DJ Craig Reptile is a DJ, CHIRP volunteer and Assistant Music Director (Emeritus)
About DJ Craig Reptile
Craig previously worked in radio at KVOE AM and Fox 105 in Emporia, Kansas, and served as a DJ, music director and general manager for WVKC at Knox College. A former Senior Staff Writer for Pop'stache, he writes freelance for Newcity, and contributes to CHIRP's blog. Craig worked in the hotel and meetings industry for twenty-five years and currently works in artifical intelligence. He is a member of The Blue Ribbon Glee Club, Chicago's longest-running a capella group that performs punk, indie and alternative rock favorites. He comes by his DJ handle honestly, having kept various reptile and amphibian species through the years, and has earned a Master Herpetologist Certification from the Amphibian Foundation. He is also a long-time member of the Chicago Herpetological Society and serves on the board of directors. Craig was a member of the Chicago Indie Rock Fans Meetup Group and currently runs the Facebook groups "Purple Promotional Prose" and "Towards A More Twee Chicago."
Ragout: Küchen Rezpt Von Einsturzende Neubaten (1998)
Einstürzende Neubauten
An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music / First A-Chronology 1921-2001
7:07 PM
Melatonin
Tinashe
Popstar
7:04 PM
Yellow and Green
LOCAL
Slow Pulp
Melodie
7:00 PM
Down to the Very Root
Damma Damma
Low Buildlings
Sun 11/08 · 6PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
6:56 PM
Avalon
1982
Roxy Music
Avalon
6:50 PM
Overthinker
LOCAL
Sen Morimoto
Time Is On Your Side
6:47 PM
I Think I Love You
LOCAL
2008
Tiny Microphone
Home
6:44 PM
Talulah Gosh
Talulah Gosh
C87
6:42 PM
i care for you
2025
good flying birds
Talulah's Tape
6:39 PM
Every Single Weekend (featuring Jamie xx)
The Avalanches
No Bad Memories
6:34 PM
Everyone's The Same
A Place To Bury Strangers
Rare and Deadly
6:31 PM
Nobody's Coming to Save You
Gurriers
Nobody's Coming to Save You
6:26 PM
No One Is To Blame
1986
Howard Jones
flashback cafe, vol. 2
6:19 PM
Laughing at the End
Smallie
Through Line
6:16 PM
Had It
Dumb Crush
Can't Say It Wasn't Fun
6:10 PM
Ricochet
Dazy
MAXIMUMBLASTSUPERLOUD Vol. 2: 24 Songs From 2023-2026
6:06 PM
This Land Is Your Land
2005
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
Naturally
6:03 PM
Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat)
1993
Digable Planets
Reachin' (A New Refutation Of Time And Space)
Sun 11/01 · 8PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
8:52 PM
Ghosts: Second Variation
Albert Ayler Trio
Spiritual Unity
8:44 PM
Rivers Of Blood, Years Of Darkness
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
Confession of A Knife
8:36 PM
Devil Town
Daniel Johnston
The Late Great Daniel Johnston Discovered Covered
8:31 PM
Little Vampire
2025
Grave Animosity
Summon Spirits with the Sound
8:28 PM
Vampire Bride
The Raspberry Jams
Kitty Cat Fever
8:27 PM
Vampira
Bobby Bare
The Little Box of Halloween
8:20 PM
The Raven
2008
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
Sunday At Devil Dirt
8:16 PM
Exquisite Corpse
2024
J. Robbins
Basilisk
8:09 PM
Dragon
2025
Skullcrusher
And Your Song is Like a Circle
8:08 PM
Hellhound
Radiator Hospital
Distorting Time
8:05 PM
Riot Dog
Blair Gun
Nonstop Bullets
8:03 PM
Reaching for my Revolver
Interlay
snow covers your insides
Sun 11/01 · 7PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
7:58 PM
Deathbed
BLEU
Sargeant Pepper Grinder
7:54 PM
I Put A Spell On You
Marilyn Manson
Lost Highway
7:50 PM
Whisper To A Scream (Birds Fly)
1996
SoHo
Scream: Music From The Dimension Motion Picture
7:44 PM
Dead Man's Party
A Thorn For Every Heart
Punk Goes 80's
7:39 PM
Pictures of Matchstick Men
By request!
Nada UV
Key Lime Pie
7:34 PM
A Hell Below
Album out December 4th
Ghost Funk Orchestra
Yours In The Rank of Death
7:31 PM
Bop Til You Drop
Mucca Pazza
BOP DROP
7:30 PM
"Wrong About You"
Spaces of Disappearance
VILLIAN
7:24 PM
Terrorvision
1998
Manufacture
Terrorvision
7:18 PM
Tubular Bells (Theme From The Exorcist")
Drew's Famous
Drew's Famous Halloween Fright Flicks
7:11 PM
Freaks Come Out At Night (Carmen Rizzo "Nocturnal" Remix)
2005
Whodini
Cursed Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
7:07 PM
Ghostbusters
Run-D.M.C.
Now That's What I Call Halloween
7:03 PM
A Nightmare On My Street
Compilation 2003
Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince
Halloween Jam
Sun 11/01 · 6PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
6:58 PM
Hurricane Touchdown
Animal Panic
single
6:51 PM
OCCAM'S RAZOR
Kill Alters
We Can Rot Together
6:49 PM
The Hives Introduce the Metric System in Time
For Al Diablo!
The Hives
Veni Vidi Vicious
6:47 PM
She's Not There
The Zombies
The Singles A's & B's
6:43 PM
Zombie
Joy Oladokun
Hope Is A Heavy Thing
6:40 PM
Zombie Stomp
1963
Billy Ghoulston
single
6:36 PM
Surfin' Zombies
1993
Zombie Surfers
B-Movie Brain
6:35 PM
The Zombie Surfers Trailer
1993
Zombie Surfers
B-Movie Brain
6:31 PM
Zombieland
2018
Terminal Mind
Recordings
6:31 PM
Rockin' Zombie
Compilation 2010
The Crewnecks
Mostly Ghostly: More Horror For Halloween
6:23 PM
Zombie Athropod Overlords
Snow Burial
Victory in Ruin
6:20 PM
I Walked with a Zombie
Compilation: 2017
UK Subs
Punk Rock Halloween: Loud Fast, and Scary
6:16 PM
I Walked with a Zombie
Cover to cover!
R.E.M.
Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye: A Tribute to Roky Erickson
6:09 PM
Zombie Dumb
2014
Reverend Horton Heat
REV
6:05 PM
To My Zombie
2025
UNIFLORA
More Gums Than Teeth
6:03 PM
Cha Cha With The Zombies
1958
The Upperclassmen
single
Sun 10/25 · 8PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
8:55 PM
April Limousine
Dummy
do you love the color of the sky?
8:47 PM
Horses
LOCAL
Winefred RT
Anything Better To Do
8:46 PM
Murphy Horse
Smidley
Murphy Horse
8:39 PM
Drifting, Falling
Congratulations to Noah, for guessing the theme to this week's My Three Songs: BLUE
The Ocean Blue
The Ocean Blue
8:32 PM
Indigo Is Blue
Catherine Wheel
Ferment
8:29 PM
Working Class Blues
LOCAL
My Three (more) Songs!
The Empty Pockets
Dear Billionaires
8:25 PM
Blue Marbles
My Three Songs!
The Nightblooms
The Nightblooms
8:20 PM
Blue Around You
Babehoven
I See Them, I See Me
8:16 PM
Every Shade of Blue
My Three Songs!
The Reds, Pinks and Purples
True Love Daydream EP
8:08 PM
Let's Dance (Make Your Body Move)
West Street Mob
Rappers Delight & Other Old School Favorites
8:04 PM
Out Of My Mind (Into My Head)
2003
The Romantics
61/49
8:01 PM
Anxious
1986
The Housemartins
London 0 Hull 4
Sun 10/25 · 7PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
7:57 PM
Let Love Speak Up Itself
1990
The Beautiful South
Choke
7:51 PM
Dull Knife
LOCAL
V.V. Lightbody
Period Piece
7:47 PM
Lay on Plastic Moment
Starcleaner Reunion
Umbrella
7:41 PM
Where Do I Begin? (Featuring Beth Orton)
The Chemical Brothers
dig your own hole
7:35 PM
Twisted
Pardoner
Target Practice
7:32 PM
Pretty in Pixels
Penelope Isles
3
7:28 PM
Never Been In A Riot
LOCAL
2004
The Mekons
Punk Rock
7:23 PM
Riot Going On (featuring Ebbot Lundberg)
Teddybears
Soft Machine
7:18 PM
A Riot In My Mind (featuring Lenny Kravitz)
LOCAL
2020
Common
A Beautiful Revolution Pt. 1
7:09 PM
Beat Street
Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five
The Best Of Sugarhill
7:09 PM
Beat Street (with Mr. Ness & Cowboy)
Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five
Adventures on the Wheels of Steel
7:06 PM
Brighton Beach (featuring Evidence)
Your Old Droog
Bread & Butter
7:03 PM
Free Love Messes Up My Life
1992
Bongwater
The Big Sell-Out
7:01 PM
Hickory Wind
Cover to cover!
Bob Mould & Vic Chesnutt
Conmemorativo: A Tribute To Gram Parsons
Sun 10/25 · 6PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
6:56 PM
Hickory Wind
Cover to cover!
Gillian Welch
Return of the Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons
6:51 PM
Begin Now!
The Olivia Tremor Control
The Same Place
6:47 PM
Cruel Complex
LOCAL
Medical Miracle
Permanence
6:40 PM
Sister, Sister (extended)
Sui Zhen
Names To Love You By (vol. 1)
6:34 PM
Schizophrenia
1987
Sonic Youth
Sister
6:30 PM
Sister
2006
She Wants Revenge
She Wants Revenge
6:25 PM
Earth from Above
LOCAL
Resavoir
Above the Clouds
6:19 PM
Snakes
1991
Antenna
Sway
6:11 PM
Akatsuki (featuring Hiromi)
Rodrigo y Gabriela
OurHome
6:06 PM
Hello In There
2020
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
All The Good Times
Sun 10/18 · 8PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
8:54 PM
I Believe
1979
Buzzcocks
A Different Kind of Tension/Parts 1-3
8:48 PM
Step Into Your Shoes
LOCAL
Stephen Kohler
single
8:46 PM
Iron Dome
Blair Gun
Nonstop Bullets
8:45 PM
DANCING
Hannah Cole
Switchbacks
8:40 PM
Colour Pillow - Kologo (Radio Edit)
Blind Yeo
The Lemoine Point
8:35 PM
Last Call
Vacations
Pursuit of Anything
8:33 PM
Go Love Urself
Fat Dog
Cancel Me (I'm Tired)
8:29 PM
Time
Susanna Hoffs
The List
8:26 PM
Little Honda
By request!
Yo La Tengo
I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One
8:21 PM
Rock Island Line
Cover to cover!
Billy Bragg & Joe Henry
Shine a Light: Field Recordings from the Great American Railroad
8:17 PM
Rock Island Line
Cover to cover!
Jake Xerxes Fussell
The Old Beloved Path
8:09 PM
The One I Love
1996
The Moog Cookbook
The Moog Cookbook
8:01 PM
Love is the Drug
By request!
Grace Jones
Warm Leatherette
Sun 10/18 · 7PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
7:57 PM
The Belly Of The Whale
Burning Sensations
Living In Oblivion: The 80's Greatest Hits, Vol. 4
7:48 PM
OCCAM'S RAZOR
Album out 10/16
Kill Alters
We Can Rot Together
7:44 PM
Steeper Stairs
LOCAL
Able Baker
Able Baker
7:42 PM
You've Been Changed
LOCAL
TV Buddha
Hallelujah Anyway
7:35 PM
Mama Said Knock You Out
LL Cool J
All World
7:29 PM
County Jail
LOCAL
Muddy Waters
Hoochie Coochie Man
7:22 PM
Blinded by the Sun
1997
The Seahorses
Do It Yourself
7:17 PM
Sea Legs
Blondshell
Violins
7:09 PM
Election Day
Lily Seabird
Lightspheres on Their Way
7:05 PM
Coast Is Clear
Originally released on the Frozen EP
Curve
Pubic Fruit
7:03 PM
Ideas As Opiates
1992
Tears for Fears
Artists For Rock The Vote: Say What U Want
Sun 10/18 · 6PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
6:59 PM
susan's husbands gunshop
2003
Earlimart
The Avenues EP
6:55 PM
Sensational
Wishy
Nature's Pill
6:51 PM
The Good Things
My Three Songs!
Terry & the Lovemen
A Testimonial Dinner: The Songs of XTC
6:50 PM
Bloody Mary Morning (feat. Willie Nelson)
My Three Songs!
Supersuckers
Twisted Willie
6:41 PM
Iron Man
My Three Songs!
Ozzy Osbourne w/ Therapy?
Nativity In Black: A Tribute To Black Sabbath
6:33 PM
Corkscrew Drawers
Myra Lee
Capture The Flag
6:33 PM
Rags to Riches
Meryl Streek
Stories They Don't Teach You At School
6:27 PM
Sentimental Object
LOCAL
Jeremiah Chiu
Edge Conditions
6:19 PM
Stand Guard
1990
Bob Mould
Black Sheets Of Rain
6:15 PM
No One's Gonna Love You
2014
Band of Horses
Acoustic at The Ryman
6:09 PM
Horse Runnin'
Sera Cahoone
I've Missed You All These Years
6:06 PM
Georgia
LOCAL
Lainey Jean
single
6:03 PM
I've Got To Know
Woody Guthrie cover
Son Volt
A Retrospective: 1995–2000
Sun 10/11 · 8PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
8:52 PM
centipede
alexalone
nomoreshoegaze
8:48 PM
Shiverstruck
Ian Sweet
Shiverstruck
8:44 PM
Vote of No Confidence
LOCAL
2015
sewingneedle
Vote of No Confidence
8:41 PM
Colour From The Tube
1992
Gang Of Four
Artists For Rock The Vote: Say What U Want
8:30 PM
Marcia and Etrusca
1994
The Loud Family
The Tape Of Only Linda
8:28 PM
Iambic Pentameter
LOCAL
Spread Joy
III
8:23 PM
Real Tree Lee
My Three Songs!
Adult DVD
Adult DVD
8:20 PM
I USUALLY SAY HOW I FEEL
LOCAL
My Three Songs!
Tree
FREE TREE
8:17 PM
Dollar Bill
My Three Songs!
Screaming Trees
Sweet Oblivion
8:11 PM
Another Bruise
LOCAL
Joe McGuire
Check Out My Birdhouse
8:08 PM
Blame Game
Palmyra
Cheap Beer
8:04 PM
God Is Alive (featuring Branden Mayeri & Breakaway)
Mykki Blanco
CAFE PARADISO
8:01 PM
The Adjustor
2005
The Octopus Project
One Ten Hundred Thousand Million
Sun 10/11 · 7PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
7:58 PM
We Just Won't Be Defeated
2004
The Go! Team
Thunder, Lightning, Strike (US)
7:55 PM
Nothing I Need
LOCAL
At Cafe Mustache on 10/19
sponj
single
7:46 PM
Sunday
Request for Greg in North Center!
Iggy Pop
Post Pop Depression
7:42 PM
Baba O'Riley
LOCAL
Cover To Cover
The Waco Brothers
Down To The Promised Land: 5 Years of Bloodshot Records
7:39 PM
Baba O'Riley
Cover To Cover
The Hinnies
Who Covers Who
7:33 PM
'92 Subaru
2007
Fountains Of Wayne
Traffic and Weather
7:31 PM
Subaru
1-800-Mikey
In Yun
7:27 PM
Freeze Tag
Paul Spring
Barnstorm
7:21 PM
Stigmata Martyr
1980
Bauhaus
In The Flat Field
7:15 PM
Stigmata
LOCAL
1988
Ministry
The Land Of Rape And Honey
7:10 PM
Stigmata
Joel Cusumano
Appendix
7:06 PM
Yoko
Lemongrab
Another Kind of Freedom
7:01 PM
The Revolution's On Yo In 'O' Net
André Cymone
The Resurrection of Funk
Sun 10/11 · 6PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
6:57 PM
The Foggy Edge of Time
Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts
Second Song
6:51 PM
Hurricane Touchdown
LOCAL
Animal Panic
single
6:48 PM
Recovery
LOCAL
Vinto Van Go
Charms and Trips
6:44 PM
Tenga pa' los Dulces
Empanadas Ilegales
Laboratorio Tropical
6:43 PM
Connection
Recorded live at the Venus club, Boston, MA, May 24 1995
Elastica
Waking Up Venus
6:37 PM
I Still See Me There (featuring Mitch Sanders)
2026
Tricky
Different When It's Silent
6:33 PM
When We Die (feat. Martina Topley-Bird)
2017
Tricky
Ununiform
6:29 PM
Soul Food
2004
Martina Topley-Bird
Anything
6:22 PM
All Along The Way
1992
Flowerhead
...Ka-Bloom!
6:19 PM
Breathe
LA Priest
Into The Sky
6:10 PM
Exhuming McCarthy
1987
R.E.M.
Document
6:06 PM
Deeper Shade Of Soul
1989/1990
Urban Dance Squad
Mental Floss for the Globe
6:03 PM
Something I Learned Today
Sweeping Promises
Maximum MN
6:02 PM
Sounds of Liberation
Blair Gun
Nonstop Bullets
Sun 09/20 · 8PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
8:56 PM
Seventh Seal
LOCAL
Russian Circles
Nine
8:53 PM
On The Steps Of The Cathedral
Mark Lanegan
Here Comes That Weird Chill
8:50 PM
Fighting Type A
LOCAL
Consensus Madness
Endeavors
8:48 PM
Abolish Chance
LOCAL
Spread Joy
III
8:45 PM
Dirge (If You Survive)
LOCAL
At CHIRP Night At The Whistler with Caitlin Edwards 9/27 https://chirpradio.org/events/chirp-night-at-the-whistler-with-time-thieves-and-caitlin-edwards