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

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

May 23, 2026 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #806)

9:01 AM Donny Hathaway A Song For You Donny Hathaway Atlantic

9:06 AM Rosanne Cash List of Burdens 10 Song Demo Capitol

9:09 AM Sports Boyfriend Crystal Ball Slice of Life self-released

9:16 AM Moses Sumney & Kara Jackson Sins of the Father Is God Is Lakeshore

May 16, 2026 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #805)

9:00 AM  Elvis Costello & the Attractions Watch Your Step Trust Columbia

9:03 AM  Erykah Badu Cleva Mama's Gun Motown

9:06 AM  Charles Joseph Smith Love Theme Collected Works and War of the Martian Ghosts Sooper

9:14 AM  Dua Saleh Firestorm Of Earth & Wires  Ghostly International

May 9, 2026 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #804)

9:00am Paul Simon Long, Long Day One Trick Pony (Warner Bros.)

9:04am Jamila Woods ZORA LEGACY! LEGACY! (Jagjaguwar)

9:07am The Reds, Pinks and Purples Worthy of Love Acknowledge Kindness (Fire)

9:14am Laurie Anderson with Sex Mob Ramon Let X=X (Live) (Nonesuch)

May 2, 2026 CHIRP Radio Show playlist (Show #803)

9:00am Everything But The Girl Old Friends Worldwide (Atlantic)

9:03am serpentwithfeet Fellowship (ft Sampha & Lil Silva) DEACON (Jagjaguwar)

9:07am Amaya Peña Song For Avi RED XEROX (Desert Island Recordings)

9:14am Kacey Musgraves Hell on Me Middle of Nowhere (Lost Highway)

April 25, 2026 CHIRP Radio show playlist (Show #802)

9:00am Joy Crookes Feet Don't Fail Me Now Skin (Speakerbox)

9:03am Talk Talk I Believe In You Spirit Of Eden (EMI)

9:09am José González Against the Dying of the Light Against the Dying of the Light (Mute)

9:15am Ringo Starr Long Long Road Long Long Road (Universal)

April 11, 2026 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #801)

9:01am Gary Numan Please Push No More Telekon (Beggars Banquet)

9:06am Diana Ross I Thought it Took a Little Time (But Today I Fell in Love) Diana Ross (Motown)

9:09am Sella South Dakota Well I Mean (Bar/None)

9:15am Kelela Idea 1 single (Warp)

April 4, 2026 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #800)

8:59am Rickie Lee Jones Sunshine Superman Duchess of Coolsville (Rhino)

9:03am Mike Viola Everybody Want to Rule the World Here Comes the Reign Again (Curry Cuts)

9:06am Resavoir Deep Sleep Themes for Dreams (L’UNIVERS)

9:13am Joe Pernice Force Feed the Fire Sunny, I Was Wrong (New West/Ashmont)

March 28, 2026 CHIRP Radio Playlist (Show #799)

9:00am Jennifer Alvarado I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) single (self-released)

9:05am Lucy Dacus Time in a Bottle Forever Is A Feeling (Geffen)

9:07am Evann McIntosh Blue Movie Magic Fantasy Fuel (DVLPMNT)

9:15am The New Pornographers Calligraphy The Former Site of (Merge)

March 21, 2026 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #798)

9:00am Rogue Wave Everyday single (Sub Pop)

9:04am Shovels & Rope Epic (feat. Lera Lynn) Busted Jukebox Volume 2 (New West)

9:10am Maria BC Miami Marathon (Sacred Bones)

9:16am Hurray for the Riff Raff Local Colossus of Roads Live Forever (Nonesuch)

March 14, 2026 CHIRP Radio Playlist (Show #797)

9:00am Photo Ops The Waiting Opening Up to Strangers (Odd Man Out/gemini)

9:04am Loah Dancing in the Moonlight (It's Got Me in the Spotlight) single (self-released)

9:07am Lala Lala Even Mountains Erode Heaven 2 (Sub Pop)

9:16am Tinariwen Asstaghfero Allah Hoggar (Wedge)

March 7, 2026 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #796)

9:00am Finom Liquor Cabinet Parts (Joyful Noise)

9:03am Bill Withers I Don't Know Still Bill (Sussex)

9:06am Nashpaints Tonight I'm Thinking of My Big Eyes Everyone Good is Called Molly (MirrorWorld)

9:12am Bonnie Prince Billy (Everybody's Got a) Friend Named Joe We Are Together Again (No Quarter)