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It's the Alien Broadcast with your host and resident alien, Sarah Spencer.
About Sarah Spencer
I'm a multi-passionate weirdo that keeps her fingers in many pies, and one of those pies is sweet, sweet music. I've been a DJ at CHIRP since I first moved to Chicago from Vancouver, Canada in 2018, and I've hosted the Saturday morning show since 2020. I'm a working fine artist, working primarily with textiles making weird, unwashable quilts. My passion for music often mixes into my art, and I've made pieces inspired by Sharon Van Etten, David Bowie, Ibibio Sound Machine, Aldous Harding, Queen Latifah, Fever Ray and more. You can check out my work here: https://www.iothealien.com
After 8 years as a CHIRP Radio DJ, my family is leaving Chicago and I'll be saying goodbye to my Saturday morning show on July 4, 2026. Thank you to everyone who has spent their Saturday mornings hanging out with me over the years. ❤️
Recent Playlists
Sat 05/30 · 8AM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
8:52 AM
The Test (featuring Richard Ashcroft)
2002
The Chemical Brothers
Come With Us
8:45 AM
Change (In the House of Flies)
Playing the Hideout 8/21
Scout Gillett
Imagination, MO.
8:42 AM
Because It's Not Love (But It's Still A Feeling)
2006
The Pipettes
We Are the Pipettes
8:39 AM
Sick Of Love
2026
Lykke Li
The Afterparty
8:34 AM
Tocando
Helado Negro & Reyna Tropical; album out 7/17
Helado Tropical
Helado Tropical
8:29 AM
My Life in England Pt. 1
New album out 9/4
Dexy's Midnight Runners
LOVE
8:27 AM
Try Try Try
album out 8/14
Hovvdy
Big World
8:19 AM
Hard Times (featuring Fashawn)
At Subterranean 7/22
Blu & Exile
Time Heals Everything
8:16 AM
Thrice Crowned
Playing Millennium Park 8/3
The Budos Band
VII
8:12 AM
More Bad Miles Of Road
2026
Little Barrie
Gravity Freeze
8:05 AM
Come Undone
LOCAL
2026
Trash Kickers
Way Out, Somehow
8:02 AM
Is This Thing Cursed?
LOCAL
Playing Riot Fest
Alkaline Trio
Is This Thing Cursed?
Sat 05/30 · 7AM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
7:59 AM
catch these fists
At the Vic Theatre 7/29 (Lollapalooza aftershow)
Wet Leg
moisturizer
7:57 AM
Y o Y
At Schubas 8/19
Born At Midnite
Every Single Time
7:53 AM
Let's Have A Party
1960
Wanda Jackson
Let's Have a Party
7:50 AM
Jailbreak
1976
Thin Lizzy
Jailbreak
7:46 AM
Future Country
2026
Pigeon
OUTTANATIONAL
7:42 AM
Don't Look Down
LOCAL
At the Old Town School of Folk Music 7/9
DEHD
Poetry
7:38 AM
Let's Do It Again
LOCAL
1975
The Staples Singers
Let's Do It Again (Original Soundtrack)
7:34 AM
Coyote
2026
Thomas Dollbaum
Birds of Paradise
7:26 AM
Oyaya (featuring Nile Rodgers & Iza)
2026
Angelique Kidjo
Hope
7:22 AM
San Andreas Fault
Going out to Matthew F. Thanks for listening!
Natalie Merchant
Tigerlily
7:18 AM
Houses in Motion
1980
Talking Heads
Remain in Light
7:09 AM
melting clocks (featuring Mick Jenkins & Vic Mensa)
At City Winery 9/9
Aja Monet
the color of rain
7:02 AM
Zoom 97
Going out to Nate in Philly! Thanks for listening.
Kurt Vile
Philidelphia's Been Good to Me
Sat 05/30 · 6AM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
6:52 AM
Blank Americana
2026
Suitor
Saw You Out with the Weeds
6:50 AM
My Heart Will Never Lie
LOCAL
Sandy Cleveland
Eccentric Soul: The Bandit Label
6:45 AM
Let the Flowers Grow
Going out to Jane and Brutus. Thanks for listening!
Peter Murphy & Boy George
Let the Flowers Grow
6:39 AM
Head First
Going out to Curtis! Thanks for listening
Karate Boogaloo
Head First
6:35 AM
Heart On Fire
Lollapalooza 7/30
Little Simz
NO THANK YOU
6:30 AM
Occasional Brushes Against the Guardrails
LOCAL
2026
BassKase
Soul Moisturizer
6:23 AM
Rain Can't Reach Us
2024
Yannis & The Yaw and Tony Allen
Lagos Paris London
6:20 AM
Tear It Off (featuring Fly Anakin)
2026
Kumail
Mudbrown
6:17 AM
Morning (Bom Dia)
1968
Dusty Springfield
Dusty... Definitely
6:15 AM
Draw The Line
2026
Shye
The Doves Came Home
6:05 AM
F Kenya RIP
RIP "Sleepy" Doug Shaw
Highlife
Best Bless
6:02 AM
Very Bad News
2026
April + VISTA
Traditional Noise
Sat 05/30 · 5AM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
5:59 AM
Care to Care (feat. Plumm)
Marysia Osu
harp, beats & dreams
Sat 05/23 · 8AM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
8:54 AM
Darker Side Of Night
2009
Jimi Tenor & Tony Allen
Inspiration Information 4
8:48 AM
Don't Let 'Em Tell You
LOCAL
Brothers & Sisters
Eccentric Soul: The Nickel & Penny Labels
8:45 AM
Wake Up
The You In I
The I in You
8:41 AM
Happy House
Going out to Joe H. Thanks for listening!
Siouxsie & The Banshees
Once Upon A Time: The Singles
8:35 AM
But, Nvm
Album out 7/10
Baby Rose
YEARNALISM
8:31 AM
Lockup
Album out 8/7; at Radius 10/8
Overmono
Pure Devotion
8:27 AM
Redeemer
Album out 7/17
Yard Act
You're Gonna Need a Little Music
8:19 AM
Billy Bang's Bounce
LOCAL
Going out to Branko in Rogers Park. Thanks for listening!
Tomeka Reid
Tomeka Reid Quartet
8:16 AM
Big Swing
2026
lucky break
made it!
8:13 AM
Yip Yip Yow
2026
Caroline Rose
Yip Yip Yow
8:05 AM
Carnival
2026
Kneecap
Fenian
8:03 AM
Italian Movie Theme
Pylon
Chomp More
8:01 AM
Eastside Girls
At Salt Shed 10/9
MUNA
Dancing on The Wall
Sat 05/23 · 7AM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
7:56 AM
White Corridor
At Lincoln Hall 10/1
Elder Island
Hello Baby Okay
7:50 AM
Saint Mary
LOCAL
At Thalia Hall 8/8
Motel Breakfast
Motel Breakfast
7:45 AM
Hedgesitting
Going out to Matthew! Thanks for listening. At Empty Bottle 7/10
Cola
Cost of Living Adjustment
7:39 AM
People Dansa (featuring Tony Allen)
2015
Flavia Coelho
Mundo Meu
7:36 AM
56 Me
LOCAL
2026
Strapped
Highway Sex Shop
7:33 AM
Broke My Own
At Subterranean 7/25
Shannon Shaw
Shannon in Nashville
7:25 AM
Nothing's On The Radio
2026
Mikaela Davis
Graceland Way
7:22 AM
Meet Me in the City
Going out to Nate in Philly. Thanks for listening!
Junior Kimbrough
First Recordings
7:18 AM
Marching Through The Wilderness (Charanga)
By request for Chris K. Thanks for listening!
David Byrne
Rei Momo
7:10 AM
2 or 3
2026
The Lemon Twigs
Look For Your Mind!
7:07 AM
African Night Flight
1979
David Bowie
Lodger
7:05 AM
The Trip
LOCAL
The Park Avenue Playground
2131 South Michigan Avenue: 60's Garage & Psychedelia from U.S.A. and Destination Records
7:00 AM
Spitting Off the Edge of the World (featuring Perfume Genius)
2022
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Cool It Down
Sat 05/23 · 6AM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
6:55 AM
Give It Up
1986
Talk Talk
The Colour Of Spring
6:50 AM
Am I Really Here
Moonlight
Follow the Sun
6:47 AM
I'm Gonna Let My Heart Do The Walking
The Supremes
Nicky Siano's Legendary The Gallery: The Original New York Disco 1973-77
6:44 AM
No More Wine (Eyn Kol Vayn)
LOCAL
2026
David Safran
A Few Lines Later
6:38 AM
Sermon (feat. Margo Price)
Margo Price at Fitzgerald's 7/12
Mercury Rev
Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisited
6:35 AM
Devil's Gotten into My Baby
The Devotions
Basement Beehive: The Girl Group Underground
6:33 AM
Who's That?
2026
Brother Wallace
Electric Love
6:26 AM
We Are Each Other
1992
The Beautiful South
0898 Beautiful South
6:22 AM
Playground
At Schubas 6/24
Jesca Hoop
Long Wave Home
6:20 AM
French Movie Theme (Siamese Sessions Outtake)
LOCAL
Playing the United Center 10/14
The Smashing Pumpkins
Pisces Iscariot
6:18 AM
I Fit in Your Sunshine
2026
The Coral Sea
The Beautiful Disappearing
6:09 AM
Beauty Trip
1992
Television
Television
6:05 AM
I Ate the Most
At Thalia Hall 9/18
Aldous Harding
Train on the Island
6:00 AM
Rocket
2019
Steve Mason
About the Light
Sat 05/09 · 8AM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
8:52 AM
Mr. Cool
Big Mama Thornton
Sassy Mama!
8:48 AM
Broomstick
L7
Smell The Magic
8:44 AM
Misadventure
Squeeze
Argybargy
8:40 AM
Another Way
Selah Sue & The Gallands
Movin'
8:34 AM
idea 1
Kelela
new avatar
8:31 AM
You Once Loved Rock and Roll
KILLER ANTZ
A Chorus for the Wasteland
8:28 AM
Turandot feat. Marianne Mirage
Marco Benevento
Glera
8:21 AM
Heartbeat
The Psychedelic Furs
Mirror Moves
8:17 AM
Silk Road
CAVS
Sojourn
8:15 AM
Baggy Jeans
Lolo Zouaï
Reverie
8:09 AM
Go On Ahead
LOCAL
Liz Phair
Whitechocolatespaceegg
8:06 AM
New Beginning
LOCAL
Jovan Landry
Intellectual Frequencies (EP)
8:03 AM
Sauna
Jessie Ware
Superbloom
Sat 05/09 · 7AM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
7:58 AM
Certainty
LOCAL
Friko
Something Worth Waiting For
7:53 AM
I_m On Fire (featuring The Cavemen.)
Angelique Kidjo
Hope
7:49 AM
Kind & Generous
Natalie Merchant
Ophelia
7:45 AM
Sunday Light
Anna Calvi, Ellie Rowsell, Nilüfer Yanya & Dove Ellis
HELP(2)
7:39 AM
The Girls
Albertine Sarges
The Sticky Fingers
7:36 AM
Same Thing It Took
LOCAL
Inspirational Gospel Singers
Good God! Born Again Funk
7:32 AM
Eyes
Sir Chloe
Swallow The Knife
7:26 AM
Cinnamon Baby
LOCAL
Dr. Goldfoot & The Bikini Machine
Semantics
7:23 AM
The Negotiation Limerick File
Beastie Boys
Hello Nasty
7:19 AM
Mirror Test
Pigeon
OUTTANATIONAL
7:10 AM
Dreamin'
G. Love & Special Sauce
Philadelphonic
7:05 AM
Patron Saint of Pale
LOCAL
American Football
American Football (LP4)
7:00 AM
San Francisco
Aldous Harding
Train on the Island
Sat 05/09 · 6AM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
6:58 AM
In Love (Don't Mess Things Up)
Lady Wray
Queen Alone
6:56 AM
Good Enough for Grandad
Squirrel Nut Zippers
The Inevitable
6:49 AM
Antennariidae
Los Pulpitos
Tentacletek
6:46 AM
Get a Job
The Silhouettes
The Best of Doo Wop Uptempo
6:43 AM
Still Life
Suitor
Saw You Out with the Weeds
6:36 AM
Water (Feelings, Emotions) (featuring Immanuel Wilkins, Amyna Love)
LOCAL
Marquis Hill
Beautifulism (Sweet Surrender) EP
6:33 AM
Children Play With Earth
Arrested Development
3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days In The Life Of...
6:29 AM
Friendly Galaxy
The Sun Ra Arkestra
Secrets of the Sun
6:21 AM
Dirt on the Bed
Cate Le Bon
Pompeii
6:18 AM
Have a Go, Hero
Let Spin
I am Alien
6:14 AM
Dimples
Dida Pelled
I Wish You Would
6:08 AM
Egoland
Rodrigo y Gabriela
In Between Thoughts... A New World
6:06 AM
Bull Dog
The Shangri-Las
Myrmidons of Melodrama
6:00 AM
Shush
Tori Amos
In Times Of Dragons
Sat 05/02 · 8AM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
8:53 AM
Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop)
Parliament
Motor Booty Affair
8:48 AM
Frontier
Dead Can Dance
Wake: The Best of Dead Can Dance
8:45 AM
Bell Miner
MEMORIALS
All Clouds Bring Not Rain
8:43 AM
Halloween Hot Sauce
LOCAL
Vacancy Chain
Is This How It's Supposed To Be?
8:40 AM
Little Wing
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Axis: Bold As Love
8:36 AM
Out of Place (feat. Marta)
Tricky
Different When It's Silent
8:33 AM
I Want You
Beck Zegans
Engraving of Armor
8:27 AM
Silently
Tara Clerkin Trio
Somewhere Good
8:22 AM
Let's Fall in Lava
They Might Be Giants
The World Is to Dig
8:18 AM
Yoru e Isogu Hito
Naomi Chiaki
Tokyo Pulse
8:12 AM
Silly
Deniece Williams
My Melody
8:06 AM
Return to Sender
Ibibio Sound Machine
Return to Sender
8:03 AM
YAH.
Kendrick Lamar
DAMN.
8:01 AM
Run for Your Life
DJ Shadow
The Less You Know, the Better
Sat 05/02 · 7AM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
7:56 AM
Speed of the Wind
Be Bop Deluxe
Air Age Anthology
7:51 AM
Diva
Model/Actriz
Pirouette
7:47 AM
Wish You Dead
Curve
Doppelgänger
7:44 AM
El Ultimo
Las Cruxes
Las Cruxes
7:39 AM
Orderliness, Godliness, Discipline and Dignity
African Head Charge
Songs Of Praise (Expanded Version)
7:36 AM
Fumbling Over Words That Rhyme
Edan
Beauty & the Beat
7:34 AM
Somebody's on Your Case
Ann Peebles
Straight from the Heart
7:31 AM
A.D.D. Through the Roof
Thundercat
Distracted
7:22 AM
Situation
Johnny Blue Skies
Mutiny After Midnight
7:18 AM
I Don't Want No Woman
LOCAL
Magic Sam
Delmark: 60 Years Of Blues
7:15 AM
Everyone Around Me Dancing
LOCAL
Gia Margaret
Singing
7:10 AM
Heaven Sent is a Coffee Cup
Bears in Trees
and everybody else smiled back
7:06 AM
Shareholder
Pastel Blank
Unmade In Minutes
7:03 AM
Les Papillons Noirs (featuring Serge Gainsbourg)
Michele Arnaud
La Belle Epoque: EMI's French Girls 1965-1968
Sat 05/02 · 6AM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
6:59 AM
Mistakes
Sharon Van Etten
We've Been Going About This All Wrong
6:55 AM
Leif Erikson
Interpol
Turn On The Bright Lights
6:48 AM
Class Reunion
Beatrix
We Swallowed The Sky
6:45 AM
Maybe
Vini Contreas
...Still Sad
6:41 AM
The Cure
Angelo De Augustine
Angel In Plainclothes
6:34 AM
Everything Goes
ESG
Keep On Moving
6:32 AM
I'll Always Love You
LOCAL
Velma Perkins
Eccentric Soul: Twinight's Lunar Rotation
6:27 AM
Rala-Bucho
Antonio Carlos & Jocafi, Adrian Younge, & Ali Shaheed Muhammad
Antonio Carlos & Jocafi JID026
6:20 AM
Bye Bye Love
The Cars
The Cars
6:15 AM
Certainty
LOCAL
Friko
Something Worth Waiting For
6:10 AM
Am I Wrong?
Low Cut Connie
Dirty Pictures (part 1)
6:06 AM
Reservations
Lia Pappas-Kemps
Winged
6:01 AM
Oh Me, Oh My
Lonnie Holley
Oh Me Oh My
Sat 04/25 · 8AM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
8:53 AM
B.T. (Boogie Terrestrial)
LOCAL
Yohon
The Real Sound of Chicago
8:46 AM
Gimme the Mic (ft. Ghettosocks & Def 3)
Dragon Fli Empire
Mission Statement
8:44 AM
Love Story
Anna Waronker
Anna
8:41 AM
Static
Paula Kelley
Blinking As The Starlight Burns Out
8:36 AM
Star
Iceage
For Love of Grace & the Hereafter
8:31 AM
Chance to Bleed
Kurt Vile
Philidelphia's Been God to Me
8:29 AM
Vacation
Touch Girl Apple Blossom
Graceful
8:23 AM
Battery Pack
Pictish Trail
Life Slime
8:18 AM
Cry Now, Laugh Later
Grace Jones
Living My Life
8:13 AM
Love Captain
LOCAL
Dr. Goldfoot & The Bikini Machine
Semantics
8:07 AM
Medal
Emily King
Special Occasion
8:04 AM
Mon Amour
Jessie Ware
Superbloom
8:01 AM
Vibrate (feat. Braintax)
Mr. Scruff
Trouser Jazz
Sat 04/25 · 7AM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
7:55 AM
Lost Highway
Wo Fat
The Black Code
7:50 AM
Deliverance
Sa-Roc
The Sharecropper's Daughter
7:48 AM
Mama's Got A Good Thing
LOCAL
Laura Lee
Chicago Soul: Electric Blues, Funk & Soul
7:44 AM
Fire 2
Grace Ives
Girlfriend
7:39 AM
Tiers monde
Francis Bebey
African Electronic Music 1975-1982
7:36 AM
Like I Say (I Runaway)
Nilüfer Yanya
My Method Actor
7:31 AM
In the Blink of an Eye
My New Band Believe
My New Band Believe
7:26 AM
Might See You There
Weird Nightmare
Hoopla
7:22 AM
Come La Notte
WOW
Come La Notte
7:17 AM
Tougher than the Rest
Nation of Language
Tougher than the Rest
7:08 AM
House of I
The Afghan Whigs
House of I
7:05 AM
Two or More
LOCAL
UNIFLORA
RED XEROX
Sat 04/25 · 6AM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
6:59 AM
Islands of Men
Geese
Getting Killed
6:55 AM
Big Time
Angel Olsen
Big Time
6:50 AM
It Don't Mean A Thing
Robyn
Sexistential
6:45 AM
Enlacing
Clipping.
Visions of Bodies Being Burned
6:41 AM
Nasty Gal
Betty Davis
Nasty Gal
6:35 AM
I Can Take the Sun Out of the Sky
LOCAL
Brigitte Calls Me Baby
Irreversible
6:32 AM
Quicksand
Wesley Joseph
Forever Ends Someday
6:29 AM
Second Story Man
LOCAL
Chocolate Sunday
Eccentric Soul: Sitting in the Park
6:22 AM
Waiting
Beth Orton
The Ground Above
6:20 AM
Three Children's Pieces: II. Fairy Tale (poco allegro e dolcissimo)
Peter Kramer
To a Green Thought in a Green Shade
6:16 AM
Wear Black
The Mountain Goats
Goths
6:08 AM
Pavlov's Bell
Aimee Mann
Lost In Space
6:04 AM
Midnight at the Station
Cots
Disturbing Body
6:01 AM
Lilac Wine
Arooj Aftab & Beck
HELP(2)
Sat 04/18 · 8AM
Time
Track
Artist
Album
8:53 AM
Fight Am Finish
Antibalas
Fu Chronicles
8:45 AM
This Wheel's On Fire
Siouxsie & The Banshees
Through The Looking Glass