Sock Monkey Sound

Based in Rockford, Illinois, Sock Monkey Sound is a music and culture website. Notable guests on our podcast have included Ian MacKaye (Fugazi), Colin Hay (Men At Work), Eric Bachmann (Crooked Fingers/Archers of Loaf), Hutch Harris (The Thermals), David Bazan and Dan Deacon, as well as members of The Dandy Warhols, Built To Spill, The Dismemberment Plan, Tokyo Police Club and many more. We often discuss with our guests the state of music and culture in both our hometown and theirs, as to find a common link between (what we feel to be) the lack of art support in Rockford and what may be going on elsewhere in the country.In 2011, USA Today Pop Candy blog named Sock Monkey Sound one of the ten best music podcasts in the country, aligning us with the likes All Songs Considered and Sound Opinions.As recent as June 15, 2012 Paste Magazine ranked us #3 on a list of The 10 Best Music Podcasts saying:With candid interviews a la Outside The Lines, Sock Monkey Sound gets together with artists like David Bazan, Bloom and The Dismemberment Plan, conducting unstructured, off-the-cuff interviews about whatever comes to mind. If Rob Gordon of High Fidelity made a podcast, it might go a little something like this.- Patty Miranda, Paste Magazine