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About The Audible Snail
The Audible Snail has been a DJ for CHIRP since 2012. She has performed at CHIRP's First Time Live Lit Reading Series, appeared on American Public Media radio interviews (Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal), and is a published poet and writer. She DJs live at events around Chicago, including Both Sides Now: CHIRP's Vinyl Listening Bar, The Pig Swig Record Dig at Schuba's, CHIRP DJ Night at The Native, Modern Girl & Friends at The Native, The Chicago International Film Festival Block Party, Renegade Craft Fair, and Chicago Printers Guild Publishers Fair. You can find her creative work, including CHIRP music reviews and fun stories about the Empty Bottle, at www.radicalsnail.com. Catch her on-air early mornings, weekday evenings, and on Sundays. She loves listener engagement, so send her a song request!
Recent Playlists
Sun 11/01 · 3PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
3:55 PM
The Blues Is Alive and Well
Buddy Guy
The Blues Is Alive and Well
3:52 PM
Vote, Baby Vote
Deee-Lite
The Elektra Years
3:48 PM
Autumn Town Leaves
Iron & Wine
Weed Garden EP
3:44 PM
Dreaming of Dancing in a Different Town
Clementine Was Right
Can't Get Right with the Darkness
3:37 PM
People Have the Power
Patti Smith
Dream of Life
3:30 PM
Stars and Stripes of Corruption
Dead Kennedys
Frankenchrist
3:24 PM
Hell
Waxahatchee
Saint Cloud
3:21 PM
Paradise
John Prine
John Prine
3:18 PM
Applejack
Dolly Parton
New Harvest...First Gathering
3:12 PM
Vote!
Midterm Election in Illinois is Tuesday, November 3, 2026 from 6am-7pm.
The Linda Lindas
Vote
3:08 PM
Take Back the Power
Mid-Terms in Chicago are on Tuesday! Early voting cites in the city are open!
The Interrupters
The Interrupters
3:03 PM
Baby I'll Change
Fiddlehead
Baby I'll Change
Sun 11/01 · 2PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
2:58 PM
Crystalline
Björk
Biophilia
2:47 PM
Spilt Milk
Kate Nash
Cailin
2:43 PM
Seven Words
Weyes Blood
Front Row Seat to Earth
2:41 PM
Muenster Jam
Chef Ghoulie
single
2:40 PM
Bang Bang Bang
Album out 1/15
Lambrini Girls
No Refunds
2:32 PM
Transformation
Explosions In the Sky
The Mosquito Bowl
2:21 PM
Backbone
Carsie Blanton
Idiot Hart
2:08 PM
Colors
The Tallest Man on Earth
Just Beyond Endless Mountain
2:06 PM
You are my House
Skullcrusher
Quiet the Room
2:04 PM
One Great City!
The Weakerthans
Reconstruction Site
Fri 10/30 · 7PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
7:56 PM
The Jezebel Spirit
Brian Eno & David Byrne
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
7:49 PM
Ghosts
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists
Tell Balgeary, Balgury is Dead
7:47 PM
I Want Candy
Bow Wow Wow
Wild in the U.S.A.
7:38 PM
Country Death Song
Violent Femmes
Hallowed Ground
7:36 PM
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
The Cramps
Songs the Lord Taught Us
7:31 PM
Pretend We're Dead
L7
Bricks Are Heavy
7:26 PM
Pet Sematary
Ramones
Brain Drain
7:23 PM
The Horrible Party
The Magnetic Fields
Love at the Bottom of the Sea
7:22 PM
The Purple People Eater
"I wanna get a job in a rock 'n' roll band!"
Sheb Wooley
The Purple People Eater
7:20 PM
The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
Song appears on the My Best Friend Is a Vampire soundtrack!
Timbuk 3
Greetings From Timbuk 3
7:09 PM
Michigan, 1975
The Gaslight Anthem
History Books
7:09 PM
Halloween
Phoebe Bridgers
Punisher
7:09 PM
I Put a Spell on You
Nina Simone
The Definitive Collection
Fri 10/30 · 6PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
6:54 PM
Fire Starter
L.A. Witch
Play With Fire
6:49 PM
Dead Souls
Nine Inch Nails
The Crow (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
6:46 PM
Billy's Dead
Hocus Pocus!
Deadbolt
Voodoo Trucker
6:40 PM
Scully, It's Me
The Tallest Man on Earth
Just Beyond Endless Mountain
6:38 PM
The Cult Song
Shannon And The Clams
Sleep Talk
6:35 PM
The Fuzz
Jeff Rosenstock
WORRY.
6:26 PM
Dead Hearts
Stars
The Five Ghosts
6:24 PM
Death Dream
Frightened Rabbit
Painting Of A Panic Attack
6:23 PM
Death
White Lies
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
6:12 PM
Ghost
Neutral Milk Hotel
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
6:11 PM
Bela Lugosi's Dead
Bauhaus
Left Of The Dial: Dispatches From The '80s Underground
Mon 10/26 · 7PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
7:56 PM
New Orleans
Silver Jews
Starlite Walker
7:51 PM
New Orleans Instrumental No. 1
R.E.M.
Automatic For the People
7:50 PM
Walking to New Orleans
Fats Domino
The Fats Domino Jukebox: 20 Greatest Hits
7:44 PM
Go Outside (bonus track)
LOCAL
Ratboys
Happy Birthday, Ratboy
7:41 PM
To Clean
Released in 2009
Woods
Songs of Shame
7:38 PM
You Can Make Him Like You
The Hold Steady
Boys and Girls In America
7:35 PM
Holy
Frightened Rabbit
Pedestrian Verse
7:25 PM
Satan, Luella & I
By request for August! Thank you for listening!
HMLTD
West of Eden
7:21 PM
Hell is in Pittsburgh Tonight
Kimya Dawson and Adam Kirkup
single
7:12 PM
Mad World (feat. Gary Jules)
Happy 25th Anniversary to Donnie Darko!
Michael Andrews
Donnie Darko (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
7:06 PM
I Think UR A Contra
Vampire Weekend
Contra
7:02 PM
My Favorite Chords
The Weakerthans
Left & Leaving
Mon 10/26 · 6PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
6:59 PM
Speeding Motorcycle
Yo La Tengo
Fakebook
6:48 PM
Lucky Charm
Panda Bear & Sonic Boom
A ? of WHEN
6:43 PM
HEALMODE
Jeff Rosenstock
HELLMODE
6:43 PM
In The Silver Wire Up The Hill
The Tallest Man on Earth
Just Beyond Endless Mountain
6:28 PM
October Winds
Béla Fleck
Natural Bridge
6:25 PM
Why'd You Come In Here Lookin' Like That
RIP Dolly <3
Dolly Parton
White Limozeen
6:22 PM
The Heart Of A Saturday Night
Jonathan Richman
Action Packed: The Best Of Jonathan Richman
6:20 PM
Strange Powers
The Magnetic Fields
Holiday
6:09 PM
Baby I'll Change
<3
Fiddlehead
single
6:05 PM
Nightswimming
Also appears on the "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack!
Okay Kaya
Join the Ritual
Sun 08/23 · 8AM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
8:56 AM
Like a moth to a flame
Panda Bear & Sonic Boom
A ? of WHEN
8:51 AM
Pagan Baby
Bratmobile
Girls Get Busy
8:50 AM
All the Small Things
Blink-182
Enema of the State
8:41 AM
Buisness
LOCAL
Serengeti
KDIV
8:40 AM
Misfit
Juice WRLD
The Party Never Ends
8:35 AM
Sandpaper Blues
Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros
Rock Art and the X-Ray Style
8:31 AM
You're Aging Well
Dar Williams
The Honesty Room
8:25 AM
Weekend in Western Illinois
The Mountain Goats
Full Force Galesburg
8:22 AM
My Flying Saucer
LOCAL
Billy Bragg & Wilco
Mermaid Avenue, Vol. II
8:22 AM
Daisy
Fang Island
Fang Island
8:11 AM
Leave It in the Ska
Jeff Rosenstock
SKA DREAM
8:10 AM
Here We Again
Operation Ivy
Operation Ivy
8:06 AM
The Fool
The Menzingers
Everything I Ever Saw
8:00 AM
O' Sailor
Fiona Apple
Extraordinary Machine
Sun 08/23 · 7AM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
7:57 AM
Lemon Car
LOCAL
Neptune's Core
Pivot
7:50 AM
Summertime
The Sundays
Static & Silence
7:46 AM
It's Summertime
The Flaming Lips
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
7:46 AM
Indian Summer
Beat Happening
Jamboree
7:36 AM
Summer Nights
John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John
Grease (The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
7:31 AM
The Other Side of Summer
Elvis Costello
The Very Best of Elvis Costello
7:28 AM
I Have Come Out to Play
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
Modern Lovers '88
7:15 AM
It All Began with a Burst
Kishi Bashi
151a
7:12 AM
Problem with It
Plains
I Walked With You A Ways
7:11 AM
Don't Let The Bastards Get You Down
Margo Price
Hard Headed Woman
7:09 AM
My Body's Made of Crushed Little Stars
Mitski
Puberty 2
7:03 AM
Lost Boys
Phoebe Bridgers
Lost Weekend
7:01 AM
I Was Made For Sunny Days
The Weepies
Be My Thrill
7:00 AM
High on Charms
Clipd Beaks
Hoarse Lords
Sun 08/23 · 6AM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
6:51 AM
Writer's Block
Peter Bjorn & John
Writer's Block
6:51 AM
Ancient Tourist
Will Sheff
Extra Mile
6:38 AM
Hard to Love
LOCAL
DEHD
Poetry
6:37 AM
All Shook Up
Elvis Presley
Elvis' Golden Records
6:35 AM
Not Dead Yet
Lord Huron
Long Lost
6:21 AM
Logic of a Dream
Explosions In the Sky
The Wilderness
Sun 08/16 · 11AM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
11:56 AM
Space Oddity
David Bowie
Changes
11:50 AM
Cut Fruit
Remember Sports
The Refrigerator
11:47 AM
July
Beach Bunny
single
11:43 AM
In a Big City
Titus Andronicus
Local Business
11:33 AM
Burned by the Christians
LOCAL
Califone
Roots & Crowns
11:31 AM
Satan, Lend Me a Dollar
Also appears on the WEEDS soundtrack.
Hill of Beans
The Hill of Beans Story
11:25 AM
Adore
Savages
Adore Life
11:23 AM
Die Eir von Satan
TOOL
Ænima
11:22 AM
Tennessee
Arrested Development
3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days In the Life Of... (Capitol)
11:10 AM
Where Have All The Rude Boys Gone?
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists
Hearts of Oak
11:07 AM
Sunday Candy (Jamilla Woods)
LOCAL
Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment
Surf
11:02 AM
Tennessee
Arrested
3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days In the Life Of...
Sun 08/16 · 10AM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
10:59 AM
Major League
The Tallest Man on Earth
Henry St.
10:49 AM
Sunlight
tUnE-yArDs
BiRd-BrAiNs
10:46 AM
Country Girl
Carolina Chocolate Drops
Leaving Eden
10:42 AM
TEXAS HOLD 'EM
Beyoncé
COWBOY CARTER
10:41 AM
Green Light
Lorde
Melodrama
10:40 AM
Now, Now
St. Vincent
Marry Me
10:40 AM
That's Not My Name
The Ting Tings
We Started Nothing
10:39 AM
Alone
Marshmello
single
10:03 AM
Lucky Charm
Panda Bear & Sonic Boom
A ? of WHEN
10:02 AM
When The Smoke Clears
Rancid
Tomorrow Never Comes
Sun 08/16 · 9AM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
9:57 AM
Johnny Rottentail
Amy Ray
Stag
9:57 AM
Dry Heat / Nice Town
Cheekface
Therapy Island
9:43 AM
All Forgotton
EELS
Cookie Happened
9:42 AM
The Diaz Brothers
The Mountain Goats
Transcendental Youth
9:34 AM
John Allyn Smith Sails
Okkervil River
The Stage Names
9:26 AM
Recipe For Hate
Bad Religion
Recipe For Hate
9:25 AM
Media Sensation
The Interrupters
Say It Out Loud
9:24 AM
The Science of Myth
LOCAL
Screeching Weasel
My Brain Hurts
9:20 AM
Beating My Head Against A Wall
Jeff Rosenstock
POST-
9:12 AM
Several Got Away
Dinosaur Jr.
There Near
9:11 AM
Everything That Happens
David Byrne and Brian Eno
Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
9:03 AM
Sodom, South Georgia
Iron & Wine
Our Endless Numbered Days
Fri 07/31 · 7PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
7:57 PM
If You Are to Bloom
LOCAL
Hum
Downward is Heavenward
7:50 PM
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Neutral Milk Hotel
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
7:47 PM
Nine Bullets
Drive-By Truckers
Live at Plan 9 July 13, 2006
7:44 PM
Worry About It Later
Brakes
Touchdown
7:40 PM
The Flavor of Metal
Death Cab for Cutie
I Built You A Tower
7:30 PM
Extra Mile
Will Sheff
Extra Mile
7:30 PM
Margaret (featuring Bleachers)
Lana Del Rey
Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
7:21 PM
Radio (featuring Sharon Van Etten)
Margo Price
Strays
7:20 PM
Time Ain't Accidental
Jess Williamson
Time Ain't Accidental
7:10 PM
Rather Not
The Julie Ruin
Hit Reset
7:07 PM
Threat
Charly Bliss
Supermoon
7:07 PM
When The Smoke Clears
Rancid
Tomorrow Never Comes
7:05 PM
Tomorrow Never Comes
Rancid
Tomorrow Never Comes
7:03 PM
The Horrible Party
The Magnetic Fields
Love at the Bottom of the Sea
7:01 PM
Don't Pray On Me
Bad Religion
Recipe For Hate
Fri 07/31 · 6PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
6:52 PM
Media Sensation
The Interrupters
Say It Out Loud
6:50 PM
Everybody's Better
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
A Jackknife to a Swan
6:49 PM
Help Save the Youth of America
Billy Bragg
Must I Paint You a Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg
6:41 PM
Smells Like Content
The Books
Lost and Safe
6:31 PM
Now, Now
St. Vincent
Marry Me
6:28 PM
I Feel It All*
Feist
The Reminder
6:25 PM
Falling Slowly
Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová
The Swell Season
6:24 PM
Cold Cold Ground
Tom Waits
Franks Wild Years
6:13 PM
North Carolina
Rusty Belle
Live from Easthampton
6:10 PM
Last Man on the Moon
The Suitcase Junket
The End is New
6:07 PM
Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam
Nirvana
MTV Unplugged In New York
Tue 04/21 · 7PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
7:54 PM
Does Anyone Hear Like Venom?
Sunn O)))
SUNN O)))
7:50 PM
Fembot
Robyn
Body Talk
7:45 PM
From Here
Lomelda
Thx
7:36 PM
Be Comfortable, Creature
Explosions In the Sky
Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
7:35 PM
For Reverend Green*
Animal Collective
Strawberry Jam
7:16 PM
Stagnant Water
The Raspberry Jams
Don't Tell Me
7:14 PM
Ride Lonesome
Beck
single
7:08 PM
You've Got Everything - But A Smile (Theme from "Dead Lover")