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Catalytic Currents

Apr 10, 2025 7:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Music

With Agent Emi

"Real Catalytic Converters" only consist of the OG two-way converters from the 70s and the refined three-way converters of the 80s. What is known as "aftermarket universal converters" is nothing but knockoff emissions tech with questionable real catalytic influence. When people try to argue that modern, high-flow converters are not real catalytic converters, while saying that OEM converters are, I can't help but cringe because they are just as fake catalytic as cheap eBay parts (plus the inefficiency). Real catalytic converters work CLEANLY, EFFECTIVELY, and somewhat MERCILESSLY against hydrocarbons. Fake converters are inefficient, poorly designed, and a failed attempt to direct exhaust gases and reduce pollution properly. Some examples of REAL CATALYTIC CONVERTERS are the OG Johnson Matthey designs, CARB-certified units, and genuine OEM Toyota converters. Some examples of FAKE CATALYTIC CONVERTERS are knockoff eBay parts, test pipes labeled as "performance converters," and anything labeled “universal” that can’t even pass an emissions test. CATALYTIC CONVERTERS BELONG TO EMISSIONS CONTROL, NOT TO PERFORMANCE MODDERS, CHEAP MANUFACTURERS, OR ANY OTHER POLLUTION-IGNORING TREND.

chicago specialty show <3

what's going on in the Chicago scene? punk, indie pop, screamo, metal, spoken word, we've got it all

7:02 AM		Horsegirl Option 8 Versions of Modern Performance Matador 2022
7:05 AM		Spliff Sleep Well My Own Room Dogbed Studios 2023
7:08 AM		Cultesac Familiar Faces Familiar Faces - Single Altered Boy Records 2023
7:13 AM		When We Was Kids Cruzr Memoralia - EP WWWK 2019
7:15 AM		Rust Ring Tiny Frame Tiny Frame - Single knifepunch records 2023
7:19 AM		Pretty Pleased Dodge Durango Unchained Dodge Durango Unchained - Single Pretty Pleased 2019
7:22 AM		Binx El Faro Vs. El Paraiso Brain Vacation Mid Productions 2022
7:26 AM		White Orchid Crowd Can't Dance (White Dress) White Orchid The Bedrot Tapes - EP archibald 2023
7:31 AM		Los Crudos Asesinos Discografía La Vida Es Un Mus Discos 2016
7:32 AM		Algebra Suicide After Charles Still Life Dark Entries Records 2019
7:32 AM		Ganser People Watching Ganser Nothing You Do Matters - Single felte 2022
7:39 AM		Crowning Caldera Crowning Survival / Sickness Zegema Beach Records 2020
7:40 AM		Daundry Blue Rhino Pria Smokey Records 2024
7:47 AM		NÜDE St. Jude's Telegram St. Jude's Telegram - EP Baby Records 2024
7:47 AM		Matter of Fact Locked In 8 Track Demo Fortress Records Inc. / Chihc 2024
7:48 AM		ChinaRose Nosebleed Transdimensionalize 658349 Records DK 2017
7:53 AM		mail. Head In The Sand Head In the Sand - Single Mizzurna Records 2023
7:57 AM		Loose 9000 Caveat Caveat - Single Anyways Records 2024
8:00 AM		FORM Wicked Ways E Fifth Ave Form 2024
8:04 AM		Pulitzer Priceless Quarter Pound Credit Score Quarter Pound Credit Score - Single 5922346 Records DK2 2023
8:08 AM		Bitter Thoughts Takers The Collection Death Farm Records 2020
8:10 AM		Meat Wave Waveless Malign Hex Swami 2022
8:15 AM		Lace for Leisure Empty Lungs Empty Lungs - Single Cardboard Box 2024
8:19 AM		The Braymores Like the Others Talking to Trees - EP The Braymores 2023
8:19 AM		Industrial Milk Chago(Straw Hat) Fucking Sucks(Chago) 3137239 Records DK 2024
8:24 AM		Instill Will To Change (Demo) Demo - EP Instill 2021
8:26 AM		Stalled Eyes Like Saucers Dust Inside a Dream Pleasure Tapes 2024
8:31 AM		Si Dios Quiere NO ANGELS (feat. Soledad) No Angels NEW MORALITY ZINE 2024
8:33 AM		Totally Cashed Sport Drink Totally Totally Cashed Cashed - EP Totally Cashed 2022
8:37 AM		Atta Guns Pocket of Time Pocket of Time - Single Punch & Brunch Records 2023
8:40 AM		Astrobrite Bottlerocket Crush wavertone 2023
8:42 AM		Lollygagger Post Party Depression Post Party Depression - Single Molerat Records 2024
8:51 AM		Dreadwolf Lashing In Dreadwolf Shredwolf Records 2023
8:56 AM		Intoner Turning White Intoner - EP Black Tea 2024
8:59 AM		Bear Claw Sorry I Must Have Forgot My Ticket Find the Sun SickRoom Records 2004
9:02 AM		Old Coke A While Sorted - EP Old Coke 2022
9:06 AM		Lettering Other Shirt Lettering 795933 Records DK 2018
9:07 AM		Burdened Dirty Deeds Crippled by Fear 745637 Records DK 2017
9:08 AM		La Armada Unquenchable Anti - Colonial Vol. 1 Creep Records 2017
9:10 AM		Uglybones Gasoline Erasure Don't Panic Records & Distro 2021
9:12 AM		Sarin 1312 1312 - Single negative noise 2021
9:18 AM		Sawamura No Hitter fag break Sawamura No Hitter T4T - Single Sawamura No Hitter 2023
9:22 AM		Your Arms Are My Cocoon Runner Duck Death of a Rabbit YAAMC self-released 2024
9:28 AM		Worry Club Same Name All Frogs Go To Heaven - EP Worry Club 2023
9:43 AM		Spleen!? Insoutenable II - EP Spleen 2023
9:43 AM		Ryley Walker Second Strand So Certain - EP Husky Pants Records 2022
9:43 AM		Thro Hurt Roslyn Ave. Part I - EP Thro 2023
9:45 AM		Pixel Grip Diamonds Heavy Handed Feeltrip Records 2020
9:49 AM		Satin Banshee Long Way Down Long Way Down - Single Rusteez Records 2023
9:52 AM		Free Range Hardly Hardly - Single 2025
9:55 AM		Ax and the Hatchetmen Grace Grace - Single Ax and the Hatchetmen 2022

Chat is archived.

Good morning, it's always great to hear Horsegirl!

Good morning

gooood morning!

Horsegirl is such a Chicago gem :))

They are! Might you be taking requests?

Yes!!! All things Chicago today, I am open ears!!!

This is gonna be great, I never thought to look into the Chicago scene

I'm a huge fan (definitely biased) but we have a lot of great hardcore and indie coming out of Chicagoland right now!! So many young people moving into the area!!!

Would it be possible for you to play something from Ganser? My wife loves that band.

crazy thing!!??!?!? I have them in the lineup already!?!? I saw them live last year!??!??!

So tasteful!!!!

Oooh thanks!!

Also, might you be playing any Beach Bunny? Especially something from before the Emotional Creature album? I love their 2019-2021 stuff.

honestly I didn't have that originally in the lineup just because I'm focusing on current players in the scene, but they were superrrrrr influential so lets see:)

No worries if you don't play them!!

Ooooh this breakdown is SICK

Morning TAndy!

heya rob

love a good breakdown always

love this mail too, wow.

so fun and shoegazeyeyeyeyeye

ikr i just love gazeing

Glad i was able to catch my favorite emo/punk segment.

you know it!!! always good to see you!

Your sets are a great way to mark i'm almost done with the week. Second wave emo is filled with that fatigued, melancholic hope.

sheeeesh this is sludgy

so this makes three albums i buy off bandcamp because of your show this morning. ouch my wallet

ayyyyyy yessssss

I try lol

i already know im gonna love that stalled album

astrobrite <3

they are my goats! so fun live

I hope they tour outside of Chicago at some point!!!! spread the joy!

@Agent Emi, this has been a lovely show, thank you! But sadly, I am setting out for an appointment rn. Until the next time!

glad you enjoyed!!! have a good appointment and looking forward to hearing from you soon!!!

Ooh already I like this a lot too.

Yeah. another album.

Old Coke is so cool, I especially like their song Vapor Drunk!

what's up emi! chat!

hey Michael!!!

soooo good, the drive has been so fun!!

Hey Emi! Hello all! Great show this morning!

glad you're digging it :))))) I'm having a blast!!

I love love love Chicago!!!

A show about Chicago is pandering directly to me specifically and I am 100% on board with this.

no way!? a fellow chicagoan!!??!! oh joy!!!!

I lived there for nine years (and I have the drawers upon drawers of silkscreened posters to prove it).

Seeing a few pals in the playlist already. Shout out Bear Claw.

Grab a pie from Burt's with Giardiniera as the topping and turn your radio UP.

Giariniera has to be the most Chicago pie topping known to mankind

no way!!! bar claw is so sick, this is such a cool crossover

We'll have to debrief about Chicago lore sometime. Get to go there 3x this summer, can already taste my Irazu burrito...

that was awesome <3

luv this too

GOSH I haven't heard that name in tooooooo long, Irazu is sick!!!!

Illinois lore debrief definitely happening soooon

yay glad you're liking it TAndy

I'm a huge Albany Park fan in Chicago, superiorrrrr neighborhood, very underrated

really love this worry club too. i've been missing out on some new tunes!

I'm trying to find a funny screenshot of a time I had breakfast in Albany Park...

LOL what happens in Albany park stays in Albany park, it's a great neighborhood

yesssss so much wondrous music coming out of Chicago

Went to a restaurant for breakfast the day after someone tried to break in. WGN was there filming and my friend Matt successfully got his middle finger on the news.

(Screenshot MIA.)

playlist is stuck?

Found it! We made WGN *and* channel 2.

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LOLLLLLLL

no way

we are cackling in the studio

great show emi and slayer! emi its been months since i caught a show, it's been so great

playlist is unstuck

oh joy, sorry about that!?

yay Michael!!!! so glad you caught us today!!!! it has been a blast

.... just wanted the names of songs I don't know ... ;)

yesss of course, don't know what happended there yikes

thanks y'all!!!!!!

great show!