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Local Live – WFHB
A weekly showcase of south central Indiana’s eclectic music scene. The producer for Local Live can be reached at locallive@wfhb.org.
Episodes
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Local Live – Gliiitches – 5/1/19
Gliiitches are a dream pop indie-tronica band with a focus on hypnotic harmonies and outer-worldly synth sounds. TRACKLIST: 1.) Aura 2.) Twiddle 3.) Body…
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Local Live – Push Pop – 4/17/19
Nina Pitchkites self-recorded a series of home-grown demos using a multi-track recorder, and now she has recruited a full band to take her songs to the next…
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Local Live -Travis Puntarelli – 4/3/19
Travis Puntarelli is a local balladeer and promoter of Bloomington music and arts. In between eclectic songs of divergent styles, he elaborates his vision of…
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Local Live – Kirby Hammel – 3/27/19
Kirby Hammel grew up in Indiana to a musical familiy. Learning piano in his youth and picking up a guitar later on, he utilizes contrasting styles; he’s…
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Local Live – Denis Taaffe – 1/2/19
Denis Taaffe is a seasoned musician who has created, out of his own home studio, over 300 albums of improvised guitar music. He elaborates his musical…
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Local Live – Liz Moudy – 2/27/19
Liz Moudy is a singer-songwriter with influences ranging from Nirvana to Animal Collective. While she has played in bands here and there, she has been writing…
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Local Live – THiN LiNES – February 20th, 2019
THiN LiNES is the peanut butter and jelly between fluttering pop songs and nostalgic rock. Their inspiration comes from bands like Blink 182, Pink Floyd, and…
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Local Live – ABC Gum – December 19, 2018
Eric Alexander, Will Staler, Mark McWhirter, and John Terill just released their self-titled album, ABC Gum on Let’s Pretend Records. In this live…
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Local Live – Millaze – February 13, 2019
Millaze is the deliberate dissociation character from a story (“The Dialectic”) that took pianist singer/songwriter Emily Plazek 11 years to write, and will be…
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Local Live – Hoot Von Woot – February 6, 2019
Hoot Von Woot is the husband/wife team of George Napier (vocals, guitar, ukulele and keyboard) and Megan Napier (vocals and percussion). George says he mostly…
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Local Live – Big Blue Whale
Big Blue Whale is a Bloomington based Southern California rock group, consisting of Randy Szatkowski and Zach Curry. Their biggest influences include Sublime…
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Local Live – Time With Jameson – 1/16/19
With Nick Newman (Vocals and Rhythm Guitar), Noah Kankanala (Lead Guitar), Julian Povinelli (Bass), and Blake McKean (Drums), Time with Jameson is an…
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Local Live – Shuzo and Anna
Shuzo Hamada and Anna Maberry met in a Baroque orchestra class at Jacob’s School of Music and bonded over their Japanese heritage. They are frequent…
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Local Live – Bookends – 1/9/19
Bookends is an Indiana folk duo consisting of Savannah on banjo & ukulele, and her husband Joseph on guitar. They sing together, creating beautiful harmonies…
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Local Live – Ghastly Indiana – December 12, 2018
Ghastly, Indiana is a leftist jangle punk group based in Bloomington. Members include Eric Ayotte, A.T. Bossenger, Emily Timm, and Martin. Inspired by 90s…
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Local Live – Cathy Gutjahr – October 17, 2018
Originally from Iowa City, Cathy Gutjahr calls Bloomington home. Her first songwriting experiences began at 9 years old but she didn’t start writing…
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Local Live – The Movin’ Hips – October 10, 2018
The Movin’ Hips, consisting of Jay Thompson, Marv Druin, Jeff Shew, and John Missing, are a Bloomington based blues and soul group. The band is inspired…
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Local Live – Rob Freeman – December 5, 2018
Rob Freeman is an eccentric local singer/songwriter. He joins us on Local Live with an acoustic guitar and a large songbook. He is a prolific recording artist…
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Local Live – Lexi Len – November 21, 2018
Lexi Len returns to WFHB’s Local Live to play some twangy country tunes. Influenced by legends like Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn, Lexi began writing…
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Local Live – Noah Kankanala – October 3, 2018
Musician Noah Kankanala, a junior in game design, says songwriting is his way of communicating with others. As a singer and songwriter, indie folk songs are…
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Local Live – Sir Deja Doog – October 31, 2018
Local Live’s Halloween night broadcast is “The Lord of Recurring Darkness,” featuring soft, eerie songs from a collaboration by Eric…
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Local Live – Hoosier Darling – September 26, 2018
The members of Hoosier Darling began singing together 10 years ago as WFHB’s GoZpel GurlZ but without much luck booking gigs as a gospel spin-off group…
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Local Live – RileyZ – September 19, 2018
RileyZ is a freshman at Indiana University studying arts management. She hopes to incorporate music into her job in the future. She’s been singing since…
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Local Live – The Acre Brothers – September 12, 2018
The Acre Brothers rock the night away with slide guitars, saxophones and pocket rhythms. Some of their musical inspirations include Los Lobos, Little Feat, Roy…
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Local Live – Lemondoza – September 5, 2018
Lemondoza started as Anuta Pravdina’s username for a Russian chatroom that she later picked back up when she started DJing. Her first experience…
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AUSTIN LUCAS LOCAL LIVE REMOTE BROADCAST 8.17.18
http://wfhb.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Austin-Lucas-The-Bishop-edit-for-posting.mp3 Bloomington native Austin Lucas held the release show for his new…
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Local Live – Anna Wrasse – August 29, 2018
Anna Wrasse joins Local Live to play some songs from her latest album, To You, that was released in May as well as a few brand new tracks. At fifteen years old…
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Local Live – The Fannatics – August 22, 2018
The Fannatics are an 8-piece band consisting of Doug Hanscom on keyboard, Rusty Bottomley on percussion, Herb Tatum on drums, Nathan Marshall on guitar…
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AUSTIN LUCAS LOCAL LIVE BROADCAST FRIDAY AUGUST 17
WFHB is pleased to announce a special Local Live remote broadcast from the Austin Lucas “Immortal Americans” album release party at The Bishop…
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Local Live – Gino Gulley – August 8, 2018
Bloomington resident Gino Gulley began playing the acoustic guitar at 6 years old and wrote his first song at 10. Soon after, he picked up an electric guitar…
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Local Live – 800 lb. Gorilla – August 1, 2018
800 lb. Gorilla is an Indianapolis based rock group. The band pulls together funk, jazz and electronica influences to create a driving, danceable sound. A…
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Local Live – Leverett Craig – July 25, 2018
Raised in Brazil and living in Bloomington, Leverett Craig recently dropped his classes to focus more on music. He was drawn to music growing up and began…
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Local Live – Steve Plessinger – July 25, 2018
Lead singer of the local band The Warm Bloods, Steve Plessinger plays on Local Live to share his solo music and how he got started as a musician. His music…
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Local Live – Plateau Below – July 11, 2018
Plateau Below shares work from their recent and upcoming releases in this live performance before their show at The Bishop on July 12. Raised in Booneville…
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Local Live – Seven Hall – June 20, 2018
Seven is a post-rock nightmare brought to the live screen; a director for the cinema of sound, producing lofi electronic beats mixed with ambient electronics…
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Local Live – Blood Red Moon – June 13, 2018
Jared Spoonmore returns to Local Live with 5 new tracks since his last performance in January. His solo project, Blood Red Moon, mixes acoustic guitar with…
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Local Live – Monroe County Civic Theater presents The Show Must Go On : A Queen Cabaret – June 6, 2018
On this special edition of Local Live, the Monroe County Civic Theater performs select songs from their upcoming production, “The Show Must Go On: A…
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Local Live – Karrot Kompany – May 30, 2018
Karrot Kompany is the creation of Tyler Volkmar and Ty Denstorff who have been making music together since they were teenagers. In this broadcast they debut a…
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Local Live – Pnature Walk – May 23, 2018
With Ethan Robbins on guitar and vocals and Iain Donkin on drums, Pnature Walk incorporates what it’s like growing up in rural Indiana into catchy pop…
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Local Live – Amanda Webb Band – May 16, 2018
Amanda Webb was clasically trained at Jacob’s School of Music in Opera but upon graduation she began learning to sing the blues. Accompanied by her…
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Local Live – Alaria Spurling – May 9, 2018
Alaria Spurling is a teenager who writes original guitar driven dark ambient music with a progressive edge. She is this years winner of the Rising Star music…
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Local Live – Hunterchild – April 11, 2018
Marty Sprowles and Luke Jones are the creators of Hunterchild – an electro soul duo with ambient influences. They both use Roland Juno D keyboards, Marty…
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Local Live – RP & The Wurlitzers – April 4, 2018
Merrie Sloan, Coot Crabtree, Lexi Len, Payton-Purnell, and the 220 Breakers are all groups that Ryan Payton has played with on Local Live in the past. In this…
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Local Live – Jessie Chambers – March 28, 2018
Singer songwriter Jessie Chambers is accompanied by Evan Grant on guitar in this broadcast of Local Live. They perform 5 original tracks plus a mash up. Jessie…
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Local Live – Rest You Sleeping Giant – March 21, 2018
Rest You Sleeping Giant is the solo project of Ethan Helfrich who utilizes guitar with a variety of effect pedals over prerecorded backing tracks. During this…
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Local Live – Conduit – February 28, 2018
Conduit is the solo techno electronic project of Nia. In this broadcast she explains how she got into electronic music and the complications of making the…
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Local Live – Robert Craven – February 7, 2018
Robert Craven’s solo project layers guitar over backing tracks that he meticulously creates. The electronic tracks are a questionably permanent…
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Local Live – Mike Piss – January 31, 2018
Mike Piss formed after Kevin Oliver and Annie Paquette boomeranged back to Bloomington after living in Massachusetts. They both got jobs at Soma where they met…
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Local Live – The Hammer and the Hatchet – 2/21/18
The Hammer and The Hatchet is John Bowyer and Jayme Hood. John has been in many bands over the years: Old Truck Revival, Punkin’ Holler Boys, Chris Dollar…
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Local Live – Elm Heights – January 24, 2018
Hank and Will started playing music together in elementary school where they sang the National Anthem at games and covered songs like “Dynamite” by…
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Local Live – Doozie – December 13, 2017
Doozie plays sleepy power-pop that is heavily influenced by ’90s-era music of the same ilk. They have written a few songs of aggressive, self-reflective…
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Local Live – VillaMure – 2/14/18
VillaMure is a power trio combining elements of 70s Psych and Progressive Rock with the hallmarks of the modern Alternative sound. Tracklist: 1.) In the Room…
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Local Live – Pushing Daisy’s – January 17, 2018
Inspired by Phish, The Greatful Dead and other seminal jam bands, Pushing Daisy’s combines the musical minds of Max Heyob (guitar/vocals), Tony Stinett…
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Local Live – Blood Red Moon – January 10, 2018
Jared Spoonmore twists folk and metal together in a project called Blood Red Moon. He started his musical journey on tuba but after being exposed to bands like…
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Local Live – Anna Wrasse – December 20, 2017
Anna Wrasse and Phillip Hammond are only fifteen years old and already quite accomplished musicians. Anna recently performed for a second time at the Ferdinand…
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Local Live – Andy and Hank Ruff
Andy and Hank Ruff are joined by Daniel Deckard to play some honky tonk and country music that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Father and son carry on…
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Local Live – IU Jacobs School of Music Plummer Ensemble
The IU Jacobs School of Music Plummer Ensemble plays modern jazz that blends a number of styles, personal and academic. They take a break for the night from…
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Local Live – Emily Morrone
Emily Morrone is an Indianapolis-based singer/songwriter who makes pop music, using vocals, guitar and a loop pedal. Her music focuses on relationships and the…
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Local Live – Fuzzy Bunny Fish Fry
Fuzzy Bunny Fish Fry plays a fun variety of rock, blues, pop, rockabilly, reggae, country, funk and dance music – even a sci – fi space epic…
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Call & Response at Blockhouse Bar – a WFHB Local Live Broadcast
WFHB’s Local Live crew will be broadcasting live jazz from Blockhouse Bar on Wednesday, November 1st, featuring Ben Lumsdaine and his Call &…