Psychotic Distraction

07/03/2025

07/02/2025

VACATION! Out of the office this week, Kevin filling in today on CHIRP Radio 107.1FM. Back next Wednesday 3:00pm - 6:00pm CT per usual.

06/26/2025

JUNE 25 2025 PLAYLIST

The Hellacopters - City Slang - Payin' the Dues (White Jazz)

Sonic's Rendezvous Band - Electrophonic Tonic - City Slang (Orchide)

Knei - Mensaje Eterno - III (Necio)

Uniflora - Fence - More Gums Than Teeth (Shuga)

Cat's Eyes - Face in the Crowd - Face in the Crowd (Polydor)

The Seeds - Nobody Spoil My Fun - The Seeds (GNP)

The Masonics - Killing Floor - Some Other Guys (Spinout Nuggets)

Van Halen - So This is Love? - Fair Warning (Warner Bros.)

OUTRONAUT - Demonic Republic - Demonic Republic (Self Released)

The Makers - Miss Fay Regrets - Tiger of the Night (Sub Pop Records)

Screamin' Jay Hawkins - There's Something Wrong with You - Alligator Wine (Okeh)

Eddie Floyd - Water - I've Never Found a Girl (Stax)

The Minus 5 - Blow in My Bag - Oar On, Penelope! (Yep Roc Records)

8-bit crEEps - Turn of the Wurm - Sunset from the Shallows (Self Released)

Atlantic Thrills - Dirty Love - III (Self Released)

Thee Hypnotics - Kissed by the Flames - Soul Glitter & Sin (Beggars Banquet)

Herb Alpert - This Guy's in Love with You - This Guy's in Love with You (A&M)

Joey DeFrancesco & "Papa" John DeFrancesco - Blues for Sweet Sue - All in the Family (Highnote)

Sandy Nelson - Let There Be Drums -Let There Be Drums (London)

Sweet - AC/DC - Desolation Boulevard (Capital)

Time Thieves - Remember I Forgot - Come Home (Self Released)

MY LIFE WITH THE THRILL KILL KULT - Blue Buddha -13 Above the Night (Interscope)

Bellhead - Heart Shaped Hole - Threats (Oppressive Sky)

The Bug Club - Living in the Future - Very Human Features (Sub Pop Records)

Pegboy - Never a Question - Fore (Quarterstick)

Poison Heart - Sin - Love Lies & Hard Times (Heavy Medication)

KIX - Cold Blood - Blow My Fuse (Atlantic)

Civic - Fragrant Rice - Chrome Dipped (ATO)

Firehose - Brave Captain - Ragin' Full On (SST)

Sparks - I-405 Rules - Mad (Transgressive)

Ill Tal Beats - Funeral March - We Still Makes Beats the Old Way (Self Released)

Herb Geller - Nightmare Alley - Stax of Sax (Jubilee)

The Dead Milkmen - Smokin' Banana Peels - Beelzebubba (Enigma)

The Shackjackets - The Devil's Playbook - The Shackjackets (Self Released)

Sore Subjects - Missing Link - Missing Link (Surfin' Ki)

Misfits - Hollywood Babylon - Bullet (Plan 9)

Moontype - Four Hands I - I Let the Wind Push Down on Me (Ordinal)

Rowland S. Howard - Autoluminescent - Teenage S***f Film (Reliant)

Pelican - Evergreen - Flickering Resonance (Run for Cover)

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CHIRPradio.org is a listener-supported music and arts focused community radio station in Chicago staffed by more than 150 volunteers.

06/25/2025

Meticulously curated/toddler approved jams today 3:00pm - 6:00pm CT on CHIRP Radio 107.1FM.

06/22/2025

Have you heard the news? Filling in today on CHIRP Radio 107.1FM 2:00pm - 4:00pm CT. Spread the word!

06/20/2025

Survey: what is your number one go-to feel-good song? I'm going to be featuring listener selections on my show every week throughout the summer. Drop 'em in the comments!

06/19/2025

JUNE 18 2025 PLAYLIST

Alien S*x Fiend - Hurricane Fighter Plane - Hurricane Fighter Plane (PVC)

Pixel Grip - Moment with God - Percepticide: The Death of Reality (Self Released)

Guerilla Toss - Psychosis is Just a Number - You're Weird Now (Sub Pop Records)

Gluecifer - Brutus - Basement Apes (Steamhammer)

The Flaming Sideburns - Dark Side of the Earth - Alternative Passages (2017-2007) (Chaputa)

The J. Geils Band - Serves You Right to Suffer - The J. Geils Band (Atlantic)

Daniel Villarreal - In/Out - Gilles Peterson presents International Anthem (International Anthem)

John Cameron - Psychomania - Psychomania (Trunk)

Firewater - Some Strange Reaction - Get Off The Cross... We Need The Wood For The Fire (Jetset)

Bloodshot BILL - Calling Your Name - So Fed Up! (Goner)

Talking Heads - Memories Can't Wait - Fear of Music (Sire)

Jeffery BLVD & The Main Drag - Normal Girl - Normal Girl (Self Released)

Ty Segall - Alive - Possession (Drag City)

Familia de Lobos - Familia de Lobos - Familia de Lobos (Necio)

The Darkside - Sweet Vibrations - Waiting for the Angels - (Situation Two)

DANA - Midnight Fiend - Clean Living (Self Released)

Wall of Voodoo - They Don't Want Me - Call of the West (IRS)

Bad Religion - Los Angeles is Burning - The Empire Strikes First (Epitaph)

Subsonic Eye - Overgrown - Singapore Dreaming (Topshelf)

The Starlite Desperation - Go Kill Mice - Go Kill Mice (Flapping Jet)

Danimal Farm - Note to Self - Perseverance Hotel (Self Released)

The Strains - Bottom of the Ocean - The Strains (Self Released)

Slow Mass - Hell is Earth - Low on Foot (Landland)

Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds - La Llarona - Dracula Boots (In the Red)

Beach Boys - I Just Wasn't Made For These Times (Stereo Mix) - I Just Wasn't Made For These Times (Sub Pop)

Chris Hazelton - Jammin' at the Kirk - After Dark (Cellar Music)

The Timelords - Doctorin' The Tardis - Doctorin' The Tardis (KLF)

Stereolab - Electrified Teenybop! - Instant Holograms on Metal Film (Duophonic/Warp)

The Damned - The Girl Goes Down - Anything (MCA)

Melony - Wearing Shades on Rainy Days - Satisfiction (Soap)

Sepultura - War - Blood Rooted (Roadrunner)

BEAR MACE - Prophecy - Slaves of the Wolf (Self Released)

Kreator - Radical Resistance - Hordes of Chaos (Steamhammer)

The Thirsty Giants - Meat Meat Meat - Southern Minnesota Discomfort: TG Live (Self Released)

The Replacements - Little Mascara - Tim (Sire)

The Debauchers - All Her Friends - Drinking & Yelling (Self Released)

Lùlù - Terres Basses - Lùlù (Howlin Banana Records)

U***d Sailor - Cruel Entertainment - Cruel Entertainment (Current Taste)

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CHIRPradio.org is a listener-supported music and arts focused community radio station in Chicago staffed by more than 150 volunteers.

06/18/2025

Records! Talking! More records! Live on CHIRP Radio 107.1FM today 3:00pm - 6:00pm CT!

06/13/2025

Every few years I like to remind myself that this exists.
https://youtu.be/rbDDQMPKSTo?si=zXxYmmgJR6mh1o67

The band was formed in 2005, passed trough a solo time but now it's a band again. This song is from the album "Earth's secret history", available on mp3 e-st...

06/12/2025

JUNE 11 2025 PLAYLIST

Sly & The Family Stone - Sing a Simple Song - Stand! (Epic)

Fishbone - Bonin' in the Boneyard - Truth & Soul (Columbia)

The Speed Babes - Maybe You Should - HekinRad (Self Released)

The Dirtbombs - Ode to a Black Man - Ultraglide in Black (In the Red)

Goddess - Animal - Goddess (Bella Union)

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Long Black Veil - Kicking Against the Pricks (Mute)

The Touch - Organs Without Bodies - The Touch (Self Released)

Dog Party - Lost Control - Lost Control (Self Released)

Big Midnight - Treat Me Too Bad - Everything For the First Time (Alive)

ZZ Top - Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers - Tres Hombres (London)

Ty Segall - The Big Day - Possession (Drag City)

Ravagers - Wicked Bones - On the Loose (Spaghetti Town)

Pulp - A Sunset - More (Rough Trade)

Small Faces - Afterglow - Ogdens Nut Gone Flake (Immediate)

Civic - Gulls Way - Chrome Dipped (ATO)

YASS - Pulse - Feel Safe (Crazysane)

Killing Joke: - Tomorrow's World - Killing Joke (EG)

Lead into Gold - The Pall You Know - Knife the Ally (Artoffact)

Die Kreuzen - All White - Die Kreuzen (Touch & Go)

Ornette Coleman - Congeniality - The Shape of Jazz to Come (Altantic)

The Qualitons - Rolling the Bones - Rolling the Bones (Tramp)

The Phantom A.D. - Left Hand Path - The Terrifying Return Of... (Self Released)

Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Out of the Flesh - Trash Classic (Reverberation Appreciation Society)

ACCEPT - Balls to the Wall - Balls to the Wall (Polydor)

Hitter - Motorcycle Psycho - Hard Enough (Hoove Child)

Odin - 12 O'Clock High - Fight For Your Life (Victor)

Lifeguard - Under Your Reach - Ripped & Torn (Matador)

Kicked In The Teeth - Werewolves - Watling Street Chambers (Rare Vitamin)

The Clash - I'm So Bored with the U.S.A. - The Clash (CBS)

Supersuckers - Maybe I'm Just Messin' With You - Maybe I'm Just Messin' With You (Self Released)

The Budos Band - Overlander - VII (Diamond West)

The Buck Clayton Septet - Buck Huckles - Buckin' the Blues (Vanguard)

Burgers Gone Wild - BBQANON - BBQANON (Knuckles on Stun)

The Cramps - Human Fly - Human Fly (Vengeance)

Alpha Whale - When the Dawn Comes - All Hat, No Cattle (Belly Button)

The Sewergrooves - Should I Care - Songs from the Sewer (Estrus)
38 Special - Rockin' Into The Night - Rockin' Into The Night (A&M)

The Gap Band - You Dropped a Bomb on Me - IV (Mercury)

Justice Hill - Come Back - Cooler by the Lake (J Nash)

Alphacolors - Open the Window to Gaze at the Moon - H (Self Released)

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CHIRPradio.org is a listener-supported music and arts focused community radio station in Chicago staffed by more than 150 volunteers.