Vocalo Radio
Cool conversations with artists making good music
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 12 minutes
- Episodes
- 762
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Chicago Fashion Week returns to the runway after more than a decade
Chicago Fashion Week is back after more than a decade with 50 events across the city and surrounding suburbs, including runway shows, exhibitions, styling sessions and designer talks. Opening tonight…
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Wed 09 Oct 2024
Fashion in Chicago music: “Getting Dressed” with Chicago singer Manasseh
Getting Dressed With Vocalo is a new series highlighting Chicago musicians who have standout personal styles. Get ready with us.
Known for his ethereal vocals, Chicago singer Manasseh also has a re…
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Thu 03 Oct 2024
‘Young King’ puts the spotlight on Black life and love
New film ‘Young King’ follows Diondre Howell, a young man re-adjusting to civilian life after serving in the Iraq war. Howell finds himself changed after the traumas of combat, now struggling to main…
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Tue 24 Sep 2024
Pivot Gang makes Millennium Park headlining debut at Vocalo’s Summer Finale
West Side hip-hop group Pivot Gang will take the stage at Millennium Park on Sept. 20 as the group headlines Vocalo’s Summer Finale, a concert celebrating Chicago’s music scene and the final days of …
00:27:40 |
Fri 20 Sep 2024
Chicago visual artist Clue channels Little Village in all of his works
Emmanuel Gomez, better known as Clue, is the 23-year-old rising street artist you need to know. Born and raised in Chicago’s Little Village, Gomez has fostered his deep passion for visual art over th…
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Thu 19 Sep 2024
The underdogs: Three reviews from Toronto International Film Festival
Film critic Reggie “The Reel Critic” Ponder loves an underdog. After attending this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, he added three new films to his “underdog exceeding all expectations” c…
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Wed 18 Sep 2024
Chicago’s Loona Dae returns to the stage to perform debut album live
St. Louis-born, Chicago-based psychedelic R&B singer Loona Dae waited until the time was right to release her debut album ‘ATARI!’ in August 2023. After a little more than a year of prep, she feels i…
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Fri 13 Sep 2024
DJ Lady D brings “A Deep-Felt Love” of house music to Millennium Park this month
This month, DJ Lady D ends a packed season with Vocalo’s Summer Finale, a free concert at Millennium Park’s Jay Pritzker Pavilion on Sept. 20 with fellow Chicago artists Pivot Gang, KAINA and Marquis…
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Wed 11 Sep 2024
‘1992’ is a "sociological study" on father-son relationships
‘1992’ follows two father-son pairs against the backdrop of the year’s Rodney King riots. One father, Mercer, has just been released from prison and given custody of his teenage son Antoine. The oth…
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Fri 30 Aug 2024
Chicago trumpeter Marquis Hill performs new album at Millennium Park Sept. 20
Chicago trumpeter Marquis Hill and vocalist Manasseh took over Vocalo’s airwaves to discuss their new transcendent single and upcoming Millennium Park performance on Sept. 20. Hill is set to take the…
00:18:49 |
Wed 28 Aug 2024
'Blink Twice’ asks: “Is forgetting a gift?”
Reggie “The Reel Critic” Ponder shares his thoughts on Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut, a chilling psychological thriller exploring power, possessiveness and patriarchy. ‘Blink Twice’ follows Frida (…
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Mon 26 Aug 2024
Did Omar Apollo really spend 50K "out of spite"? (Plus acting debut & 'God Said No' tour)
After releasing his second studio album ‘God Said No’ in late June, Omar Apollo is off on a world tour — stopping in Chicago on Aug. 23. Recorded at London’s Abbey Road Studios, the album explores th…
00:24:00 |
Fri 23 Aug 2024
Revival celebrates Midwest dance music as a spiritual experience
This weekend, I-94 and Deep Joy present Revival: A celebration of Chicago and Detroit house music and culture. Taking place at First Presbyterian Church on Aug. 17, Revival celebrates Chicago and Det…
00:15:40 |
Fri 16 Aug 2024
‘Rob Peace’ is a “stirring commentary on the human condition”
Chiwetel Ejiofore’s film ‘Rob Peace’ follows the life and early death of a young man who risks everything to help his imprisoned father. It was based on the 2014 biography ‘The Short and Tragic Life …
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Fri 16 Aug 2024
The Reel Critic: ‘Sing Sing’ champions the human spirit
Reggie “The Reel Critic” Ponder shares his thoughts on Greg Kwedar’s 2023 film ‘Sing Sing,’ which follows true events surrounding a group of incarcerated men as they stage a comedic theatrical produc…
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Fri 09 Aug 2024
Tala Silva sees music as an extension of emotion
Growing up in a Filipino family in the Chicago suburbs, Tala Silva spent her childhood singing karaoke at every family gathering. Now an adult, Silva has made a career out of her childhood passion fo…
00:13:52 |
Thu 08 Aug 2024
Producers of ‘Sing Sing’ say vulnerability brings us closer together
New film ‘Sing Sing’ follows the real-life story of a group of men who, while incarcerated at Sing Sing Maximum Security Prison in Ossining, New York, explore life’s purpose and vulnerability as they…
00:07:53 |
Thu 08 Aug 2024
At Lollapalooza, grentperez urges aspiring artists to make mistakes
22-year-old Australian artist grentperez took the Lollapalooza stage on the final day of the festival. Perez began his music career uploading covers from his bedroom on YouTube at only 12 years old. …
00:06:56 |
Tue 06 Aug 2024
Savannah Ré talks JUNO Awards & going independent at Lollapalooza
Canadian artist Savannah Ré made her way to Chicago for her first international festival set at Lollapalooza on August 3. The artist opened Lolla's Bacardí Stage on day three of the festival, and met…
00:08:58 |
Tue 06 Aug 2024
At Lollapalooza, PawPaw Rod looks to the past for innovation
Singer-songwriter PawPaw Rod made his Lollapalooza debut this weekend, seamlessly blending the sounds of retro soul with modern influences. But his cultivation of style doesn’t end with his music — P…
00:09:03 |
Tue 06 Aug 2024
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