Episodes

  • Episode 294: Film Maker Dave Markey

    Episode 294: Film Maker Dave Markey
    Mar 7 2025
    Dave Markey is a self-taught filmmaker and musician who has documented underground music and punk culture for over four decades. His films, including and , capture the energy of the punk scene with a direct, DIY approach. He has worked with Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Black Flag, and the Circle Jerks, among others. His latest documentary, (2025), explores the influence of a key figure cultural figure, bull rider and cop Bill Bartell.
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Episode 293 The Big Takeover Editor Jack Rabid

    Episode 293 The Big Takeover Editor Jack Rabid
    Feb 27 2025
    Jack Rabid has spent 40 years documenting underground music as the founder and editor of . His writing has appeared in , , , and dozens more. He drums for , , , and Springhouse. He hosts on . Based in Brooklyn with his wife and two kids, he remains a fixture in punk journalism and radio.
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Episode 292 Tony O’Neill

    Episode 292 Tony O’Neill
    Feb 21 2025
    , a British-born writer now in the U.S., has built a career that moves between fiction, non-fiction, and screenwriting. A former musician who played with and , he made his literary debut with in 2005, followed by noir-tinged novels like —now edging toward a TV adaptation with Bret Easton Ellis. Tony's work has found an eager audience in France, where 13e Note Editions translated much of his output. He’s also co-authored bestselling memoirs and worked with screenwriters like Jim Uhls. When not writing for The Guardian or Vice, he resides in New Jersey with his family.
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Episode 291 Photographer & Writer Ali Smith

    Episode 291 Photographer & Writer Ali Smith
    Feb 14 2025
    , a portrait and documentary photographer, moved to the UK from NYC, where she built a career shooting for The Guardian, The New York Times, and more. She’s shot campaigns for Rimmel, Disney, and Johnson & Johnson and published two acclaimed photography books— earned praise from The NY Times and Gloria Steinem. Her work, rooted in gender equality and environmentalism, includes a grant-funded project on incarcerated mothers. She’s exhibited and taught internationally, mentoring young women in photography. Also a writer and former touring musician, her memoir dropped back in January 2024 via Blackstone Publishing.
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    47 mins
  • Episode 290 Bruce Moreland

    Episode 290 Bruce Moreland
    Feb 7 2025
    grew up in West Covina California, playing in glam rock bands with his brother Marc before diving into LA’s punk scene in the late ’70s. He hung around , played bass for , and co-founded , recording on most of their albums between stints in and out of the band. He later formed Black Cherry, played with , and co-wrote a track for . After Marc’s death, he started , shifting to vocals and guitar.
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    1 hr
  • Episode 289 Mad Women/Bad Choices with Matilda Joon & Dominique Stringfellow

    Episode 289 Mad Women/Bad Choices with Matilda Joon & Dominique Stringfellow
    Jan 31 2025
    Matilda Joon Dominique Stringfellow In this cuntroversial episode we feature the dynamic poetry of Matilda Joon, and an in depth conversation between Lydia and Dominique Stringfellow concerning the need for female empowerment to replace the ever present imbalance in sexual relationships which have spiraled out of control.
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Episode 288 JD Pinkus

    Episode 288 JD Pinkus
    Jan 24 2025
    JD Pinkus, who set a Georgia Boy's State 100-meter freestyle relay record in 1980, left swimming behind in 1985 to tour with the , later playing bass for , , and others. He took up the 5-string banjo, releasing albums like (2018), (2021), and (2024). JD splits his time between the road, the studio, and the mountain he now calls home.
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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Episode 287 Mike IX Williams

    Episode 287 Mike IX Williams
    Jan 17 2025
    Mike IX Williams, the voice of New Orleans for lack of a better term "sludge" pioneers , embodies the unrelenting grit of the genre. Raised in High Point, North Carolina, he gravitated toward rebellion and punk before finding his footing in the music scene of late-70s New Orleans. Over the years, he’s faced addiction, incarceration, Hurricane Katrina, and a liver transplant, emerging as a testament to survival against the odds. Mike's music channels the chaos of a life shaped by struggle and defiance, capturing an unvarnished reflection of the world around him.
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    1 hr and 11 mins