Craig Reptile is a DJ, CHIRP volunteer and Assistant Music Director. He previously worked in radio at KVOE AM and Fox 105 in Emporia, Kansas, and served as a DJ, music director and general manager for WVKC at Knox College. He has been a Senior Staff Writer for Pop'stache and writes freelance for Newcity, in addition to contributing occasionally to the CHIRP blog. Craig worked in various capacities within the hotel and meetings industry for over twenty years and is currently a technical writer for a software company. He is a member of The Blue Ribbon Glee Club, Chicago's longest-running a capella group that performs punk, indie and alternative rock favorites. He also fancies himself an armchair herpetologist and thus in addition to a wife, son and cat, he has a day gecko and milk snake in his collection and has earned a Master Herpetologist Certification from the Amphibian Foundation..
You can listen to Craig Reptile's two most recent shows below.
5/12 - 8pm hour
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8:51pm
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Kid 606
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Lou Reed Gimped
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Songs About Fucking Steve Albini (Important)
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8:47pm
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Cloud Nothings
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Daggers of Light
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Final Summer (Pure Noise)
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Buy Cloud Nothings Final Summer at Reckless Records
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8:45pm
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Joyer
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Night Song
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Night Songs (Hit the North)
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8:43pm
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Tesco Vee's Hate Police
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Losing My Religion
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Surprise Your Pig: A Tribute To R.E.M. (Staple Gun)
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Buy Tesco Vee's Hate Police Surprise Your Pig: A Tribute To R.E.M. at Reckless Records
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8:38pm
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The String Quartet Tribute to R.E.M.
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Losing My Religion
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The String Quartet Tribute to R.E.M. (Vitamin)
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Buy The String Quartet Tribute to R.E.M. The String Quartet Tribute to R.E.M. at Reckless Records
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8:34pm
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Instigators
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The Boys
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The Best of Instigators — Auckland Ska Punk 1981-1982 (Leather Jacket/Ripper)
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Buy Instigators The Best of Instigators — Auckland Ska Punk 1981-1982 at Reckless Records
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8:31pm
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Devo
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Uncontrollable Urge
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URGH! A Music War (IRS)
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Track Notes: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/the-chirp-music-film-festival-2451919
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8:25pm
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Low
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Mother
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The Invisible Way (Sub Pop)
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Buy Low The Invisible Way at Reckless Records
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8:21pm
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Low
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Bright
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Transmission EP (Vernon Yard)
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Track Notes: 1996
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Buy Low Transmission EP at Reckless Records
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8:17pm
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Phosphorescent
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The World Is Ending
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Revelator (Verve)
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8:11pm
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Valebol Local
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Salvavidas
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Valebol (Otherly Love)
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8:08pm
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Scrawl
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Louis L'Amour
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Travel On, Rider (Elektra)
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8:07pm
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Helen Money Local
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Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing
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In Tune (Table of the Elements)
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Track Notes: 2009
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Buy Helen Money In Tune at Reckless Records
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8:04pm
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Ramones
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Mama's Boy
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Too Tough To Die (Sire)
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8:02pm
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Foxboro Hot Tubs
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Mother Mary
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Stop Drop and Roll!!! (Jingle Town / Warner)
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Track Notes: 2008
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Buy Foxboro Hot Tubs Stop Drop and Roll!!! at Reckless Records
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5/12 - 7pm hour
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7:55pm
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The Preservation Hall Jazz Band
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When The Saints Go Marchin' In
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"When The Saints Go Marchin' In": New Orleans, Vol. III (CBS)
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Track Notes: 1983
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Buy The Preservation Hall Jazz Band "When The Saints Go Marchin' In": New Orleans, Vol. III at Reckless Records
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7:47pm
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English Teacher
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I'm Not Crying, You're Crying
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This Could Be Texas (Island)
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Buy English Teacher This Could Be Texas at Reckless Records
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7:44pm
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Spare Snare
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We Are the Snare
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Sounds Recorded by Steve Albini (Chute)
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Track Notes: 2018
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Buy Spare Snare Sounds Recorded by Steve Albini at Reckless Records
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7:39pm
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METZ
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Light Your Way Home
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Up On Gravity Hill (Subpop)
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7:31pm
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Thom Yorke
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The Mother Lode
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Tomorrow's Modern Boxes (self-released)
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Track Notes: 2014
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Buy Thom Yorke Tomorrow's Modern Boxes at Reckless Records
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7:29pm
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Seafood Sam
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Cowboy Leather (featuring Pink Siifu)
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Standing on Giant Shoulders (drink sum wtr)
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7:22pm
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Sons of Ra Local
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Tropic of Cancer IV
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Tropic of Cancer (self-released)
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7:17pm
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PseudoEcho
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Funkytown (Dance Remix)
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Funkytown 12" single (RCA)
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Buy PseudoEcho Funkytown 12" single at Reckless Records
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7:10pm
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Bnny Local
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Screaming, Dreaming
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One Million Love Songs (Fire Talk)
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7:06pm
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The Stone Roses
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Elephant Stone (12" version)
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The Stone Roses (Silvertone)
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Track Notes: 2009 remaster/reissue
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Buy The Stone Roses The Stone Roses at Reckless Records
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7:00pm
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Nirvana
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Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
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In Utero (DGC)
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Track Notes: 1993
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Buy Nirvana In Utero at Reckless Records
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5/12 - 6pm hour
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6:58pm
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Billy Bragg
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Heart Like A Wheel
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Reaching to the Converted (Rhino)
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Track Notes: 1999
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Buy Billy Bragg Reaching to the Converted at Reckless Records
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6:54pm
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Camera Obscura
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Pop Goes Pop
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Look to the East, Look to the West (Merge)
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Track Notes: 6/3: https://www.thaliahallchicago.com/
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Buy Camera Obscura Look to the East, Look to the West at Reckless Records
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6:51pm
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MINISKIRT Local
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Might Freak Out
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Paint It Rad (self-released)
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Buy MINISKIRT Paint It Rad at Reckless Records
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6:43pm
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Dianogah Local
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at the mercy of the mustang
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Battle Champions (Southern)
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