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About Me

I'm a kick ass community radio station in Chicago. Playing the very best in indie rock, roots alternative, punk, hardcore, metal, ska, electronic music, experimental sound art, community affairs programming, progressive politics and anything else you won't hear to the right of the dial.
FAQ's:
Hi! I am a band/producer/record label/dj/artist, and I want to be played on WLUW. How do I do that?
Well, firstly, you would start by sending your cd to the following addess:
WLUW FM 88.7 6525 N. Sheridan Rd. Chicago, 60626
And make sure to mark it C/O Michael A., C/O Music Department, or C/O Music Director. We'll know what you mean.
What if I don't have a cd? Can't you just check out my myspace page/website/download my album?
Uh, no. We are a community radio station, and while it is not impossible for us to play mp3's or any other digital file, that is done by the discretion of the individual DJ's. Our format library is all CD's, and we mostly play...CDs, and occasionally vinyl, no all digital format for us. If you want your material to be considered for all-station, all-dj radio play, it has to be a CD.
Hey but I want WLUW to check out/mention/come to my show/opening/event/awesome grindcore cover of an R Kelly song!
Hey, great! But this profile is for a non-person entity. If you would like the person who runs the profile to come to your event, she thanks you very much, but is usually really busy. So event invitations, messages about shows, and whatnot are kind of useless. And if you want your show mentioned on air, again, that is left up to the discretion of the individual DJs, but we have relationships with most of the major venues in Chicago, and work with their (usually in-house) publicitists and promoters for concert promotions, and such. Also, if you wanted to use our comments to say something of this nature, sorry! HTML is turned off, and to make sure no one steps on toes, only shows WLUW sponsors will be given attention, and artists we play and have in rotation will be allowed to promote on our page. If you really want us to check out something, a (not obviously spammy) message, or a cd sent to the above address will win you more brownie points than using our comments page as a billboard.
So wait then. what if I sent a message/sent a CD/am touring/want to play live on air/want my music played on air/want to promote my show? Is myspace then even the way to do it?
BINGO! The answer is no. We've been doing what we do for a long time, and have ways to do things that really streamline the process, and Myspace isn't really a part of that. I'm just trying to cut down on the mail, and make sure you don't throw all your eggs in one basket here. This profile is checked very occasionally, and is managed by the Marketing Department of WLUW, who have really no say in promotions, programming or music, so we can't help you. Feel free to contact either the Music Department at musicdept [at} WLUW {dot] org or the Promotions Department at promodept [at} WLUW {dot] org, and even then, be prepared for disappointment, as the music department screens hundreds of cds a week, and the promotions department prepares thier concert calanders months in advance.
FYI.

My Interests

indie rock, noise rock, shoegaze, punk, hip hop, ska, math rock, emo, experimental sound art, roots alternative, alt. country, rockabilly, reggae, blue grass, indie labels, progressive politics, community affairs.

I'd like to meet:

cool music fans who love obscure underground music, indie rockers, punks, hardcore kids, rude boys, rude girls, hip hop fans, leftists, anarchists, feminists, people in the community, lovers of true democracy.

Music:

!!!, 3ds, 4ad, 5.6.7.8's, 8 bark, 90 day men, adult., aesop rock, against me!, agent orange, angry samoans, alkaline trio, apocalypse hoboken, arab on radar, archers of loaf, arcwelder, at the drive-in, atmosphere, aphex twin, a silver mt. zion, architecture, atombombpocketknife, a tribe called quest, autecher, bauhaus, beans, beat happening, beatnik filmstars, beatnik termites, belle and sebastian, big black, bikini kill, black flag, black rebel motorcycle club, bloc party, blood brothers, blue meanies, boards of canada, bob marley, bollweevils, boredoms, bowie, broadcast, braid, brainiac, brian eno, briefs, broadcast, built to spill, can, cap'n jazz, captain beefheart, cex, check engine, chicago punk, cibo matto, cocteau twins, common, cop shoot cop, crass, cub, cuddlecore, cursive, dance disaster movement, dangermouse, dead kennedys, dead milkmen, deerhoof, de la soul, desaparecidos, descendents, desmond decker, devo, dianogah, dillinger escape plan, dillinger four, dinosaur jr, dismemberment plan, dj shadow, don caballero, dream pop, drive like jehu, echo and the bunnymen, einsturzende neubauten, enon, epoxies, erase errata, experimental audio research, ex models, exploding hearts, explosions in the sky, fantomas, flaming lips, flossie and the unicorns, flying luttenbachers, fourth rotor, fugazi, gang of four, gasoline fight, get hustle, glenn branca, go sailor, godspeed you black emperor!, grandaddy, half japanese, hardcore, hawney troof, haymarket riot, heavenly, hella, helmet, hip hop, homocore, hot snakes, hot hot heat, hot water music, i.d. under, indie rock, jawbox, jawbreaker, jesus and mary chain, jets to brazil, john zorn, johnny cash, jon spencer blues explosion, joy division, june of 44, killing tree, kraftwerk, ladytron, lake of dracula, les savy fav, le tigre, liars, lightning bolt, low, low skies, magnetic fields, mahjongg, man or astro-man?, massive attack, mars volta, microwaves, milemarker, minus the bear, misfits, miss alex white, meat beat manifesto, mc 5, medicine, methadones, mineral, ministry, minor threat, mission of burma, modern lovers, mogwai, morrissey, mos def, mr t experience, mr. bungle, mudhoney, murder by death, murder city devils, my bloody valentine, my dad is dead, naked raygun, neutral milk hotel, new wave, new york dolls, nick cave, nirvana, no knife, no wave, ohmygod, ooioo, orb, orbital, oval, oxes, pale saints, pegboy, philip glass, pigface, pinback, pink and brown, pixies, pj harvey, poster children, prefuse 73, pretty girls make graves, public enemy, punk rock, pussy galore, quintron, radio birdman, radiohead, rainer maria, ramones, rapeman, refused, rentals, residents, ride, riot grrl, rocket from the crypt, rocket from the tombs, roxy music, royksopp, seam, scissor girls, sea and cake, screeching weasel, shellac, shoegaze, shot baker, skatalites, siouxie and the banshees, sleater-kinney, small brown bike, smog, smoking popes, softies, sonic youth, space rock, spacemen 3, sparta, spiritualized, stereolab, stooges, strike under, sunny day real estate, swervedriver, t. rex, talking heads, tapper zuki, television, the adicts, the au pairs, the bangs, the broadways, the catheters, the birthday party, the broadways, the catheters, the coctails, the clash, the cramps, the cure, the detachment kit, the eternals, the ex, the exit, the faint, the fall, the ghost, the gossip, the honor system, the hex, the jam, the leeches, the lawrence arms, the locust, like young, the mae shi, the muffs, the ramones, the roots, the slits, the smiths, the specials, the the, the tossers, the vaselines, the velvet underground, the violent femmes, the wedding present, the wipers, they might be giants, thin white rope, this heat, tom waits, tones on tail, tortoise, tracy + the plastics, traitors, trans am, triffids, troubled hubble, tullycraft, twee pop, tyrades, uncle tupelo, unsane, unwound, v. reverse, vindictives, wilco, wire, x, xbxrx, x-ray spex, yeah yeah yeahs, yo la tengo

Heroes:

all established community radio stations across the country.

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