Our rock DJs lose sleep staying up all night to bring you the finest rock and roll on the planet. You’ll hear every genre, sub-genre, and passing fancy spun by our rock DJs—from punk, hardcore, pop, prog-rock, krautrock, acid-folk, psych, and goth to space rock, new wave, no wave, noise rock, art rock, glam rock, metal, power electronics, and just plain old classic rock.
Be sure to check out our Live In-Studio show: Pure Hype.
Monday |
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| 12:00am | 2:00am | House of BrutalVoiceless altars of flesh nailed in unholy misery centuries in decomposition spawn of Azagthoth scathophagous goatfather epoch of disfigured unlight fluorescent bleeding chaos pneumatic slaughter exhausted organic stench feculent crucifeast sodomythical frost goats herpetiform filthgrinder inverted putrid mass cthonophagic hunger. Hail Satan. Gore. |
Leonid & Alex et al |
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| 2:00am | 4:00am | Love in the Time of Baller-aHold on to your Huevos! This is going to be a wild ride. |
Rishard |
| 4:00am | 6:00am | The Blind Side of the Gourd - With RobTake a journey with Rob, early in the morning, coinciding with but not beginning at 4:20, as he tries to discover what exactly lies on the blind side of the gourd. This a question with several answers, a metaphysical proposition that will take some time, and as the sun rises we will collectively bathe in the molten sludge of the greatest doom bands the world has to offer, hopefully unlocking the key to that magical yet potentially horrifying state of consciousness. Only a few have truly tasted the blind side (notable examples being Liam Neeson, David Icke, John McCain, Matt Pike, and Roseanne), but we can only ever feel the wrath of this TRUE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE by pursuing it ourselves. When you find it, be sure to shout "I'M ON THE BLIND SIDE OF THE GOURD!" so that people know. |
Rob S-F |
| 6:00am | 8:00am | Roots of RockThis show will uncover the origins of all the stuff you know and love (Clapton, The Beatles, Hendrix, Talking Heads, Pink Floyd, etc.). Even the best artists came from somewhere, so if you're an insomniac--or you're just that desperate to know what Scott Joplin and Eric Clapton have in common--tune in during the darkest hours of the night to learn what made the gods of rock tick |
Chelsea |
| 8:00am | 10:00am | Psychedelia, Etc.A journey through the sometimes weird, usually subversive, but always cosmic world of psychedelic pop, rock, soul and funk. Bandannas sold separately. every other Monday morning 8-10 |
Andrew F |
| 10:00am | 12:00pm | A Shot At LoveBecause "u cant have a realationship bye urself ya know [sic]"-Bobby. Listen to A Shot At Love with Sophie. |
Sophie P |
Tuesday |
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| 12:00am | 2:00am | The Mattel and Mars Bar Quick Energy Choco-bot HourThe reverently irreverent musical mélanges of Steve, Peter, and frequent contributor Detective Zimmerbaum, meld the seemingly disparate worlds of punk and experimental electronic music into one dissonantly cohesive crystal of PURE-ENTERTAINMENT, uniquely conducive to early-morning ponderings. |
Steve & Petey |
| 2:00am | 4:00am | Chi City FunkTravel between the sticky places that join R&B, Soul, Rock, Dance Music, Hip-Hop and Psychedelica together. The stankiest sides of all music. We call it Da FUNK! Hosted by TP Corleone |
Derek |
| 4:00am | 6:00am | Oh, certainly [lowercase "c"!]Deep cuts from the 1960s. Maybe a little bit of off-the-beaten-track psychedelia, maybe some long-forgotten soul tunes, maybe even like five minutes of Bob Dylan just breathing into a mic if I can track that down. Who knows!? |
Nathan O |
| 6:00am | 8:00am | TIGER! TIGER! TIGER!sunny garage rock, psychedelic punk and surfer pop from the bottom of the sea with fuzzed out tracks that R.I.P. |
Alex |
| 8:00am | 10:00am | Deborah |
Deborah |
| 10:00am | 12:00pm | Staerk TobakYour two friends from up north play you some variety. Justin plays pop and rock from the nordic bloc while co-dj and friend Jeff throws in some crowd pleasers. key words: hockey, toques, BEAVER. Abba, clogs, viggo mortensen. Tim hortons coffee. Canada, etc. |
SKRÆLINGS |
Wednesday |
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| 1:00am | 2:30am | Everything BasedDisclaimer: The level of swag in the following description is close to the maximum. Definition: based - adj. - a state of being wherein the mind hovers between consciousness and unconsciousness, rapidly increasing creative output. Tune in to Everything Based to hear DJs 4NR and Alpha Snail mix live and cook up a mixture of bass-heavy, computer-produced beats ranging from house, dubstep and techno to hip hop, jungle and juke. Based. Based. Everything Based. Based. Based. Don't you feel based? |
Alpha Snail |
| 2:30am | 4:00am | Hell on 18 WheelsYou may wish you were dreaming at 2:30AM, but when you can't, we’ll take you there with our melodic tunes. Get on the dreamboat with Hannah and Gigi. All night long. XOXO |
Hannah & Gigi |
| 4:00am | 6:00am | Tripping at the Gates of DawnJoin Marshall at the threshold of daybreak, where you will hear songs ranging from the psychotic to the psychedelic. Listen to soundscapes you never thought possible and feel rejuvenated for the sunrise to come. Expect the unexpected and you will be pleasantly surprised. |
Marshall |
| 6:00am | 8:00am | Punx day offnew wave post punk noise pop peter murphy upside down ian curtis right-side up |
Joey V |
| 8:00am | 10:00am | Dolphins into the FreezerIn 1996, celebrated graphic artist Lisa Frank completed her graduate thesis in statistical physics, entitled "Dolphins into the Freezer: Critical Phenomena in Delphinus capensis". Her work was initially disregarded by the scientific community, most likely because it was written entirely in various colors of neon sparkle-pen. However, the phase diagram Frank calculated for the common dolphin has been of considerable recent interest because Frank and her adviser Danica McKellar were the first to discover that the dolphin solid-gas coexistence curve has a negative slope and that dolphins are actually gaseous at ambient temperature and pressure. While these properties allow dolphins to remain gaseous while plunging into the frigid ocean depths where the pressure is greater, it also allowed Frank to fit over four thousand dolphins into a standard kitchen freezer through sequential deposition. In 2007, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for fighting world hunger through this revolutionary discovery and also named Public Enemy Number One of the Cetacean Nation. In 2011, she released her debut mixtape nostalgia, ULTRA under the moniker Frank Ocean |
Dugan & Jay |
| 10:00am | 12:00pm | Eclectic dialectic'Everything you see is oozing down and out and about, into your peripheral excess. You try to focus onto one tunnel of a frame, but that very locus of perception is darting around your senses, almost as if it is some divine pendulum of having escaped out of the periphery of your eye versus what it is convinced to be concentrated--on the whole--and the part--what is wholly to be realized--as the realization, however, is the horror that there is nothing out of what you saw...to even be realized.' |
Mark |
Thursday |
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| 12:00am | 2:00am | Asian ValuesLargely spazz, math [sic], prog, noise. Feat. odd time signatures, polyrhythms, etc. bring your TI-89s |
Ben T |
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WALLS-OF-THE-RULERThe country is abandoned to itself. The seven ships of the enemy have been seen at sea. You must remain firm. Where are your troops, your chariots stationed? Are they not stationed near you? No? Behind the enemy, who press upon you? Surround your town with ramparts. Await the enemy with great resolution. |
Andrew | ||
| 2:00am | 4:00am | The Man HimselfA fancy feast. |
Lauren |
| 4:00am | 6:00am | The Zak Show |
Zak |
| 6:00am | 8:00am | Fahrt of DarknessIts basically just punk with some other stuff mixed in. tune in tuesday mornings... from six to eight a m. |
Frau Schastok |
| 8:00am | 10:00am | The Epileptic Fish RacketHealing & easylistening/melodramatic popular song/ghettotech Fridays 8-10 AM alternating |
Scott M. |
| 10:00am | 12:00pm | Radio Zero“There’s a guitar leaning on a Marshall stack / Used to sound like the sun on the horizon / Now I think we’ve been had.” Does this describe you? If so, we’re very sorry. Maybe you ought to listen to Radio Zero. Your hosts play the best in Transgressive Pop and Gestalt Rock.» Web site |
Mike O’F |
Friday |
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| 12:00am | 2:00am | THINK CHTHONICAn exhaustive, obsessive, raging, mostly coherent, fingers-darkened-by-Maximumrocknroll-ink sesh of HARDCORE PUNK with Simon every Tuesday morning from 8-10 AM. Check out the sickest stuff ever to be recorded from the early 80’s to today. YEAH BUDDY; YOU’RE X’ED. |
Simon |
| 2:00am | 4:00am | utopia, pt. 2The Quieter You Become The More You Are Able To Hear |
Sophia A |
| 4:00am | 6:00am | the piss factory'Get you on a higher plane to a jet stream and take you through the stratosphere and check out the planets there' |
Theo |
| 6:00am | 8:00am | Somniferum PopPunk, proto-punk, popular and unpopular music for the perpetually somnolent |
Lillian |
| 8:00am | 10:00am | The Spice of LifeCoby Ashpis presents a healthy variety of sounds every other Friday from 12-2. |
Coby |
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The Tomorrow Show with Rachel LazarIn the future, it's not the humidity. |
Rachel L | ||
| 9:00pm | 10:30pm | Pure HypeLive rock ’n’ roll! Listen to some of today's best fresh bands from the Chicago area and beyond before they get swallowed up in the mainstream, as they play on-air in our record library.» See schedule |
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