Mary Nisi is an old timer around these parts, as she was a founding member of CHIRP, the director of the Record Fair & Other Delights for ten(!) years, and remembers a time when the Smiths were actually a band. From time to time, she requests that you get off her lawn. She is the owner of Toast & Jam DJs, a company that DJS weddings and events that guarantees you will never be forced to do the "Chicken Dance" on her watch. Mary keeps bees, has several cats and enjoys stitching and skiing and yoga, sometimes all at once. She lives in the great northern hinterlands of Evanston with her husband and very cool son. Mary is the host of the Noonday Underground, Mondays 12-3pm CST
Recent Playlists
Mon 11/09 · 2PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
2:58 PM
Alright Now, Right Now
LOCAL
Westhead
It's So Heavy To Have A Body
2:54 PM
Peng! 33
Stereolab
Peng!
2:50 PM
The Basement
Lambrini Girls
Enter No Refunds
2:50 PM
Everybody Wants to Love You"
LOCAL
Hollow Bastion
single
2:41 PM
Warm Leatherette
Grace Jones
Warm Leatherette
2:38 PM
Crab
TVOD
The Farm
2:34 PM
Feels Like Summer (2026 Remaster)
Sing-Sing
The Joy of Sing-Sing
2:29 PM
Missing
Everything But The Girl
Amplified Heart
2:25 PM
Disco Life
Say She She
Cut & Rewind
2:21 PM
Show Me Missouri In Mink
Shabazz Palaces
It's A Style Sport
2:16 PM
You Could (I Never Would)
LOCAL
Medical Miracle
Permanence
2:12 PM
I'll Call You Mine
girl in red
if I could make it go quiet
2:08 PM
Wanda
The Yummy Fur
Everybody Talks About the Weather
2:05 PM
All The Rage
Wishy
Nature's Pill
2:01 PM
Ready or Not
Vacations
Pursuit of Anything
Mon 11/09 · 1PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
1:58 PM
Stick Around For Tea
Worldpeace DMT
Stick Around For Tea
1:52 PM
Chewing Gum
LOCAL
Sen Morimoto
Time Is On Your Side
1:50 PM
The Globe
Big Audio Dynamite
Planet BAD: Greatest Hits
1:45 PM
Lipstick Lover
Janelle Monae
The Age of Pleasure
1:40 PM
Turn to Hate
Orville Peck
Pony
1:36 PM
You're Not the Only One I Know
The Sundays
Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
1:36 PM
oh baby
LCD Soundsystem
american dream
1:21 PM
Changeling
DJ Shadow
Endtroducing...
1:18 PM
Jamie Let's Smash
LOCAL
Marital Streep
Hunting for a Beautiful Accident
1:09 PM
Everything Counts (Long Version)
Depeche Mode
Construction Time Again
1:05 PM
Severed
The Decemberists
I'll Be Your Girl
1:01 PM
Pink Frost
The Chills
Kaleidoscope World
Mon 11/09 · 12PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
12:58 PM
If Only When
LOCAL
Pink Frost
single
12:55 PM
I Loved You Robert Pattinson
Penelope Isles
3
12:48 PM
Presence of Mind
The Fresh & Onlys
Long Slow Dance
12:46 PM
Mushaboom
Feist
Let It Die
12:40 PM
Chickadoom
LOCAL
Savanna Ruth
The Baseball Diaries
12:31 PM
This is How it Should Be Done
Alchemical Sisters
Alchemical Sisters
12:29 PM
Blue Shadows (featuring Karen O)
The Avalanches
No Bad Memories
12:23 PM
When The Glow Came For Us
DIIV
ZIRP!
12:19 PM
Gigantic
Pixies
Surfer Rosa
12:16 PM
How Real Is Real?
Art d'Ecco
Scheele's Green
12:09 PM
Fear not the Fear
BODEGA
All Inside Aquarium
12:05 PM
Tejano Blue
Cigarettes After Sex
X's
12:01 PM
Confirmation
Westerman
Your Hero Is Not Dead
Mon 11/09 · 11AM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
11:59 AM
Wildflowers" (Dolly Parton cover)
Impulsive Hearts
single
Mon 11/02 · 3PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
3:01 PM
So Right Words Strike Me
2011
Pulseprogramming
Charade is Gold
Mon 11/02 · 2PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
2:57 PM
Lately I've Been Thinking
Eleventh Dream Day
Zeroes And Ones
2:52 PM
Seein' Stars
Turnstile
Never Enough
2:48 PM
Bonnie And Clyde (featuring Brigitte Bardot)
Serge Gainsbourg
Comic Strip
2:45 PM
La Familia
Mirah
You Think It's Like This But Really It's Like This
2:42 PM
It's Real
Real Estate
Days
2:40 PM
Red Eyes
The War on Drugs
Lost in the Dream
2:34 PM
Wrong About You
Spaces of Disappearance
VILLIAN
2:33 PM
Emperor XIII In Shades
Cameron Winter
Live at Carnegie Hall
2:26 PM
Bang Bang Bang
Lambrini Girls
No Refunds
2:22 PM
Full Spectrum Dominance
Dummy
do you love the color of the sky?
2:18 PM
All I Need (feat. Lady Wray)
El Michels Affair
Return to the 37th Chamber
2:14 PM
I Am a Man
Billboard Style
Pull of the Moon
2:10 PM
Tints (featuring Kendrick Lamar)
Anderson .Paak
Oxnard
2:03 PM
Kaputt
Destroyer
Kaputt
Mon 11/02 · 1PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
1:59 PM
The National Anthem
Radiohead
Kid A
1:54 PM
Connection
Elastica
Elastica
1:51 PM
Natural's Not In It
Gang of Four
Entertainment!
1:51 PM
Howard Zinn Died For Your Sins
Cindy Lawson
¡LONG LIVE THE RESISTANCE!
1:49 PM
Three Girl Rhumba
Wire
Pink Flag
1:39 PM
Desire Lines
Deerhunter
Halcyon Digest
1:36 PM
Mood Ring
DEHD
Poetry
1:32 PM
Flannelette
RAILCARD
Two Steps at a Time
1:24 PM
California
Michael Kiwanuka
FUDGE
1:21 PM
Lofticries
Purity Ring
Shrines
1:17 PM
i need all the friends i can get
Camera Obscura
Let's Get Out of This Country
1:13 PM
Capstone (featuring Lucy Dacus)
Smidley
Murphy Horse
1:12 PM
Satisfied
V.V. Lightbody
Period Piece
1:05 PM
Flea
St. Vincent
All Born Screaming
1:01 PM
I Want It All
The Drums
Jonny
Mon 11/02 · 12PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
12:56 PM
Serpentine Fire
Earth, Wind & Fire
All 'N All
12:50 PM
Threatening Each Other re: Capitalism
illuminati hotties
Let Me Do One More
12:46 PM
Sweet-Lovin' Man
The Magnetic Fields
69 Love Songs, Vol. 1
12:41 PM
Song for Dana Scully
Max the Band
Postcards from Cuervo
12:38 PM
Blister Sunrise
M83
I Wrote You A Letter
12:31 PM
Revolution
Nina Simone
Anthology
12:29 PM
Get Away from Me (I Think I'll Love You Soon)
Julia Jacklin
The Gem
12:26 PM
Au Pair
Cinerama
This is Cinerama
12:21 PM
Seems So
The Apples in Stereo
Tone Soul Evolution
12:18 PM
Meeting Ourselves
The Olivia Tremor Control
The Same Place
12:10 PM
November Spawned a Monster
Morrissey
Bona Drag
12:07 PM
Minneapolis
that dog.
Retreat From The Sun
12:03 PM
Secrets (Your Fire)
Magdalena Bay
Mercurial World
12:01 PM
Not Cool
Disgusting Sisters
Skin & Blisters
Mon 10/26 · 2PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
2:57 PM
White Dove
John Vanderslice
Emerald City
2:52 PM
Death and the Maiden
The Verlaines
Juvenilia
2:47 PM
Say Hello To The Angels
Interpol
Turn On The Bright Lights
2:45 PM
No Children
The Mountain Goats
Tallahassee
2:39 PM
Halloween
Phoebe Bridgers
Punisher
2:35 PM
Cities in Dust
Siouxsie & The Banshees
Tinderbox
2:30 PM
A Hero's Death
Fontaines D.C.
A Hero's Death
2:30 PM
Evil
Ladytron
Light & Magic
2:18 PM
Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)
Concrete Blonde
Bloodletting
2:14 PM
Ghosting
Mother Mother
O My Heart
2:13 PM
They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!!
Sufjan Stevens
Come On Feel the Illinoise
2:04 PM
Perhaps Vampires Is a Bit Strong But...
Arctic Monkeys
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Mon 10/26 · 1PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
1:59 PM
You Know I'm No Good (Remix) (Feat. Ghostface)
Amy Winehouse
Back To Black
1:54 PM
These are the Ghosts (Undead Version)
A Band of Bees
Free the Bees
1:48 PM
Monster Hospital
Metric
Live It Out
1:46 PM
Monster
Fred Schneider
Fred Schneider and the Shake Society
1:39 PM
Don't Fear The Reaper
The Beautiful South
Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs
1:33 PM
Iron Man
The Bad Plus
Give
1:29 PM
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
The Cardigans
Emmerdale
1:23 PM
Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
The damned
The Black Album
1:18 PM
Hair Dude, You're Stepping On My Mystique
Out Hud
S.T.R.E.E.T.D.A.D.
1:15 PM
Sexy Clown
Marie Davidson
City of Clowns
1:09 PM
She Wolf
Shakira
She Wolf
1:07 PM
Experiment in Terror
Henry Mancini
Experiment in Terror: Music from the Motion Picture
1:02 PM
Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales
Car Seat Headrest
Teens of Denial
1:02 PM
Serene Demon
Art d'Ecco
Serene Demon
Mon 10/26 · 12PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
12:49 PM
Sports Men
Haruomi Hosono
Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1976-1986
12:46 PM
Betrayal (Sorcerer Theme)
Tangerine Dream
Sorcerer
12:41 PM
Angel's Asylum
John Carpenter
Lost Themes II
12:35 PM
Cruel Complex
LOCAL
Medical Miracle
Permanence
12:31 PM
Gun Street Girl
Tom Waits
Rain Dogs
12:28 PM
Warewolves of London
David Lindley & El Rayo-X
Very Greasy
12:18 PM
Perish
Curve
Gift
12:14 PM
Fire and Brimstone
Link Wray
Link Wray
12:07 PM
Even Time
LOCAL
The Coctails
Peel
12:03 PM
Wide World
Improvement Movement
Your Perfect Real Life
Mon 10/26 · 11AM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
11:59 AM
Chariot
Page France
Hello, Dear Wind
11:57 AM
Hanging On The Telephone
Nerves
One Way Ticket
Mon 10/19 · 2PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
2:56 PM
Ten Or 11 Towns Ago
Lee Hazlewood
13
2:51 PM
Flannelette
RAILCARD
Two Steps at a Time
2:48 PM
Drown In My Own Tears
The Smithereens
Green Thoughts
2:44 PM
Horror Head
Curve
Doppelgänger
2:40 PM
Will Do
TV On the Radio
Nine Types of Light
2:34 PM
Holes
Mercury Rev
Deserter's Songs
2:29 PM
Hey Ella
LOCAL
TV Buddha
Hallelujah Anyway
2:27 PM
Entrance
LOCAL
Spread Joy
III
2:22 PM
Return To Dust
Frankie Rose
HILA
2:19 PM
Hard to Kill
Bleached
Don't You Think You've Had Enough?
2:15 PM
How Can You Really
Foxygen
...And Star Power
2:13 PM
Pillow Fight
Tinashe
Popstar
2:08 PM
MECHANICAL BULL
Hannah Cole
Switchbacks
2:02 PM
Dance Me To The End Of Love
Leonard Cohen
More Best Of
Mon 10/19 · 1PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
1:56 PM
The Last Great Washington State
Damien Jurado
The Horizon Just Laughed
1:51 PM
Sell Me This Pen
LOCAL
Altamira
How To Get Off The Ground
1:46 PM
Umi Says
Mos Def
Black On Both Sides
1:42 PM
Heaven's On Fire
The Radio Dept.
Clinging To A Scheme
1:38 PM
Pretty Girls Make Graves
The Smiths
The Smiths
1:34 PM
Wildcat
Ratatat
Classics
1:30 PM
A Single Chair
Imperial Teen
All Over You
1:24 PM
Sweat
Sex Mask
Sex Mask
1:20 PM
The Kid With the Crown
This Is Lorelei
The Singer in My Band
1:16 PM
Ball Lightning
Rocket from the Crypt
Scream, Dracula, Scream!
1:14 PM
G Turns To D
Sloan
One Chord To Another
1:07 PM
Theme
Starcleaner Reunion
Umbrella
1:03 PM
Sea Of Men
Baths
Gut
1:00 PM
Annie Get Your Gun
Squeeze
Singles: 45's and Under
Mon 10/19 · 12PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
12:58 PM
About You
LOCAL
Moontype
Bodies of Water
12:57 PM
Fool's Gold
LOCAL
Time Thieves
If You Survive
12:51 PM
All The Bars
LOCAL
Able Baker
Able Baker
12:51 PM
Terrible Lie
Nine Inch Nails
Pretty Hate Machine
12:43 PM
Heart Has To Work So Hard
Blondshell
Violins
12:39 PM
Lasagna
Babehoven
I See Them, I See Me
12:34 PM
The Sporting Life
The Decemberists
Picaresque
12:31 PM
LDN
Lily Allen
Alright, Still
12:28 PM
Hetero Scum
The Sugarcubes
Stick Around for Joy
12:22 PM
Ronny
Boy Harsher
Get Mean
12:14 PM
Shine (featuring D Smoke & Tiffany Gouché)
Robert Glasper
Black Radio III
12:07 PM
Dakota
Stereophonics
Language. Sex. Violence. Other?
12:04 PM
Pure Michigan
Kiwi Jr.
Blowin' Up
12:02 PM
Flower In A Hurricane
Justice (feat Tame Impala, SZA, King Lizard & The Gizzard Wizard