Yollocalli

Yollocalli is a youth-made arts and culture radio feed with Chicago in its bones. The recent run sounds like a rotating magazine show, built from student voices, neighborhood reporting, audio fiction, interviews, and quick comic bits that keep cutting through the heaviness. It is not locked into one lane. A voting explainer can sit near a horror anthology. A coffee shop profile can lead into social justice, fitness, music, and community impact. A segment about Xochimilco can become a story about death, memory, canals, Indigenous resistance, and the living speaking with the dead. The show often starts with play. Then the stakes arrive fast. Episodes name youth concerns directly, from ICE raids and community safety to elections, social media, civil rights, and the pressure to speak up when silence feels easier. Its political pieces do not sound detached. They sound like young people trying to understand the systems around them while also protecting their families and communities. The Cafecito Edition episodes are especially place-based, using Back of the Yards Coffeehouse, Bueno Days, and Drip Collective as doorways into local creative networks. Those conversations make culture feel practical. Coffee, music, art, organizing, and small business life all become part of the same civic map. The show also leaves room for performance. Your Horror, Your Way folds student-made scary stories and darker speculative pieces into a larger sense of fear, choice, and future. Sonic Resistance connects music to activism, identity, and awareness without treating songs as decoration. Yollocalli can be earnest, loud, bilingual, awkward, funny, and grave within the same stretch of audio. That range is the point. It captures youth media as something alive rather than overproduced. For PlayNext listeners, the show offers a strong signal: community radio where young Chicago voices use art to ask what is happening, who is affected, and what people owe each other.