

AirGo
Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger
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A podcast and radical media hub reshaping Chicago and beyond for the more liberatory and creative. Listen to longform humanizing conversations with artists, organizers, performers, comedians, scholars, and more who are reimagining Chicago and beyond toward liberation. Hosted by Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger.
A podcast and radical media hub reshaping Chicago and beyond for the more liberatory and creative. Listen to longform humanizing conversations with artists, organizers, performers, comedians, scholars, and more who are reimagining Chicago and beyond toward liberation. Hosted by Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger.
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Mar 29, 2018 • 11min
#GoBack - Chance the Rapper in 2013
AirGo digs deep in the vaults for #GoBack, a series of interviews Daniel did between 2011 and 2014 with some of hip hop's best. Originally aired on KDIC-FM, Damon and Daniel's college radio station, we dust off the conversations and bring them to you. On this episode, from all the way back in 2013, Chance the Rapper.

Mar 22, 2018 • 1h 11min
Ep 130 - Luke Titus
Singer, drummer, and songwriter Luke Titus is just trying to flow. As a percussionist, he has kept the pocket for brilliant Chicagoans like Noname, Akenya and Ravyn Lenae. He released his debut project, Aside of Love, last year, and will be opening for Ravyn on her upcoming Crush tour.
Recorded 2/20/18 in Chicago
Music from this week's show:
U (feat. @ravynlenae) - @luke-titus
Pink - @luke-titus
Runnin - @luke-titus

Mar 16, 2018 • 58min
Ep 129 - Maceo Haymes of the O'My's
Maceo Haymes swings, growls, and whines like no other voice in Chicago. He's the soul of Chicago soul band The O'My's, and has collaborated with damn near any Chicago rapper, singer, and musician you rock with. A stalwart of the Chicago music scene, Maceo swings by to talk sound, color, art, and more.
Recorded 3/15/18 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago
Music from this week's show:
These Days (feat. @the-omys) - @ab-soul
Mujer (feat. @nicosegal) - @the-omys

Mar 8, 2018 • 1h 14min
Ep 128 - Check-in #3
Daniel and Damon catch their breath and take some time to check in. The convo bounces around from parents, to love, to growth, to much more. You get a guest every week–we should be enough for ya.
Recorded 3/5/18 in Chicago

Mar 1, 2018 • 1h 2min
Ep 127 - Burns Twins
The Burns Twins glint. The duo stands in the midst of much of the most engaging, shining, exciting art echoing through Chicago's music scene, bringing their trumpet, drums, and production to collaborations with an impressive cross-section of Chicago's next wave. They most recently put out the first in a series of EPs with Bedows and Elton Aura entitled Sun Shower, which is an absolute banger, and perform in the bands of many of Chicago's best.
Recorded live 3/1/18 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago
Music from this week's show:
Headphones (feat. Nemo) - @burnstwinsmusic x @bedows x @eltonaura
No More - @burnstwinsmusic x @themindmusic
Combo #5 - @burnstwinsmusic x @bedows x @eltonaura

Feb 15, 2018 • 53min
Ep 126 - Shellyne Rodriguez
Shellyne Rodriguez is a badass visual artist, organizer, and Bronxite. She organizes with Take Back the Bronx, a collective of creators and citizens fighting gentrification, and has visual art featured all over the city. Her visuals remix and reimagine the material representations of community, loss, and false hope into collage and sculpture, connected yet levitating. She works with the Museum of Modern Art's Educational Programming, overseeing organizational and school partnerships across the five boroughs.
Recorded 2/1/18 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York

Feb 8, 2018 • 59min
Ep 125 - Our Liberation Summit
AirGo had the honor of cohosting the Our Liberation Summit, a convening at Sarah Lawrence College. We conducted 10 interviews with presenters, producers, and participants, seizing this shared moment to bring their voices and ideas beyond the confines of the campus. This episode contains a few of their stories–you can hear all of the episodes on our soundcloud. Thanks to Natalie Gross and Cody Ross Romero for their wonderful hospitality and vision!
Recorded 2/3/18 at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville NY
Music from this week's show:
Echo Blues Effect - Anonymous420
Lost Memories - Ryan Little

Feb 1, 2018 • 11min
#GoBack: Kendrick Lamar in 2013
AirGo digs deep in the vaults for #GoBack, a series of interviews Daniel did between 2011 and 2014 with some of hip hop's best. Originally aired on KDIC-FM, Damon and Daniel's college radio station, we dust off the conversations and bring them to you. First up, Kendrick Lamar in 2013.

Jan 25, 2018 • 59min
Ep 124 - Bria Royal
Bria Royal is a mythmaker. The artist, media journalist, organizer, and spacemaker creates worlds through comics, animation, and paintings that reimagine the relationships between liberation, the natural world, gender, mental health, technology, and more. She works for the youth media and journalism nonprofit Free Spirit Media, and is a member of Chicago-based organizations The People's Response Team and For the People Artists Collective.
Recorded live 1/25/18 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago
Music from this week's show:
West Coast - Ryan Little
What You Won't Do - Bobby Caldwell

Jan 18, 2018 • 1h 18min
Ep 123 - Ashley Ray
Ashley Ray is open. The comedian, writer, and cultural critic shares the stories, questions, insecurities, and challenges many of us struggle to ask about relationships, monogamy, and sexuality, and spins them hilariously toward a liberatory perspective. In addition to doing standup all over Chicago, she writes about television for the Onion, and has a day job where she spins your public data into profit.
Recorded 1/16/18 in Chicago
Music from this week's show:
Rise and Shine - Audiobinger