DJ Bios
Mike Bennett Saturdays, 9AM
Mike has been on the CHIRP board of directors from its inception. He got his start in radio in high school at Hinsdale Central’s WHSD, and then moved on to WIDB at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. His radio dreams were deferred by a detour into retail music and then a U-turn to law school. Even while working as an attorney at the State Appellate Defender, Mike stayed in touch with the music scene, writing reviews on the web for Pop Palace, Fufkin.com and his own blog, Hablo Ennui. His favorites include Sparks, Sweet, Cheap Trick, The Fall, Didjits, Buck Owens, Ted Leo, The Zombies, Bo Diddley and many, many others.
Mike Bennett's Recent Playlists
September 4
11:58AM Gang Of Four I Found That Essence Rare from Entertainment! (EMI)
11:55AM Boom Bip Roads Must Roll from Seed To Sun (Warp)
11:49AM The Poison Arrows Parting Gifts from Newfound Resolutions (File 13)
11:44AM Islands Where There's a Will There's a Whalebone from Return to the Sea (Equator)
11:40AM Gus Gus Ladyshave from (This Is Normal (4AD/Warner Brothers)
11:38AM Best Coast When I'm With You from Crazy For You (Mexican Summer)
11:33AM DJ Muggs vs. Ill Bill Illuminati 666 from Kill Devil Hills (Fat Beats)
11:29AM Japandroids Rockers East Vancouver from Post-Nothing (Polyvinyl)
11:26AM Tommy Keene My Mother Looked Like Marilyn Monroe from Songs From The Film (Geffen)
11:20AM The Angels Comin' Down from Face To Face (Albert Productions)
11:16AM Ufomammut Eve Pt. IV from Eve (SupernaturalCat)
11:14AM Nerves Red Night from New Animal (Thrill Jockey)
11:08AM Cornelius New Music Machine from Fantasma (Matador)
11:05AM The Black Angels Entrance Song from Phosphene Dream (Blue Horizon)
11:00AM Tina Turner Whole Lotta Love from Funkier Than A Mosquito's Tweeter (EMI)
10:55AM Deerhunter Cryptograms from Cryptograms (Kranky)
10:53AM Film School Distant Life from Fission (Hi-Speed Soul)
10:49AM R.E.M. Harborcoat from Reckoning (Deluxe Edition) (IRS)
10:44AM DOOM Supervillainz from Born Like This (Lex)
10:40AM Wildbirds & Peacedrums The Well from Rivers (The Control Group)
10:37AM The Searchers Popcorn Double Feature from The Pye Anthology 1963-1967 (Castle/Sequel)
10:33AM Robbie Fulks Goodbye Cruel Girl from Georgia Hard (Yep Roc)
10:29AM Hudson Brothers Dolly Day from Totally Out Of Control (Rocket)
10:25AM The Arcade Fire Ready To Start from The Suburbs (Merge)
10:20AM AC Newman The Palace At 4 am from Get Guilty (Matador)
10:18AM Swiss Dots Great Communicator from Glaciers (Vinahyde)
10:13AM The Morells Big Guitar from Shake And Push (ESD)
10:09AM Catfish Haven Full Speed from Devastator (Secretly Canadian)
10:05AM David Byrne Like Humans Do from Look Into The Eyeball (Virgin)
10:02AM Lloyd Miller & The Heliocentrics Modality from Lloyd Miller & The Heliocentrics (Strut)
9:57AM California Wives Twenty Three from Affair EP (Self-released)
9:55AM Comet Gain If You Ever Walk Out My Life from Broken Record Prayers (What's Your Rupture)
9:50AM Neil Young Misfits from Old Ways (Geffen)
9:46AM Cotton Mather My Before And After from Kontiki (Copper)
9:42AM Aphex Twin To Cure A Weakling Child from Richard D. James Album (Warp)
9:38AM Sufjan Stevens Enchanting Ghost from All Delighted People EP (Asthmatic Kitty)
9:34AM Kelly Stoltz The Birmingham Eccentric from Circular Sounds (Sub Pop)
9:31AM Magic Kids Skateland from Memphis (True Panther Sounds)
9:27AM Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Strings No Matter What from Renegades (Delmark)
9:23AM Billie Davis Whatcha Gonna Do? from Whatcha Gonna Do? Singles, rarities and unreleased 1963-1966 (RPM)
9:19AM Sebastian Blanck Don't Let The Darkness Gather me from Alibi Coast (Rare Book Room)
9:16AM The National 90-Mile Water Wall from Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers (Brassland)
9:11AM Blue Giant Gone For Good from Blue Giants (Vanguard)
9:09AM The Persuasions Loves Me Like A Rock from Comin' At Ya (Flying Fish)
9:03AM Petra Haden Rael from Petra Haden Sings: The Who Sell Out (Bar None)
August 28
11:57AM Chromatics Healer from Night Drive (Italians Do Better)
11:53AM The Sword Night City from Warp Riders (Kemado)
11:50AM Funkadelic Funky Dollar Bill from Free Your Mind...And Your Ass Will Follow (Westbound)
11:46AM The Gossip Dangerrr from Movement (Kill Rock Stars)
11:44AM The Posies Wiggly World from At Least At Last (Not Lame)
11:39AM Mahjongg Wardance from The Long Shadow of the Paper Tiger (K)
11:34AM The Dickies Hair from Secong Coming (Enigma)
11:31AM Christopher Willits Uplifting The Streets from Tiger Flowr Circle Sun (Ghostly International)
11:27AM The Clean Tensile from Mister Pop (Merge)
11:24AM The Monkees You Just May Be the One from Headquarters (Rhino)
11:17AM Endless Boogie Mighty Fine Pie from Full House Head (No Quarter)
11:14AM The Noisettes Mind The Gap from What's The Time Mr. Wolf? (Vertigo)
11:09AM Les Savy Fav Calm Down from Root For Ruin (Frenchkiss)
11:06AM Ladytron Sugar from Witching Hour (Island)
11:04AM Bang! Bang! Nervous Tic from Decked Out (Morphius)
11:01AM Blue Oyster Cult This Ain't The Summer Of Love from Agents Of Fortune (Columbia/Legacy)
10:58AM Homeboy Sandman Low Co. from The Good Sun (High Water Music)
10:55AM The Dambuilders Shrine from Encendedor (Eastwest)
10:52AM Smith Westerns Girl In Love from Smith Westerns (HoZac)
10:47AM Thunderbirds Are Now! We Win (Ha Ha) from Make History (Frenchkiss)
10:43AM The Boomtown Rats Living In An Island from Tonic For The Troops (Mercury/Univeral)
10:40AM Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin Everlyn from Let It Sway (Polyvinyl)
10:35AM Coltrane Motion Maya Blue from Hello Ambition! (Datawaslost)
10:31AM L.L. Cool J You'll Rock from Radio (Def Jam)
10:27AM Broadcast The World Backwards from Work and Non-Work (Warp)
10:21AM Elsinore Lines from Yes Yes Yes (Parasol)
10:18AM The Beatles Got To Get You Into My Life from The Beatles Anthology 2 (Apple)
10:15AM The Changes Such A Scene from First Of May (Self-released)
10:10AM Foals Cassius from Antidotes (Sub Pop)
10:07AM Mount Kimbie Blind Night Errand from Crooks & Lovers (Hotflush)
10:02AM The Boo Radleys Lazarus from Giant Steps (Creation/Columbia)
9:58AM Ha Ha Tonka The Outpouring from Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South (Bloodshot)
9:55AM De Wayon Vis-a-vis from Roots of OK Jazz: Congo Classics 1955-1956 (Crammed)
9:51AM John Cunningham Way To Go from Happy-Go-Lucky (Ashmont)
9:47AM Department of Eagles Teenagers from In Ear Park (4AD)
9:45AM Moonbabies Jet from The Orange Billboard (Hidden Agenda)
9:40AM Ra Ra Riot The Orchard from The Orchard (Barsuk)
9:35AM U2 Jesus Christ from Folkways: A Vision Shared A Tribute to Woody Guthrie And Leadbelly (Columbia)
9:33AM Sebadoh Truly Great Thing from III (Homestead)
9:30AM David Singer & Sweet Science Straight To Bed from Arrows (The Sweet Science)
9:28AM Robert Palmer Want You More from Pride (Island)
9:23AM Mountain Man Soft Skin from Made The Harbor (Partisan)
9:16AM Charles Mingus Stop! Look! And Listen, Sinner Jim Whitney! from The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (Impulse!)
9:13AM Chris Knox Giving Her Away from Songs Of You & Me (Caroline)
9:08AM Cotton Jones Place at the End of the Street from Tall Hours In Glowstream (Suicide Squeeze)
9:05AM Neko Case Pretty Girls from Blacklisted (Bloodshot)
9:01AM Family My Friend The Sun from Bandstand (See For Miles)
August 21
11:57AM Crayon Schirm Loop from Brick Factory (Harriet )
11:53AM Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan Ramblin' Man from Ballad Of The Broken Seas (V2)
11:50AM Verma Exu from Verma (Plustapes)
11:44AM The Fluid Pretty Mouse from Glue (Sub Pop)
11:41AM The Rapture Down For So Long from Pieces Of The People We Love (Universal)
11:39AM Personal and the Pizzas I Don't Wanna Be No Personal Pizza from Raw Pie (1-2-3-4 Go!)
11:33AM The Budos Band Rite of the Ancients from Budos Band III (Daptone)
11:30AM Suran Song In Stag Tattooed Love Boys from Cowboys And Indians (Cruel Music)
11:27AM Michael Yonkers Band Microminature Love from Microminature Love (Sub Pop)
11:22AM The Ponys Looking Out A Mirror from Laced With Romance (In The Red)
11:17AM Queen Dragon Attack from The Game (Elektra)
11:14AM El-P Time Won't Tell from weareallgiongtoburninhellmegamixx3 (Gold Dust)
11:10AM Black Randy and the Metro Squad I Slept in an Arcade from Pass The Dust, I Think I'm Bowie (Sympathy For The Record Industry)
11:06AM Autolux Supertoys from Transit Transit (TBD)
11:02AM Arctic Monkeys 505 from Favourite Worst Nightmare (Domino)
10:59AM The Clefs Of Lavender Hill Stop -- Get A Ticket from Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The Psychedelic Era (Rhino)
10:55AM The Chantigs Your Twinkling Eyes from Four Hats (Rodent)
10:53AM Loden Waking Up Radio Problems from Buggy (Mush)
10:50AM The Specials Monkey Man from The Specials (Chrysalis)
10:46AM Crystal Castles Untrust Us from Crystal Castles (Lies)
10:42AM Reds And Blue Frozen White from Son of the Stars (Addenda)
10:36AM Lush Nothing Natural from Spooky (4AD/Reprise)
10:32AM Shawn Lee Older (featuring Miles Bonny) from Sing a Song (Ubiquity)
10:28AM Cats +Jammers Not Gay from Propose Toast (Scotch Hell)
10:26AM Ultimate Fakebook She Don't Even Know My Name from This Will Be Laughing Week (Noisome)
10:21AM The War On Drugs Buenos Aires Beach from Wagonwheel Blues (Secretly Canadian)
10:18AM The Monochrome Set The Strange Boutique from Tomorrow Will Be Too Long - The Best of The Monochrome Set (Virgin)
10:13AM The Arcade Fire Half Light II (No Celebration) from The Suburbs (Merge)
10:08AM Yo La Tengo Little Honda from I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One (Matador)
10:05AM Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band The Roof from Where The Messengers Meet (Dead Oceans)
10:02AM West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band Insanity from Volume One (Sundazed)
9:58AM Field Music Working To Work from Tones Of Town (Memphis Industries)
9:54AM Bottomless Pit Kiss Them All from Blood Under the Bridge (Comedy Minus One)
9:49AM Jason Moran Play To Live from Ten (Blue Note)
9:46AM Poor Luther's Bones Holy Of The Holiest from Inside The Outsider (Heavy G)
9:43AM The dB's From a Window to Screen from Repercussion (Albion)
9:38AM BARB Please Don't Interrupt from BARB (Yep Roc)
9:33AM Elvis Perkins Emilie's Vietnam In The Sky from Ash Wednesday (XL)
9:28AM Candy Claws Sun Arrow from Hidden Lands (twosyllable)
9:25AM Tom Robinson Band Too Good to Be True from Power In The Darkness (Harvest)
9:20AM Amanda Palmer Runs In The Family from Who Killed Amanda Palmer (Roadrunner)
9:17AM Lower Dens Hospice Gates from Twin-Handed Movement (Gnomonsong)
9:13AM Sloan Waterfalls from Listen To What The Man Said (Oglio/Tribute)
9:08AM Bright Eyes First Day Of My Life from I'm Wide Awake It's Morning (Saddle Creek)
9:05AM Jon Langford & Skull Orchard Luxury from Old Devils (Bloodshot)
9:01AM Polly Scattergood Bunny Club from Polly Scattergood (Mute)
August 14
11:58AM Constantines Some Party from Constantines (Sub Pop)
11:56AM Rabble Rabble Dance Beat from Bangover (Commune)
11:49AM X TV Glue from Evil Rumours (Laughing Outlaw)
11:42AM Clap Your Hands Say Yeah The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (Self-released)
11:40AM Jawbreaker Into You Like A Train from Etc. (Blackball)
11:36AM The Poison Arrows Selective from Newfound Resolutions (File 13)
11:31AM Echo And The Bunnymen All I Want from Heaven Up Here (Sire/Rhino)
11:28AM Reporter The Moon from Time Incredible (Holocene)
11:24AM Denali The Instinct from The Instinct (Jade Tree)
11:19AM Alejandro Escovedo Chelsea Hotel '78 from Real Animal (Back Porch)
11:16AM The Small Faces You Need Loving from The Anthology 1965-1967 (Deram)
11:13AM Waaves Convertible Balloon from King of the Beach (Fat Possum)
11:09AM Tortoise Monument Six One Thousand from Beacons Of Ancestorship (Thrill Jockey)
11:04AM K-X-P Elephant Man from K-X-P (Smalltown Supersound)
11:01AM The Commodores Squeeze the Fruit from The Commodores (Motown)
10:57AM Parenthetical Girls The Four Platitudes from Safe As Houses (Slender Means Society)
10:53AM The Fall The League Of Bald-Headed Man from The Infotainment Scan (Matador)
10:51AM Jaill Demon from That's How We Burn (Sub Pop)
10:47AM Robert Gordon Someday Someway from Are You Gonna Be The One (RCA)
10:43AM Versus Pink Valhalla from On the Ones and Threes (Merge)
10:40AM J. Dilla Dime Piece (Remix featuring Dwele) from The Shining (BBE)
10:35AM Crystal Skulls Airport Motels from Blocked Numbers (Suicide Squeeze)
10:32AM ceo Illuminata from White Magic (Modular)
10:28AM Jet Start Here from Nothing To Do With Us/A Golden Treasury Of Jet (Fan Mael)
10:23AM Stereo Total Tokyo Mon Amour from My Melody (Bobsled)
10:19AM The Last Going Gone from Confession (SST)
10:16AM Maps & Atlases Solid Ground from Perch Patchwork (Barsuk)
10:11AM Ramsey Lewis Day Tripper from Ramsey Lewis's Finest Hour (Verve)
10:06AM Autechre nth Dafuseder.b from Move of Ten (Warp)
10:02AM The Secret Machines Nowhere Again from Now Here Is Nowhere (Reprise)
9:56AM The Ophelias Mr. Rabbit from The Ophelias (Strange Weekend)
9:52AM Mystery Jets The Girl is Gone from Serotonin (Rough Trade)
9:49AM Roxy Music A Really Good Time from Country Life (Virgin)
9:44AM Howe Gelb That's How Things Get Done from 'Sno Angel Like You (Ow Om)
9:40AM Akasha Ooh U Got Me from How They Move (Self-released)
9:37AM The Association Enter The Young from Just The Right Sound: The Association Anthology (Rhino/Warner Brothers)
9:33AM The Afternoons High Summer Lovers from Sweet Action (Saturday Records)
9:30AM The Bird and the Bee Rich Girl from Interpreting The Masters Volume 1: A Tribute To Daryl Hall and John Oates (Blue Note)
9:26AM Baths Rain Smell from Cerulean (Anticon)
9:20AM Lee Fields Rapping With Lee from Problems (Truth & Soul)
9:16AM David Karsten Daniels & Fight the Big Bull On Fields from I Mean To Live Here Still (Fat Cat)
9:12AM Sun Kil Moon Glenn Tipton from Ghosts of the Great Highway (Jet Set)
9:07AM The Love Language Wilmontt from Libraries (Merge)
9:03AM Porter Wagoner Albert Erving from Wagonmaster (Anti)
8:59AM Robyn Hitchcock Cheese Alarm from Jewels For Sophia (Warner Brothers)
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