Local Loft hosted by Tim Lamping

02/07/2024

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-8dtc7-1658c2a The absolute Big (Head) Bang (but not from lit Bottle Rockets). A non-gunpowder explosion of original Chicagoland metal, punk, alternative rock and power pop. It's very American, & you have the freedom to listen again and again. New podcast. LL #335. Stream now on Spotify, Amazon Music or the Podbean app. Download at podbean.com.

You have the freedom to munch & mosh! The big bang for many of you won't totally come on the 4th of July. Two days after, Chicago area original Punk Rock bands will generate explosive energy on the outdoor stage of Punk Rock Tacos 50. This new edition of Local Loft will mostly focus on the ones....

01/07/2024

A new Local Loft comes exploding through cyberspace before midnight tomorrow. A lot of first & lasts on Episode 335. The first outdoor Punk Rock Tacos show of 2024 with what looks to be a Trouble some reunion for veteran space Punk band Hotlips Messiah. A familiar voice is joining them one last time, Hint hint, it's Aweful-ly good news. There's a first time music video for veteran rockers M& R Rush that has a touch of Dirty Dancing in one of it's scenes. The song itself isn't totally new. And there's a last bittersweet time of The Kat 105.5 showcasing top original local Southlands metal bands, like Kankakee's Bleed For The Fallen, as the station gets ready to flip format ( and loyal listeners flip out over the loss). Stream LL #335 on Spotify, Amazon Music or the Podbean app.

25/06/2024

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-r73m8-164f053 There's helpings a plenty. Go ahead, overindulge in another musically nourishing original Chicago area metal, punk, alternative rock and power pop music mix. New podcast. LL #334. Stream now on Spotify, Amazon Music or the Podbean app. Download at podbean.com.

You still have time to swoon in June! There's a lot to admire amongst the soundtrack of original Chicago area punk, metal, alternative rock and power pop. It's what you crave. You'll be savoring it, much like you do a scrumptious taco dinner. Satisfying your Chicago music appetite as the manin cours...

24/06/2024

https://youtu.be/de8bjFR502M?si=nnAIpSR50AQbxacp A new thrilling and chilling edition of Local Loft will gust in to cyberspace just after the lunchtime hour tomorrow. Along with more never ending outdoor sizzling heat comes a juicy and beefy original Chicago area metal, punk & alternative rock music lineup at the first of four Punk Rock Tacos outdoor shows in Villa Park. Dethwarrant (no Dave Mustaine huge band tribute band here) will lay songs of everyday life situations on a ground beef and tortilla munching crowd, from the love of Grandma's cookie baking to a Michaell J. Jox Teen Wolf 80s flashback. Singer Darren of Dethwarrant joins me to look ahead to their gig.

Too hot for you! You could follow Bullet To The Heart frontwoman Audrey Queen's example of Chilling Out. It's not a pretty one in BTTH's new single, which they'll play at the release show for their new album Trauma in August in Dundee. Stream tomorrow on Spotify, Amazon Music or the Podbean app.

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18/06/2024

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-8ynac-16453af Don't just play this a numerous number of times on Juneteenth. Crank it an umpteenth number of times anytime! Another original Chicago area punk, metal, alternative rock & power pop smorgasbord. New podcast. LL #333. Stream now on Spotify, Amazon Music, or the Podbean app. Download at podbean.com.

Way after Juneteenth is over, you'll be cranking this one way over umpteenth times. Served more sizzling hot than a prolonged late spring desert heat wave. It's the right amount of intense & melodic original Chicago area metal, punk, alternative rock & power pop that goes great with a cold o...

17/06/2024

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Want a more sizzling hot experience than mid 90s degree temperatures and over 100 degree heat index? Heat up your mobile device of choice and prepare for the punk rock horror to come. Local Loft Episode 333 stalks cyberspace Tuesday afternoon. This 21 year old veteran Chicago Punk band joins me before they have pogo ers and moshers all fired up at the next edition of Punk Rock Tacos (50). One of four outdoor editions in July and August. Horrids singer Patrick joins me, along with a belated trucking Father's Day salute from Convoy and the forgotten hard rockers Phosphene. Stream LL 333 on Spotify, Amazon Music or the Podbean app. Download at podbean.com.

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11/06/2024

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-326sf-163bc88 A devilishly, dreamy, doughnuty, monstrous helping of original Chicagoland metal, punk, alternative rock & power pop. This is your early Father's day gift. It will sound better than the same old tie or socks. New podcast. LL #332. Stram now on Spotify, Amazon Music or the Podbean app. Download at podbean.com.

This one is for all the Twin Pipe Papas & Cool Rockin' Daddies (yes, there's a Springsteen reference here to his overplayed 40 year old (as of June 4th) patriotic huge album).Your special day is on the way this Sunday. If you're neither of the above, you can still play it and rock on. A ginormou...

11/06/2024

A new scrumptious and sizzling hot rockin' edition of Local Loft will be served up in the late lunchtime hour. Along with a devilishly good double bill in Wonderlake, (True Love Devil & Develin, who I'll interview about their just released second EP, Bloodshot. If you love Avenged Sevenfold, you'll dig this veteran Chicago hard rock band). There's a side of Donuts possibly served with Punk Rock Tacos this Friday in Villa Park by this trio below. Also, Jim Peterik, a true rock Survivor, invents a new American Dream with his studded World Stage. Stream LL 332 on Spotify, Amazon Music or the Podbean app. Download at podbean.com.

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03/06/2024

You'll get a real rise out of this. Plenty of examples of resurrection from forgotten Chicago area metal, punk, alternative rock and power pop bands. Rise up and mosh accordingly. New podcast. LL #331. Stream now on Spotify, Amazon Music, or the Podbean app. Download at podbean.com.

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June is jammin'! (even after the Jam is through) The 3 R's (Rock, Resurrection and reformation) will be in abundance on this 331st trip around the Chicagoland area's original metal, punk, alternative rock and power pop scene. Get ready for many abrupt surprises. September's Rest, after an extensive....

03/06/2024

It may be June, but the Local Loft calendar rocks straight into September. A new episode which knows no season drops just after lunchtime, with a surprise unannounced Resurgence of September's Rest. What brought the Southwest Suburban melodic hard rock band ( whose last single before their long 7 year hibernation was Goodbye, ironically enough) you'll find out. Also, when one door closes, another door of a Traumatic new album release opens for Chicago Goth rockers Bullet ToThe Heart. There's plenty of their new single won't get you fist pumping for more. Stream LL 331 on Spotify, Amazon Music or the Podbean app. Download at podbean.com.
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28/05/2024

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-tav44-16248a1 Take a bite out of it, with your ear lobes. Another musically nutritious portion of original Chicago area Punk, Metal, Alternative Rock & Power Pop. There we go again! New podcast. LL #330. Stream it now on Spotify, Amazon Music or the Podbean app. Download at podbean.com.

The power of rock compels you! Whether it's rebellious punk, brain splitting metal, or intelligent alternative rock, you're possessed by the groove, the thought-provoking lyrics. It's an important part of your life. Yet, nowadays you can't groove to what you want on the very medium that introduced y...

28/05/2024

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A new Local Loft won't take an extended holiday in bringing you more original Chicagoland metal, punk and alternative rock tunage during the lunch hour tomorrow. Band names can sometimes be misleading. The Reganomics is not a band who goes totally retro back to the era of the former monkey movie actor turned president. I'll have them join me as they play Livewire Lounge this Saturday for the new album release show of Brainbleed. Also, a new killer music video from the biggest alternative rock band from the Kankakee area, which could be a PSA about the dangers of texting and driving. The new single from them will be completely spun on LL 330. Stream on Spotify, Amazon Music or the Podbean app. Download at podbean.com.

Official music video for ALL FOR NOTHING. Written and performed by Carrying Torches. A Blain Smith production. Copyright 2024.Director-Blain Smith, DP- Andre...

20/05/2024

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-urqfq-1618cc3 Up and early with another full plate of original Chicago area punk, metal, alternative rock and power pop. Cicadas Beware! New podcast. LL #329. Stream now on Spotify, Amazon Music, or the Podbean app. Download at podbean.com.

Music louder than the deafening coo of cicadas! Play this loud enough and ya might scare the multitude of them away. Music soothes and drives away the savage beast insect. It's another swarm of original Chicagoland metal, punk, alternative rock and power pop. The Chicago Punk band Brainbleed first m...

19/05/2024

https://youtu.be/0EN_QF5trtU?si=qEzx2gEuw8PRWPV1 A sizzling new edition of Local Loft will come blazing across cyberspace Tuesday. It's a new un gory record release show for Chicago Punk rockers Brainbleed, a hall of fame like opportunity for Kankakee Alternative rockers Carrying Torches, and a shot of hard rock air conditioning from The Midnight Callers. Judging by the style of their band logo, they could fire this one up live anytime from 1974-76 on the very late night in concert TV show that made Wolfman Jack a TV host. Stream LL #329 on Spotify, Amazon Music or the Podbean app.

“So Cold” is the third single by Chicago rockers The Midnight Calls. In this 70s-influenced hard rocker, the band uses their brand of slide guitar to tell a...

14/05/2024

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-uh768-1610070 Crank it up and obsess over it. Another craveable music menu of original Chicagoland metal, punk, alternative, and rock and power pop. Where is your mind while listening to this? It's rocking full force along with the rest of your body! New podcast. LL #328. Stream now on Spotify, Amazon Music or the Podbean app. download on podbean.com

Rewind, replay, re- rock ( maybe I should've recorded this Local Loft on analog tape) Episode 328 comes just a week after underground recording studio pioneer Steve Albini leaves this world too young. He was a champion of old school, technically warm and precise analog recording technology. Producin...

13/05/2024

https://youtu.be/rgpdZxULlPo?si=LgPqmY4CA34AOuAiSatisfy your crave, for Chicagoland music. Feed your obsession for original metal, punk, alternative rock & power pop. It will be a bloody good time (as the Brits say). Crunchy too. A new edition of Local Loft comes pulsing without the plasma residue, in the lunchtime hour tomorrow. A Chicago punk pop band who gets creative in exorcising demonic possession and seductive hearty appetites will join me as they supply the rock crunch at the next Punk Rock Tacos on June 14th. Plus, a salute to recording studio pioneer Steve Albini, Stream LL #328 on Spotify, Amazon Music or on podbean.com.

This Obsession's "Cannibalism" is the new 2023 single for their return. AVAILABLE NOW ON ALL STREAMING PLATFORMS!Music produced, recorded, mixed, and mastere...

07/05/2024

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-y2hy3-1606997 The good, great and the AWEFUL (not a bad time whatsoever) of the Chicagoland original metal, punk alternative rock and power pop scene. Grab a canned beer and not so quiet library book to read as you listen. New podcast. LL 327. Stream on Spotify, Amazon Music or the Podbean app. Download at podbean.com.

"I've been first and last...look at how the time goes past." (Old Man-Neil Young 1972) At my first time to the Beer Can'd Festival, Blue Island Beer Company, it's the very first time I witness AWEFUL, an intense power rock trio who can be classified as many different genres, but only fits as modern....

05/05/2024

An Aweful lot of hard hitting moshing accompanied this roof exploding set by a spectacular Chicago rock trio at the Beer Can'd Festival. Blue Island Beer Company. They went out not just with a bang, but a seismic boom! If you weren't there, get an ear full on Local Loft Episode 327, coming Tuesday.

30/04/2024

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-ghfnc-15fc782 Dim the lights, or rock out in the blazing sunshine heat. Either way, this original Chicagoland area Metal, Punk, Alternative Rock and Power Pop soundtrack will brighten your daily life. New podcast. LL #326. Stream on Spotify, Amazon Music, or the Podbean app. Download now at podbean.com.

No curfews (listen whenever you want) No algorithms (this music is for music fans, not corporate clients) The playlist is music intensive and focuses on the newest and freshest original Chicago area metal, punk, alternative rock and power pop. There's always an undiscovered band or artist. I first d...

28/04/2024

Local Loft Episode 326 will be jammin' with some Roxy music ( and we don't mean Bryan Ferry singing Virginia Plain in downtown Lockport) The enlightening details coming Tuesday.

23/04/2024

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-rz7ee-15f2e0f You'll be Punk'd and Metalled in excessive helpings. The 325th edition of the original Chicagoland music menu is now avilable for excessive consumption. Give you ears the right amount of time to fully digest. New Podcasr LL 325. Stream now on Spotify, Amazon Music or the Podbean app. Download at podbean.com.

What else you gonna have on the brain excessively on a Tuesday?....Punk Rock Tacos! There will be plenty of those to give you the much needed energy to pogo to the max this Friday, April 26th at Cemitas Poblanas in Villa Park. A side of hatred will be served up from I HATE PEOPLE. This Aurora punk b...

23/04/2024

It's a not so thin line, between love and hate. You'll discover more love for the original Chicagoland punk, metal, power pop and alternative rock when your ears chow down on a new lunchtime edition of Local Loft. Rocking first servings are at the stroke of 10am. One listen and you'll have a delayed craving of Punk Rock Tacos, which you'll be fully nourished on Friday in Villa Park when you check this aptly named Aurora punk band out. I talk with them. Plus, new tunes from Vaudeviliens, The Outfit, and Ralph Covert will set a great example of how to rock International Pop Overthrow Wednesday at Montrose Saloon. Stream LL 325 on Spotify, Amazon Music or the Podbean app. Download at podbean.com.

Filmed LIVE during Prison City Massacre XIV at the Forge in Joliet, Illinois on Saturday October 22nd, 2022 using an iPhone 8. Edited using Final Cut Pro on ...

23/04/2024

Filmed LIVE during Prison City Massacre XIV at the Forge in Joliet, Illinois on Saturday October 22nd, 2022 using an iPhone 8. Edited using Final Cut Pro on ...

16/04/2024

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-s3a9n-15e2e24 Putting the crunch in your early Tuesday (or any day) lunch (or breakfast). The musically nourishing sound of the Chicagoland area's original metal, punk, alternative rock and power pop scene. Slowly digest this in both ear lobes. New podcast. LL 324. Stream now on Spotify, Amazon Music or the Podbean app. Download at podbean.com.

Crunchy & Crackly That's the only combo I can use to describe this 324th edition of the extensive podcast of original Chicagoland metal. punk, alternative rock and power pop. The focus is mostly on Punk Rock Tacos and Record Store Day. Both fall on the same day....4/20! Safe to say this Saturday...

15/04/2024

https://youtu.be/zW1vUXEpJlk?si=LbRMwNmafY-s7xoq 'll be throwing down a new edition of Local Loft after midnight tonight. You won't need a barf bag to listen, even though the Chicago Punk band featured might get visions of hurling in your head. This edition will sound crunchy and crackly, with a delicious combo of Punk Rock Tacos and Record Store Day. Stream LL 324 on Spotify, Amazon Music or the Podbean app. Download at podbean.com

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09/04/2024

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-97ixn-15d78f2 Art rock. Isolation rock. Stylus generated rock. Some more original Chicago area metal, punk, alternative rock and power pop to add to your collection, as Record Store Day nears again. Live from one of your friendly neighborhood record store (Val's Halla-Oak Park). New podcast LL #323. Stream Now on Spotify, Amazon Music or the Podbean app. Download at podbean.com.

"We're having a lovely time, wish you were here" (John Enthwistle-Postcard (The Who) 1974) If you couldn't be there. This on the scene episode of Local Loft is a up close as you can get to feel the overloaded amps buzz and heat pe*****te through your skin. I catch up with heavy Avant Garde alternati...

07/04/2024

13 Monsters on the tour prowl again...at the legendary Val's Halla in Oak Park. If you missed it. Local Loft Episode 323 tracks it all over again starting this Wednesday. The only Chicago Punk band with a rock critic, Vortis was also a headliner. With a new Vaudeviliens album in dimming your turntable. Stream on Spotify, Amazon Music or the Podbean app. Download at podbean.com.

04/04/2024

Another on the road edition of Local Loft will be in the works for Saturday. It will be a Monster-ous record collecting adventure from a legendary record store near BUUR-WIN! More to come this weekend.

01/04/2024

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-maait-15cb4c8 More music. less jokes. Play this loud and no one will think Beyonce is doing an imperfect Shania Twain impression. There will be Judas Priest Rob Halford high pitched singing impressions at some point. New podcast. LL 322. Stream now on Spotify, Amazon Music, or the Podbean app. Download on podbean.com.

For the next hour, a boot scootin' rendition of Beyonce imitating Taylor imitating Dolly. And monkeys might fly out of my butt! Seriously, cassettes (like CDs and vinyl) are making a comeback. Chicago Punk Trio Pure Intention chose the old school hardshell tape format, even over overrated streaming,...

01/04/2024

A new edition of Local Loft comes pouring into cyberspace on a original Chicago area metal. punk and alternative rock front with no aerial flood threat right before noon. Heads up, there just might be a Beyonce does a corny Dolly Parton impression! President W. might even stop by. Seriously, a Chicago punk trio had him stop by in a song with plenty of untruthful lyrics. I talk to the muscle of the band whose 3 members are named The Brain, The Beauty & The Braun. Guess which one he's called. Download LL #322 on podbean.com. Stream on Spotify, Amazon Music or the Podbean qpp. https://youtu.be/6BuvF7ztKG8?si=dtQXJgNF6xDzWLcb

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