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

June 20, 2026 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #810)

9:00 AM Muni Long Ruined Me Revenge Def Jam

9:04 AM Al Stewart Necromancer Famous Last Words Mesa

9:07 AM Bloodhype I felt the love sad songs to cry to Dark Circles

9:14 AM Kehlani Still Kehlani Atlantic

June 13, 2026 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #809)

9:00 AM Faye Webster Underdressed at the Symphony Underdressed at the Symphony Secretly Canadian

9:03 AM Joe Simon Theme from Cleopatra Jones (featuring The Mainseekers) Cleopatra Jones Warner Bros.

9:07 AM Boards of Canada Father and Son Inferno Warp

9:13 AM Olivia Rodrigo what's wrong with me (feat. Robert Smith) you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love Geffen

June 6, 2026 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #808)

9:00 AM Men At Work Down By the Sea Business As Usual Columbia

9:07 AM Mitski The Frost The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We Dead Oceans

9:09 AM Greg Mendez Looking Out Your Window Beauty Land Dead Oceans

9:14 AM Bedouine White Patent Leather Neon Summer Skin Bedouine Music/Thirty Tigers

May 30, 2026 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #807)

9:00 AM Lana del Rey White Mustang Lust for Life Interscope/Polydor

9:02 AM The Time Gigolos Get Lonely Too What Time Is It? Warner Bros.

9:07 AM Personal Trainer Punch Drunk Love Human Assholes Bella Union

9:14 AM Paul McCartney Momma Gets By The Boys of Dungeon Lane Capitol