Mike was an original member of the CHIRP board of directors, a former vice-president of CHIRP, and he now is a board member emeritus. 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. You can follow Mike on Twitter (and who wouldn't want to?) at @mrhonorama.
You can listen to Mike's most recent shows below.
11/2 - 11am hour
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11:52am
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Ronnie Baker Brooks Local
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Stuck On Stupid
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Blues In My DNA (Alligator)
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11:48am
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Humdrum Local
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Superbloom
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Every Heaven (Slumberland)
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11:47am
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Humdrum Local
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Superbloom
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Every Heaven (Slumberland)
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11:44am
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The Marvelettes
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Little Girls Grow Up
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A Cellarful of Motown! Volume 3 (Universal)
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11:42am
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Tunde Adebimpe
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Magnetic
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single (Sub Pop)
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11:37am
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SPRINTS
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Feast
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single (City Slang)
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11:32am
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Jeff Beck
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A Day in the House
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Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop with Terry Bozzio and Tony Hymas (Epic)
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11:29am
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Superchunk
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Fire in the Western World
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single (Merge)
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11:23am
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The Mystery Lights
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Sorry I Forgot Your Name
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Purgatory (Wick/Daptone)
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11:20am
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Be Bop Deluxe
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Modern Music
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Modern Music (Harvest)
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11:17am
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Poppy
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Hard
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Zig (Sumerian)
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11:13am
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The Cure
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War Song
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Songs of a Lost World (Polydor/Fiction/Capitol)
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Track Notes: 14th studio album. First LP of new material in 16 years
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11:07am
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La Femme
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Sweet Babe
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Rock Machine (Disque Pointu)
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11:04am
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Big Boi
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Night Night (featuring B.o.B. & Joi)
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Sir Lucious Left Foot... The Son of Chico Dusty (Def Jam)
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11:00am
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Veruca Salt Local
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Shimmer Like a Girl
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Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt (Minty Fresh/DGC)
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11/2 - 10am hour
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10:56am
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Chime School
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Wandering Song
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The Boy Who Ran The Paisley Hotel (Slumberland)
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10:50am
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Abstract Crimewave
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The Gambler (Featuring: Lykke Li)
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The Longest Night (Chimp Limbs)
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10:47am
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Neko Case Local
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Bracing For Sunday
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The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You (ANTI-)
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Buy Neko Case The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You at Reckless Records
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10:45am
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The Romantics
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When I Look in Your Eyes
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The Romantics (Nemperor)
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10:42am
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Betty Boo
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Spotlight
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Rip Up The Rulebook (Betty Boo Records)
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10:36am
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Nubya Garcia
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In Other Words, Living
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Odyssey (Concord)
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10:33am
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The Mighty Sparrow
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Calypso Boogaloo
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Sparrowmania! (Strut)
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10:29am
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Peter Perrett
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Art Is a Disease
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The Cleansing (Domino)
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10:23am
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Honeyglaze
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Pretty Girls
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Real Deal (Fat Possum)
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10:19am
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Mavis Staples Local
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I Still Believe in You
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Have a Little Faith (Alligator)
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10:17am
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4x4 Animal Style Local
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Starlight
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When I Was Young (Let It Swim)
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Track Notes: Request from Matthew in Berwyn
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10:13am
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Yeule
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Eko
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single (Ninja Tune)
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10:06am
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Phantogram
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Happy Again
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Memory of a Day (Neon Gold/Avenue A)
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10:03am
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Betty Wright
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Where Is the Love
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The Best of Betty Wright (Rhino)
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10:00am
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John Fogerty/The Blue Ridge Rangers
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I Don't Care (Just As Long As You Love Me)
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Rides Again (Verve Forecast/Fortunate Son)
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