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Kaina's twitter bio says it best–she works hard and she loves her city. She's a wonderful singer who has stepped onto larger and larger stages over the past year with her musical collaborators The Burns Twins, including festival Mamby on the Beach this summer. They recently put out an EP together, entitled sweet asl. She's also one of the associates holding down Chicago footwear brand Bucketfeet's Wicker Park location. Recorded live 4/27/17 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago Music from this week's show: The Circuit - @thejujuexchange Honey - Kaina x @burnstwins

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Hosts & Exec. Producers - Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger 
Associate Producers - Cin Pimentel & Rocío Santos
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Thaddeus Tukes is a master on the vibes and community journalist in the making. Featured across Chicago's music scene, including on The Social Experiment's Surf, Thaddeus is a gigging jazz musician, producer, and rapper. He also is in a masters program studying new media innovation and entrepreneurship at Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism, where he was a central figure in the campus' music and social justice community as an undergrad. Recorded live 4/20/17 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago Music from this week's show: Feel My Vibes - @ThaddeusTukes Bag's Groove - @ThaddeusTukes Pass the Vibes - @Nicosegal

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Engagement Producer - Rivka Yeker

Rebel Diaz is about the work. The brother-brother duo came up in Chicago as self-described "movement kids," and has since traveled the world bringing their music and radical framework to resistance moments and movements around the world. They've been organizers and community members in the Hunts Point neighborhood of The Bronx for the last 15 years. Recorded 4/5/17 in Chicago Music from this week's show: I Feel Alive - Rebel Diaz Radical Dilemma - Rebel Diaz

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Lead Editor - Troi Valles
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Engagement Producer - Rivka Yeker

Eddie Sanders both holds down one of Chicago's most popping spots, and holds the degree to get you out of trouble if things get a little too wild. A veteran of the Chicago creative community, he is a lawyer for many of the artists in the scene, as well as one of the main folks at popular night spot East Room. He also spins records, has dope glasses, and runs distribution label Freshly Baked, and definitely has some stories to tell. We unfortunately lost about 2/3 of the episode due to recording mishaps, but we still have a bunch of goodness to share! Recorded live 4/6/17 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago Music on this week's show: Speaking Gently - @badbadnotgood Jukin' on Landmines - BBU

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Monte Booker makes sounds you've never heard in a song before, but seem like you've heard them around you your whole life–the clicks and whirs of machinery, the hums and whistles of a flock of birds, the resonances inside our heads. An undeniably innovative talent, The Chicagoan producer has been making sonic tidal waves with rapper/crooner Smino, AirGo alum Ravyn Lenae, a bunch of other talented folks, and the groovy radio show Soulection. He takes a break from a studio session at Classick Studios and gets groovy. Recorded live 3/30/17 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago Music on this week's show: 2099 Flow - @montebooker Cereal - @montebooker Glass Flows feat. @ravynlenae (prod. @montebooker) - @SminoWorld

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Naledge may be a student at Northwestern's School of Communications within the Media, Technology and Society Program, but he's a kid no more. One half of 2000's-era rap group Kidz in the Hall, who sold more than 100,000 records worldwide on both Duckdown Records and Rawkus Records, he is also the founder of the Brainiac Project, which provides safe spaces and professional training at a recording studio in Auburn Gresham. Recorded live 3/23/17 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago Music from this week's show: The Willies - @djdouble-0 Me and My Old School - Naledge Good to You (Instrumental prod. Kanye West) - Talib Kweli Wheelz Fall Off ('06 Til) - Kidz in the Hall

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As an antidote to all of the endless yammering we bring you week-in and week-out, this week AirGo presents music by all of the musical artists who have come on AirGo through the first 82 episodes. The mix is done by AirGo's own DJ Empathy (aka Daniel). Peep the tracklist below! Music on this week's show: Divine Love - @wowtashawow Untitled 04 (summertime) - @jhonmyquale Suitcase - @bellabahhs Blk Girl Soldier - @JamilaWoods West Side in the Rain - @MalcolmLondon Pressure - @Thatsjeandeaux Whippin' - @RicWilsonisme Liberation - @DavidEllis00 Summer Camp - @theMINDmusic Walk Away - @DramaDuo Promesa - @Lesterreymusic Symmetry - @SabaPIVOT Silk Pillows - @Sminoworld & @Akenya Spice - @Ravynlenae Bloom - @BLAckxpARty Noir - @Defcee Green Light Party - @Add2theMC Ham Sammiches - @averyryoung Love, Peace, and Happiness - @SamTrump Creflo (Almighty) Dollar - @SirtheBaptist No Service - @LaVanGogh Mariame Kaba - @SolPatches

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Safia Elhillo is a badass and poet of Sudanese origin who manages the space between her words with fearless grace. She's in town for Halal if You Hear Me, a special event for Louder Than A Bomb that shares its name with the anthology of which she is co-editor with AirGo alum Fati Asghar. If you have any questions about Ja Rule and Ashanti, she is your go-to person. Her first book, The January Children, is available now. Recorded live 3/9/17 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago Music from this week's show: If (Instrumental) - @Oddiseemusic

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Charles Preston is an organizer and radical spacemaker. A central figure in CSU's fight for survival, which AirGo alum Dave Ellis broke down on Episode 73, Charles is also the creator of Church on the 9, a popup cypher and community-building event on 79th Street here in Chicago. He talks spacemaking, organizing, and mental/emotional health with the AirGo crew. Recorded live 3/2/17 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago Music from this week's show: God Bless The Native Americans - @rich-daily Walk On By (feat. @kendricklamar) - Thundercat

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In the frantic recallibration of what is, what isn't, and what might be since January 20th, our definitions of journalism, the press, media, and the truth are all in flux as real threats solidify and old tensions reemerge. How do we humanize our journalism and root it in the information different communities want and need? Ellen Mayer is the Engagement Consultant at Hearken, an "audience-driven tech platform and editorial framework that enables journalists to partner with the public throughout the reporting process," and a smart-ass person with a bunch of ideas about how we can engage with each other to report the information we need. Recorded live at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago Music from this week's show: Colors - @soundbyezra

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Engagement Producer - Rivka Yeker