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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
Dave Weld and the Imperial Flameslisten!
Dave Weld and the Imperial Flames Sunday, July 18, 2010
Excellent blues performance from Chicago blues guitarist Dave Weld with legendary saxophonist Abb Locke, drummer Jeft Taylor (who sang the bass line for the whole performance!) and singer Monica Myre. Thanks to WNUR's Blues Show for putting this one together.
Recorded by: Mike Corsa & David Sumberg
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PlaylistSaturday, August 28, 2010
4:00pm-7:00pm
Hosted by: Mike Corsa
  • Tribraco (Recorded Tuesday, August 24, 2010)
    Avant-garde jazz/rock quartet formed in Rome in 2004: Lorenzo Tarducci (guitar, loop machine), Valerio Lucenti (bass), Tommaso Moretti (drums), Dario Cesarini (guitar, loop machine, effects).
  • Neo (Recorded Tuesday, August 24, 2010)
    Wacky, skronky, jazz from this creative Italian trio. Jagged compositions make you think you discovered, lost Luttenbacher.
  • Flying Luttenbachers, The (From the Airplay Archives;
    recorded Saturday, May 26, 2001)

    Live in the Annie May Swift (WNUR) auditorium with audience once again. Thank you Weasel.
  • Little Women (From the Airplay Archives;
    recorded Monday, February 16, 2009)

  • Melt-Banana (From the Airplay Archives;
    recorded Saturday, November 02, 1996)

    Crazy noise spazz rockers from Tokyo,Japan. At the time of this set, their "Scratch Or Stitch" album had just come out on the Chicago Skin Graft record label recorded by Steve Albini and jim O'Rourke. Yasuko O.-vocals; Agata-guitar; Rika Yamamoto-bass; Sudoh Tokiashi-drums. Great set: 1)"Scratch or Stitch" 2)"RRAGG" 3)"It's In the Pillcase" 4)"Bad Gut Missed First" 5)"Stop the Cuckoo Test" 6)Untitled 7)"Tail in Garbage" 8)"Paint It Black" (Rolling Stones cover) 9)"Plot in a Pot".
  • Ettrick (From the Airplay Archives;
    recorded Saturday, October 14, 2006)

    Brutal, oppressive free jazz skronkfest. Two drummer-saxophonists who are sure to piss off your uptight neighbors.