Joanna Bz

Show schedule

Thursday 6am–9am

My name is pronounced Jo-AN-uh BE-zee.

About Joanna Bz

I started volunteering with CHIRP in the spring of 2019 and started dj'ing that fall. I have been acting like a morning person since 2020 by taking a 6-9am shift. I was in theater, improv, and bands for many years and today get my extracurriculars via this beautiful radio station.

Recent Playlists

Thu 11/12 · 8AM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
8:50 AM	Change of the Guard at city winery, 11/13, 11/14	Kamasi Washington	The Epic
8:47 AM	We're Living in Violent Times	Pardoner	Target Practice
8:45 AM	Hollywood Baby LOCAL	100 gecs	10,000 gecs
8:42 AM	Flowerage LOCAL	Axis:sovA	Flowerage
8:36 AM	Ricochet	Dazy	MAXIMUMBLASTSUPERLOUD Vol. 2: 24 Songs From 2023-2026
8:34 AM	Nice	LiLiPUT	Kleenex/LiLiPUT
8:32 AM	Hamster Baby hbd kathleen hanna! b. 11/12/1968	Bikini Kill	Pussy Whipped
8:29 AM	Motorbreath by request for Josh, djosh, thanks!	Metallica	Kill 'Em All
8:23 AM	The Model	Kraftwerk	The Man Machine
8:18 AM	Night Boat	Duran Duran	Duran Duran
8:14 AM	Heliocentric Immortality Manifesto H.I.M.	Shabazz Palaces	It's A Style Sport
8:07 AM	Down to the Very Root	Damma Damma	Low Buildlings
8:04 AM	Head to Head	The Seshen	CYAN
8:00 AM	Disco Queen hbd errol brown, b. 11/12/1943	Hot Chocolate	Disco Hits Vol. 5

Thu 11/12 · 7AM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
7:54 AM	Enough at lincolnhall, 12/16	Emma Ruth Rundle	These Killing Times
7:44 AM	No More Tears (Enough is Enough)	Donna Summer	On the Radio: Greatest Hits Vols I & II
7:35 AM	Let's Pick Up at the Chorus	The Silent Boys	Lightning Bugs Are Smiling
7:32 AM	Lydia Wears A Cross at riviera, 11/14	Julia Jacklin	PRE PLEASURE
7:30 AM	Social Kapital LOCAL	Glad Rags	Wonder Under
7:23 AM	Counting Sheep LOCAL	Emily Jane Powers	Earnest Jamming Partners
7:20 AM	Kakashi	Yasuaki Shimizu	Kakashi
7:15 AM	Be Kind	Chastity Belt	All My Friends
7:10 AM	War (featuring Raelle)	Moses Boyd	Songs For Sinners
7:01 AM	Melting Pot hbd, b. 11/12/1944	Booker T. & the M.G.'s	Melting Pot

Thu 11/12 · 6AM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
6:56 AM	Spread Love	Carey Harris and Michael Orr	Spread Love
6:51 AM	Django	The Flowerpot Men	1984
6:49 AM	Last Night, A DJ Saved My Life LOCAL	90 Day Men	To Everybody
6:45 AM	(Straight Down To The) Bitter End	Yo La Tengo	Electr-O-Pura
6:41 AM	Future Love	Ride	This Is Not a Safe Place
6:38 AM	Happy Lights at thalia hall, 11/15	Hamilton Leithauser	This Side of the Island
6:34 AM	I Can Be a Jerk	Eddy Current Suppression Ring	Rush to Relax
6:33 AM	My Moon	Habibi	Dreamachine
6:25 AM	Fools LOCAL at schubas, 12/13 ep release	Molly Carberry	The Year I Went Blind
6:20 AM	Our Love Is Alive (featuring Suzanne Ciani & Barry Can't Swim)	The Avalanches	No Bad Memories
6:17 AM	Am I Wrong	Mikal Cronin	MCII
6:13 AM	Better at empty bottle, 11/12	Improvement Movement	Slump
6:07 AM	Indigo Bunting	Natalie Bergman	I Killed a North American Songbird
6:03 AM	See the Sky About to Rain hbd neil, b. 11/12/1945	Neil Young	On the Beach
6:00 AM	Cold Hard Times	Lee Hazlewood	Cowboy in Sweden

Thu 11/05 · 8AM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
8:50 AM	Sorry Laid The Hearth	Deafheaven	At Work In The Fields Of The Bomb
8:45 AM	Happy Faces	Lorraine Silver	Here Come the Girls (British Girl Singers of the Sixties)
8:42 AM	Celebration Guns	Stars	Set Yourself On Fire
8:39 AM	Stick Around For Tea	Worldpeace DMT	Stick Around For Tea
8:35 AM	Solitude	Naytronix	Other Possibilities
8:34 AM	Indigo tune yards at outset, 11/5	Naytronix	Other Possibilities
8:30 AM	Show Me Missouri In Mink	Shabazz Palaces	It's A Style Sport
8:24 AM	Stars are Fake at sleeping village, 11/11; by request for matthew in berwyn	Marci	Mask Lady and Late Night Girl
8:18 AM	Magic Spells by request for jake in north center	Crystal Castles	Crystal Castles
8:15 AM	Dull Knife	V.V. Lightbody	Period Piece
8:08 AM	Submission	Inkblot Page	Guide These Eyes
8:05 AM	Hand of Fate by request for chicago texter	The Darling Range	Dearly
8:02 AM	LCR at hideout 11/6	Melkbelly	PITH

Thu 11/05 · 7AM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
7:56 AM	Look To You	Paige Kizer	Unconditional
7:51 AM	The Fountain at thalia hall, 4/9	DIIV	ZIRP!
7:47 AM	Glass Blocks	Optic Sink	Glass Blocks
7:43 AM	Another One Bites the Dust by request for Josh	Queen	The Game
7:40 AM	Omen Globe	Dummy	do you love the color of the sky?
7:34 AM	Sarniezz at salt shed, 11/29	Angine de Poitrine	Vol.II
7:29 AM	Fancy at salt shed, 11/7	Orville Peck	Show Pony EP
7:22 AM	Throwing A Punch In A Dream a kelly preston two-fer	Bleach Party	Acrylic Blends
7:19 AM	Dance Beat	Rabble Rabble	Bangover
7:17 AM	Au Contraire	Pardoner	Target Practice
7:10 AM	New Love	Andromeda	Habibi Funk 035: Beirut City Pop
7:06 AM	Got to Move, Got to Get Out!	Ibibio Sound Machine	Ibibio Sound Machine
7:01 AM	The Line rip juan atkins d. 10/31/2026	Cybotron	Clear

Thu 11/05 · 6AM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
6:56 AM	Horses	Winefred RT	Anything Better To Do
6:51 AM	Self-Love	1-800-Mikey	In Yun
6:48 AM	I Am Decided	The Amps	Pacer
6:44 AM	Sound to No One at metro, 11/7	Die Spitz	Something to Consume
6:43 AM	Billboard Style	Billboard Style	Pull of the Moon
6:37 AM	He Doesn't Know Why	Fleet Foxes	Fleet Foxes
6:34 AM	Automatic Love	Nourished by Time	The Passionate Ones
6:29 AM	Tears Into Platinum	Sacha Mullin	Social Touch
6:25 AM	Halfway Up the Stairs	Rodriguez	Coming from Reality
6:21 AM	Worse For Wear	Vetiver	The Errant Charm
6:17 AM	How Real Is Real?	Art d'Ecco	Scheele's Green
6:10 AM	Harmony (featuring Loren Oden)	The Midnight Hour	The Midnight Hour: Lost Tapes JID028
6:07 AM	Pana-vision hbd jonny greenwood, b. 11/5/1971	The Smile	A Light for Attracting Attention
6:00 AM	Talisman	All Them Witches	Dying Surfer Meets His Maker

Thu 10/29 · 8AM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
8:55 AM	Sleepless Nights	King Diamond	Dreams of Horror
8:51 AM	enough	Dawn Richard	Creole Culture
8:49 AM	Crust	Flying Lotus	Yasuke
8:45 AM	All Talk	Brian Jackson	This is Brian Jackson
8:41 AM	Thinking (featuring Oddisee)	Your Old Droog	Bread & Butter
8:36 AM	Bop Til You Drop LOCAL	Mucca Pazza	BOP DROP
8:33 AM	Capricorn hbd chris baio, b. 10/29/1984	Vampire Weekend	Only God Was Above Us
8:29 AM	RRRomeo	girl ultra	RRRomeo
8:22 AM	Kooler Than Jesus (Electric Messiah Mix) request for mike in oak park	My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult	Confession of A Knife
8:18 AM	Out Of Place for branko on rogers park	A Place To Bury Strangers	Rare and Deadly
8:14 AM	Psychosis LOCAL at lincoln hall, 10/30	Yada Yada	All of These Evils
8:09 AM	All The Time In The World (featuring Rivers Cuomo, Vegyn & Baby Marlboro)	The Avalanches	No Bad Memories
8:04 AM	Phoenix	Daft Punk	Homework
8:01 AM	King James	Anderson .Paak	Ventura

Thu 10/29 · 7AM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
7:54 AM	This is How it Should Be Done	Alchemical Sisters	Alchemical Sisters
7:48 AM	CHATEAU	url	COLLECT CALLS 2 HEAVEN
7:43 AM	Walking On Thin Ice (Pet Shop Boys Electro Mix)	Yoko Ono	Open Your Box
7:39 AM	Madres	Sofia Kourtesis	Madres
7:34 AM	Howard Zinn Died For Your Sins	Cindy Lawson	¡LONG LIVE THE RESISTANCE!
7:32 AM	My Baby Crying by request for kate :)	Bill Fox	Transit Byzantium
7:26 AM	tiger	TEILZ	come to mommy
7:20 AM	EML Ritual	The Chemical Brothers	Born in the Echoes
7:16 AM	Crashing Through LOCAL by request	Friko	Where we've been, Where we go from here
7:09 AM	Lifted Truck LOCAL	Hard Femme	Lo-Fem
7:06 AM	Post Animal LOCAL at empty bottle, 10/31	Post Animal	Forward Motion Godyssey
7:00 AM	Nothing Natural	Lush	Spooky

Thu 10/29 · 6AM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
6:53 AM	Classical Music	World News	In Purgatory
6:47 AM	People Have the Power	Patti Smith	Dream of Life
6:43 AM	Act Natural LOCAL at schubas, 11/1	Ganser	You Must Be New Here
6:40 AM	Vision 4 U	Miesha and the Spanks	Visions
6:34 AM	The Concrete	Stef Chura	Dancing Alone on the Concrete
6:31 AM	Two Years Two Days	Sebadoh	Bubble & Scrape
6:27 AM	Cloud or Mountain	Wild Pink	Dulling the Horns
6:21 AM	Wild	You Citizen	In This State
6:17 AM	Gum	A Certain Ratio	Early
6:15 AM	At Your Leisure LOCAL at empty bottle, 10/30	Clickbait	At Your Leisure
6:09 AM	Mimesis	Fontaines D.C.	Dopamine Chamber
6:05 AM	Vulture Piano	Xiu Xiu	The Air Force
6:00 AM	Transmission LOCAL	Gramps the Vamp	KEEPER OF THE VOID

Thu 10/22 · 8AM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
8:56 AM	Islands of Men 2 shows at salt shed, 10/31 & 11/1	Geese	Getting Killed
8:50 AM	Maschine Mockup	Starcleaner Reunion	Umbrella
8:48 AM	Too Much Money	Automatic	Signal
8:45 AM	D.E.F. = Doug E. Fresh	Doug E. Fresh & The Get Fresh Crew	The World's Greatest Entertainer
8:42 AM	Earth from Above LOCAL	Resavoir	Above the Clouds
8:38 AM	Sounds of Liberation	Blair Gun	Nonstop Bullets
8:35 AM	Fallacies LOCAL	Body Shop	Sex Body
8:32 AM	Dark Entries for Al!	Bauhaus	In The Flat Field
8:28 AM	Twist The Wire LOCAL by request for matthew (in berwyn)	District Five	GLUT
8:22 AM	Lasagna at beat kitchen, 11/14	Babehoven	I See Them, I See Me
8:19 AM	Moonshine Freeze	This Is the Kit	Moonshine Freeze
8:16 AM	Oh, Me cris kirkwood, b. 10/22/1960	Meat Puppets	II
8:09 AM	PORCELAIN DOLL	TOUR TOMB	VEINS
8:07 AM	Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 II: Kyrie	Academy of St. Martin in the Fields	Mozart: Requiem
8:02 AM	Murders in the Rue Morgue	Iron Maiden	Killers

Thu 10/22 · 7AM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
7:57 AM	Labyrinthe	viragezero	viragezero
7:53 AM	Trapped	Myra Lee	Capture The Flag
7:46 AM	You Are the Stars at empty bottle, 10/28	Yellow Ostrich	Cosmos
7:43 AM	Rock City LOCAL by request for josh!	Horsegirl	Phonetics On and On
7:40 AM	f it then	Yaya Bey	The Things I Can't Take With Me
7:36 AM	Boundaries LOCAL	Jamila Woods	single
7:32 AM	Be A Man	Arab Strap	Half-Told Tales
7:24 AM	Extra Cosmic LOCAL	Panda Riot	Extra Cosmic
7:20 AM	Cro-Magnon Man	Squid	Cowards
7:16 AM	I'm Not In Pain	@	Autosmile
7:09 AM	Sensational at lincoln hall, 10/27	Wishy	Nature's Pill
7:04 AM	Slow Down	Gilligan Moss	Gilligan Moss
7:00 AM	Moving in Stereo hbd greg hawkes, b. 10/22/1952	The Cars	The Cars

Thu 10/22 · 6AM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
6:57 AM	Wide World at empty bottle, 11/12	Improvement Movement	Your Perfect Real Life
6:50 AM	Break Me Down	The Reflectors	First Impression
6:46 AM	When I Get This Way (Over You) LOCAL	Material Issue	Destination Universe
6:42 AM	Ready or Not	Vacations	Pursuit of Anything
6:38 AM	Teeth White	The Staves	If I Was
6:35 AM	Nothing's On The Radio	Mikaela Davis	Graceland Way
6:30 AM	Two Swans LOCAL	V.V. Lightbody	Period Piece
6:26 AM	Hold (demo)	Sen Morimoto	Names To Love You By (vol. 1)
6:19 AM	Tanya	Cal Tjader	Soul Sauce
6:16 AM	Tu Sae' (feat. Talib Kweli & Plug 1) talib kweli at ramova theater, 10/24	Ana Tijoux	Vida
6:08 AM	Another Kind of Love	Penelope Isles	3
6:04 AM	FKA Bluets at sleeping village, 10/27	Tōth	DEATH
6:02 AM	No Evil at metro, 10/22 w/ whitney	Greg Mendez	Beauty Land

Thu 10/15 · 8AM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
8:52 AM	Monkey Banana b. 10/15/1938; 88 yrs old	Fela Kuti	The Best of the Black President 2
8:46 AM	Affection LOCAL	Medical Miracle	Permanence
8:42 AM	The Passenger	Stars	The Five Ghosts
8:39 AM	Interfaces LOCAL	Jeremiah Chiu	Edge Conditions
8:33 AM	Everybody (We the People) by request for Greg!	Groove Collective	We the People
8:29 AM	In The Red (featuring Kelly Jones)	BLEU	Sargeant Pepper Grinder
8:22 AM	Missing History	Black Marble	Life in Small Spaces
8:19 AM	I Go Crazy	Flesh for Lulu	12" Singles 1986-1988
8:16 AM	Post Modern Dance	Blair Gun	Nonstop Bullets
8:11 AM	Race Car Driver	James The Seventh	Science
8:06 AM	Beautiful Feeling by request for matthew in berwyn	PJ Harvey	Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
8:02 AM	Singing Cowboy	Love	Four Sail

Thu 10/15 · 7AM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
7:57 AM	Ride Lonesome	Beck	Ride Lonesome
7:52 AM	Tenderness	Parquet Courts	Wide Awake!
7:50 AM	Five Finger Master LOCAL	OK Cool	Drivers
7:47 AM	Sweetheart Contract	Magazine	The Correct Use Of Soap
7:43 AM	Indu	Greg Freeman	All Set The Bone
7:36 AM	Droplets LOCAL	Snowcuffs	Sink Down
7:33 AM	Shadows at the burlington, 10/16	Sungaze	I'm No Longer Afraid of Heights
7:30 AM	Timewaster	The Olivia Tremor Control	The Same Place
7:23 AM	Little Bird by request for Hazel and Aunt Margaret	Annie Lennox	Diva
7:18 AM	Forever Found	Kan Wakan	Moving On
7:15 AM	Sun and Moon	Danielle Ponder	Everything Has Changed
7:09 AM	Get You Home	Imperial Teen	All Over You
7:05 AM	Starry-Eyed at schubas, 10/18 & 10/19	We Are Scientists	Qualifying Miles
7:01 AM	Soul Control happy birthday! b. 10/15/1984	Jessie Ware	What's Your Pleasure?

Thu 10/15 · 6AM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
6:58 AM	Please Don't Say Goodbye	Leon Bridges	Happiness Anytime
6:51 AM	The Future by request for Branko - thanks!	Leonard Cohen	The Future
6:47 AM	You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby	Kirsty MacColl	Kite
6:45 AM	Heavenly Bodies	Lush	Lovelife
6:42 AM	Shift at lincoln hall, 10/27	Wishy	Nature's Pill
6:35 AM	Love in Every Direction	Smidley	Murphy Horse
6:30 AM	Total Total Damange	ADULT.	Perception is/as/of Deception
6:28 AM	All Along at aragon 10/17 w/ suki waterhouse	Rochelle Jordan	Play With the Changes
6:22 AM	Penny Drop at lincoln hall, 11/20	Freak Slug	Amulet
6:19 AM	Midas Tongue	Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop	Love Letter for Fire
6:14 AM	Secret Someones at SPACE tonight	Laura Veirs	Year of Meteors
6:08 AM	Steeper Stairs LOCAL	Able Baker	Able Baker
6:06 AM	Better Things LOCAL	The Moses Gun	The Moses Gun
6:01 AM	Flat Lay the Water LOCAL	The Sea and Cake	The Sea and Cake

Thu 10/08 · 8AM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
8:50 AM	Simurgh (featuring Marty Friedman) at rivers casino, 10/30	Rodrigo y Gabriela	OurHome