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Airplay is more than a show, it's an institution. Join the Airplay gang every week as they open the flood gates and let the music pour in. Airplay specializes in live in-studio performances by the best and brightest. Search the performance database if you don't believe us. Three parts freaky and two parts fresh, Airplay licks it where most shows only lightly kiss.

Featured Performance

Polite Sleeper Sunday, April 05, 2009

Brooklyn trio Polite Sleeper came to Airplay for the first time with some good indie folk that will be great for your Saturday afternoon. Acoustic guitar, narrative singing, organ and subtle, driving drumming combine in an impeccably clean combination of sound. Electric piano and accordion also make their own appearances, considerably diversifying a more traditional folk instrumentation. Some great punk drumming near the end. Overall though, this is good music for sitting by the riverside.

Engineer: Sam Wadsworth

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Last Time on Airplay

PlaylistLast Saturday, July 24, 2010
4:00pm-7:00pmHosted by: Mike Corsa

David Daniell & Daniel Burke (Recorded Saturday, July 24, 2010)
Check out their performances at the Hideout on 7/30! Some guitar players immerse themselves in their instrument’s rich and varied traditions, while others exploit innovations of technique and technology to find new expressive possibilities. But regardless of whether they celebrate or subvert its iconic status, they’re gilding an aura that makes it ripe for use and abuse as a Duchampian found object. The five guitarists on Offstrings come to the instrument from both sides of the altar. While they can play like virtuosos, recontextualize familiar sounds, or come up with new ones, they know that these are means, not ends. They wield all of the sound-producing and conceptual qualities inherent in the Guitar to play the chords of human experience. They offer you a chance to listen.
Baylies Band (Recorded Saturday, July 24, 2010)
Wily noise-rock band from New Bedford, Mass.
Scott Fields (From the Airplay Archives;
recorded Wednesday, August 22, 2007)
Patient, full of space and constantly developing. Great solo set from this improviser (loosely) based in Chicago. Thanks to the Jazz Show for making this one happen.

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