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Lumpen Radio, WLPN-LP Chicago 105.5FM launched in 2016 and broadcasts 24/7. WLPN-LP is operated by a community of curators working to connect you with the music and ideas you love. Our aim is to spotlight the hidden parts of the city by amplifying its voices and sounds. We promote open media, uniting communities and magnifying the hard work of artists, musicians, activists and cultural workers like you. WLPN is a project of Public Media Institute (PMI).

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  1. Interzona • 07-08-26 • Ep. 4 • "Un poeta": El arte como refugio y condena

    ¡Bienvenides al Ep. 4 de Interzona! ¿Qué significa dedicar la vida al arte cuando el reconocimiento nunca llega? ¿Se puede salvar a alguien mientras uno mismo se desmorona? En este episodio conversamos sobre El poeta (2025), una película que explora los límites entre la creación artística, la...

  2. Gómez-Peña’s Mex Files • 06-17-2026 • What's on my mind lately?

    Welcome back to the Mex Files: Voices and Sounds from the End of Times, bienvenidex to the strange world of Gómez-Peña, Aranza Cortez Karam & La Pocha Nostra, on steroids. In 2026, amidst the ongoing Trumpocalypse, we are especially interested in radical spirituality, uncompromising humor and...

  3. Lumpen Special • 09-25-26 • Dos Santos: Es Amor

    A conversation with Alex Chávez, Jaime Garza, and Peter “Maestro” Vale of Dos Santos celebrating their new album, Es Amor, their first full-length record in five years. 🎶 Hosted by Stephanie Manriquez, the conversation explores the making of the album and the many ideas and sounds that move...

  4. Round the Board • Cynthia Salgado & Leslie Hurtado • Ep 5: Fourth Stop - Subdistrict 7A

    Fourth Stop: What are the priorities for Subdistrict 7A? In Episode 5 of ’Round the Board, Cynthia Salgado speaks with Emma Lozano and Jesús Ayala Jr., the two candidates running to represent Subdistrict 7A on the Chicago Board of Education. The district includes parts of Pilsen, Little Village,...

  5. Lumpen Special • 09-16-26 • Stop Amtrak! Don't Get Railroaded

    n this Lumpen Radio Special, host Cynthia Salgado speaks with community organizers: Sarah Tang (CBCAC Director of Programs), Hannah Dembosky (Bridgeport Environmentalists), Mary Lou Lopez (Bridgeport Alliance). They represent three of the many organizations and residents across Bridgeport,...

  6. Mutual Aid Report • 09-15-2026 • Frontline Defense: Push for Policy Power

    📝 Returning to the airwaves tomorrow, Mario Smith is joined by Rey Wences (ICIRR) as they break down how Chicago’s immigrant support networks operate during active emergencies and what’s at stake in the 2026 legislative push in Springfield. ✊ --- Airs: Weekly on Tuesdays on WLPN-LP & HD-ONE...

  7. Nosey AF • 09-12-2026 • Megan Williamson

    On this episode, I’m talking with Chicago painter Megan Williamson! We’re talking about painting, imagination, the circus, changing your practice, and what it means to keep making after decades of doing this thing. Megan is a fascinating artist, and I’m excited to spend an hour with her.…

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  8. MdW: On the Record | Detroit, MI • Ep 2

    In this edition, listen to Xiao Faria Da Cunha [Kansas City, MO] of Third Pine Collective and Eleni Zaharopoulos [Detroit, MI] of The Institute for Diasporic Yearning and Longing (IDYL) speak about diasporic longing. Later on, Asia Horne-Morton [Grand Rapids, MI] speaks on their practice and...

  9. MdW: On the Record | Detroit, MI • Ep 1

    This episode includes audio from conversations with Chicago Printer’s Guild (@chicagoprintersguild) / Zine Mercado's (@zinemercado) Manny von Haynes and CHema Skandal! [Chicago, IL] speaking to Wesley Taylor [Detroit, MI] of Talking Dolls (@talkingdolls) about Midwestern diaspora. Manny and CHema...

  10. Round the Board • Cynthia Salgado & Leslie Hurtado • Ep 4: What's at Stake?

    The next stop on ’Round the Board takes us to Chicago’s Southwest Side. 🚌 In Episode 4, Leslie Hurtado speaks with Yesenia López and Erika E. Díaz-Chávez, the candidates for Chicago Board of Education Subdistrict 7B, which includes parts of Archer Heights, Armour Square, Bridgeport, Brighton…

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  11. Entrelazadas: Arte Será • Episodio 1: El arte vivo de Sofía Gabriel

    Entrelazadas - Segunda temporada: Ep. 1. El arte vivo de Sofía Gabriel En este episodio de Entrelazadas conversamos con la artista @sofiagc0 sobre el cuerpo como materia de creación y conocimiento. Sofía comparte su recorrido desde el ballet clásico, una práctica marcada por la disciplina, la...

  12. Lumpen Special • 09-04-26 • WILD YAMS (Part 2)

    On this two-part Lumpen Special, WILD YAMS, Alyssa Martinez sits down in conversation with artists Summer Coleman, Andrea Hill Fitzgerald, and Teni Odunsi to discuss the WILD YAMS SEED Residency and their current exhibition “Between Memory and Becoming: Manifestations of Black Motherhood” on view...

  13. Lumpen Special • 08-28-26 • WILD YAMS (Part 1)

    On this two-part Lumpen Special, WILD YAMS, Alyssa Martinez sits down in conversation with artist organizer Wisdom Baty and artists Alexy Irving-Alleyne and Grandeast Wright to discuss the WILD YAMS SEED Residency and their current exhibition “Between Memory and Becoming: Manifestations of Black...

  14. Nosey AF • 08-22-2026 • Charlette Stanton and Jacare Thomas of Park Manor 75

    Happy Black Business Month!!! 🖤 What happens when the people who have spent decades bringing everybody together finally create a place of their own? Today on NoseyAF, I'm talking with Charlette Stanton and Jacare Thomas, the husband-and-wife team behind Park Manor 75, the Black-owned wine and...

  15. Round the Board • Cynthia Salgado & Leslie Hurtado • Ep 3: 
First Stop: Who’s on the Ballot?

    All aboard! 🚏In this episode, Cynthia Salgado breaks down the role of the Chicago Board of Education President and why this upcoming election matters. 🎙️ Hear from presidential candidates Jessica Biggs and Hilario Domínguez as they talk about community needs, their experiences and priorities…

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  16. Round the Board • Cynthia Salgado & Leslie Hurtado • Ep 2: Dentro de la Junta de Educación

    Las periodistas Cynthia Salgado y Leslie Hurtado empiezan esta serie desmenuzando la historia, el rol y la función de la Junta de Educación de Chicago. Este episodio también cubrirá las maneras en las que estas elecciones cambiarán la historia de la Junta. Ellas explorarán, a su vez, lo que los...

  17. Round the Board • Cynthia Salgado & Leslie Hurtado • Ep. 1: Inside the School Board

    Journalists Cynthia Salgado and Leslie Hurtado kick off the series by breaking down the history, role, and function of the Chicago School Board. This episode will also cover how this upcoming election will change the Board forever. They’ll explore what voters should know about the Chicago School...

  18. Nosey AF • 08-08-2026 • Aya-Nikole Cook

    On this episode, our guest is Aya-Nikole Cook of @HajiHealingSalon. Ten years of acupuncture, herbs, reiki, and yoga in Bronzeville. All of it out in the open, in one room, together. We get into what it costs to be the person holding space for everybody else. Tune in 🖤 Today, Saturday, August…

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  19. Ni Olvido, Ni Perdón • 08-02-26 • Jhonathan Gómez and Lydia Saravia

    Co-Hosted and co-produced by Jhonathan F. Gómez and Dr. Lydia Saravia, Ni Olvido, Ni Perdón is a space for multigenerational dialogue, political education, and cultural reflection centered on Central America and the Chicago diaspora. A place to “remember out loud”. --- Airs: First and Third…

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  20. Signal Hill Radio Hour • Episode 6 • 08-15-2026

    Signal Hill is an audio magazine. We publish audio documentaries of all kinds: reporting, essays, shorts, profiles, dispatches, reviews, and other things we haven’t named yet. Tune into the Signal Hill Radio Hour for selected stories from our issues. --- Airs: First and Third Saturdays from 11 AM...

  21. Signal Hill Radio Hour • Episode 5 • 08-01-2026

    Signal Hill is an audio magazine. We publish audio documentaries of all kinds: reporting, essays, shorts, profiles, dispatches, reviews, and other things we haven’t named yet. Tune into the Signal Hill Radio Hour for selected stories from our issues. --- Airs: First and Third Saturdays from 11 AM...

  22. CoAmp en Español • Lit & Luz • 07-22-26 • Ep. 3

    Lit & Luz features intimate conversations with participants of the Lit & Luz Festival, festival facilitators, and members of the broader community. Through dynamic dialogues in Spanish, acclaimed writers, musicians, performers, and visual artists from Chicago and Mexico reflect on their creative...

  23. Nosey AF • 07-11-2026 • Chi and Troy of Black Film Club Collective

    The dynamic duo, Chi and Troy of Black Film Club Collective, are taking over the airwaves today!! 🎬✨ We’re talking about how they’re building community through film, their incredible debut exhibition Fine Lines, and getting a sneak peek into their upcoming short film dropping this summer. If you...

  24. MdW: Feral Citizen • Ep 07 • Catherine Fennell

    Feral Citizen is a short-run series of conversations with Western Great Lakes regional ecologists, scientists, makers, and activists who center Land in their interdisciplinary practice. Conversations are curated by Nance Klehm, chief ecologist and director of Social Ecologies. For our seventh...

  25. Interzona • 08-12-26 • Ep. 5 • "The Odyssey" adaptar un clásico releer el mito

    En este episodio compartimos nuestras primeras reacciones a la nueva película de Christopher Nolan - The Odyssey: desde la experiencia de verla en pantalla hasta las preguntas que abre sobre la obra de Homero, la guerra, los dioses, la hospitalidad y nuestra propia lectura del mundo antiguo desde...

  26. Gómez-Peña’s Mex Files • 07-29-2026 • The Sapphic Gaze

    🛸 We present a new episode of Gomez-Pena’s Mex Files: “The Sapphic Gaze” - a poetic and sound ride on the Dyke Impala. In this episode, we make a herstorical review on Sappho de Lesbos accompanied by extraordinary poetry by Achy Obejas and Stephanie Shermann hosted by Gómez Peña and Aranza…

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  27. City Dreams • Annie Howard • 08-06-26 • Shira Schwartz, Ezra Furman

    So grateful for a truly divine conversation with Shira and Ezra about Jewish prayer, believing in something impossible, and refusing to give up on imagining a better world. Stay till the end, and you get both guests singing a Jewish holy song together — truly divine! --- Airs: Every 1st and 3rd...

  28. City Dreams • Annie Howard • 07-16-26 • Sima Cunningham

    Incredibly stoked to chat with @simaamis, one of Chicago’s true musical polymaths this episode! “City Dreams” is a radio show hosted by journalist, historian, and organizer Annie Howard. Paired conversations with musicians, activists, artists, community builders, and more aim to explore the many...

  29. Boletín Migrante • 09-02-2026 • Ep 31 • Literatura bilingüe e información para el nuevo año escolar

    🎙️ ¡Bienvenidxs al 31° episodio de Boletín Migrante: En el episodio de hoy estaremos conversando con Nina Sánchez- @barriobibliotecaria_chi cofundadora de ¡Viva! Los Libros- @vivaloslibros_chi una casa editorial del noroeste de Chicago cuya misión es ofrecer una propuesta literaria diversa,...

  30. Boletín Migrante • 08-05-2026 • Ep 30 • Detrás de la criminalización penal y migratoria

    🎙️Bienvenidxs al 30° episodio de Boletín Migrante: Las palabras importan. Nombrar a una persona como “illegal alien” o “criminal” no solo describe, también justifica la vigilancia, el encierro y la deportación. En este episodio nos preguntamos: ¿Por qué ciertas comunidades son vigiladas…

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  31. Preserving Disorder • 6-28-2026 • Becky Wills

    Preserving Disorder is the new book show at Lumpen Radio. Hosted by Jeremy Kitchen, author, and purveyor of all that is weird, offensive, and obscene, amateur literary scholar Susie Swanton, the curious minded Tim Werner. Join us as we try and figure out the Midwest literary landscape and beyond....

  32. Talismxn Radio • 05-24-26 • Ep:03

    Talismxn Radio offers an earnest musing on the labor of being creative and the process of becoming oneself. It serves as a dialogue between the world we currently inhabit and the future we desire, exploring the creative and healing modalities that imagining a new world might require, one...

  33. Soundboard Saturday • 05-16-26 • Ep: 1

    Soundboard Saturday is the pulse of Chicago's performing arts scene, representing working artists with discussions around creative culture, open-stage events, and artist resources. Expect a colorful lineup of special guests who represent our vast ecosystem and featured performances. Join the...

  34. Interzona • 05-13-26 • Ep. 2 • The Drama y el reflejo de las “relaciones líquidas”

    ¡Bienvenides al Ep. 2 de Interzona! En este episodio compartimos nuestras primeras reacciones sobre The Drama: ¿cómo entramos a la sala de cine y cómo salimos después de verla? Una conversación honesta sobre las emociones, tensiones y preguntas que deja la película. Hablamos de la sinopsis sin...

  35. Ni Olvido, Ni Perdón • 07-05-26 • Jhonathan Gómez and Lydia Saravia

    Co-Hosted and co-produced by Jhonathan F. Gómez and Dr. Lydia Saravia, Ni Olvido, Ni Perdón is a space for multigenerational dialogue, political education, and cultural reflection centered on Central America and the Chicago diaspora. A place to “remember out loud”. --- Airs: First and Third…

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  36. Soundboard Saturday • 07-04-26 • Ep: 3

    Soundboard Saturday is the pulse of Chicago's performing arts scene, representing working artists with discussions around creative culture, open-stage events, and artist resources. Expect a colorful lineup of special guests who represent our vast ecosystem and featured performances. Join the...

  37. Talismxn Radio • 06-28-26 • Ep:04

    Talismxn Radio offers an earnest musing on the labor of being creative and the process of becoming oneself. It serves as a dialogue between the world we currently inhabit and the future we desire, exploring the creative and healing modalities that imagining a new world might require, one...

  38. Signal Hill Radio Hour • Episode 4 • 06-20-2026

    Signal Hill is an audio magazine. We publish audio documentaries of all kinds: reporting, essays, shorts, profiles, dispatches, reviews, and other things we haven’t named yet. Tune into the Signal Hill Radio Hour for selected stories from our issues. --- Airs: First and Third Saturdays from 11 AM...

  39. City Dreams • Annie Howard • 06-18-26 • Lior Phillips, Nina Corcoran

    Been a minute since I’ve been on air, so stoked to share a lovely conversation with @liorphillips and @nina_corcoran_ Listen in to hear us chatting about Chicago’s ever-collaborative music scene, some tips on putting on your own DIY programming, and how we’re all lucky just to be on the same…

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  40. Boletín Migrante • 06-10-2026 • Episode 28 • Juventud Migrante & El futuro de DACA

    🎙️✨ ¡Bienvenidxs al episodio 28 de Boletín Migrante! En este episodio hablamos sobre la juventud migrante y el futuro de DACA. Escucharemos a Adriana Velázquez y Cassandra Gutiérrez de Southwest Organization Project (@swoporg) y testimonios de personas beneficiarias del programa. Reflexionaremos...

  41. Lumpen Special • 06/12/26 • Against the run of play • Christian Varela and Javier Viñuela

    Juan David Ruiz Borbón (@juandavidruizborbon) speaks with artists Javier Viñuela (@_javiervinuela) and Christian Varela (@christian_varela___) about their practices and their upcoming performance Against the run of play, as part of the Chicago 21 minus program, which is run by Museum of...

  42. Good Fences Make Good Neighbors -- or do they? • Ep 7 • Caste

    This final program focuses on caste and is dedicated to Dalit people everywhere, and all those oppressed by and fighting against a caste system. Sheetal Mehta read Rohith Vemula's suicide letter. We want to thank Yashica Dutt, S. Shankar, and Amrita for their participation in this program. 🎶…

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  43. Interzona • 06-10-26 •Ep. 3• Jafar Panahi y “Fue sólo un accidente”: el cine como experiencia humana

    ¡Bienvenides al Ep. 3 de Interzona! En este episodio conversamos sobre la obra del cineasta iraní Jafar Panahi y su más reciente película, It Was Just an Accident (Fue sólo un accidente). A partir de su trayectoria, marcada por la censura y la prohibición, exploramos cómo el cine puede…

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  44. Ni Olvido, Ni Perdón • 06-07-26 • Jhonathan Gómez and Lydia Saravia

    Co-Hosted and co-produced by Jhonathan F. Gómez and Dr. Lydia Saravia, Ni Olvido, Ni Perdón is a space for multigenerational dialogue, political education, and cultural reflection centered on Central American and the Chicago diaspora. A place to “remember out loud”. --- Airs: First and Third...

  45. Lumpen Special • 06-04-26 • The Live Frequency: Verse & Vision

    Lumpen Radio had the opportunity to host a rare alignment of the literary world — “The Live Frequency: Verse & Vision.” ⚡️Hosted by Lumpen radio lifer Mario Smith, this milestone event brought together past and current Poets Laureate from Illinois and Chicago on the same stage for the very first...

  46. Signal Hill Radio Hour • Episode 3 • 06-06-2026

    Signal Hill is an audio magazine. We publish audio documentaries of all kinds: reporting, essays, shorts, profiles, dispatches, reviews, and other things we haven’t named yet. Tune into the Signal Hill Radio Hour for selected stories from our issues. --- Airs: First and Third Saturdays from 11AM...

  47. Lumpen Special • 06-05-26 • Dispossessions in the Americas: Jonathan D. Katz with Nick Wylie

    ✨ Nick Wylie speaks with curator and art historian Jonathan D. Katz about Dispossessions in the Americas, a major exhibition at Wrightwood 659 (@wrightwood659) examining the ongoing and escalating legacies of colonialism across the hemisphere. 🌎 Their conversation explores Indigenous and queer...

  48. Lumpen Special • 05-29-26 • Conversation w/ Amy Goodman, Juan González & dir. Carl Deal, Tia Lessin

    “Steal this Story, Please!” Conversation w/ Amy Goodman, Juan González & directors Carl Deal and Tia Lessin 📍This Lumpen Special includes a Q&A with Amy Goodman and Juan González of Democracy Now! and a panel discussion introduced by Jesse Hoyt, Executive Director of ONE Northside, and moderated...

  49. Mutual Aid Report • 05-26-2026 • Own the Block: How PIHCO is reclaiming Pilsen

    📝 This week, we look at a radical alternative to top-down development in Pilsen with the organizers and resident-owners of PIHCO (Pilsen Housing Cooperative). 🏘️ We break down the mechanics of cooperative housing—how it actually works, what “limited-equity” means, and why this model is a…

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  50. Lumpen Special • 05-22-26 • Poetry Despite, Music Despite

    POETRY DESPITE, MUSIC DESPITE (ETERNAL WAR REQUIEM) This Memorial Day weekend as we reflect on our current state of endless war, Aaron Hughes presents a special radio production of Poetry Despite/Music Despite (Eternal War Requiem), an audio visual project that connects artists across time and...

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Lumpen Radio, WLPN-LP Chicago 105.5FM launched in 2016 and broadcasts 24/7. WLPN-LP is operated by a community of curators working to connect you with the music and ideas you love. Our aim is to spotlight the hidden parts of the city by amplifying its voices and sounds. We promote open media, uniting communities and magnifying the hard work of artists, musicians, activists and cultural workers like you. WLPN is a project of Public Media Institute (PMI).

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