The Blue Island Radio Podcast is primarily a music & interview podcast from Blue Island, Illinois featuring a wide range of musical styles. Our host, Brandon Z. also conducts interviews with locals musicians and artists.
On today’s episode of Brandon & AP Lindsay welcome back guest DJ Mike Tucker as they play some of their “favorite” summertime songs, and AP Lindsay is so angered by the annual St. Donatus Festival t…
On today’s episode of Vinyl Fridays Brandon & AP Lindsay discuss their recent foray into the land of cows & beer. That’s right, they travel all the way to Milwaukee to see DEVO at Summerfest and th…
Guess, what? We’re going to be listening to punk & metal today, and a lot of it is from Chicago and even more of it is from the 90s, because today’s episode of Vinyl Fridays is the first meeting of …
Do you like your punk a little on the crusty side? Then you’re in luck because on today’s episode of Vinyl Fridays Brandon & AP Lindsay welcome farmer, musician, record collector and fellow Blue Isl…
On this week’s episode of VinylFridays Brandon’s guest DJ is his brother Rudy “Babe” Zamora Jr. who returns for his second go around as guest DJ armed a stack of records and a theme. On today’s epis…
Brandon & AP Lindsay say hooray to 50 episodes of Vinyl Fridays with this week’s guest DJs Annie Novotny and Corbly Brockman and it’s a doozy! We went on a wild, round-robin ride, each DJ playing t…
On this week’s episode of Vinyl Fridays Brandon & AP Lindsay welcome Eric Schwartz & Eric Stafford Dinse aka The League of Erics, who, for the better part of a the last ten years have been driving a…
On this week’s episode of Vinyl Fridays Brandon & AP Lindsay are happy to welcome local musician and DJ Danielle Sines. Originally from Michigan, Danielle has been forging a path through the Chicago…
On this week’s episode of Vinyl Fridays Brandon & AP Lindsay welcome back Paul Garcia & Steev Custer, who have been making music together for more than 35 years. Their longest running project is Dea…
On this week’s episode of Vinyl Fridays Brandon and AP Lindsay are excited to welcome Lindsay’s longtime friend and former co-worker Alex Jandernoa to the show. His latest venture is the delightful C…
On this week’s episode of Vinyl Fridays Brandon welcomes the president of the Kimono Klub, DJ PJs, aka AP Lindsay who. brings her unique blend of something new, something borrowed and something blue…
On this week’s installment of Vinyl Fridays Brandon and AP Lindsay welcome back two of their favorite guest DJs Ali Jacobson and Jen Sabella , the Sonny & Cher of DJ’ing duos. It was a pleasure talk…
We're back with our first long form interview in more than two years as we welcome the father and son duo Patir Filius to BIRP HQ to discuss Beatles cuts, making music, Blue Island, The Cook County …
On today's episode of Vinyl Fridays Brandon & AP Lindsay rate some record stores from their recent trip to Michigan and welcome back guest DJs Mike Tucker & Jeff Gilman. Just in time for a thing cal…
On today’s episode of Vinyl Fridays Brandon & AP Lindsay welcome back local restauranteur and music promoter Chris Bizarro whose next event Cornfed Fest will feature bands from around the midwest i…
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…
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 …
On the final Vinyl Fridays episode of the 2024 season we have the Berry Best, Jason & Mary Berry who, with the bases loaded, bottom of the 9th, clear the bases with a grand slam of a set with music …
As this season of Vinyl Fridays winds down Brandon & AP Lindsay welcome back guest DJ Mike Tucker for a pot luck mix of songs about food, modes of transportation, family and foot ball! You will hea…
It's that time of year again, where Brandon does a stupid voice and adds lots of reverb to introduce songs about ghoosts, and goblins, and wolfmens all in celebration of the greatest holiday of all-…