Michael B. DJ Profile

I'm a former author and journalist (bylines at Grantland, Wired, Slate, Deadspin and 538) turned documentary filmmaker. As a native Texan I also spent about a decade as a music and entertinament writer at the Austin Chronicle. And as a Chicago transplant I still cannot acclimate to the cold.

Listen to Michael's two most recent shows via the player below:

Michael B.'s Playlists

8/13 - 6am hour
	6:55am	Chelsea Wolfe	Flatlands	Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs (Sargent House)
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	6:49am	The Drin	Elude the Torch	Elude the Torch (Feel It)
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	6:47am	Okay Kaya	Psych Ward	Watch This Liquid Pour Itself (Jagjaguwar)
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	6:44am	Devo	Gates Of Steel	Freedom of Choice (Warner Bros.)
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	6:37am	Bill Callahan	Pigeons	Resuscitate! (Drag City)
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	6:29am	Dale Crover	I Quit	Glossalia (Joyful Noise)
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	6:26am	Bash & Pop	Anything Could Happen	Anything Could Happen (Fat Possum)
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	6:23am	Velocity Girl	Copacetic	UltraCopacetic (Copacetic Remixed and Expanded) (Sub Pop)
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	6:18am	ROOKIE Local	Hold On Tight	Rookie (Bloodshot)
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	6:16am	Djunah Local	Phaethon	Femina Furens (self-released)
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	6:12am	This House is Creaking Local	If You Want Me to Be	This House is Creaking (THiC)
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	6:07am	AC/DC	Let's Get It Up	For Those About To Rock (We Salute You) (Atlantic)
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	6:04am	Palomar	Hooray For Tuesday	Sense & Antisense (self-released)
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	6:00am	Big Audio Dynamite	V. Thirteen	Planet BAD: Greatest Hits (Radioactive)
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8/6 - 8am hour
	8:54am	Bob Dylan	Ballad of a Thin Man	Highway 61 Revisited (Columbia)
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	8:50am	The Jayhawks	Settled Down Like Rain	Hollywood Town Hall (American)
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	8:45am	Soul Asylum	Cartoon	Hang Time (A&M)
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	8:42am	Hüsker Dü	Divide And Conquer	Flip Your Wig (SST)
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	8:38am	John Cale	Paris 1919	Paris 1919 (Rhino)
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	8:33am	This House is Creaking Local	If You Want Me to Be	This House is Creaking (THiC)
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	8:30am	Filthy Friends	Any Kind of Crowd	Invitation (Kill Rock Stars)
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	8:28am	Blood	Bone Dry	Loving You Backwards (Ramp Local)
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	8:23am	MJ Lenderman	She's Leaving You	Manning Fireworks (Anti-)
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	8:20am	Redd Kross	Simple Magic	Redd Kross (In the Red)
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	8:17am	wht.rbbt.obj Local	Heavy Petting	Romeo Bravo Bravo Tango (self-released)
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	8:11am	Rush	YYZ	Moving Pictures (Mercury)
	Track Notes: Both Sides Now. Wednesday at Schuba's upstairs with Val (not playing Moving Pictures but playing a different Rush album). Also it's Allan Holdsworth's birthday (b. Aug 6, 1946) and while this clearly isn't an Allan Holdsworth song, Alex Lifeson is doing a shameless Allan Holdsworth ripoff on YYZ.			Buy Rush Moving Pictures at Reckless Records Buy Rush at iTunes Buy Rush Moving Pictures at eMusic Add to Collection
	8:06am	Panda Riot Local	She Dares All Things	She Dares All Things (self-released)
	Track Notes: Friday Aug., 9 at Cobra Lounge!			Buy Panda Riot She Dares All Things at Reckless Records Buy Panda Riot at iTunes Buy Panda Riot She Dares All Things at eMusic Add to Collection
	8:03am	Buffalo Tom	Never Noticed	Besides (Beggars Banquent)
	Track Notes: Thursday Aug., 8 at Metro.			Buy Buffalo Tom Besides at Reckless Records Buy Buffalo Tom at iTunes Buy Buffalo Tom Besides at eMusic Add to Collection
	8:00am	Buffalo Tom	Birdbain	Birdbrain (Beggars Banquent)
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8/6 - 7am hour
	7:54am	Ratboys Local	Clever Hans	Printer's Devil (Topshelf)
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