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As Seen on Chicago Tonight: Music

How can I learn more about the musician on tonight's show?

Joe Pug (performed on 10/30/2009): artist's website

Listen to Joe Pug's Hymn 101

What music is played during the opening and closing credits of Chicago Tonight?

Our theme, as of February 2006, is original music by composer Nick Tremulis.

What music is played during the opening and closing credits of the Friday Night program?

It's Cantaloop by the group US3, which is a remix of Cantaloupe Island by former Chicagoan Herbie Hancock.

What music is used during the segment transitions ("bumpers")?

We use a variety of music during our bumpers between segments. Below are just some of the songs and the artists featured between Chicago Tonight segments.

Air

  • All I Need

Barenaked Ladies

  • Light Up My Room

Beck

  • The Golden Age

Ben Folds

  • Landed

Bettie Serveert

  • All the Other Fish

Billie Myers

  • Opposites Attract

Billy McLaughlin

  • Fingerdance
  • While She Sleeps

Bobby McFerrin

  • Invocation

Bruce Cockburn

  • Pacing the Cage
  • Sunwheel Dance

Bruce Hornsby

  • Song F
  • Gonna Be Some Changes Made
  • Lost in the Snow
  • Circus on the Moon

Cary Brothers

  • Loneliest Girl in the World

Catherine Durand

  • Mon Bateau

Cold War Kids

  • Hospital Beds

Coldplay

  • Clocks
  • Death and All His Friends
  • Warning Sign

Counting Crows

  • Carriage
  • Sullivan Street

Darol Anger and the American Fiddle Ensemble

  • Evening Prayer Blues
  • Lost in the Loop
  • Ouditaurus Rez
  • Where to Now?

Dave Matthews Band

  • Lie in Our Graves

David Broza

  • N'shika G'nuva (Stolen Kiss)

David Gray

  • Please Forgive Me

David Wilcox

  • Farther to Fall

Death Cab for Cutie

  • Transatlanticism
  • Your Heart is an Empty Room

Elliot Smith

  • Angeles

Explosions in the Sky

  • Your Hand in Mine

John Mayer

  • 83

John Mellencamp

  • Full Catastrophe

kd lang

  • Constant Craving

Leo Kottke

  • Standing in my Shoes

Medeski Martin & Wood

  • Bubblehouse

Nickel Creek

  • Smoothie Song
  • Speak
  • This Side

Once Blue

  • Stardust and Snow

Palm Fabric Orchestra

  • The Garden

Pat Metheny

  • Last Train Home

Peter Himmelman

  • Child into a Man
  • Eleventh Confession
  • You Know Me Better

Peter, Bjorn and John

  • Young Folks

Phish

  • Dirt

Poi Dog Pondering

  • Had I Known
  • Seed into Fruit

Ray LaMontagne

  • Empty
  • Hold You in My Arms

Razorlight

  • I Can't Stop This Feeling I've Got

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

  • Stick With Me Baby

Rodrigo y Gabriela

  • Tamacun

Rush

  • Hope

Sarah McLachlan

  • World on Fire

Sara Tavares

  • Balance

Semisonic

  • Closing Time

Smashing Pumpkins

  • Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

Sonic Youth

  • Kim's Chords

Stephen Bishop

  • Little Italy

Sting

  • Fields of Gold
  • If I Ever Lose My Faith in You
  • Nothin' 'Bout Me

Sublime

  • What I Got

The Church

  • Under the Milky Way

The Redwalls

  • Thank You

The Shins

  • A Comet Appears

U2

  • Bass Trap
  • Beautiful Day
  • Lemon

Vertical Horizon

  • Call It Even

Zero 7

  • Give It Away
  • In the Waiting Line

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