AirGo

This week, we're doing something a little different–an AirGo doubleheader featuring two one-on-one interviews. Daniel's back in New York for the week talking with an old friend, while Damon holds down the on-air slot. Enjoy all of the conversation! Back in Chicago, Damon sits down with Ayinde Cartman. Ayinde is a poet, organizer, and caretaker, who actually was featured with a live performance all the way back on AIrGo Episode 11. They chop it up one-on-one, live on WHPK. Recorded live 6/1/17 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago Music from this week's show: Locked Up - Garaz

NOTE: This week, we're doing something a little different–an AirGo doubleheader featuring two one-on-one interviews. Daniel's back in New York for the week talking with an old friend, while Damon holds down the on-air slot. Enjoy all of the conversation! Daniel sits down with Zohran Kwame Mamdani, a rapper and old friend back in New York. The son of acclaimed filmmaker Mira Nair and postcolonial radical scholar Mahmood Mamdani, he is one of Daniel's oldest friends. The two talk family, Uganda, social media, and growth. Recorded 5/31/17 in New York City Music from this week's episode: Kanda (Chap Chap) - Yung Cardamom & Hab No Fruits at Night - @zohrankwame

greenSLLIME may have been traveling around the world for the past couple years as Mick Jenkins' DJ, but his style stays lowkey, homemade, hilarious, and fly. In addition to spinning for Mick, he's the host of SLLIME's Broke Ass Low Budget Show, a brilliantly, bluntedly surrealist talk show that has featured Joseph Chilliams, Sharkula, Dally Auston, Qari, Smino, and AirGo alums Jean Deaux and theMIND. He also has more than his fair share of bars for you. Recorded live 5/25/17 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago Music from this week's show: Roy - @JBlanked Accidental Racist - LL Cool J & Brad Paisley M.O.P. - Get the Fuck Outta Here

LaSaia Wade is the forceful, brilliant voice at the front of the movement for trans liberation in the city of Chicago. She's the director of Brave Space Alliance, a "grassroots funded initiative created by trans people of color, for trans people of color, to generate opportunities to engage in healing, community building and the creating of kinship." She's also a member of the Chicago's Trans Liberation Collective, and owns Mystical Bee Hive, a South Side-based beekeeping company. Recorded live 5/18/17 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago Music from this week's show: Demskreets.Fects - @Knxwledge Living in Confusion - Phyllis Hyman

AJ Christian is coming for your television with an eye to the future. He is the founder of Open TV, a Chicago-based platform for intersectional television that has been the home for web series Brown Girls (written by AirGo alum Fati Asghar), Brujos (created by AirGo alumn Ricardo Gamboa), and many more programs reimagining the form and distribution of television in the digital age. He's a professor at Northwestern's School of Communication. Recorded live 5/11/17 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago Music from this week's show: Destination - @anitek

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

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

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

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

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