News · 22 August 2003

Radiohead take over Q101 for an hour

first posted on Treefingers by Miro · rewritten for the archive 24 September 2026

Radiohead are live in the studios of Q101, the Chicago alternative station, today from 5pm, and for a full hour they will play whatever they like from their own MP3 players.

thanks to Marcel

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