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• Friday, Apr 208:00pm Mrs. Magician Metro With Cults and Spectrals 18+

Airplay is more than a show, it's an institution. Join the Airplay gang every week as they open the flood gates and let the music pour in. Airplay specializes in live in-studio performances by the best and brightest. Search the performance database if you don't believe us. Three parts freaky and two parts fresh, Airplay licks it where most shows only lightly kiss.

• Secret Colours (Recorded Saturday, April 14, 2012)
  Blending guitar, bass, drums, and a touch of tambourine that beckons memories from a bygone era, this Chicago based sextet will take you on a psychedelic trip that won't quit. Since releasing their debut album to high praise back in 2010, Secret Colours have taken their rock on the road gracing the likes of SXSW and Austin Psych Fest. Their website poses the question, "What would west coast pop art experimentalism sound like filtered through an industrial midwest prism?" They don't know the answer to that question and we don't either, but we do know that if you've got love for psych rock and good tunes, Secret Colours is worth your time. Secret Colours is Tommy Evans, Dave Stach, Dylan Olson, Justin Frederick, Margaret Albright, and Nathaniel Wiess.
  
• Wume (Recorded Monday, April 09, 2012)
  Wume are a two-piece from Chicago, Illinois with sounds self-described as an experiment in transcendence and rhythm.
  
• Son Step (Recorded Wednesday, April 11, 2012)
  SON STEP is a unique collaborative effort featuring four active forces in Philadelphias new and original music scene. Hungry for exploration, the bands members are apt to mix up both instrumentation and individual roles. Live performances are often spattered with dual bass or guitar, passages of heavy group drumming, and a communal sharing of vocal duties. This is also characteristic of Spooky Tooth, a 4-song EP and the bands first studio recording (released in early 2011). Son Steps sound combines intricate composition, improvisation, gritty electronics, and heartfelt lyricism, while touching upon an array of influences- ambient, post-punk, folk and beyond. Together the four friends create urgent music that should be heard by listeners and audiences seeking something truly fresh and captivating.
  
• Crystal Gravy (From the Airplay Archives;
  recorded Saturday, September 13, 2008)
  Super-solid, Headhunting funk band from Chicago that played an enormous set that tore the roof off the sucker and gave up the funk. Check out the nice Fela Kuti insert.
  
• Hubble (Recorded Saturday, April 14, 2012)
  Since the inception of his new solo guitar project Hubble, Ben Greenberg of Zs and Pygmy Shrews has sought to exploit the guitar for its ulterior qualities, simultaneously displaying a true love for the instrument while redefining how guitar music is understood. Whether distortion-drenched or clean, Ben describes painstaking result as cyber-dread, an apocalyptic, beat-less quasi-electronic music, conjuring Terry Rileys pulsing minimalist structures and Gregg Ginns aggressive, avant-garde rock. The first full-length record Hubble Drums is set for release on Northern-Spy Records in November 2011 in support of which Hubble will tour extensively throughout the US and Europe. About the Hubble live performance, Ben expounds, Every Hubble set, on a stage or in a friends basement or in my bedroom, is a concerted effort on my part to change the air in the room, to push it towards a state of greater resonance. Using mesmerizing guitar mastery to create extended rhythmic patters of note groupings of varied tempo, dissonance, and harmony, Ben hypnotizes the audience with slowly developing, subtle variation, until the listener is lulled into a highly vivid dream state. The set varies between a versatile and simple set-up and the more ambitious Hubble Superposition, a quadraphonic experience that splits the guitar signal into four different singals which are routed through four seperate amplifiers. Bens first release Hubble Linger (NNA Tapes) brilliantly utilized the cassette format by distilling a live performance into two side-long pieces of stereo-panning guitar. The tape was well received inciting electronic musician Keith Fullerton Whitman to claim Im fairly floored by this extended solo-trance-out from Zs guitarist Ben Greenberg, who seems to have invented a device that halts time (musical, actual, and meta-physical) ; its use is put to great effect across this 60-minute blast of cycling stereo chord progressions and assorted haze(s) that approaches the fervour of MBV / Belongs filtered-out high-gain wash while retaining the minimalist patina of Charlemagne Palestine piece awesome.
  

• Friday, April 202:00pm
  Mrs. Magician
• Tuesday, April 246:00pm
  Code Switching
• Saturday, April 284:00pm
  Le Tour
• Saturday, April 285:00pm
  The Big Ship
• Saturday, May 054:00pm
  Brouhaha
• Saturday, May 122:00pm
  Chandeliers

• Saturday, April 14
  Secret Colours
• Saturday, April 14
  Hubble
• Wednesday, April 11
  Son Step
• Monday, April 09
  Wume
• Saturday, April 07
  The Earth Is A Man
• Friday, April 06
  Diamond Terrifier
• Saturday, March 31
  Rivulets