DJ Stevo got his start in radio at the late, great WKDI student station at Northern Illinois University.
About DJ Stevo
From there, his life has been a blur until he found CHIRP Radio and once again, is happily "spinning" tunes on the air. A longtime Chicago resident and lifelong Illinoisan, Stevo can be seen at numerous shows around the city and occasionally playing DJ sets at local bars like Simon's, Delilah's and GMan Tavern. In 2008 he moved from in front of the stage to on it with his original band I Lost Control and the Joy Division tribute band The Unknown Pleasures. You can see them perform around Chicago.
Recent Playlists
Fri 09/11 · 5PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
5:55 PM
My Own Personal Racer
Dorio
Agent Friday & the Perfect Angel
5:50 PM
Nouveau Americain
2008
Brazilian Girls
New York City
5:46 PM
Watch the Closing Doors
1983 - By Suggestion!
IRT
Single
5:43 PM
The Hope I Dread
LOCAL
Molly Carberry
The Year I Went Blind
5:38 PM
Combination
1976
Aerosmith
Rocks
5:31 PM
Brand New Feeling
LOCAL
1972
The Awakening
Hear, Sense And Feel
5:30 PM
Love You So Much
1967 - Bruce Gordon sitting in a couple of songs with McLuhan at Phyllis' Musical Inn tonight.
The New Colony Six
Colonization
5:24 PM
The New World Wave
Lambchop
Punching the Clown
5:21 PM
My Man
Billie Holiday
Lover Man
5:17 PM
Superstar
Sesame Girl
Butterfly Wing in a Silver Locket
5:13 PM
Betty's Worry or the Slab
1984 By Suggestion!
Hunters & Collectors
The Jaws of Life
5:07 PM
Farewell Dracula
LOCAL
Kate Renegade
Could Do!
5:03 PM
The Hell I Won't
LOCAL
Meg and the Wheelers
Honky Tonk Wisdom
5:01 PM
Yeah Yeah Yeah - Los Gallos
LOCAL
2019 By Suggestion!
Various Artists
Too Late to Pray: Defiant Chicago Roots
Fri 09/11 · 4PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
4:57 PM
Blowin' Up
Dinosaur Jr.
There Near
4:46 PM
Move On Up
LOCAL
1970 By Suggestion!
Curtis Mayfield
Curtis
4:43 PM
Far Away
2002
Sleater-Kinney
One Beat
4:39 PM
Closer (featuring Hayley Williams)
Playing House of Blues 9/30
The Linda Lindas
GOTTA GET OUT
4:34 PM
Masks Off
By Suggestion!
Jesse Welles
Masks Off
4:32 PM
Spring
LOCAL
Marnie Sher
Single
4:25 PM
Darling Don't Leave Me
1984
Robert Görl
Darling Don't Leave Me
4:23 PM
Don't You Just Know It
Huey "Piano" Smith and The Clowns
New Orleans Party Classics
4:18 PM
Sex on Wheelz
1991
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
Sexplosion!
4:14 PM
Deep Blue
Chat Pile
Who Loves The Sun
4:09 PM
Big Exit
2000 By Suggestion!
PJ Harvey
Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
4:08 PM
Drunk lullaby
LOCAL
venturing
Nowhere EP
4:01 PM
Angels Don't Cry
1987
The Psychedelic Furs
Midnight to Midnight
Fri 09/11 · 3PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
3:55 PM
A City Yet to Come
Horse Lords
Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!
3:49 PM
Milky Teeth
1993
Tindersticks
Tindersticks
3:45 PM
If I Didn't Love You
1980
Squeeze
Argybargy
3:41 PM
New Age
1969
The Velvet Underground
Loaded
3:37 PM
The Jerk
2012
Indian Handcrafts
Civil Disobedience for Losers
3:34 PM
Helicopters
LOCAL
Playing with Sour Widows at Thalia Hall November 20th
Squirrel Flower
Say a Prayer to the Gods of Getting Going
3:31 PM
1980
1979 By Suggestion!
Herb Alpert
Rise
3:27 PM
Flash Fantasy
LOCAL
Temp Wishes
Single
3:22 PM
Little Kids
Playing Lincoln Hall Tuesday, September 15th.
Sondre Lerche
Acrobats
3:19 PM
In Walks Love Again
1978
Robert Palmer
Secrets
3:14 PM
Kill Me
Phoebe Bridgers
Lost Weekend
3:09 PM
Eko Beach
LOCAL
1994
Material Issue
Freak City Soundtrack
3:05 PM
Step Into Your Shows
LOCAL
Stephen Kohler
Single
3:01 PM
Fisherman's Blues
1988
The Waterboys
Fisherman's Blues
Wed 09/09 · 5PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
5:55 PM
Muzzy
Allah-Las
Sirenas
5:51 PM
Evil
LOCAL
1959
Howlin' Wolf
Moanin' in the Moonlight
5:45 PM
Combat Rock
2002
Sleater-Kinney
One Beat
5:43 PM
Love Will Find a Way
1978
Pablo Cruise
Worlds Away
5:39 PM
Paintbrush
LOCAL
Playing a matinee show at Madam Zuzu's on October 17th.
Stephen Kohler
Paintbrush
5:33 PM
Hey Pocky Way
1981
Neville Brothers
Fiyo on the Bayou
5:28 PM
Your Love Is In The Pocket -Premonition
LOCAL
1982
Various Artists
The Real Sound of Chicago
5:25 PM
Day in the Sun
Out 10/9
Teenage Fanclub
Do Not Dare to Dream
5:20 PM
Photos of the Reenactment
Kiwi Jr.
Blowin' Up
5:18 PM
I'm in Love with My Car
1975 For Norm!
Queen
A Night at the Opera
5:15 PM
I Just Dont Want You (To Say Goodbye)
The Womack Sisters
The Womack Sisters
5:08 PM
Salmon Fishing in New York
1984
Orange Juice
The Orange Juice
5:05 PM
Vanishing Point
Haircut One Hundred
Boxing The Compass
5:01 PM
Better Be Good to Me
1984
Tina Turner
Private Dancer
Wed 09/09 · 4PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
4:52 PM
Spirit, Take Me Away (featuring Amy Millan)
Elephant Stone
ASHA
4:45 PM
Red Right Hand
1994
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Let Love In
4:40 PM
Hanging Around
1977
The Stranglers
Stranglers IV (Rattus Norvegicus)
4:38 PM
Dirty Water - The Standells
Various Artists
Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era - 1965-1968
4:34 PM
Oxygen
Playing Lincoln Hall with Bad Snacks September 30th.
Bayonne
Filters
4:29 PM
Dreadlock Holiday
1978
10cc
Bloody Tourists
4:25 PM
Creeping
LOCAL
Math 125
Single
4:20 PM
You Yes Eyes
1980
Fingerprintz
Distinguishing Marks
4:18 PM
Five Get Over Excited
1987
The Housemartins
The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death
4:14 PM
Dark Summer
Ceremony
Tell Me Your Dream
4:10 PM
The Missing
LOCAL
1988
Ministry
The Land Of Rape And Honey
4:04 PM
Intruder
Playing Riot Fest on September 19th By Suggestion!
Chat Pile
Who Loves The Sun
4:01 PM
Jaded
2001 - By Suggestion!
Aerosmith
Just Push Play
Wed 09/09 · 3PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
3:54 PM
Baobab Constellations
Saul Williams
Leap Life
3:49 PM
The Passion Of Lovers
1981
Bauhaus
Mask
3:47 PM
Friday on My Mind
1966 By Suggestion!
The Easybeats
it's 2 easy
3:40 PM
Just One Kiss*
1983
The Cure
The Walk
3:33 PM
Rid Of Me
1993
PJ Harvey
Rid Of Me
3:30 PM
Heel
2022 By Request!
Rickshaw Billie's Burger Patrol
Doom Wop
3:26 PM
Steel
Cold Gawd
Glory2
3:21 PM
Marianne
Out 10/16
Fontaines D.C.
Dopamine Chamber
3:18 PM
Rip Off
1971
T. Rex
Electric Warrior
3:14 PM
Dancing With the Dandies
LOCAL
2022
The Handcuffs
Burn the Rails
3:13 PM
Bummer
LOCAL
Playing CHIRP Night at the Whistler 9/27 with Time Thieves.
Caitlin Edwards
Skeletons and Flamingos
3:06 PM
The Definitive Map
Getdown Services
Massive Champion
3:04 PM
Good Enough for You
The Fleshtones
Do You Swing?
3:00 PM
Your Mama Don't Dance
1972
Loggins and Messina
Loggins and Messina
Fri 09/04 · 5PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
5:56 PM
D.O.A.
1979
Van Halen
Van Halen II
5:52 PM
Other Hells
Ceremony
Tell Me Your Dream
5:47 PM
Goose Steppin'
TTNG
Juggling Moves (Beginner)
5:42 PM
Deeply
LOCAL
1979
Wazmo Nariz
Things Aren't Right
5:38 PM
At Home He's A Tourist
1979
Gang of Four
Entertainment!
5:34 PM
Fire - Gino Parks
1962
Various Artists
The Complete Motown Singles Vol. 2: 1962
5:31 PM
Lua (featuring Jontan)
LOCAL
C3zR
Single
5:28 PM
Radana (featuring Mitch Sanders & Radana)
Tricky
Different When It's Silent
5:23 PM
Shelly
2022 By Suggestion!
Grace Ives
Janky Star
5:19 PM
International Language of Dance
LOCAL
1986
Wild Blue
No More Jinx
5:15 PM
Bobby
Phoebe Bridgers
Lost Weekend
5:09 PM
Float Your Showboat
50th anniversary single!
The Fleshtones
Float Your Showboat b/w Hear Today
5:04 PM
Tall Cool One
1988 By Suggestion!
Robert Plant
Now and Zen
5:01 PM
I Give Up
1979
Jules and the Polar Bears
Phonetics
Fri 09/04 · 4PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
4:55 PM
Everybody Told Me
The Linda Lindas
GOTTA GET OUT
4:48 PM
Rave Down
1990
Swervedriver
Rave Down
4:44 PM
junior year
Slow Fiction
dollhouse
4:40 PM
The New World Wave
Playing Old Town School of Folk Music September 29th.
Lambchop
Punching the Clown
4:35 PM
Last Night, A DJ Saved My Life
LOCAL
2002
90 Day Men
To Everybody
4:31 PM
Best Of Friends
2013
Palma Violets
180
4:27 PM
Love Song for the Apocalypse
LOCAL
Caitlin Edwards
Skeletons and Flamingos
4:22 PM
Let's Pretend
2023
Pere Ubu
Trouble On Big Beat Street
4:19 PM
Black Dog Rabbit Hole
By Suggestion!
Devon Gilfillian
Time Will Tell
4:14 PM
Gimme Shelter
1969 By Suggestion!
The Rolling Stones
Let It Bleed
4:09 PM
Pull Back the Bolt
1984
Minimal Man
Safari
4:06 PM
My Anchoress
Sweeping Promises
You Say I Romanticize
Fri 09/04 · 3PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
3:59 PM
Cyprus Avenue
1968 By Suggestion!
Van Morrison
Astral Weeks
3:56 PM
Unspent
Blums
Sunk Cost Fantasy
3:51 PM
Hanky Panky Nohow
1973
John Cale
Paris 1919
3:46 PM
Home
LOCAL
2017
13-MONSTERS
Home
3:43 PM
I Would Keep You Under Pins
LOCAL
2024
6kitty
Under Pins
3:37 PM
Cold
Playing with Jonathan Hultén at the Riv on 9/28.
Chelsea Wolfe
The Dark
3:31 PM
Spiders (In Neal's Basement)
LOCAL
1972 By Suggestion! Playing Phyllis' Musical Inn next Friday, Sept. 11th.
McLuhan
Anomaly
3:27 PM
Marianne
Out 10/16
Fontaines D.C.
Dopamine Chamber
3:19 PM
Cold Streets Warm Heart (Drop Dead Gorgeous Saturday Night)
LOCAL
2021
Nicholas Tremulis & The Prodigals
Rarified World
3:17 PM
One Way Street
1977
Mink DeVille
Mink DeVille
3:15 PM
Straight Line to Love
Graham Hunt
American Pyramid
3:08 PM
This Is Where We Come In
2016
The James Hunter Six
HOLD ON!
3:04 PM
Take Me with You
Dinosaur Jr.
There Near
3:01 PM
Memphis Egypt
LOCAL
1989
The Mekons
The Mekons Rock 'n' Roll
Fri 08/28 · 5PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
5:54 PM
Blue In Green
Nicholas Payton & Butcher Brown
A Supreme Blue
5:49 PM
What Do You Want from Me?
1997
Monaco
Music for Pleasure
5:45 PM
The Crunge
1973
Led Zeppelin
Houses of the Holy
5:42 PM
Had a Dad
1988
Jane's Addiction
Nothing's Shocking
5:36 PM
The Deepest Part of the Darkest Shadow
The Afghan Whigs
Soft Control
5:32 PM
People Say I'm Crazy
LOCAL
Mary Lane
Travelin' Woman
5:27 PM
Rock Candy
1973
Montrose
Montrose
5:21 PM
Coat Of Many Colors
RIP Dolly
Dolly Parton
Classic Country Music: A Smithsonian Collection
5:18 PM
He Don't Know a Thing
LOCAL
Out February 2027. Playing an in-studio performance at ShooBooty Studios in Chicago tomorrow night at 7:30PM.
Jules Klee
Roses on My Table
5:14 PM
Anything
Black Marble
Life in Small Spaces
5:08 PM
Revolver
Mallory Hawk
Chinook
5:04 PM
We're Ready
LOCAL
1965
Junior Wells
Hoodoo Man Blues
5:00 PM
I Do the Rock
1979 RIP Tim Curry
Tim Curry
Fearless
Fri 08/28 · 4PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
4:56 PM
Silver Screen
Ian Sweet
Shiverstruck
4:51 PM
Just Let Go
LOCAL
2024
LowDown Brass Band
$itizens of the World
4:47 PM
Plans
By Suggestion!
Brandon Flowers
Thrasher
4:43 PM
Not Quite Real
LOCAL
By Suggestion!
The Darling Range
Dearly
4:37 PM
My Own Personal Racer
Dorio
Agent Friday & the Perfect Angel
4:33 PM
Farewell Dracula
LOCAL
By Suggestion!
Kate Renegade
Could Do!
4:30 PM
Creepin'
LOCAL
Math 125
Single
4:23 PM
Loveless Love
1980
The Feelies
Crazy Rhythms
4:20 PM
No One Has to Say No
LOCAL
Playing Edgewater Music Fest on Saturday at 2PM.
The Purcells
Underwater Man EP
4:15 PM
Gardening at Night
1982
R.E.M.
Chronic Town
4:12 PM
Well Done Kid, You Did It
Westside Cowboy
It Goes On
4:07 PM
The Associated Funk
Trashcan Sinatras
Ever The Optimist
4:03 PM
Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again
1978
Angel City
Face to Face
Fri 08/28 · 3PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
3:59 PM
Somebody Got Murdered
1980
The Clash
Sandinista!
3:54 PM
Building from the Ruins
Robyn Hitchcock
The Confuser
3:49 PM
Big Blue Plymouth (Eyes Wide Open)
1981
David Byrne
The Catherine Wheel
3:47 PM
Titans Baby
Lady Flash
Single
3:43 PM
Big Wheel
2024
Shannon And The Clams
The Moon Is In The Wrong Place
3:40 PM
What's Buggin' You (a.k.a. Crackin' Up)
LOCAL
1964
Bo Diddley
Bo Diddley's Beach Party
3:35 PM
Distance Wheel
LOCAL
Happy birthday Mark Panick
Razorhouse
Codex Du
3:32 PM
In The Chamber of Hellos
1984
Wire Train
In a Chamber
3:28 PM
Discrete
Cheekface
Podium
3:21 PM
I Put a Spell on You
1968
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3:18 PM
Tethered
LOCAL
Playing Edgewater Music Fest Sunday at 7:15PM
Neptune's Core
Pivot
3:12 PM
Backless Dress
LOCAL
Alec Harryhausen
Noon Island
3:02 PM
Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding
1973
Elton John
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Fri 08/21 · 5PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
5:56 PM
Your Shadow at Evening
The Durutti Column
Renascent
5:54 PM
I Let Love In
1994
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Let Love In
5:44 PM
You Never Knew Me
1980
Magazine
The Correct Use Of Soap
5:40 PM
Holiday
1980
Nazareth
Malice in Wonderland
5:34 PM
Shake
LOCAL
1999
Archer Prewitt
White Sky
5:32 PM
I've Been Waiting For You
2002
David Bowie
Heathen
5:29 PM
Flash Fantasy
LOCAL
Temp Wishes
Single
5:24 PM
Flip Your Face - James Chance & The Contortions
1978
Various Artists
No New York
5:21 PM
glamour shots
LOCAL
daddy's boy
FOUR HOMBRES
5:19 PM
Born To Kill
1977
The Damned
Damned Damned Damned
5:16 PM
Hold On To
MESH
No Fun At All
5:10 PM
I May Not Be Your Kind
1977 By Suggestion!
Garland Jeffreys
Ghost Writer
5:07 PM
Soledad
Helado Tropical
Helado Tropical
5:01 PM
Home of the Brave
1988
Toto
The Seventh One
Fri 08/21 · 4PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
4:55 PM
Another Morning Stoner
2002
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
Source Tags & Codes
4:50 PM
Best Of Me
Slow Joy
Esteban Flores
4:46 PM
Grooving in New Orleans
LOCAL
1995 By Suggestion!
Melvin Taylor
Melvin Taylor & the Slack Band
4:43 PM
Over Under Sideways Down
The Yardbirds
Over Under Sideways Down
4:41 PM
Psycho Daisies
1990 By Suggestion!
The Funseekers
"Welcome to My Love" b/w "Psycho Daisies"
4:35 PM
Friends in Dark Places
The Black Drumset
Friends in Dark Places
4:30 PM
Dreadlock Holiday
1978
10cc
Bloody Tourists
4:27 PM
Creepin'
LOCAL
Math 125
Single
4:22 PM
Master of Passion
LOCAL
1980
Kate Fagan
I Don't Wanna Be Too Cool
4:19 PM
catch these fists
2025
Wet Leg
moisturizer
4:16 PM
Closer To You
Mouth Ulcers
Silent Pictures
4:10 PM
The Big Purple Donut
2022 By Suggestion!
Stro Elliot & James Brown
Black & Loud: James Brown Reimagined By Stro Elliot
4:05 PM
Hippies
LOCAL
Sick Gazelle
Veld
4:00 PM
Frame by Frame
1981
King Crimson
Discipline
Fri 08/21 · 3PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
3:54 PM
Come William
LOCAL
2009
Azita
How Will You?
3:46 PM
Cocaine Drain
2008 By Suggestion!
The Cowsills
The "Cocaine Drain" Album
3:43 PM
Anti-glory
LOCAL
2022
Horsegirl
Versions of Modern Performance
3:39 PM
Peach Fuzz
Lisa Molinaro
Blind Trust
3:35 PM
My Boyfriend
The Cucumbers
The Cucumbers
3:31 PM
Everywhere I Go
LOCAL
2017
13-MONSTERS
Home
3:28 PM
Lovers of Today
1978
The Only Ones
The Only Ones
3:26 PM
Protest Lawn
Mick Jagger & Axons
Single
3:21 PM
Parker's Back (GB 2)
Virginia Creeper
Girl, You'll Be a Giant Soon
3:18 PM
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
1983
Specimen
"Returning (from a Journey)" / "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang"