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

Episode 6-12: Super Super

Super Super is our guest on this weeks podcast, recorded at Rockford Art DeliSock Monkey Sound

12-17
42:29

Bring Your Ray Gun

Bring Your Ray Gun are the guests on this episode of the Sock Monkey Sound podcast. The their debut EP was just released in time for X-masSock Monkey Sound

11-08
32:11

Doug Sohn of Hot Doug’s

Chicago restauranteur and author Doug Sohn is this weeks guest on the podcast. Doug recently published Hot Doug's: The Book with co-author Kate DeVivoSock Monkey Sound

08-09
58:31

Death – A Band Called Death

This episode features Death: Bobby Hackney Sr., Dannis Hackney and Bobbie Duncan. The new documentary A Band Called Death features their music and storySock Monkey Sound

06-25
39:36

Sean Conrad – Kickin’ Out The Jams

Sean Conrad, author of Kickin' Out The Jams: The Purple Haze of My Crazy Daze in Radio, is our guest on this episodeSock Monkey Sound

06-11
01:14:00

Downwrite – Bob Nanna and Mark Rose

Bob Nanna and Mark Rose of Downwrite are today's guests on the podcast. Downwrite enables songwriters and songlovers to connect personally and creativelySock Monkey Sound

05-30
01:02:30

Michelle Grand and Roger Houdaille of Ex Norwegian

Michelle Grand and Roger Houdaille from Miami power pop band Ex Norwegian are this weeks guests on the Sock Monkey Sound PodcastSock Monkey Sound

05-23
01:09:24

Roundtable: May 20, 2013

This roundtable episode features Jim Hanke, Dave Pedersen, Sam Rashid and Chip Copeland discussing NXNE, Canadian Music Week, and Record Store DaySock Monkey Sound

05-20
01:25:48

Carl Palmer (Emerson Lake & Palmer, Asia)

This weeks guest on the show is Carl Palmer, legendary rock drummer and founding member of progressive groups Emerson Lake & Palmer and AsiaSock Monkey Sound

05-18
23:23

Fable and the World Flat

Fable and the World Flat are this weeks guests on the Sock Monkey Sound podcast. They band just released their second album The Great AttractorSock Monkey Sound

05-09
47:12

Dane Penn

This weeks guest on the podcast is Dane Penn; a singer/songwriter (and Sock Monkey Sound contributor) in the mold of David Bazan, Springsteen, and DylanSock Monkey Sound

05-01
01:28:33

Nick Krill of The Spinto Band

Nick Krill of The Spinto Band joins us on the first Sock Monkey Sound podcast of 2013! We chat about the bands recent release Cool Cocoon and video gamesSock Monkey Sound

03-26
46:15

John C. Stubblefield of Lucero

Lucero bassist John C. Stubblefield is the guest on this episode of Sock Monkey Sound. The band's 2012 out is Women and Work out onSock Monkey Sound

07-21
34:56

Mana Kintorso: Damion Davis and Brent Shelton

Brent Shelton and Damion Davis of Mana Kintorso are the guests on this episode of Sock Monkey SoundSock Monkey Sound

06-16
01:03:13

Rick Allen of Def Leppard

This episode we talk with Rick Allen, the "Thunder God" drummer of Def Leppard, about his new endeavor as a fine artist and his work as a philanthropistSock Monkey Sound

05-31
45:50

Ritual Control: Industrial Goth with Eric Nofsinger and Joe Whiteacre

Eric Nofsinger and Joe Whiteacre talk about Ritual Control and Industrial Goth music on this episode of Sock Monkey SoundSock Monkey Sound

05-26
01:03:50

Ron Richards of iFanboy.com

Ron Richards of iFanboy.com joins us to talk about his passion for music and his roots writing his own music zine back in the daySock Monkey Sound

05-21
52:10

Brandon Robins, co-founder of OurLabel

On this episode we speak with Brandon Robins, co-founder of OurLabel.com, a Chicago based fan-driven record labelSock Monkey Sound

05-03
39:11

Carrie Colliton, Co-Founder of Record Store Day

Carrie Colliton is Director of Marketing and co-founder of Record Store Day and our guest on this episode of Sock Monkey Sound with Jim HankeSock Monkey Sound

04-08
01:03:09

A Conversation with Ian MacKaye

Ian MacKaye, founder of Dischord Records, Fugazi, and The Evens joins us on this episode. We also have a very special guest host; Mr. Brett Netson, guitarist for Built to SpillSock Monkey Sound

02-17
01:10:10

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