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Submitting Your Music to CHIRP Radio (please read carefully)

If you're an artist or label who would like to submit music to CHIRP Radio for possible airplay, you can contact our music department using the contact form to the right or send it by mail to the address below.

IMPORTANT:

• If you use the contact form, you must select "music submissions" in the dropdown. Submissions sent to any other addresses will be deleted!
• Please include a brief band bio, your BandCamp or Soundcloud link and a download code.
• We can only consider submissions with downloadable files! Music submitted via Spotify or YouTube links will *not* be considered because they cannot be used for airplay.

Also, please be aware that due to the volume of mail that we receive, we cannot respond to questions about submission status. However, we do make every effort to listen to all music submitted to CHIRP.

Mailing Address:

CHIRP Radio
attn: Music Department
4045 N. Rockwell
Chicago, IL 60618

CHIRP is a volunteer-driven organization with just one FT staff member and almost 300 volunteers. The station onboards new volunteers three times per year, in January, May and October.

CHIRP's departments include Music, Events, Partnerships, Tech, Features, Fundraising, Marketing, Outreach, Volunteer Management, Promotions, Production, and Record Fair.

If you're interested in volunteering with CHIRP, please fill out our application here and we'll let you know when our next onboarding session is scheduled.

Anyone hoping to DJ for CHIRP must first go through new volunteer onboarding. From there, volunteers are expected to participate in other areas and demonstrate their commitment to the organization overall.

All potential DJs must attend a CHIRP DJ orientation (offered several times per year), then submit an application and go through a training and audition process.

CHIRP DJs play a wide array of music from a mix of genres and eras — CHIRP does not feature specialty shows that focus on a single style of music or time period.

CHIRP regularly conducts interviews with local and touring artists, which we offer as podcasts.

If you're interested in being interviewed for a CHIRP podcast, send a bio and links to music samples to features (at) chirpradio.org.

If you're interested in offering a ticket giveaway for an upcoming concert, please email promo (at) chirpradio.org at least six weeks in advance of the show.

If you have a business or organization and you'd like to propose a partnership with CHIRP, please contact our partnerships department at partnerships (at) chirpradio.org.

If you have a question about a donation you've made or a way you'd like to support the station, please contact development (at) chirpradio.org.