November 7, 2026 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #829)

9:01 AM Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop We Two Are a Moon Love Letter for Fire Sub Pop

9:03 AM P.M. Dawn I'll Be Waiting for You Jesus Wept Gee Street/Island

9:08 AM Eels I'm On Standby Cookie Happened E Works/Play It Again Sam 

9:14 AM Atlas Sound Octoberland single 4AD

October 31, 2026 CHIRP Radio Playlist (Show #828)

8:59 AM Julien Baker Everything That Helps You Sleep Turn Out the Lights Matador

9:03 AM Smokey Robinson Baby Come Close Smokey Motown

9:07 AM Karen y los Remedios Satanás Bestiaria ZZK

9:14 AM THAO How I Needed You Show Me Kill Rock Stars

October 24, 2026 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #827)

9:01 AM Delaney & Bonnie And Friends Groupie (Superstar) D & B Together Columbia

9:04 AM Stevie Wonder How Will I Know (featuring Aisha Morris) A Time to Love Motown

9:07 AM Resavoir In Motion (featuring Knox Fortune) Above the Clouds L'UNIVERS

9:15 AM Michael Kiwanuka Move in My Direction Fudge Polydor

October 17, 2026 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #826)

9:01 AM Mad/No/Mad Basket Case single Brat

9:04 AM Seu Jorge River Man The Other Side Black Service/Amor in Sound

9:08 AM Paul Spring Guardian Angel Barnstorm Bombadil

9:15 AM Richard Thompson Pipe Dreams Hippies, Thugs and Dreams New West

October 10, 2026 CHIRP Radio Playlist (Show #825)

9:01 AM Horace Andy Ain't No Sunshine You Are My Angel Trojan

9:04 AM Jenn Grant Eye of the Tiger single self-released

9:08 AM James The Seventh Science Science Nice Life

9:16 AM Chrissy Amphlett He's in Love Some Times ORIGIN

September 26, 2026 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #824)

9:02 AM Trans-Canada Highwaymen Undun Explosive Hits Vol. 1 Pheremone

9:05 AM Billy Ocean You Send Me Here You Are Sony Music 

9:10 AM Bain Marie Tell Me Everything I Liked Blue After You B3SCI

9:15 AM Julia Jacklin You Turned on the Tap The Gem 4AD

September 19, 2026 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #823)

9:00 AM The 5th Dimension Poor Side of Town Up, Up and Away Soul City

9:04 AM Paul Weller What Was I Made For? Weller at the BBC Vol. 2 Parlophone

9:08 AM Soft Loft Wrists That Wont Be Mine Throw The Dice Pias

9:15 AM Beck It Ends Right Here Ride Lonesome Illiad/Capitol

September 12, 2026 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #822)

9:01 AM Sparks All That A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip BMG

9:05 AM Olivia Rodrigo The Book of Love HELP(2) War Child

9:09 AM Open Mike Eagle & Kenny Segal Unfinished Concrete Initials (featuring Hemlock  Ernst) DOOMED! Backwoodz 

9:15 AM Micky Dolenz Any Way You Want Me To Timeless Friday Music

September 5, 2026 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #821)

9:00 AM The Four Seasons Saturday's Father The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette Phillips

9:03 AM Japanese Breakfast Soft Sounds from Another Planet Soft Sounds from Another Planet Dead Oceans

9:07 AM Cowboy Jane IF I Infinite Chest self-released

9:14 AM Dexys Midnight Runners I'll Always Love You LOVE Heavenly/[PIAS]

August 29, 2026 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #820)

8:59 AM Dolly Parton The Bargain Store The Bargain Store RCA Victor

9:01 AM Labelle Running Out of Fools & If Your Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody Labelle Warner Bros.

9:05 AM Alec Harryhausen Big World Noon Island self-released

9:14 AM Erykah Badu & The Alchemist Next 2 U Before The World Blows Control Freeq/Young

August 22, 2026 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #819)

8:59 AM Laufey While You Were Sleeping Bewitched AWAL

9:03 AM The Everly Brothers Following the Sun EB 84 Mercury

9:06 AM venturing Downtown Nowhere EP deadAir

9:13 AM Julia Holter Materia 3 Materia Domino

August 15, 2026 CHIRP Radio Show Playlist (Show #818)

9:01 AM R.E.M. Fretless Until the End of the World Warner Bros.

9:06 AM Amber Mark Turnin' Pages Three Dimensions Deep PMR/Interscope

9:09 AM Helado Tropical Un Calor Helado Tropical Psychic Hotline

9:15 AM Phoebe Bridgers The Governor's Waltz Lost Weekend Dead Oceans

August 8, 2026 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #817)

8:58 AM Lyres She Pays the Rent Some Lyres TAANG!

9:03 AM Kali Uchis Tu Corazón Es Mío... Orquídeas Geffen

9:07 AM Holy Joke Given Such Time First Light to Fill My Eyes self-released

9:13 AM The Mountain Goats Best Hard Rock Albums 2013 Days Cadmean Dawn

August 1, 2026 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #816)

8:58 AM Marvin Gaye I Met a Little Girl Here, My Dear Motown

9:03 AM Indigo De Souza Losing All Of This Will End Saddle Creek

9:06 AM Max Subar I Never Anything Could Be Merge

9:13 AM Shannon Lay The Calling Past the Veil All the Best

July 25, 2026 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #815)

8:59 AM Neko Case Look For Me (I'll Be Around) Blacklisted Bloodshot

9:02 AM Linton Kwesi Johnson Making History Making History Island

9:07 AM Laurie Duo Song for Aman Day self-released

9:13 AM Robyn Hitchcock The Vanishing Kind The Confuser Tiny Ghost

July 18, 2026 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #814)

8:59 AM Burning Spear Marcus Garvey Marcus Garvey Island

9:02 AM Lucy Dacus Going Going Gone Home Video Matador

9:05 AM Serengeti TACO BELL RACING JACKET KENNYV self-released

9:12 AM Laura Mvula and Cynthia Erivo It Would Be single Wilderness Child

July 11, 2026 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #813)

9:03 AM Carole King What Have You Got to Lose Writer Epic/Ode

9:06 AM Los Lobos What's Going On Just Another Band From East L.A.: A Collection Slash/Warner Bros.

9:11 AM Chris Crack Tricked Us Outta Showing Off Our Super Powers Don't Go In The Women's Bathroom New Deal Collectives

9:15 AM Kelela Against Me new avatar Warp

July 4, 2026 CHIRP Radio show playlist (Show #812)

9:01 AM Beyoncé BLACKBIIRD (featuring Tanner Adell, Brittney Spencer, Tiera Kennedy & Reyna Roberts) COWBOY CARTER Parkway/Columbia

9:03 AM John Prine Sam Stone The BBC Sessions The Lost Broadcasts 1971-1973 Sutra

9:07 AM The Honey Beat Velvet Vampire The Honey Beat self-released

9:14 AM Madonna My Sins Are My Savior (Feat. Stromae) Confessions II Warner

2026 Mid-year Top 20 (and more)

Another swell year for music so far. I made a Top 20 and then listed a bunch of other albums I'm digging:

1. Jill Scott - To Whom This May Concern (Blues Babe)

2. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis - Deface the Currency (Impulse!)

3. Bedouine - Neon Summer Skin (Bedouine/Thirty Tigers)

4. Gorillaz - The Mountain (Kong)

5. Ratboys - Singin' to an Empty Chair (New West)

June 27, 2026 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #811)

9:00 AM Stevie Wonder All In Love Is Fair Innervisions Tamla

9:04 AM Lydia Loveless Say My Name Daughter Honey, You're Gonna Be Late

9:08 AM Serengeti W CHAT GANG KENNYV self-released

9:15 AM Tift Merritt Fate of Man is in Sarah's Eyes Sugar One Riot