AirGo

You might be able to spot Cqqchifruit from a mile away. The DJ, visual creator, and space-creator wears an aesthetic that sparkles, shines, innovates, and reimagines concepts of gender, Caribbean diaspora, and nightlife. The cofounder of Pilsen party standout Trqpiteca, she DJs across the world. She is also a certified Reiki Master.

Recorded live 11/30 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago

Music from this week's show:

Live at the Hideout - Cqqchifruit DJ mix

Last Night a DJ Saved My Life - Indeep

Brandon Breaux is a visual artist whose dynamic work across media has become immensely recognizable across the city and beyond. He is the visionary behind Chance the Rapper's album artwork, and has recently created painting, sculpture, web, video, print, and interactive media projects. He also appeared as a gallery contributor at AirGo's very first We 'Go Chicago Showcase and Celebration, way back in 2015. Is this appearance the basis of all of his success? Perhaps...

Recorded live 11/16/17 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago

Music from this week's show:

Wanted Alive - @nottyp

Coriama Couture goes there, without any fuckery. She is a writer, style envisioner, activist, and host/creator of Sex KiKi, a regular gathering and podcast in different areas of the city at which open, moderated, and meaningful conversation around sex and sexuality flourishes. She's also getting ready to launch a new talk show, which she discusses with Damon and Daniel, who may be out of their depth on this one.

Recorded live 11/9/17 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago

Music from this week's show:

10pound - @blakeskowron

Jacinda Bullie and Jaquanda Villegas are the co-founders of Kuumba Lynx, a hip hop arts collective and community based in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood. The squad leads all kinds of to-the-root liberation-based collective creation, including: the annual Hip Hop Theater Festival, Half-Pint Poetics, a perennial contending team at Louder than a Bomb, and much more. From the classroom, to the stage, to the streets, Kuumba Lynx is a family of fire fighting for liberation through creation.

Recorded live 11/2/17 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago

Music from this week's show:

Unfuckwithable - Dr. Wylie

Rich Jones knows everyone, and they smile when you mention his name. He's a Chicago music scene veteran, rapper, and curator of the ongoing concert series All Smiles at the Tonic Room. Straddling the line with indie pop, he brings bounce to his music and the spaces he builds. He is performing Thursday evening as part of a Puerto Rico benefit show at Chop Shop, alongside AirGo alum Ravyn Lenae, the O'My's, and Boathouse.

Recorded live 10/19/17 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago

Music from this week's show:

Out West - @RichJonesmusic

Chicagoland - @RichJonesmusic

It's a Chicago radical podcast meeting of the minds as Ashley Tribble comes on AirGo. Tribbz is the host and producer of P Power Radio, a podcast that shares stories of millennial women and the history that has shaped the world they are working to change. Ashley currently holds a residency at AMFM, the Pilsen studio and gallery founded by AirGo alum Ciera McKissick, and does standup across the city.

Recorded live 10/12/17 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago

Music from this week's show:

Be Quiet - Jahzzar

Provider - Frank Ocean

Juliana Pino sees how it all connects. She's the Policy Director at the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO), bringing the organization's activism, organizing, and advocacy in the La Villita community and beyond to policy struggles at the city, state, and federal level. She brings the connections between the outside and inside, the macro and micro, the personal and the global to the AirGo airwaves.

Recorded live at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago

Music from this week's show:

Rebelion - Joe Arroyo

Maya Schenwar is a journalist and Editor-in-Chief of Truthout, an independent social justice news website that takes on the pretense of objectivity and reimagines the ways we can tell the stories of our struggle. She's the author of Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn’t Work and How We Can Do Better, and co-editor of Who Do You Serve, Who Do you Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States. Maya has written for publications across the country, mostly focusing on the violences perpetrated by our carceral system. This is a fun one–we promise.

Recorded live Thursday 9/28/17 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago

Music from this week's show:

Soul High - Ryan Little

This week, we talk with the perfect rapper. Joseph Chilliams' debut project, Henry Church, just dropped, and the rapper/icon gets DEEP into it with Damon and Daniel about the project and much more. Plus a special birthday shoutout to Dame!

Recorded 9/18/2017 in Chicago, IL

Music from this week's show:

Happy Birthday (KikupJ Remix) - Stevie Wonder

Shake My Ass (feat. Jamila Woods) - @JosephChilliams

Matt McLoughlin has done it before. The Philly native is an activist and accomplice in the best sense of the word–from the streets of Occupy, to the transformative lot of Freedom Square, to the courtrooms and offices of his current work with the Chicago Community Bond Fund, Matt's open-eyed commitment and love shines through. He comes on the show to talk about the campaign to end cash bond in Illinois, and more. 

Recorded live 9/14/17 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago

Music from this week's show:

Warmth Forever - ABSRDST

Tell Me - Dru Hill