DJ & Marketing Director. Catch my show Mondays 6–8PM — indie, punk, jazz, blues, psych, soul, and local Chicago music.
About DJ Swallow
I was a college radio DJ and station manager in the early 90s at WKDI in DeKalb, and after years away from the airwaves, I rediscovered my love for radio when I found CHIRP as a listener in 2010. I've been a volunteer since 2015 — serving as Marketing Director and DJ, helping spread the word about Chicago's independent, community-powered station.
A Northside Chicagoan since 1995, I'm also a visual artist creating cityscape paintings and photographs of architecture, and love riding my bike along the lakefront.
Recent Playlists
Mon 11/09 · 7PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
7:56 PM
Strawberry Letter 23
Shuggie Otis
Inspiration Information
7:49 PM
Cattle and Cane
1983
The Go-Betweens
Before Hollywood
7:47 PM
Wildflowers (Dolly Parton cover)
LOCAL
Impulsive Hearts
single
7:43 PM
Untitled
R.E.M.
Green
7:40 PM
I Saw You
LOCAL
Sen Morimoto
Time Is On Your Side
7:34 PM
Vienna
Ultravox
Vienna
7:31 PM
All The Time In The World (featuring Rivers Cuomo, Vegyn & Baby Marlboro)
The Avalanches
No Bad Memories
7:28 PM
Overdrive
Imperial Teen
All Over You
7:23 PM
Stratosphere
LOCAL
Resavoir
Above the Clouds
7:19 PM
On Melancholy Hill
Gorillaz
Plastic Beach
7:15 PM
Show Me Missouri In Mink
Shabazz Palaces
It's A Style Sport
7:08 PM
Fenian
Kneecap
Fenian
7:04 PM
Max Ernst's Dream
Request!
Mission of Burma
ONoffON
7:02 PM
Dreaming
Blondie
Eat To The Beat
Mon 11/09 · 6PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
6:58 PM
New York Kiss
Spoon
They Want My Soul
6:55 PM
Te Caigo
girl ultra
RRRomeo
6:48 PM
Best Problem
LOCAL
V.V. Lightbody
Period Piece
6:46 PM
Ruler Of My Heart
Irma Thomas
Saturday Night Fish Fry: New Orleans Funk And Soul
6:43 PM
Crucify Your Mind
Rodriguez
Cold Fact
6:40 PM
So Danco Samba
1964
Stan Getz & João Gilberto
Getz/Gilberto
6:34 PM
Indu
Request!
Greg Freeman
All Set The Bone
6:28 PM
California
Michael Kiwanuka
FUDGE
6:22 PM
Publish My Love
2005
Rogue Wave
Descended Like Vultures
6:19 PM
Lovesick
Wishy
Nature's Pill
6:15 PM
The Fountain
DIIV
ZIRP!
6:10 PM
Everybody's Gonna Be Happy
The Kinks
Kinda Kinks
6:07 PM
Don't Wanna Know You
LOCAL
Ne-Hi
Offers
6:03 PM
You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory
Johnny Thunders
So Alone
6:01 PM
Venus
RIP (died Nov 7, 2026 - 75 years old)
Television
Marquee Moon
Mon 11/02 · 7PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
7:55 PM
Slon
2004
Chicago Underground Trio
Slon
7:49 PM
Know Your Rights
VOTE!!!!!
The Clash
Combat Rock
7:46 PM
Stand Up
Force
Habibi Funk 035: Beirut City Pop
7:43 PM
People Don't Get What They Deserve
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
Give the People What They Want
7:40 PM
Stand!
Sly & The Family Stone
Stand!
7:36 PM
Dull Knife
V.V. Lightbody
Period Piece
7:34 PM
Everything Is Coming up Roses
World News
In Purgatory
7:27 PM
Message From the Venus Flower
Death Valley Girls
Welcome to Earth
7:21 PM
Advice From the Oceans
The Olivia Tremor Control
The Same Place
7:18 PM
Had It
Dumb Crush
Can't Say It Wasn't Fun
7:14 PM
Full Spectrum Dominance
Dummy
do you love the color of the sky?
7:08 PM
Georgia
Lainey Jean
single
7:01 PM
Sunken Treasure
30 year album anniversary - released: October 29, 1996
Wilco
Being There
Mon 11/02 · 6PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
6:56 PM
The Young Are at the Gates
Request!
Original Broadway Cast of Suffs
Suffs (Original Broadway Cast Recording
6:52 PM
Literary World
BODEGA
All Inside Aquarium
6:48 PM
She's Dyed Her Hair Vermilion
Jason Moody
Dear Deaf Angels
6:45 PM
Over And Over
Teenage Fanclub
Do Not Dare To Dream
6:40 PM
I'm On Standby
Eels
Cookie Happened
6:33 PM
Wild West End
Request!
Dire Straits
Dire Straits
6:29 PM
Emperor XIII In Shades
Cameron Winter
Live at Carnegie Hall
6:22 PM
Break Me
Boy Harsher
Get Mean
6:19 PM
Weirdo
New Order
Brotherhood
6:15 PM
Mimesis
Fontaines D.C.
Dopamine Chamber
6:09 PM
Car
Built to Spill
There's Nothing Wrong With Love
6:05 PM
Berlin, Teach Me to Love
Beams
Teach Me to Love
6:02 PM
No Matter Where We Go
Whitney
Light Upon the Lake
6:00 PM
The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)
1967
Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead
Mon 10/19 · 7PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
7:56 PM
Somos Como Tú
Rodrigo y Gabriela
OurHome
7:51 PM
NoA Noa
Cal Tjader
Amazonas
7:47 PM
Curandera
Karen y los Remedios
Bestiaria
7:44 PM
In The Morning
Improvement Movement
Your Perfect Real Life
7:39 PM
Funeral Singers
LOCAL
Califone
All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
7:36 PM
Bouncing Bombs
Blair Gun
Nonstop Bullets
7:32 PM
Love Is the Drug
Roxy Music
Siren
7:28 PM
Nothing I Need
LOCAL
sponj
single
7:23 PM
Day in the Sun
Teenage Fanclub
Do Not Dare to Dream
7:18 PM
Never Odd or Even
Starcleaner Reunion
Umbrella
7:15 PM
Murphy Horse
Smidley
Murphy Horse
7:09 PM
No One Is (As I Are Be)
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks
Mirror Traffic
7:04 PM
All My Happiness Is Gone
Purple Mountains
Purple Mountains
7:01 PM
Crazy Feeling
1975
Lou Reed
Coney Island Baby
Mon 10/19 · 6PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
6:58 PM
Get Away from Me (I Think I'll Love You Soon)
Julia Jacklin
The Gem
6:52 PM
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Gil Scott-Heron
Pieces Of A Man
6:48 PM
Ronny
Boy Harsher
Get Mean
6:44 PM
All in My Mind
1986
Love & Rockets
Express
6:39 PM
Stars
LOCAL
Hum
You'd Prefer an Astronaut
6:33 PM
Black Star
Radiohead
The Bends
6:29 PM
All The Bars
LOCAL
Able Baker
Able Baker
6:23 PM
Twist And Crawl
The English Beat
I Just Can't Stop It
6:20 PM
The Last Stand
Ezra Collective
Here Because of Hope
6:15 PM
Tato
Crying Laughing
Talking
6:10 PM
I Wanna Destroy You*
The Soft Boys
Underwater Moonlight
6:07 PM
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
The Breeders
Pod
6:00 PM
Teen Age Riot
Released on October 18, 1988
Sonic Youth
Daydream Nation
Mon 10/12 · 7PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
7:57 PM
Tato
Crying Laughing
Talking
7:52 PM
For Your Love
Beck
Ride Lonesome
7:48 PM
Breakers
Local Natives
Hummingbird
7:43 PM
Wide World
Improvement Movement
Your Perfect Real Life
7:40 PM
Talk to Me (featuring Nicole Miglis)
Bonobo
Distance In Static
7:35 PM
Fall
Hollow Star
Dream
7:33 PM
She Sells Sanctuary
1985
The Cult
Love
7:28 PM
New Orleans Ghost Tour Night
LOCAL
Playing Phyllis' Musical Inn: Oct 30
The Goldstars
The Halloween Album
7:21 PM
Marianne
Album out: 10/16
Fontaines D.C.
Dopamine Chamber
7:18 PM
Never Say Never
1997
that dog.
Retreat From The Sun
7:14 PM
MMA
Hannah Cole
Switchbacks
7:10 PM
No Dancing
Elvis Costello
My Aim Is True
7:07 PM
Live Without Her Love
LOCAL
Sharp Pins
Mod Mayday 23
7:05 PM
Windy
Request!
The Association
Just The Right Sound: The Association Anthology
Mon 10/12 · 6PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
6:59 PM
Don't Lie To Me*
Big Star
#1 Record/Radio City
6:56 PM
Blister Sunrise
M83
I Wrote You A Letter
6:50 PM
Robot Slave
Saul Williams
Leap Life
6:48 PM
Touch the Sky
LOCAL
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
Bulletproof Brass
6:41 PM
Everything
LOCAL
Jeremy Cunningham playing Constellation on Wed Oct 14
Jeremy Cunningham / Dustin Laurenzi / Paul Bryan
A Better Ghost
6:34 PM
Muzzy
Allah-Las
Sirenas
6:31 PM
Kissing The Lipless
The Shins
Chutes Too Narrow
6:27 PM
Bad Poetry in Bed
The Reds, Pinks and Purples
True Love Daydream EP
6:22 PM
Sometimes, Maybe
LOCAL
Vinto Van Go
Charms and Trips
6:17 PM
Human Behaviour
Björk
Debut
6:14 PM
Return To Sender
Ibibio Sound Machine
Chopping Mountain
6:08 PM
Elephant
Tame Impala
Lonerism
6:05 PM
The Hardest Walk
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Psychocandy
6:01 PM
Sometimes*
My Bloody Valentine
Loveless
Mon 10/05 · 7PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
7:57 PM
One Whole Song
LOCAL
Afrofuturistics
The Enigmatic
7:52 PM
Girl
The Beatles
Rubber Soul
7:48 PM
14th Street
Playing Old Town School of Folk Music Saturday Oct 10
Rufus Wainwright
Want One
7:45 PM
Greenwich Mean Time
Charlotte Gainsbourg
IRM
7:41 PM
Black Flag
Ezra Collective
Here Because of Hope
7:34 PM
You Are Every Girl to Me
MJ Lenderman
Boat Songs
7:31 PM
Oh No Now My
This Is Lorelei
The Singer in My Band
7:27 PM
These Days
LOCAL
Slow Pulp
Melodie
7:25 PM
Brand New
Julia Jacklin
The Gem
7:22 PM
Tears of Joy
Leon Bridges
Happiness Anytime
7:15 PM
I'm Sorry That I Got Fat
LOCAL
Request!
Wesley Willis
Greatest Hits Vol. 1
7:10 PM
Tonight's The Night
LOCAL
Sharp Pins
Mod Mayday 23
7:05 PM
Starry Eyes
The Records
D.I.Y.: Starry Eyes - UK Pop, Vol. 2
7:01 PM
When I See You
LOCAL
Chip Chop
Last Call for Bad Luck
Mon 10/05 · 6PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
6:56 PM
Since Grazed
LOCAL
Eleventh Dream Day
Since Grazed
6:49 PM
The Bottom Line
1984
Big Audio Dynamite
This Is Big Audio Dynamite
6:45 PM
Hourglass of The Eye
Blind Yeo
The Lemoine Point
6:39 PM
Motivations II
The Bad Plus
The Bad Plus
6:33 PM
Who's Gonna Love You Now
The Tubs
Hard Life
6:30 PM
Wrapped Up In Books
2003
Belle & Sebastian
Dear Catastrophe Waitress
6:26 PM
The Foggy Edge of Time
Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts
Second Song
6:21 PM
Get Over You
The Undertones
The Undertones
6:17 PM
Glad Girls
Guided by Voices
Isolation Drills
6:15 PM
K Style
1-800-Mikey
In Yun
6:09 PM
Ziggy is an Alien
LOCAL
Vinto Van Go
Charms and Trips
6:07 PM
Fame
David Bowie
Young Americans
6:00 PM
Never Stop (Discotheque)
Echo & the Bunnymen
Porcupine
Mon 09/28 · 7PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
7:58 PM
Nightingale Version (Sailor's Moon)
Asher White
Love Aggregates
7:53 PM
Kryptonite Smokes The Red Line
LOCAL
Isotope 217
The Unstable Molecule
7:49 PM
When You Want To Dance
Ibibio Sound Machine
Chopping Mountain
7:45 PM
Firefighter
LOCAL
Dream Version
Beginners
7:42 PM
Tato
Crying Laughing
Talking
7:36 PM
Concrete Glen
Sylvan Esso
Ow ∞
7:32 PM
No Words
The Smile
Cutouts
7:27 PM
Bought & Sold
LOCAL
Playing an in-store show at Tone Deaf Records next Saturday w/Emily Jane Powers
Groovy Magic
Dreaming In Sound
7:22 PM
Sweat
Sex Mask
Sex Mask
7:18 PM
True Colors
Mike D
Thank You
7:15 PM
Freedom
Kelly Finnigan
B-Sides, Singles & Forgotten Gems
7:08 PM
The Things You Said
Released: September 28, 1987
Depeche Mode
Music for the Masses
7:05 PM
About Time
Cate Le Bon
Michelangelo Dying
7:01 PM
Y Control
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Fever To Tell
Mon 09/28 · 6PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
6:58 PM
Time Of The Season
1968
The Zombies
Odessey & Oracle (The Mono Album)
6:51 PM
They Ain't You (featuring Thundercat)
Erykah Badu & The Alchemist
Before The World Blows
6:47 PM
If I Had My Way
LOCAL
Boscoe
Boscoe
6:40 PM
E's Flat Ah's Flat Too
1959
Charles Mingus
Blues & Roots
6:33 PM
This Mirror Weighs a Ton
Interpol
This Mirror Weighs A Ton
6:31 PM
Round of Applause at the End of the World
Wild Pink
Still Coming Down
6:24 PM
Take It
Lucky
Single
6:20 PM
Farewell Dracula
LOCAL
Kate Renegade
Could Do!
6:16 PM
Ticking
Kristin Hersh
Sugar On Blackstone
6:07 PM
Blame It On The Tetons
Modest Mouse
Good News For People Who Love Bad News
6:04 PM
Letter To Memphis
Released: September 23, 1991
Pixies
Trompe Le Monde
6:01 PM
Turn It On
1993
The Flaming Lips
Transmissions From The Satellite Heart
Mon 09/21 · 7PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
7:57 PM
Live Without Her Love
LOCAL
Sharp Pins
Mod Mayday 23
7:53 PM
Where'd You Go
LOCAL
Playing Friday at Bohemian National Cemetery with Cate Le Bon