Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 32:07 — 73.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreZillafyde tore it up at the Firehouse during their Local Live session on December 15, 2025. The band played songs from their new album Burden, released the very same day as the session — a perfectly timed celebration of the record. If this performance is any indication, …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 23:24 — 53.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe were thrilled to host a Firehouse Session with Nick Shoulders on November 23, 2025, ahead of his show that night at The Bluebird. Hosted by Abby Noroozi, the session was a deep, joyful dive into tradition, experimentation, and possibility. A singer, whistler, yodeler, and visionary country …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 31:16 — 71.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreA huge Local Live thanks to El Defe for a really special session on November 4, 2025. After spending two years living in Bloomington and just days before heading back to Uruguay, this performance carried extra weight. The session closed with “Home Way from Home,” co-written with …
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We had the pleasure of welcoming Advance Base into the Firehouse on July 31, 2025, just a few hours before his show that night at The Bishop — and what a gorgeous, intimate session it was. Advance Base is the melancholic soft-rock recording project of Chicago singer/songwriter Owen Ashworth, formerly known for his influential work as Casiotone for the Painfully …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:06 — 68.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreCJ Reichard joined us for Local Live on November 17, 2025 bringing her thoughtful songwriting and calm, grounded presence into the Firehouse. The session offered a great snapshot of her work as a songwriter and performer. In 2025, CJ released the EP “Pretty Happy as a Pessimist”, …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:23 — 65.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreBloomington band Just Penelope joined us for Local Live on November 3,2025 for a session that felt like a real moment of momentum. We heard their debut single “June, July,” and the band delivered the radio premiere of “Be Gentle” on the eve of its release. Host …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:29 — 40.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWFHB welcomes Silent Partner to Saturday’s Child on Saturday, January 10, from 11am to noon. Join us as we enjoy this ambling music project of singer-songwriter Mary Luncsford, exposing the connections between the head and the heart and the self and the collective. Listen on air, or with …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 20:32 — 21.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe were honored to host a Firehouse Session with Shadowlands on September 30, 2025, featuring John Raymond and S. Carey. It was instant goosebumps — the kind of session that quietly takes over the room. Bloomington-based, John Raymond is an associate professor of music (jazz studies: trumpet) …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 23:45 — 54.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe Firehouse welcomed Giant Day on November 15, 2025 for a very cool session ahead of their stunning show at The Orbit Room that night. Part of the extended Elephant 6 Collective family, the duo brought something special into the room. Experimental without losing the thread, packed …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 17:45 — 40.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe welcomed artist and political activist Erica Dawn Lyle into the Firehouse on November 14, 2025 for her second visit to the station — and her first-ever Firehouse Session. What unfolded was unlike anything we’ve hosted before. Experimental, improvisational, and completely unguarded, the session pushed at the …
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