The Airplay Show is WNUR's live performances program. More than 1000 artists have named Airplay the only place to play when caressing the fine curves of radio. Airplay airs 4-7pm, every Saturday on 89.3 WNUR-FM in Chicago and around the world at www.wnur.org .
We've had the best of the best, worst of the worst, best of the worst, and the worst of the best perform on our own (un)hallowed ground, from local balloon head Billy Corgan, to late great John Fahey, to Can-master Damo Suzuki. We forgot to pay Shellac once for a concert they graced us with, so they crashed their van into the side of our building! Calvin Johnson has climbed our walls, Japanther won't stop dropping f-bombs, and that's just the beginning.
Got a band? Know a band we should get to play? Got the low-down on the new thing? Hit us up.
Email us:
[email protected]
Mail us:
WNUR 89.3 FM
Attn: Airplay Show
1877 Campus Dr.
Evanston, IL 60201
Visit website:
airplay.wnur.org
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Past Performers:
40K | 774th Street Quartet | A Light Sleeper | A Tundra | A Whisper in the Noise | ABCs | Acid Mothers Temple | Adam Sonderberg and Boris Hauf | Adam Sonderberg, Gerry Bryerton, Carol Genetti | Adam Sonderburg/Boris Hauf | Aden (formerly Dingle) | Adult Rodeo | ADULT. | Aerospace Soundwise | Afflictions | Alchemy | Alec Empire | Alec K Redfearn's Dualistics | Alejandro Escovedo | Algernon | Alice Peacock | Alkaline Trio | All Natural | All-Natural | All The Creatures of the Sea | Allos Musica | Aluminum Group | Ambivert | American Dream | Anaananaan | Ancient Greeks | Andi (Mouse on Mars) & Vert -Andi Toma & Adam Butler | Andrew Morgan | Andy McWain/Jamie Branch | Angora | Annelies Monsere | Archeology | Archer Prewitt | Arco Flute Foundation | Ari Hest | Arling and Cameron | Armor Class | Arrah and the Ferns | Arriver | Artificial Memory Trace | Ashtray Boy | Aspera | Assembly Line People Program | Astro-B | Atmospheric Audiochair | Atombombpocketknife | Aural Intuition | Automator (Dan Nakamura) | Awesome Color | Axel Doerner/Kevin Drumm | Azita | Baby Teeth | backGammon | Bad Livers | Baffler | Bailiff | Baltimores | Bantam Rooster | Barbara Manning | Bardo Pond | Baubo Performance Group | Bear Claw | Beauty Pageant | Bees Are Black | Bells | Ben Kim | Ben Miller | Ben Miller's Regeneration | Ben Vida | Ben Vida Ensemble | Bernhard Gal | Berry | Bertrand Russell's Capital T | Best Cellar | Betsy Years | Bevel | Big N | BIGBIGcar/David Adamson | Binges | Bird Show | Birddog | Birth | BJ Cole/Luke Vibert/ u-ziq | Black Bear Combo | Black Earth Ensemble | Black Family (later called The Blacks) | Black Stool | Blacks | Blastula | Blind Spot Trio | Blink | BLUHNT | Bob Falesch | Bob Nastanovich | Bob Weston | Bobby Bare, Jr. | Bobby Birdman with the Badger King | Bobby Conn | Bone Structure | Born Heller | Bosco & Jorge | Boxhead Ensemble | Box-O-Car | Boy King | Boykin/Seigfried/Wing | Braintree | Branden Massei | Brendan Massei | Brenden Massei | Brenmar | Brian Jonestown Massacre | Brian McMahon | Brian McMahon/Mark Henning | Bride of No-No | Bridge 61 | Broken Things | Bruxism | Bubblegum Shitface vs. Rotten Milk | Buffalo Daughter | Bull In China | Burning Star Core | Bus Ratch | Butcher Shop Quartet | Butterfly Child | Buzzmuscle | C. Spencer Yeh | Calexico | Calla | Canyon | Carol Genetti | Carol Genetti and Eric Leonardson | Cash Money | Cass McCombs | Cat Power | Catherine | Cavallanti/Tononi/Williams | C-Clamp | Cells | Central Falls | Centro-Matic | Cerberus Shoal | Chamber Strings | Charles and Charles | Charles Kim and Fred Lonberg-Holm | Charlie Schmidt | Charlotte Hug | Charlotte Hug & Fred Lonberg-Holm | Charming Beggars | Check Engine | Cheer Accident | Cheer-Accident | Cheyntara | Chicago Luzern Exchange | Chicago Underground Duo | Chicago Underground Duo (Rob Mazurek/Chad Taylor) | Chicago Underground Quartet | Chicago Underground Trio | Chinese Johnny | Chisel | Choir Boys | Chris Brokaw | Chris Devin's Debacle | Chris Fuller | Chris Mills | Christian Kliene | Christmas Decorations | Christy & Emily | Chuck Falzone | Cibo Matto | Circle | Clogs | Clyde Federal | Cock E.S.P. | Coctails | Colorlist | Coltrane Motion | Complacents | Consortium | Cords | Corn Dolly | Corvus | Costa Music | Couch | Crack! We Are Rock | Crooked Fingers | Crown Royals | Curtains | D Numbers | Damo Suzuki | Damon Short and Jim Baker | Dan Friel | Dan Godston/Bill MacKay/Joshua Manchester | Dan Raeburn | Daniel Godston/Joel Wanek/Jayve Montgomery | Daniel Menche | Daniele D'agaro | Danny Black's Healthy White Baby Boy | Dark Fog | Darts & Arrows | DAT Politics | Dave Douglas | Dave Fischoff | Dave Rempis/Nate McBride/Jason Adasiewicz | David Boykin & Niki Mitchell | David Boykin and Bakari Davis | David Boykin Group (Jazz Fest '01) | David Boykin Outet | David Boykin Trio | David Boykin/Chris Courtney | David Foster Wallace | David Grubbs | David Krakauer | David Singer | Dead Meadow | Deadly Dragon Sound System | Deadly Dragon Sound System (DJ Rik Shaw) | Deanna Varragona | Defender | Del Ray | Delta '72 | Demolition Doll Rods | Derrick Carter | Destroyer | Detachment Kit | Detholz! | Devil in a Woodpile | Diane Izzo | Dianogah | Dirty Projectors | Dis | Disaster Action Team | Dishes | DJ Hive | DJ Snuggles | DJ Spooky | DJ Spooky/Ben Neill | DJ U-Sheen | Dolly Varden | Doppler Shift | Double Negative | Drag City Power Hour | Drag King | Dragones | Drakkar Sauna | Drekka | Drillchop 9 | Drive By Truckers | Dropp Ensemble | Drovers | Duane Denison | Duane Denison/David Yow | Early Day Miners | Edith Frost | Ego | Eiren Caffall | EKG | EKG Trio | Electrelane | Elephant Micah | Eleventh Dream Day | Elk City | Elliot Sharp | Engines | Enon | Entertainment | Epictr | Eric Carbonara | Eric Leonardson | Eric Roth and The Silver Schmateez | Eric Roth Trio | Eric Roth Trio (Jazz Fest '01) | Ernesto Diaz-Infante | Eternals | Ettrick | Eu Thing | Eugene Chadbourne (Interview & Performance) | Ex-Models | Experimental Tokyo | Falstaff | Faun Fables | Faust | Fe-Mail | Fessenden | Fetch | FHMZ Trio | Fire of Space | Fire Show | Fissure | Five Live Ones | Flaming Fire | Flashlight | Flavor Channel | Fleischman & Kleine | Flexible Products | Flirts | Flying Luttenbachers | Foot Soldiers | For Carnation | Forgotten Works | Fort Rile Dog | Forty-One Rivers | Forty-Piece Choir | Frame Quartet | Franklin Bruno | Fransisco Lopez | Freakwater | Fred Anderson Trio (Jazz Fest '01) | Fred Anderson, Josh Abrams | Free Music Ensemble (FME) | Frisbie | Frogs | Frontier | Fuck | Fulcrum Collection | Funkstrong | Galactic | Gauge | Gene Coleman, Guillermo Gregorio, Steve Butters | George McRae Trio | Ghost Family | Girl Talk | Girls | Glass Candy | Glenn Bach | Glenn Bach & John Kannenberg | Glenn Kotche | Go | Goblins | God Is My Co-Pilot | Goem/Kapote Muziek | Gold Sparkle Band | Good Stuff House | Grandaddy | Grandpa's Ghost | Greg Davis & Steven hess | Greg Hamilton | Greg Kelley & Kurt Johnson | Greg Shiff | Gregorio/Stackenas/Baker/Corbett | Grey Ghost | Greyboy All-Stars | Guillermo Gregorio/Josh Abrams/Jeff Parker | Guitar Wolf | Gutbucket | Guy King Band | Hair Police | Hale Zukas | Handsome Family | Happy Grind Core | Happy Mother's Day | Haptic | Hardvark | Harris Eisenstadt, Sara Schoenbeck, & Jason Ajemian | Hatewave | Haymarket Riot | Helen Mirra and Ernst Karel | Helen Money | Helium | Hella | Henry Grimes, Marshall Allen, & Avreeayl Ra | Herculaneum | Heroine Sheiks | High Dependency Unit | High Dependency Unit (radio mix) | High Places | High Rise | High Strung | Holy Fuck | Home Recording Project | Hoodoo Hoedown | Hope Littwin | Hot Carl | Hot Dog City | Hot Smokes | Hummingbiird | I Ching Quartet | I Need Sleep | Iara Lee | Ida | Idaho | Illusion of Safety | In Potentia | Indian Jewelry | Information Superhighway | Ingebrigt Haaker Flaten/Jeb Bishop | Intelligibles | Isotope 217 | J.Davis Trio | J+J+J | Jack Logan | Jack the Dog | Jad Fair and James McNew | Jakob | James Chance | Jamie Hodge | Janet Choi | Japanther | Jason Ajemian & Matt Bauder | Jason Ajemian and Nori Tanaka | Jason and Alison | Jason Narducy (of Verbow) | Jason Roebke Trio | Jason Steele Ensemble | Jay Bennett/Edward Burch | Jayve Montgomery & Joel Wanek | Jazz Butcher | Jeff Tweedy | Jessica Bailiff | Jessica Rylan | Jesus Lizard | Jim Baker | Jim Bourke | Jim Elkington | Jim O'Rourke | Jimmy Bennington/Dan Thatcher/Ben Boye | John Butcher | John Ellis | John Fahey | John Fahey and Jim O'Rourke | John Huss Moderate Combo | John Kannenberg | John Parish | John Sinclair | John Statz | Johnny Dowd | Jon Langford | Jon Langford and Sally Timms | Jon Mueller and Steve Hess | JoAnne Pow!ers w/ Jaimie Branch & Marc Riordan | Jonathan Chen, Jennifer Walsh, Mark Internaehrer | Joni Laurence | Jonny Polonsky | Joost Buis/Wilbert de Joode | Josh Abrams | Joshua Manchester | Joshua Manchester & Clifford Ingram | June of '44 | Juxta | Kasper T. Toeplitz | Kaspar Hauser | Kate Simko | Keenan Lawler | Kelly Hogan Band | Ken Haebich and Jim Gailloreto | Ken Vandermark | Ken Saydak | Ken Waagner | Kevin Drumm & Jim Dorling | KG | Kill Me Tomorrow | Killdozer | Killer Dreamer | Kim | Kinetic Stereokids | King Kong | Kleenex Girl Wonder | Kleenex Girl Wonder (Graham Smith solo) | Koataro Fukuki | Kool Keith | Kool Keith (AKA Dr. Octagon) | Ladybug | Lake Effect | L'Altra | Land of the El Caminos | Landing | Lara Oppenheimer & Tatsu Aoki | Las Toallitas | Lasse Marhaug | Last Poets | Late Severa Wires | Layne Garrett | Leaves | LeRon Jakakko | Leroy Bach & Edward Burch | Lesser Birds of Paradise | Life Partners | Little Wings w/ Calvin Johnson | Little Women | Lofty Pillars | Lonesome Organist | Loraxx | Los Crudos | Lotus Crown | Lou Mallozzi | Low | Lozenge | Lozenge w/ Boris Hauf | Luc Ferrari | LuckyJ | Luke Vibert | Lustre King | Lux | Lynx | M. Ward | Magas | Magic Carpathians | Man Man | Maneshevitz | Mannequin Men | Maradona | Marcus Schmickler | Mark Leyner | Mark Shippy | Mars Williams & Clifton Hyde | Martin Amis | Mary Halvorson and Jessica Pavone | Mary Jones | Masked Lone Ranger | Mason Jennings Band | Mathlete | Matt Marque | Matthew Shipp/William Parker | Mazen Kerbaj, Vic Rawlings, Mike Bullock | MC Think | MC Think (and The Blue Collar Crew) | MC Think and DJ Bob | MC5 | Me Decade | Mecca Normal | Mekons | Melt-Banana | Mezodigm | Mia Doi Todd | Michael Columbia | Michael Hurley | Michael Krassner, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Scott Tuma, Julie Pomerlou | Michael Yonkers | Michael Young | Michael Zerang & Eric Leonardson | Mick Turner | Mike Krause | Mike Tamburo | Miles Tilmann | Milkbaby | Minim | Mind vs. Target | Mint Aundry | Miss Alex White | Miss Mia/Ratso (from Chic-A-Go-Go) | Mississippi Gabe Carter | Mittens on Strings | Molar | Monica Kendrick | Monitor Radio | MONO | Moonshine Willy | More Dogs | Moshier-Lebrun Collective | MOTO | Motorhome | Mount Shasta | Mountain Goats | Mouse On Mars | Mr. Furley | Mr. Rudy Day | Mr. Tiny's Electric Toy Band | Mung | Municipal | Mustache | MX-80 | My Name is Rar-Rar | Mystery Girls | Na | Nad Navillus | Nash Kato Band | Nathan Xander | National Trust | National Trust | National | Nautical Almanac | Need New Body | Negativland (Part 1) | Negativland (Part 2) | Neil Halsted | Neil Hamburger (interview) | Neil Rosario | Neon Hunk | Nerves | Nerves, | Nerves | Nethers | Neung Phak Monopause | Neutrino | New Electric | New Ghosts | New Rob Robbies | Nick Collins | Nick Schillace | Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble | Nightingales | Nikki Sudden | NIL8 | No Doctors | Nobukazu Takemura | Nolimetangere | Norfolk and Western | Northwestern University Percussion Ensemble | Northwoods Improvisers | Nothing Painted Blue | November's Doom | Number One Cup | Occassional Detroit | Office | Oh, Beast | OK GO | Okkervil River | Olam | Old 97's | Old Time Relijun | Olivia Block | OLO | Oneida | Organ Wolf | Orso | Otomo Yoshihide & Sachiko M | Otomo Yoshihide/Kevin Drumm/Yuko "Nexus 6" Kitamura/Jim Baker/Yasuhiro Ohtani | Out Hud | Ova! | Oval | Oxes | P.W. Long's Reelfoot | PAL | Palace | Palmolive | Pan American | Panicsville | Panthers | Papa M (interview) | Paradise Island | Parts & Labor | Party of Helicopters | Pattern is Movement | Paul Giallorenzo/Brian Labycz/Marc Riordan | Paul Metzger | Pedal Steel Transmission | Pelican | People Like Us | Perry Robinson & Jimmy Bennington | Peter Margasak | Phantom Creeper | Phantom Limb & Bison | Phantom Limb and Bison | Phil Durrant | Phil Mosberg Quartet | Philip Jeck | Philip Viper | Phill Niblock | Pillars & Tongues | Pinebender | Pinetop 7 | Pistol Whipped | Pit er Pat | Pit Hot | Pita | Plastic Letters | Plastics Hi-Fi | Pleasant Grove | Poem Rocket | Point Line Plane | Polkaholics | Polwechsel | Post Office | Poster Children | Prescriptions | Primordial Undermind | Pulsars | QMR Plus | Qui*x*otic | Quickspace | Racebannon | Ra Ra Riot | Radian | Rafael Toral | Rebecca Gates | Rebecca Gates/Sam Prekop | Red Eyed Legends | Red Fire Ant Trio | Red Red Meat | Red Red Meat (with Rebecca Gates) | Relaxer | Rempis Percussion Quartet | Repulse Kava | Retardos De La Mour | Rex Hobart | Reynols | Rhyme Fest | Ribbon Effect | Richard Buckner | Richard Buckner/Eric Haywood | Richard Powers | Rick Kurek | Rico Bell | Rivulets | Rivulets & Haley Bonar | Rivulets with Zelienople | Rob White | Robbie Fulks | Robbie Fulks Band | Robbie Fulks/Anna Fermin | Robbie Lee | Robert Johnson and The Browns | Robot Ate Me | Rock Falls | Rockin Billy | Rockin' Johnny w/ Traildigger | ROME | Ron Dewar/Robert Barry/Josh Abrams | Roni Size Reprazent | Rope | Rosenburg Skronktet | Ruby Keeler | Rudresh Mahanthapp | Russell Banks | Russian Futurists | Sacred Baboons | Salvo Beta | Sam Prekop | Sam Prekop & Archer Prewitt | San Agustin | Sandra Binion and Leroy Jenkins | Sank Minoot | Sars Flannery | Saturday Nights | Schramms | Scissor Girls | Scotland Yard Gospel Choir | Scott Fields | Scott Rosenberg | Scott Rosenberg/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Eric Leonardson | Scott Rosenberg/Jason Schiurba | Scott Rosenburg/Todd Margasak duo | Scout Niblett | Sea and Cake | Sea Wolf | Seam | Sergio Assad | Service Anxiety | Seven Tons | Shams | Shannon Wright | Sharks and Seals | Shellac | Shellac (pt. 1) | Shelton/Dibble Quartet | Shooting Spires | Shot x Shot | Shpiel | Shrimpboat | Siegfried/Boykin/Reed | Sightings | Silences Sumire | Silkworm | Silver Measure | Sin Ropas | Single Unit | Sixto | Skeleton Key | Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities | Slaughterhouse V | Sleepytime Gorilla Museum | Smashing Pumpkins | Smoking Popes | So Percussion | Soft Circle | Soledad Brothers | Solex | Son of Gunnar, Ton of Shel | Sonderberg 5 | Sooyoung Park | Soulfire | Sounds Like Braille | Sourave Chatterjee and Dhananjay Kunte | Space Bop Vanguard | Spaceheads | Specula | Spires That In The Sunset Rise | Spokane | Spring Heel Jack | Spunky Toofers | Squash Blossom | Squid Fist | Squirm | SS Puft | Star Vehicle | Starship Beer | static films | Stella | Stereo Total | Steve Albini/Al Johnson/Mark Fisher | Steve Shelley | Steve Wynn | Stewart Walker | Stnnng | Stuart Dempster & Jeb Bishop | Stump Steve Silverstein | Styrenes | Sue Garner | Sugarman 3 | Suishou no Fune | Susie Ibarra & Assif Tsahar | Swearing at Motorists | Sweder | Sweeder | Sweep the Leg Johnny | T. Corgahessan Boyle | T.V. Pow | Table | Taku Sugimoto, Masuhiko Okara, Jim O'Rourke, Kevin Drumm | Tamion 12Inch | Tan as Fuck | Tanakh | Tarantula AD | Tatsu Aoki and David Pavkovic | Tatsu Aoki and Jonathon Chen | Tears | Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls | Teer Gleene Muck | Telenovela | Temple of Bon Matin | Templo Diez | Terry Callier | Terry Rohm | Thalia Zedek | Thax Douglas | Thax Douglas and Ben | Thax Douglas and Mark Shippy | Thaxestra | The Aperion Ensemble | The Badger King | The Cathy Santonies | The Conformists | The Danglers | The Dishes | The Electrics | The Evil Connection | The Fever | The Gentlement of NUCO | The Lesser Birds of Paradise | The Life and Times | The Metapuffs | The Mobius Band | The National Trust | The Nightingales | The Other Planets | The Race | The Safes | The Siderunners | The Slats | The SSION | The Thing | The Tossers | The Wiitala Brothers | The Wilderness | The World Without Magic | These Days | Third Eye Foundation | This Moment In Black History | Thollem McDonas | Throw | Tijuana Hercules | Tim Daisy & Frank Rosaly | Timeout Drawer | Ting | Tiny Hairs | To Live and Shave in L.A. | Tocotronic | Today Is My Super Spaceout Day | Toe | Tokidoki | Tom Brosseau | Tom Frank (The Baffler) | Tomato Box | Tomorrow Music Orchestra | Tony Conrad (interview) | Town & Country | Town and Country | Trailer Bride | Traitors | Triage | Trigger Gospel | Trio Actuelle | Triple Threat Djs | Trizzo | Troubled Hubble | Troyer | TRS-80 | Turn Pace | Tuxedo Killers | TV POW | Twang Bang | Two Dollar Guitar | U.S. Maple | Uke Of Spaces Corners County / Shep and Me | Undergorund Orchestra | Undertow | Unicorns | Unstable Ensemble | Useful Monsters | Uz Jzme Doma | Uzeda | u-ziq | V for Vendetta | Vandermark 5 | Vandermark Five | Varnoline | Vee Dee | Velo Delux | Velour Motel | Venus Cures All | Vernal Pool | Versus | Veruca Salt | Victory At Sea | Virgil Moorefield and Emily XYZ | Viza Noir | Volcano (I'm Still Excited) | Volcano! | Vollmar | W.A.C.O. | Walkmen | Walleye | Watchers | Waxwings | We Ragazzi | Weasel Walter | Weasel Walter/Jeff Parker/Michael Zerang | Weedy | Wendy Fix | Wet Gate | Whaton Tiers Ensemble | White | White Hot Knife | White Winged Moth | Why? | Wichita Shut-ins | William "Upski" Wimsatt | William Hooker/DJ Olive | Winter Blanket | Wisdom of Harry | Wolverton Brothers | Wooden Wand and Friends | World/Inferno Friendship Society | Wuling | X27 | X-Chittle | Xiu Xiu | Xyzr_Kx | Yabba Griffiths and Traxx | Yea Big | Yea Big + Kid Static | Young People | Yowie | Yuko Nexus6 | Yum Yum | Zbigniew Karkowski | Zeek Sheck (Z/S) | Zelienople | Zelienople w/ Grouper | Zentrifugal | Zing! | Zulu as Kono
