CHIRP: Chicago Independent Radio Project

The Chicago Independent Radio Project is working to secure a broadcast license for a new community radio station in Chicago that is committed to local, independent programming, and generally furthering the causes of localism, diversity, and independence in broadcasting. We are working to convince Congress and the FCC to remove existing barriers to the granting of low power FM radio licenses in urban areas, including Chicago. We hope you'll join the fight.

Recent Postings

07.03: It’s Time, Baby in CHIRPlog
07.03: WEEKLY VOYAGES FRI 7/4 THROUGH THURS 7/10 in Events
07.02: Free Podington Bear! in CHIRPlog
06.30: Bone-in, Skin-on in CHIRPlog
06.27: WEEKLY VOYAGES FRI 6/27 THROUGH THURS 7/3 in Events
06.25: Unseasoned - A poem set to music in CHIRPlog
06.24: Indie Pop Festivals in CHIRPlog
06.24: Artist Interview: Yea Big & Kid Static in CHIRP Spotlight
06.23: Music ‘n Film, Coffee ‘n Cream in CHIRPlog
06.20: WEEKLY VOYAGES FRI 6/20 THROUGH THURS 6/26 in Events

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Attend the record fair at Pitchfork Music Festival
Call your Alderman about the Promoters Ordinance
Pick up some milk on the way home from work
Write Your Congressman

Newsletters

CHIRP is launching a new web station…and you can help!

CHIRP has decided to move forward with its biggest project so far.

As we’ve continued with our efforts to make sure we’ll eventually be able to bring a brand new low power FM signal to Chicago, we’ve always assumed that the station’s webstream would be crucial. That’s why we’ve decided to go ahead and launch a web version of CHIRP radio. This station will be dedicated to great under-appreciated music across genres and eras, and will have a true commitment to Chicago’s diverse music and arts scenes. We hope to start it later this summer.

But we can’t start this new station without your help. We hope many of you will become founding members of CHIRP radio. You can do this in a couple of ways:
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CHIRPlog

It’s Time, Baby

to die by your side
the pleasure, the priv’lege is mine
take me home, tonight
take me anywhere, i don’t care

Morrissey wrote those lines a long time ago. I’ve been listening to this song, covered by somebody I don’t know, on a Rough Trade compilation I bought in London in the spring of 2006. It hits home. I came to the Smiths in college in 1988, a few years after I had bought my first cassette tapes: Never Mind the Bollocks, The Cure: Standing on a Beach, and VU & Nico. All purchased in Greenwich Village in 1985. Shortly thereafter I made the tennis team in high school listen to Catching Up With Depeche Mode, played on a crappy boombox on a concrete court.
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Upcoming Events

WEEKLY VOYAGES FRI 7/4 THROUGH THURS 7/10

Alright folks,

Have a great holiday weekend! Kaboom

Here are our picks-and stay safe!

CHIRP Spotlight

Artist Interview: Yea Big & Kid Static

Yea Big Kid Static Cover
Yea Big + Kid Static are the coolest, nicest guys in Chicago Hip Hop right now. With a debut album and constant gigging keeping them busy, Think Pink Radio caught up with them amidst the work work work.

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