Blue Island Radio

10/01/2026

🎉🍻 Lucky 13! Rock Island Public House is turning a teen! Join us on Jan 17th, 7 PM - 3 AM at Blue Island for our 13th Anniversary Party 🎈🎂 A night full of food, drinks, music, & memories!

09/01/2026

Vinyl Fridays 59 - Punk & Metal Club Meeting #2

Brandon & AP Lindsay welcome back Joe Chellino & Kevin Baron for another dose of punk, metal and industrial music and boy do we need it. So get ready for some loud, angry, music . . . Actually, the episode starts kind of quiet and then the noise!

Listen to the full episode here: https://biradio.libsyn.com/vinyl-fridays-59-punk-metal-club-meeting-2-with-joe-chellino-kevin-baron

02/12/2025

BIRP 175 - THE DARKEST HOUR

Looking for holiday cheer!? Well, keep looking, because on today's episode of the Blue Island Radio Podcast you'll be hearing songs about the dark days of winter; the cold, the isolation, the misery, seasonal affective disorder, and of course, the dreaded holidays. So pour yourself a stiff drink and get ready to hear songs by The Cure, The P.O.X., Joe Jack Talcum, Das Furlines, Sneaks, and more!

Listen to the full episode here: https://biradio.libsyn.com/birp-175-the-darkest-hour

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20/11/2025

You know you like to make music videos. If you do then send them to the The Ex-Bombers

We are now accepting music videos (of the rock n roll* variety) for our television show! Send us your music video and/or tag any bands or friends that you think make awesome rock n roll music! The “Rock n Roll Video Show” starts airing on broadcast television (!) here in central Illinois on January 24, and we would love to have our friends (or friends of friends) music videos be on it. We believe that rock n roll music videos should be on television, so we made a show just for rock n roll with all the madness you remember from classic music video television and no fee for bands to be on the show. It just needs to be in the rock n roll family of music, you need to have the right to distribute it, and it has to be a music video (no lyric videos or live stuff, not the spirit). Spread the word anywhere you can think to do so and let’s put some rock n roll on the airwaves!
-Nancy & Kitty (The Ex-Bombers)

* Rock n roll is music made by humans playing amplified instruments and drums that results in the movement of the listener. See: Rock n roll / garage rock / glam / surf / powerpop / rock / Mod rock / blues rock / blue-eyed soul / psych / rockabilly / catchy punk rock / classic rock / boogie rock / lotsa others.

31/10/2025

On today's episode of Vinyl Fridays Brandon & AP Lindsay welcome the founding members of the fabulous Chicago band Babe Report. They discuss the formation of the band, their early musical projects, Ben regales us with tales of growing up in Rockford, and Brandon tries to compare flutes to octopuses. Then they listen to records by Prewn, The Bats, Cusp, Jane Pow and more!

Listen to the full episode here: https://biradio.libsyn.com/vinyl-fridays-58-with-guest-djs-ben-grigg-emily-wrong-from-babe-report

Babe Report Links:

Bandcamp: https://babereportchicago.bandcamp.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/babereport_theband/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/.report

24/10/2025

For those of you watch videos with the sound off, I just wanted to announce that I will be playing my last show with on Friday, November 14th at the blue Island beer Company. And we will be playing as a duo with the original members and myself for the first and only time. And we will be joined by the duo champs the . Peace & Love - Brandon

10/10/2025

On today’s episode of Vinyl Fridays Brandon & AP Lindsay welcome back guest DJ Erik Oldman. A veteran musician from the bands Sons of Ra, KW3, and Afro Futuristics, Erik brings an eclectic mix of musical styles to the decks while Brandon well, we’re still trying to figure out what that was . . . but you will hear songs from Jimmy Smith, Slint, Over Ow, The Messthetics, The Scientists, Mary Halvorson and more.

Listen to the full episode here: https://biradio.libsyn.com/vinyl-fridays-57-guest-dj-erik-oldman

Sons of Ra Hot Sauce & Latest Release: sonsofra.bandcamp.com/album/standard-deviation
Afro Futuristics: linktr.ee/afrofuturistics
KW3: kw3music.com

26/09/2025

VINYL FRIDAYS 56 - Jeff Gilman - The Boom Box Edition

Brandon & AP Lindsay welcome back guest DJ Jeff Gilman who hosts the BOOM BOX DJ night at the Rock Island Public House in Blue Island on the first Friday every month. And on today’s show he’ll be playing the original track of a song and then a hip-hop song that sampled it., while Brandon & AP Lindsay hang on for dear life and try to follow along.

Listen to the full episode here: https://biradio.libsyn.com/vinyl-fridays-56-with-guest-dj-jeff-gilman-the-boom-box-edition

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12/09/2025

All vinyl spun by one of our regular guest DJs Mr. Jeff Gilman!

We can't wait for New Wave Party - New Wave dance party is back! Join us for a night of New Wave, No Wave, Punk, Riot Grrrl and more! No cover! It's happening Friday September 26!