmmm.
Posted by: cinchel | 01/29/2007 at 02:44 PM