So how did a weird kid who grew up in a hick town in middle of nowhere Wyoming become DJ Wags? Let me tell you!
About DJ Wags
In 2012, shortly after moving to the city I was checking out one the city's many summer festivals and I came across a Chirp volunteer table promoting the station. Local, volunteer run, independent radio sounded pretty neat to a lifelong music nerd like me so I started volunteering. A year later, I began DJing for Chirp and before I knew it, I had been on air for more than 10 years. Being a DJ at Chirp has truly become one of my great joys in life. I love my listeners along with getting the opportunity to bring my eclectic music tastes to the Chicago airwaves and beyond on our stream. When I'm not on the air at Chirp I enjoy playing darts, watching bad movies with my partner, watching the Cubs win, and lots of other nerdy activities. Feel free to call in with a request or say hi during my set!
Recent Playlists
Sun 11/08 · 1PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
1:56 PM
Edge Conditions
LOCAL
Jeremiah Chiu
Edge Conditions
1:49 PM
Enfilade
At the Drive-In
Relationship of Command
1:43 PM
Farewell, Mona Lisa
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Option Paralysis
1:36 PM
Hunter
Deafheaven
At Work In The Fields Of The Bomb
1:29 PM
Slip Inside This House
Primal Scream
Screamadelica
1:25 PM
Say Yeah
Moses Boyd
Songs For Sinners
1:18 PM
Go Dancin'
LOCAL
Serengeti
C.A.R.
1:14 PM
Wasted
LOCAL
NNAMDï
Brat
1:11 PM
Moves Like A Drunk
LOCAL
Sen Morimoto
Time Is On Your Side
1:05 PM
Good Girls (Don't Get Used)
LOCAL
Beach Bunny
Blame Game
1:03 PM
Not Cool
Disgusting Sisters
Skin & Blisters
1:00 PM
Ladykillers
Lush
Lovelife
Sun 11/08 · 12PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
12:57 PM
Burn
Cindy Lawson
¡LONG LIVE THE RESISTANCE!
12:51 PM
(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
Heaven 17
Penthouse And Pavement
12:45 PM
Age of Anxiety II (Rabbit Hole)
Arcade Fire
WE
12:37 PM
The Death Of Indie
Art d'Ecco
Scheele's Green
12:33 PM
Ahh World (I Won The Alpha Bet)
Shabazz Palaces
It's A Style Sport
12:30 PM
Pusha Man (featuring Nate Fox & Lili K.)
LOCAL
Chance the Rapper
Acid Rap
12:26 PM
Where I'm From
KPOW
Digable Planets
Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)
12:19 PM
Oblivion
LOCAL
Tat Songs
Don't Look Back
12:15 PM
Americans
LOCAL
Shemekia Copeland
America's Child
12:13 PM
The Way It Goes
World News
In Purgatory
12:08 PM
Hangover Horns
Hammer
Hammer
12:05 PM
Winds Change
Orville Peck
Pony
12:01 PM
Trucker
The Ratskin Family Band
Back to the Cuntry
Sun 11/01 · 1PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
1:56 PM
Boney
Jake Xerxes Fussell
The Old Beloved Path
1:49 PM
Stars
Michael Kiwanuka
FUDGE
1:44 PM
So In Love
Curtis Mayfield
There's No Place Like America Today
1:36 PM
Love's In Need Of Love Today
Stevie Wonder
Songs In the Key of Life
1:29 PM
Gris Gris Gumbo Ya Ya
Dr. John
Saturday Night Fish Fry: New Orleans Funk And Soul
1:25 PM
groove city (featuring frank richard of chocolate milk)
Dawn Richard
Creole Culture
1:19 PM
Totally Wired
The Fall
50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong: 39 Golden Greats
1:15 PM
ADD
Viagra Boys
Cave World
1:12 PM
Smile and Wave
Fat Dog
Cancel Me (I'm Tired)
1:07 PM
money machine (A.G. Cook Remix)
100 gecs
1000 gecs & The Tree of Clues
1:06 PM
Winnebago Warrior
Dead Kennedys
Plastic Surgery Disasters / In God We Trust, Inc.
1:03 PM
Fast Cars
Buzzcocks
Another Music In a Different Kitchen
1:03 PM
Lifted Truck
Hard Femme
Lo-Fem
Sun 11/01 · 12PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
12:48 PM
Breathe
The Prodigy
Fat of the Land
12:41 PM
This is How it Should Be Done
Alchemical Sisters
Alchemical Sisters
12:38 PM
Flame Shards Goo
ML Buch
Suntub
12:32 PM
I Think I'm Paranoid
Garbage
Version 2.0
12:29 PM
Sensational
Wishy
Nature's Pill
12:26 PM
Ioronta
Chasing Abbey
Cyber Celt
12:18 PM
Halfway Home
TV On the Radio
Dear Science
12:17 PM
Betty Wang
Hospitality
Hospitality
12:12 PM
Sell Me This Pen
Altamira
How To Get Off The Ground
12:07 PM
OBSESSION
TOUR TOMB
VEINS
12:01 PM
Everyday (Is Halloween)
Ministry
Everyday (Is Halloween) Single
Sun 10/25 · 1PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
1:55 PM
Somos Como Tú
Rodrigo y Gabriela
OurHome
1:47 PM
I Can't Give Everything Away
David Bowie
Blackstar
1:45 PM
Real Death
Mount Eerie
A Crow Looked at Me
1:36 PM
Soon I Might Be Going
Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts
Second Song
1:30 PM
Best Problem
LOCAL
V.V. Lightbody
Period Piece
1:27 PM
We Can't Have Nice Things
LOCAL
Kelly Hogan
I Like to Keep Myself in Pain
1:23 PM
Prairie Dawn
Aimont Moon
Prairie Dawn - Single
1:17 PM
MMA
Hannah Cole
Switchbacks
1:13 PM
Pedestrian at Best
Courtney Barnett
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
1:12 PM
Feel the Same
Bully
Losing
1:06 PM
Placeholder
Gilla Band
Pugnello
1:00 PM
Dream Baby Dream
Suicide
Suicide (Second Album)
Sun 10/25 · 12PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
12:54 PM
Beats Per Minute
Arab Strap
Half-Told Tales
12:47 PM
Living in Oblivion
Anything Box
Peace
12:43 PM
Dub Space Nine
LOCAL
BassKase
Dub Space Nine
12:37 PM
Rockit
Herbie Hancock
Street Jams: Electric Funk, Part 1
12:33 PM
Every Single Weekend (featuring Jamie xx)
The Avalanches
No Bad Memories
12:29 PM
Funky Poodle
Wild Horses
You, Me and Dupree - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
12:25 PM
Monsters
Nova Twins
Parasites & Butterflies
12:18 PM
A Strange Day
Request for Matt in Berwyn
The Cure
Pornography
12:15 PM
Omen Globe
Dummy
do you love the color of the sky?
12:12 PM
Weak
Skunk Anasie
Paranoid & Sunburnt
12:07 PM
Runaway
Happy birthday to my sister Nicole!
AURORA
All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend
12:03 PM
Leave It Open
Kate Bush
The Dreaming
12:00 PM
Goofy
James The Seventh
Science
Sun 10/18 · 1PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
1:56 PM
Moping
Personal Trainer
Human Assholes
1:51 PM
Box Store
Wild Pink
Still Coming Down
1:48 PM
Spy
UTO
More Heat to the Fire Part of Life
1:43 PM
Duty Free
LOCAL
Ike Reilly
Salesmen & Racists
1:37 PM
Gimme Skeletered
LOCAL
Vinto Van Go
Charms and Trips
1:34 PM
Holland, 1945
Neutral Milk Hotel
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
1:28 PM
Wraith Pinned To The Mist And Other Games
Of Montreal
The Sunlandic Twins
1:25 PM
Advice From the Oceans
The Olivia Tremor Control
The Same Place
1:20 PM
Empty Stadium
Tinashe
Popstar
1:17 PM
Leaves
Miguel
Wildheart
1:12 PM
Didn't Cha Know?
Erykah Badu
Mama's Gun
1:06 PM
Memory Lane (Sittin' In Da Park)
NaS
Illmatic
1:04 PM
Bread & Butter
Your Old Droog
Bread & Butter
1:00 PM
I Ain't No Joke
Eric B. & Rakim
Paid In Full
Sun 10/18 · 12PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
12:57 PM
Pop Life
Shabazz Palaces
Maximum MN
12:51 PM
Hang On In There
The Stovall Sisters
The Stovall Sisters
12:48 PM
Boing Boom Tschak
Kraftwerk
Techno Pop
12:44 PM
Dissolved Girl
Massive Attack
Mezzanine
12:37 PM
Balcon
viragezero
viragezero
12:31 PM
Eat the Pavement
Dev Lemons
Hunting What We Already Killed
12:28 PM
Ain't no Getting Rid of me Yet
Big Benny Bailey
Business Spice
12:25 PM
Been Done Did That
The Cowgays
Been Done Did That
12:19 PM
Discount Diamonds
LOCAL
Ganser
Animal Hospital
12:16 PM
Addict
LOCAL
Lightfoils
Hierarchy
12:12 PM
Thoughts of You
LOCAL
Medical Miracle
Permanence
12:07 PM
Here & Now
Letters to Cleo
Aurora Gory Alice
12:03 PM
Ears Ring
Rainer Maria
Long Knives Drawn
12:01 PM
Sun Has Set
Beabadoobee
Pylon
Sun 10/11 · 1PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
1:56 PM
Ride Lonesome
Beck
Ride Lonesome
1:46 PM
I Think I'm In Love
Spiritualized
Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
1:39 PM
Wir Fur Sea
LOCAL
Spiral Galaxy
Spiral Galaxy II
1:32 PM
One Foundation
Bob Marley & the Wailers
Burnin'
1:28 PM
I'll Take Care of You
LOCAL
Gil Scott-Heron / Makaya Mccraven
We're New Again: A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven
1:22 PM
Only Love (featuring Pa Salieu)
Ezra Collective
Here Because of Hope
1:20 PM
Tears of Joy
Leon Bridges
Happiness Anytime
1:16 PM
Hercules
Aaron Neville
New Orleans Funk: The Original Sound Of Funk 1960-75
1:12 PM
Runner
Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Somewhere in Afrika
1:06 PM
Hero
LOCAL
Ministry
Psalm 69
1:02 PM
Feed the Sewer
Protomartyr
Hotel Usona
Sun 10/11 · 12PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
12:58 PM
Robot Slave
Saul Williams
Leap Life
12:56 PM
Asteroids
Fetchin' Bones
Cabin Flounder
12:51 PM
Damn Good Times
They Might Be Giants
The Spine
12:45 PM
Calm It Down
LOCAL
Sisyphus
Sisyphus
12:40 PM
Out Into Us
Son Lux
Out Into
12:36 PM
I Ran (So Far Away)
A Flock of Seagulls
A Flock of Seagulls
12:30 PM
My Girl Friend is a Witch
October Country
October Country
12:27 PM
Noir
LOCAL
Able Baker
Able Baker
12:25 PM
I Forgot to Take My Meds Today
Prince Daddy & the Heyena
I Thought you Didn't Even Like Leaving
12:18 PM
Back and Forth
The Dismemberment Plan
Emergency & I
12:15 PM
Borrowed Time
Parquet Courts
Light Up Gold
12:13 PM
Bouncing Bombs
Blair Gun
Nonstop Bullets
12:07 PM
Vanishing Point
Haircut One Hundred
Boxing The Compass
12:04 PM
Ivan Meets G.I. Joe
The Clash
Sandinista!
12:01 PM
99 Luftballons
Nena
Nena
Sun 10/04 · 1PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
1:55 PM
McMemories
Dogwood Tales
Every Star in Rockingham County
1:47 PM
Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)
Parliament
Mothership Connection
1:40 PM
Renegades of Funk
Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force
Planet Rock: The Album
1:36 PM
When You Want To Dance
Ibibio Sound Machine
Chopping Mountain
1:31 PM
The Magic Number
De La Soul
3 Feet High and Rising
1:27 PM
Better Things to Do
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
I Learned the Hard Way
1:24 PM
Keep Me In Mind (featuring Renaldo Domino)
Kelly Finnigan
B-Sides, Singles & Forgotten Gems
1:20 PM
Cherry-Coloured Funk
Cocteau Twins
Heaven or Las Vegas
1:16 PM
Black Pyramids
LOCAL
Panda Riot
Northern Automatic Music
1:13 PM
Better Man
LOCAL
Slow Pulp
Melodie
1:07 PM
Start the Commotion
The Wiseguys
The Antidote
1:04 PM
Black Diamond
The Replacements
Let It Be
1:00 PM
Especially Me
Flock of Dimes
Maximum MN
Sun 10/04 · 12PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
12:55 PM
Cold
Chelsea Wolfe
The Dark
12:48 PM
Lady Arkansas
Sawyer Hill
Everybody's Home Nobody's Happy
12:44 PM
Get Started, Start a Fire
Graham Parker
The Mona Lisa's Sister
12:42 PM
Sex with Succubus
Devil Master
Bloody Dreams
12:37 PM
BORGHORSE
MARE
Hard Rock for Horse Girls
12:31 PM
Boys & Girls
LOCAL
Kill Hannah
For Never And Ever
12:29 PM
Break Me
Boy Harsher
Get Mean
12:24 PM
Club Mania
LOCAL
Pixel Grip
ARENA
12:20 PM
Near Dark
Burial
Untrue
12:15 PM
Figure 8
FKA twigs
M3LL155X EP
12:12 PM
For Life
Jorja Smith
What Are The Odds
12:05 PM
Free
Sault
UNTITLED (Rise)
12:00 PM
Inner Life
Crying Laughing
Talking
Sun 09/27 · 1PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
1:55 PM
Cycles
Bonobo
Distance In Static
1:49 PM
My Lost One
Julia Holter
Materia
1:44 PM
Wuthering Heights
Kate Bush
The Kick Inside
1:38 PM
Earth Intruders
Björk
Volta
1:33 PM
Bug
Fontaines D.C.
Romance
1:28 PM
This Mirror Weighs a Ton
Interpol
This Mirror Weighs A Ton
1:24 PM
Darklands
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Darklands
1:17 PM
Possession
Sarah McLachlan
Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
1:13 PM
Farewell Dracula
LOCAL
Kate Renegade
Could Do!
1:08 PM
Clementine
Elliott Smith
Elliott Smith
1:07 PM
Summon Satan
LOCAL
Advance Base
Nephew in the Wild
1:07 PM
Forget About Dying
Gordi
Nylon
Sun 09/27 · 12PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
12:55 PM
Weakened
Lambchop
Punching the Clown
12:49 PM
Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing
Stevie Wonder
Innervisions
12:44 PM
GIOVANNI
LOCAL
Jamila Woods
LEGACY! LEGACY!
12:37 PM
Echos
Erykah Badu & The Alchemist
Before The World Blows
12:31 PM
Soul Clap
Bella Brown & the Jealous Lovers
Soul Clap
12:27 PM
Caught in a Jam
Portraits of Tracy
Q: From Where Do Our Primal Instincts Originate? A: MTV!
12:24 PM
God Save the Queens
Vienna Vienna
God Save the Queens
12:18 PM
Atomic
Blondie
Eat To The Beat
12:14 PM
Come Over
LOCAL
Kate Fagan
I Don't Wanna Be Too Cool
12:13 PM
(Why Can't) I
LOCAL
Spread Joy
III
12:07 PM
Day Tripper
Yellow Music Orchestra
Solid State Survivor
12:04 PM
Aeons
Cornelius
REFRACTIONS
12:01 PM
Say Goodbye
Hiroshi Sato
Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1976-1986
Sun 09/20 · 1PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
1:55 PM
You're Alright
Dexys Midnight Runners
LOVE
1:46 PM
The Man Of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
Sufjan Stevens
Come On Feel the Illinoise
1:43 PM
The Ballad of Mr. Steak
Kishi Bashi
Lighght
1:37 PM
How Much of This Was Planned
Sondre Lerche
Acrobats
1:31 PM
Clean Money
Elvis Costello & the Attractions
Armed Forces
1:31 PM
Asymmetric
LOCAL
Plum
Bodies in Motion
1:24 PM
Price Tag
Sleater-Kinney
No Cities to Love
1:19 PM
Streets of Rage: Public Arguments Edition (featuring Gothic Tropic)
LOCAL