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

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