{"entry":[{"id":"9187125","hash":"c66784be0191ae9bf044c8f5fb5d7636","requestHash":"sockmonkeysound","profileUrl":"http:\/\/gravatar.com\/sockmonkeysound","preferredUsername":"sockmonkeysound","thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/1.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c66784be0191ae9bf044c8f5fb5d7636","photos":[{"value":"http:\/\/1.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c66784be0191ae9bf044c8f5fb5d7636","type":"thumbnail"}],"name":{"formatted":"sock monkey sound"},"displayName":"Sock Monkey Sound","aboutMe":"Based in Rockford, Illinois, Sock Monkey Sound is a music and culture website. Notable guests on our podcast have included Ian MacKaye (Fugazi), Colin Hay (Men At Work), Eric Bachmann (Crooked Fingers\/Archers of Loaf), Hutch Harris (The Thermals), David Bazan and Dan Deacon, as well as members of The Dandy Warhols, Built To Spill, The Dismemberment Plan, Tokyo Police Club and many more. We often discuss with our guests the state of music and culture in both our hometown and theirs, as to find a common link between (what we feel to be) the lack of art support in Rockford and what may be going on elsewhere in the country.\n\nOur chats don\u2019t just stop at the podcast, as we\u2019ve interviewed Yoko Ono, Sharon Van Etten, Diplo and more in other features for the site, as well as featured several in-studio performances from The Felix Culpa, Into It Over It and others.\n\nWe continually cover Rockford (and surrounding area) artists, giving them an outlet to have their music heard or to discuss their craft themselves on the podcast. Rockford-based musicians Miles Nielsen and Dan McMahon, both previous podcast guests, recently wrote and performed the songs in Undefeated, the 2012 Oscar winner for Best Documentary Feature, and that\u2019s just a small taste of what our city can offer the world. Through our editorials, concert or album reviews, and general think pieces on the site, we hone in on what\u2019s working in Rockford, and instead of harping on what\u2019s not, we suggest what could.\n\nSince our inception in 2009, we\u2019ve added writers from Atlanta, Toronto, Colorado and Chicago. In 2011, USA Today\u2019s Pop Candy blog named Sock Monkey Sound one of the ten best music podcasts in the country, aligning us with the likes All Songs Considered and Sound Opinions.\n\nAs recent as June 15, 2012 Paste Magazine ranked us #3 on a list of The 10 Best Music Podcasts saying:\n\nWith candid interviews a la Outside The Lines, Sock Monkey Sound gets together with artists like David Bazan, Bloom and The Dismemberment Plan, conducting unstructured, off-the-cuff interviews about whatever comes to mind. If Rob Gordon of High Fidelity made a podcast, it might go a little something like this.- Patty Miranda, Paste Magazine\n\nWe are both humbled and thrilled by these honors, and we aim to live up to it with every post.\n\nWe\u2019re always developing new content, including the recent Andy & Reggie\u2019s Songs About Stuff & Things Radio Hour \u2013 where our hosts spin songs relating to one central topic per episode \u2013 and The Geeks Were Right, a podcast debuting this summer tackling the worlds of film, tv, comics, and video games.","currentLocation":"Rockford","emails":[{"primary":"true","value":"sockmonkeysound@gmail.com"}],"ims":[{"type":"skype","value":"sockmonkeysound"}],"accounts":[{"domain":"flickr.com","display":"sockmonkeysound","url":"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/sockmonkeysound\/","username":"sockmonkeysound","verified":"true","shortname":"flickr"},{"domain":"twitter.com","display":"@sockmonkeysound","url":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sockmonkeysound","username":"sockmonkeysound","verified":"true","shortname":"twitter"},{"domain":"youtube.com","display":"sockmonkeysound","url":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/sockmonkeysound","username":"sockmonkeysound","verified":"true","shortname":"youtube"}],"urls":[{"value":"http:\/\/sockmonkeysound.com","title":"sockmonkeysound.com"}]}]}