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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.

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Monday
Start Stop Show DJ  
12:00am 2:00am

House of Brutal

The House of Brutal: the fourth reich of breast augmentation 		Leonid
& Joe
2:00am 4:00am

Nite Crash

Cannoli, paper, kittens, chairs, fiberglass, worms, spice, buttons, salt and vinegar 		Jordan L
& Paul H
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Psychedelia Etc.

Do you like the Iron Butterfly, Steppenwolf or Kula Shaker? Well, I don’t. To hear what psychedelic music is actually about, tune in and your host Andrew will lead you from the late 60’s to the present on a journey through the sometimes weird, occasionally subversive, but always cosmic world of psychedelic pop, rock and soul. “Along with Dave Matthews and Scott Stapp, Andrew Friedman will go down in history as the voice of his generation.” – Rolling Stone 		Andrew F
4:00am 6:00am

Great Odin's Raven

 Max
& Kunal
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The Epileptic Fish Racket

 Scott M.
6:00am 8:00am

D-Funked C-Train

We play the manifestation of the concept of rock music for all you insomniac dudes out there. 		Diana
& Caitlin
8:00am 10:00am

Make Record Go NOW!

A show that embraces all things rock. Whether it is of the indie, garage, folk, or punk variety, we play anything with a good beat, killer riff, wailing synth etc. 		Jason
& Joe
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Yach de 10 à 12

Join Yach as he anxiously awaits medical results every Monday from 10AM to noon 		Zach
10:00am 12:00pm

Offal Afflatus

Hour One is an interpretation of Montez’s words, “I’ll put a piezzo disc round the Sun,” as the macrotones of pareidolic slow dances elide umbral Tarahumaran anarcho-jazz. Hour Two coerces therapeutic tapes for Utilization Disorder patients into tonal compliance with “Can’t Stand the Midwest.” 		Brandon

Tuesday
12:00am 2:00am

Teengenerate Lobotomy

Two hours for rocking out like a psychotic teenager, because we all go a little crazy sometimes. 		Janice
2:00am 4:00am

Boomstick in the Morning

Expect to hear anything from the unheard-of to the super well known. Boomstick in the Morning brings you all the music, awkwardness, and awesomeness to be expected of college radio. This is all complete with the witty banter and phone calls expected of any quality program. Tune in to Boomstick and expect to hear pretty much anything. 		Eli
4:00am 6:00am

Pet Rock

Listen. Music sounds better when you’re barely awake. 		Tobi
6:00am 8:00am

The Spice of Life

Coby Ashpis and friends present an aural hodgepodge. 		Coby
8:00am 10:00am

MOON MOON MOON

Wizards are skilled in the mysterious and hidden art of magic, the ability to attain wooden flutes, or perform works of wonder using supernatural or non-rational means. A wizard is someone who uses or practices feminine magic that derives from lunar or occult sources. Wizards are common figures in dreams, practitioners of sleight-of-hand that appear in misty forests, they are imagining folk wisdom imparted to them from the various nymphs of the forest. Magicians have powers arising from their study of the harp and flute. Still, most wizards are depicted as having a special gift, which sets them apart from the vast majority of characters in fantasy worlds. 		Emily L
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Ruff’s Breakfast Bytes

Aiming to bring you the best in adult contemporary electronic, and smooth avant-garde from both past and present. Expect the occasional special guest and seductive synth jams, live in the studio. 		Sir Ruff
10:00am 12:00pm

National Public Rumpus (NPR)

Hello, friends! Do you love to groove? Do you like glitter glue? Do you have positive feelings towards songs that rip it up and/or kick it out? Are you curious about what "it" is? How do you feel about llamas? Then and join Moira for her MAGICAL ROCK N ROLL PARTY-PARADE!<3!!<3! 		Moira

Wednesday
1:00am 2:30am

Animal Sounds

 Supriya
2:30am 4:00am

Apathy Breaking Coalition

Ecstasy glimpsed from the banks of desire. 		Avi
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HARD ATTACK

Hard Attack is a show about kittens, sunshine, and hardcore music. In that order. 		Phil Free
4:00am 6:00am

Mike P

 Mike P.
6:00am 8:00am

Stochastic Pizza Upload Bicycle

We're still using schwinger probes to find approximate solutions for electron correlation, but now we've introduced quantum monte carlo methods involving random walks through cobra and phase space to account for interactions with the cheese/sauce matrix. These theoretical approaches have allowed us to simulate refractions in the pizza pulse, which we can compare to the imaginary component of the 2D electronic spectrum of a slice of giordanos after adjusting the ganes and performing a sadier transform in the coherence time dimension. And all this goes down at the s-pub, where we've always got s-rub, m-sub, and the s-dubs playing. 		Dugan
& Jay
8:00am 10:00am

Intellectronica

If you are so inclined, wake up to Intellectronica with Matthew & Clara. When the beat drops and the bassline kicks in, you'll thank them. 		Matthew Carville
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Kitsch

Been to your grandma’s house lately? Get your fix. 		Naiara
10:00am 12:00pm

Nick

 Nick
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This Is New Radio

The opening track on the self-titled April 1993 Bikini Kill seven inch features a pre-Le Tigre twenty-something Kathleen Hanna. With a shrill, high-pitched, and distinctly yet deliberately girly screech, she exclaims "this is new radio!" This radio show takes its name from this particular moment and aims to interpret what Kathleen proposed and functionally apply it. By playing music, which has creatively involved females, and specifically exhibits "girl" attributes, many musical moments which have come to occupy the mainstream musical consciousness, may be interpreted with a new understanding of musical and cultural history. Highlighting a different genre and/or theme each show, I will produce a sonic experience that forces us to rethink the way we interpret "girl" music and what it actually means to embrace girldom through a musical paradigm. http://thisisnewradio.blogspot.com/ 		Jessica

Thursday
12:00am 2:00am

Metal Machine Radio

 Rick
2:00am 4:00am

And Now for Something Completely Different!

And now for something completely different! Tune in to hear hosts Ron Marek & Gary Sheputis unleash rockin' cuts that will burrow into your skull and explode! Classic rock n' roll, acid jazz, space pop, deep funk, country western television themes, and, on at least one occasion, the sound of an oncoming locomotive! And that's not all, folks! That's why the show is called "And Now For Something Completely Different!" Tune in every Thursday morning from 2 to 4 a.m. to hear something completely, wildly, strangely, and excitingly different right here on WHPK 88.5 FM Chicago! 		Ron M.
& Gary S
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What the Punk?

 Jon S.
4:00am 6:00am

Rishard

 Rishard
6:00am 8:00am

re: Blood

Nights marked by gongs and bells? Wailing? Mystery objects? Unknown ritual sounds? Tune in to re: Blood for live exorcisms performed on air. 		Andrew
8:00am 10:00am

Moulty!

I remember the days when things were real bad for me. It seemed like I was all alone with nobody to help me. You know, I almost gave up all my hopes and dreams. But then something inside me kept telling me over and over again to keep going on. Things are better for me now cause I found that I love music. And if you can make it at something you love, wow, you got it all. So I'm saying this to all of you, all of you who think you'll never make it cause you think you're so bad off. So listen to me now, cause I've lived through it all. Moulty! 		Cole
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
12:00am 2:00am

Refuge, Mandala Offering

Limits come to an end in expanse. Pursuing the wastes of American cassette noise/improv/new age/outsider. Tuesdays 12-3 AM. 		Eric H.
2:00am 4:00am

Deäth in Janüary

As a man stands alone upon the rooftop of an abandoned hotel, gazing out upon the destitute city, breathing in the writhing, sprawling decay (the streets are lined end to end with the filth of forty million philistines), and he rages against the cold night, bellowing out a primal scream of passion, broadcasting the raw light of emotion into a cold, dead, and dumb world… So we have looked out upon the landscape of our generation’s music, and so we broadcast the raw sound of those who have stood in opposition, so that our cries may be heard in this dying light… 		Kill Willingsworth
4:00am 6:00am

Rock Everybody Rock

Greasy R&B, fuzzed-out frat pounders, retardo '60s garage rock, groovy ye-ye, sleazy barnyard soul, hootin' backwoods rockabilly, and scorching punk rock. 		Josh'N'Roll
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Several Girls Galore

 Jason
6:00am 8:00am

A Shot At Love

Because "u cant have a realationship bye urself ya know [sic]"-Bobby. Listen to A Shot At Love with Sophie. 		Sophie P
8:00am 10:00am

Underground Groove

House music is a Chicago creation that has become a global phenomenon. Clubs across the globe are banging to the house sound and WHPK is keeping time with the world on Underground Groove. Join Chicago mix DJ Beryl Turner, as he plays single House and Disco tracks and mixes from the hottest local and international DJs, as well as his own powerhouse mix sets. 		Beryl
9:00pm 10:30pm

Pure Hype

Live 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.
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