DJ & Marketing Director. Catch my show Mondays 6–8PM — indie, punk, jazz, blues, psych, soul, and local Chicago music.
About DJ Swallow
I was a college radio DJ and station manager in the early 90s at WKDI in DeKalb, and after years away from the airwaves, I rediscovered my love for radio when I found CHIRP as a listener in 2010. I've been a volunteer since 2015 — serving as Marketing Director and DJ, helping spread the word about Chicago's independent, community-powered station.
A Northside Chicagoan since 1995, I'm also a visual artist creating cityscape paintings and photographs of architecture, and love riding my bike along the lakefront.
Recent Playlists
Mon 06/01 · 7PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
7:56 PM
Blue In Green
Born May 26, 1926 (100 years!)
Miles Davis
Kind Of Blue
7:51 PM
The Bottom of It
LOCAL
2019
Fruit Bats
Gold Past Life
7:48 PM
Choo Choo
LOCAL
Request!
Friko
Something Worth Waiting For
7:45 PM
I Don't
Request!
Brittany Howard
What Now
7:41 PM
One Stop
Aldous Harding
Train on the Island
7:35 PM
Soul Unusual
Blu & Exile
Time Heals Everything
7:31 PM
Let's Get Together
Brother Wallace
Electric Love
7:28 PM
Outa-space
Request!
Billy Preston
I Wrote a Simple Song
7:21 PM
Fade to Black
The Tubs
single
7:18 PM
Trial By Fire
Nora Kelly Band
So Wrong For So Long
7:15 PM
Rotten
LOCAL
Gia Margaret
Singing
7:09 PM
Shake Your Rump
1989
Beastie Boys
Paul's Boutique
7:05 PM
Fenian
Kneecap
Fenian
7:02 PM
Private Life
1982
Oingo Boingo
Nothing to Fear
Mon 06/01 · 6PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
6:56 PM
Monitor
Request!
Siouxsie & The Banshees
Juju
6:50 PM
Virgo Distracts
Future Islands
From a Hole in the Floor to a Fountain of Youth
6:47 PM
Noon Moon
Request!
Bear in Heaven
I Love You, It's Cool
6:41 PM
Candiru
CAVS
Sojourn
6:37 PM
Hate & War
The Clash
The Clash
6:34 PM
Summer
Modest Mouse
The Fruit That Ate Itself
6:29 PM
Hedgesitting
Cola
Cost of Living Adjustment
6:23 PM
Takes So Long
LOCAL
Sharp Pins
Balloon Balloon Balloon
6:20 PM
Metal Baby
Teenage Fanclub
Bandwagonesque
6:16 PM
Magical Thinking
Prism Shores
Softest Attack
6:13 PM
Badlands
Kevin Morby
Little Wide Open
6:08 PM
Someone I Once Knew
Paul Westerberg
14 Songs
6:01 PM
Remember the Mountain Bed
LOCAL
Billy Bragg & Wilco
Mermaid Avenue, Vol. II
Mon 05/25 · 7PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
7:55 PM
Message to a Child
LOCAL
Chicago Soul Jazz Collective
No Wind & No Rain
7:50 PM
Memphis Egypt
LOCAL
The Mekons
The Mekons Rock 'n' Roll
7:47 PM
Whoopski Girl
LOCAL
A.M. Slingers
To the Nines
7:45 PM
Formal Introduction
Album out 6/22
J Mascis
Mike Watt // J Mascis
7:44 PM
I Didn't Mean to Change My Mind
Prism Shores
Softest Attack
7:36 PM
Fenian
Kneecap
Fenian
7:32 PM
6 Underground
Sneaker Pimps
Becoming X
7:27 PM
Occasional Brushes Against the Guardrails
LOCAL
BassKase
Soul Moisturizer
7:21 PM
Honey White
1995
Morphine
Yes
7:18 PM
First Light
CAVS
Sojourn
7:14 PM
I Couldn't Love You More
Sade
Love Deluxe
7:04 PM
You Set The Scene
Love
Forever Changes
7:02 PM
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home
Mon 05/25 · 6PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
6:56 PM
Think Of You
Broken Social Scene
Remember The Humans
6:50 PM
Cruel Country
LOCAL
Wilco
Cruel Country
6:48 PM
Look For Your Mind
The Lemon Twigs
Look For Your Mind!
6:46 PM
Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man)
Request!
Randy Newman
Good Old Boys
6:42 PM
Campus
Vampire Weekend
Vampire Weeekend
6:40 PM
Electric Love
Brother Wallace
Electric Love
6:38 PM
I Don't Wanna Be Too Cool
LOCAL
Kate Fagan
I Don't Wanna Be Too Cool
6:35 PM
Oh Bondage Up Yours!
X-Ray Spex
Germfree Adolescents
6:29 PM
Cracked Whip
Loose Fit
Bittersweet Excess EP
6:24 PM
Do You Really Want to Hurt Me
Culture Club
Kissing to Be Clever
6:22 PM
Signal To Noise
Jesca Hoop
Long Wave Home
6:18 PM
One Stop
Aldous Harding
Train on the Island
6:11 PM
Hot Pants Boots
LOCAL
Vinto Van Go
In the Neon Wilderness
6:05 PM
Surf Wax America
Weezer
Weezer (Deluxe Edition)
6:02 PM
Good Times Roll
The Cars
The Cars
6:00 PM
I Get Around
The Beach Boys
Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of the Beach Boys
Mon 05/18 · 7PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
7:57 PM
Blood On My Blood
LOCAL
American Football
American Football (LP4)
7:53 PM
Daydream
Beach Fossils
Beach Fossils
7:48 PM
Friday On My Mind
The Easybeats
Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond, 1964-1969, Vol. 2
7:46 PM
LIKED U BETTER
Request!
Jeff Rosenstock
HELLMODE
7:42 PM
Never Be Mine
LOCAL
Angel Olsen
My Woman
7:38 PM
Red Roof
Spoils
Mile Wide Inch Deep
7:31 PM
Nobody Gets Me but You
Spoon
Transference
7:29 PM
I Want You So Bad I Can't Breathe
OK Go
Of The Colour Of The Sky
7:26 PM
Cooler Healthy Heads
LOCAL
A.M. Slingers
To the Nines
7:19 PM
What Do All the People Know?
The Monroes
What Do All the People Know?
7:15 PM
Nothin' But You
The Lemon Twigs
Look For Your Mind!
7:10 PM
Safeword
LOCAL
Accessory
Dust
7:07 PM
Glory
1978
Television
Adventure
7:03 PM
Prairie Rose
Request! At SPACE tonight: An Evening of Words and Music with Roxy Music's Phil Manzanera
Roxy Music
Country Life
7:00 PM
You Once Loved Rock and Roll
Album out: 6/01
KILLER ANTZ
A Chorus For The Wasteland
Mon 05/18 · 6PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
6:53 PM
Choo Choo
LOCAL
Friko
Something Worth Waiting For
6:50 PM
Making Noise for the Ones You Love
LOCAL
Ratboys
The Window
6:45 PM
This Is The One
The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses
6:40 PM
Out Of My Bag
TV Star
Music For Heads
6:36 PM
i care for you
good flying birds
Talulah's Tape
6:35 PM
Bohemian Like You
The Dandy Warhols
Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia
6:30 PM
Forever Elsewhere
Weird Nightmare
Hoopla
6:23 PM
Break My Body
Pixies
Surfer Rosa
6:20 PM
Black James Dean
Pigeon
OUTTANATIONAL
6:08 PM
Without a Trace
Soul Asylum
Grave Dancers Union
6:05 PM
Satellite
LOCAL
Split Single
Amplificado
6:03 PM
Wanted You
LOCAL
Twin Peaks
Down in Heaven
Mon 05/11 · 7PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
7:59 PM
Wu-Tang
They Might Be Giants
The World Is to Dig
7:54 PM
Stray Cat Strut
Stray Cats
Stray Cats: Greatest Hits
7:50 PM
Stray Cats in Spain
LOCAL
Jeff Tweedy
Twilight Override
7:47 PM
A Dogs Best Man
Choncy
Trademark
7:42 PM
Savoy
LOCAL
Andrew Bird
Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs
7:35 PM
In Times Of Dragons
Tori Amos
In Times Of Dragons
7:30 PM
Tougher Than the Rest
Nation of Language
single
7:26 PM
Battery Pack
Pictish Trail
Life Slime
7:20 PM
Else
Built to Spill
Keep It Like a Secret
7:16 PM
Townies
Wednesday
Bleeds
7:13 PM
Still Around
LOCAL
Friko
Something Worth Waiting For
7:08 PM
Judy Is A Punk
Ramones
Ramones
7:05 PM
(I'm) Stranded
The Saints
(I'm) Stranded
7:02 PM
I Can't Pretend
The Barracudas
Children of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the Second Psychedelic Era 1976-1996
Mon 05/11 · 6PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
6:59 PM
Blues for Alice
Charlie Parker
Bird's Best Bop on Verve
6:55 PM
What Is Left To Say
Thundercat
Distracted
6:51 PM
Mr. Spaceman
The Byrds
Greatest Hits
6:46 PM
Chance to Bleed
Kurt Vile
Philadelphia's been good to me
6:43 PM
Let's Get Started
LOCAL
Frisbie
Subversive Sounds of Love
6:40 PM
Wolfman Jack
Todd Rundgren
Something/Anything?
6:34 PM
My Inspiration
The Mad Lads
The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968
6:29 PM
Straight Shot
DeVotchKa
This Night Falls Forever
6:26 PM
Love Story
My New Band Believe
My New Band Believe
6:21 PM
Is it You or is it Them?
The Reds, Pinks and Purples
Acknowledge Kindness
6:17 PM
The Cure
Angelo De Augustine
Angel In Plainclothes
6:10 PM
Stars
LOCAL
DEHD
Blue Skies
6:07 PM
Effigy (I'm Not An)
LOCAL
Ministry
With Sympathy
6:01 PM
Temptation
New Order
Substance
Mon 05/04 · 7PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
7:56 PM
Take Five
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Time Out
7:51 PM
Totally Vexed
LOCAL
Stuck
Optimizer
7:49 PM
Psycho Crush
LOCAL
Ovef Ow
Working Girl
7:45 PM
Two Weeks
Grizzly Bear
Veckatimest
7:40 PM
Yoru e Isogu Hito
Naomi Chiaki
Tokyo Pulse
7:35 PM
The Bottom of It
LOCAL
Fruit Bats
Gold Past Life
7:31 PM
Living With It (featuring Feist)
Charlotte Cornfield
Hurts Like Hell
7:28 PM
The Man I'm Supposed to Be
Bill Callahan
My Days of 58
7:21 PM
The Cuban Line
LOCAL
Jason Moody
Dear Deaf Angels
7:18 PM
Romany Blue
The Bevis Frond
Horrorful Heights
7:14 PM
Dead End
Snail Mail
Ricochet
7:08 PM
Heaven of Love
The Reds, Pinks and Purples
Acknowledge Kindness
7:04 PM
Cattle and Cane
The Go-Betweens
Before Hollywood
7:02 PM
Editions of You
Roxy Music
For Your Pleasure
Mon 05/04 · 6PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
6:56 PM
Water (Feelings, Emotions) (featuring Immanuel Wilkins, Amyna Love)
LOCAL
Marquis Hill
Beautifulism (Sweet Surrender) EP
6:50 PM
Dives
LOCAL
sponj
The Garden
6:46 PM
Beercan
Beck
Mellow Gold
6:43 PM
When You Know
Moonchild
Waves
6:40 PM
Jetta
Arlo Parks
Ambiguous Desire
6:34 PM
Crush Forever
Metric
Romanticize The Dive
6:32 PM
WOLFIE
Inner Wave
SEE YOU WHEN I GET BACK
6:27 PM
Smalltown Boy
Bronski Beat
Age of Consent
6:21 PM
This Is How It Feels
Inspiral Carpets
The Singles
6:17 PM
Evie
Holy Fuck
Event Beat
6:10 PM
I Am One
LOCAL
The Smashing Pumpkins
Gish
6:05 PM
Life in the Gladhouse
Modern English
After The Snow
6:01 PM
The Hanging Garden
The Cure
Pornography
Mon 04/20 · 7PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
7:55 PM
This Is the Day
The The
Soul Mining
7:50 PM
Everybody's Alone
Neil Young with the Santa Monica Flyers
Tonight's the Night
7:49 PM
Little Friends
LOCAL
The Ponys
Laced With Romance
7:43 PM
Hurts Like Hell (feat. Buck Meek)
Charlotte Cornfield
Hurts Like Hell
7:41 PM
Dream Theme
LOCAL
Resavoir
Themes for Dreams
7:35 PM
Amishes
LOCAL
Naked Raygun
Over the Overlords
7:32 PM
Iron Curtain
LOCAL
The Arrivals
Payload
7:29 PM
Landline
King Tuff
MOO
7:24 PM
Read About It
Midnight Oil
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
7:19 PM
Come Back Jonee
Devo
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
7:15 PM
Two or More
LOCAL
UNIFLORA
RED XEROX
7:09 PM
Truth is Stranger Than Fiction
LOCAL
Brigitte Calls Me Baby
Irreversible
7:06 PM
Town Called Malice
The Jam
Beat Surrender
7:04 PM
Baby Come Back
The Equals
Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys...The Anthology
7:00 PM
War
Bob Marley & the Wailers
Rastaman Vibration
Mon 04/20 · 6PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
6:55 PM
Sound & Vision
LOCAL
The Sea and Cake
One Bedroom
6:50 PM
Babies
Pulp
His 'N' Hers
6:46 PM
Let Forever Be
The Chemical Brothers
Surrender
6:42 PM
Eden
Avalon Emerson & the Charm
Written into Changes
6:34 PM
All In Your Mind
Echo & the Bunnymen
Echo & The Bunnymen
6:31 PM
I Don't Know Why I Love You
The House of Love
The House of Love
6:27 PM
Great Princess Story
The New Pornographers
The Former Site Of
6:21 PM
A Perfect Storm
José González
Against the Dying of the Light
6:18 PM
Not Around Anymore
Broken Social Scene
Remember the Humans
6:15 PM
Site Unseen (featuring Waxahatchee)
Courtney Barnett
Creature of Habit
6:10 PM
I Wannabe Gone
LOCAL
Impulsive Hearts
Sorry in the Summer
6:05 PM
Silver Trembling Hands
The Flaming Lips
Embryonic
6:02 PM
I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)
The Electric Prunes
Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era - 1965-1968
6:00 PM
Tomorrow Never Knows
The Beatles
Revolver
Mon 04/13 · 7PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
7:55 PM
Why Can't I Touch It?
Buzzcocks
Singles Going Steady
7:50 PM
Girl With A Look
Kim Gordon
PLAY ME
7:47 PM
Living With It (featuring Feist)
Charlotte Cornfield
Hurts Like Hell
7:42 PM
The Old Law
Father John Misty
Single
7:40 PM
Get Down
LOCAL
Red PK
Horse Like Me
7:34 PM
Taxes
Geese
Getting Killed
7:30 PM
The Stars Of Track And Field
Belle & Sebastian
If You're Feeling Sinister
7:27 PM
Houses
The Reds, Pinks and Purples
Acknowledge Kindness
7:22 PM
Ex Lion Tamer
Wire
Pink Flag
7:19 PM
Hard To Explain
The Strokes
Is This It?
7:15 PM
Is It Real?
Twisted Teens
Blame The Clown
7:08 PM
When U Love Somebody
LOCAL
Fruit Bats
Mouthfuls
7:04 PM
Backpage
LOCAL
Modern Shag
Modern Shag
7:01 PM
Prep-School Gangsters
Vampire Weekend
Only God Was Above Us
Mon 04/13 · 6PM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
6:57 PM
Tractor Beam
Snail Mail
Ricochet
6:50 PM
I Can't Help Myself
Orange Juice
Rip It Up
6:47 PM
She's So Fine
LOCAL
Syl Johnson
Complete Mythology
6:43 PM
Girlfriend Is Better
Georgia Anne Muldrow
Naive Melodies
6:38 PM
Rala-Bucho
Antonio Carlos & Jocafi, Adrian Younge, & Ali Shaheed Muhammad