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The Lydian Spin

A series of lively, deep and often hilarious interviews conducted by Lydia Lunch, one of the most vocal spoken word artists of this or any century and Tim Dahl, musician and general know it all.

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Episode 138 John Moran

The Lydian Spin ·

2022/03/04

John Moran is a composer, choreographer, and theater artist. He began his career composing large-scale operas, but later began choreographing detailed works in which performers silently mime and lip-sync his precisely timed musical compositions. He often employs repetitive structures in what he calls sound-scores that consist of spoken word, recorded music, and layered noises. Moran describes his recent works as theatrical portraits of people that he meets and asks to record their vocals in a

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Episode 137 Chavisa Woods

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2022/02/25

MacDowell Fellow, Chavisa Woods, is the author of four books, including Things To Do When You're Goth in the Country, and 100 Times, (A Memoir of Sexism). Chavisa was the recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award, the Kathy Acker Award in Writing, and Cobalt ‘s Zora Neale Hurston Prize for Fiction. Her work has received praise from the New York Times, The LA Times, Publisher’s Weekly, The Stranger, and many other media outlets. She currently serves as the Executive Director of a nonprofit art and

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Episode 136 Jex Blackmore

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2022/02/18

Jex Blackmore is an artist and activist best known for their performances in civic spaces. Their work, which is focused on the relationship between moral religious rhetoric, sexuality, and political policy, takes aim at institutions of social and sexual oppression. Their work is featured in the Magnolia Pictures documentary, Hail Satan?, which was an official selection at Sundance 2019. They have exhibited installation and video work internationally. Most recently, their installation Sex Militant,

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01:16:56

Episode 135 Richie Stotts

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2022/02/11

Richie Stotts was a founding guitarist of the Plasmatics. Taking inspiration from Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver, he sported an enormous mohawk. Richie would also cross dress in various costumes like a nurse uniform, or a french maid dress. He did this In an effort to keep up with his constantly outrageous bandmate Wendy O. Williams. After leaving the Plasmatics in 1984, Richie pursued a solo career with his band King Flux and then went back to school where he eventually earned a graduate degree in

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Episode 134 Bryan Lewis Saunders

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2022/02/04

Back in 1995 Johnson City Tennessee artist Bryan Lewis Saunders began creating a self portrait of himself every day. As an artist, he also set out to look for experiences that would affect his perception of self and the world around him. To achieve these ends, he came up with an experiment titled Under The Influence. Everyday during the duration of the experiment, Bryan took a different drug or intoxicant and drew himself under the influence. In addition to his visual art practice, he also

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01:16:27

Episode 133 Bruce LaBruce

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2022/01/28

Bruce LaBruce is an internationally acclaimed filmmaker, photographer, writer, and artist based in Toronto. Along with a number of short films, he has written and directed nine feature films, including his most recent, Saint-Narcisse, which premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in 2020. As a visual artist he has had numerous gallery shows around the world, the latest of which, called Obscenity, a photography exhibit, which caused a national ruckus in Spain in 2011. His feature film

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Episode 132 Eugene Chadbourne

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2022/01/21

Like 90% percent of all other male musicians, guitarist Eugene Chadbourne started playing pop music hoping to get the attention of girls. Very quickly he grew bored of the conventional styles and gravitated towards avant-garde jazz. Since then Eugene has been as The Quietus aptly points out "one of the most absurdly prolific left-field musicians of all times". He has recorded at least 358 albums with everyone from Anthony Braxton to Camper van Beethoven. Aside from his prolific guitar work, Eugene

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01:01:11

Episode 131 Kier-La Janisse Part 2

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2022/01/14

Past guest Kier-La Janisse returns to discuss her documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched and her new Blu-ray box set compendium of Folk Horror All Haunts Be ours.

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Episode 130 Rat Bastard

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2022/01/07

Rat Bastard is the major instigator of the Miami noise scene. He is a purported to be a member of not only the legendary To Live and Shave in LA, but also a member of TLSLA 2,3,4 & 5. For decades, Rat has also recorded and booked bands in Miami. In his home studio, he's recorded everyone from Marilyn Manson to Blowfly.

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01:16:10

Episode 129 2022 New Years Special

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2021/12/31

Lydia and Tim celebrate the birth of 2022 in two parts, with past guests. In part one, they reflect on the past year with Adele Bertei, Sydney Silver and Ian White. In part two they keep the reflection and story telling going with Eugene Robinson and Ron Athey. Happy New Year everyone!

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Episode 128 Tim Stegall

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2021/12/26

Tim Stegall is a punk journalist and musician based in Austin, TX. He has been writing about punk rock and underground culture since just before his 20th birthday in 1985. Tim went from contributing to classic fanzines like Flipside and Your Flesh, to turning pro in the early '90s at Alternative Press and The Austin Chronicle. He's concurrently led a "fundamentalist punk band" called The Hormones from 1985 to the present day. He has written liner notes and bios for such luminaries as The Weirdos,

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Episode 128 Delayed

The Lydian Spin ·

2021/12/24

Due to the holidays, the latest episode of the Lydian Spin is going to be released tomorrow(12/25/21), not today(12/24/21). Hope every listener has a pleasure filled yet safe holiday.

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Episode 127 Jennifer Sirey

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2021/12/17

Jennifer Sirey is a Brooklyn based artist. Her process-driven sculpture engages organic materials and natural phenomena, incorporating glass, liquids, wax, bacteria, algae, and wood in monolithic, architectural forms. For years Jennifer has been refining a process of growing Acetobacter, or Mother of Vinegar as a building material to construct living sculptures.

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Episode 126 Stu Spasm Redux

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2021/12/10

Stu Spasm is the first guest to return for a second interview. He comes back to tell Lydia and Tim more about his band Art Gray Noizz Quintet as well as to elaborate on some of his other projects, including a book he is writing, and the sculptures he makes of public figures that occasionally include his own pubic hair. Lydia is back in New York and Tim continues his travels where he dials in somewhere between Boston and New York.

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Episode 125 Eric Gardner

The Lydian Spin ·

2021/12/03

Eric Gardner is a professional drummer who has worked with some of the biggest names in the business. Eric started off touring with Gnarls Barkley, and has since toured and recorded with Cypress Hill, Iggy Pop, Morrisey, Steve Vai, MC5, Slash, Beck, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and numerous Tom Morello projects. He even got a chance to work with film score and Oingo Boingo legend Danny Elfman on 2012’s Oscar Winner Silver Linings Playbook. Eric also happens to be one of Tims oldest friends and earliest

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Episode 124 Gio Black Peter

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2021/11/26

In every generation, there are those who resist the sweeping tide of proscription and conformity. For New York based artist Gio Black Peter, such a reaction comes naturally. Through his work, he is able to break through the hardening shell of uniformity and tap into something more honest. At its core, Gio’s art is a provocation and, whether addressing issues of violence or oppression, alienation or love, it seeks to spark a reaction in its audience. While that reaction may be visceral and

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Episode 123 Tom Hazelmyer

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2021/11/19

Artist, musician, record label founder and owner of Minneapolis' Grumpy's Bar, started Amphetamine Reptile Records (AmRep), in the early 1980s. Amrep originally run out of a hand grenade crate kept under Tom's Marine Corps bunk, was conceived as a way for Tom to release records by his band Halo Of Flies. The label quickly became his full-time job and thrived into the 90s, releasing music by the Melvins, Helmet, Cows, Boss Hog and many others. It was also in the 90s when Tom fashioned his own

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Technical Issue Update

The Lydian Spin ·

2021/11/12

We want to thank our fans for reaching out and pointing out that the stream for the latest episode featuring the great Admiral Grey was not working. The issue should be fixed. Please try listening again. If you are still having problems, please let us know.

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Episode 122 Admiral Grey

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2021/11/12

Admiral Grey is known as the virtuosic frontwoman for Cellular Chaos ,and as a veteran underground NY multidisciplinary artist and performer in both the experimental music (Glass Lamborghini, Drayton Sawyer Gang) and theater scenes (Sister Sylvester, The Nerve Tank, The Drunkard's Wife). She has composed music, writing, video, theater, costume and puppets since she was a child, with her works across genres and mediums carrying a recognizable thread of humanist existentialism, clowning and

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Episode 121 Patrick Jones

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2021/11/05

Welsh poet and playwright Patrick Jones is one of Wales most prominent literary voices. In addition to his writing, Patrick has done so many other things. In 1993 he founded the Blackwood Young Writers Group. He taught adult literacy, worked as a hospice aide and was employed at a factory in Chicago, where he did not even know what the product was. The underlying theme in all of his activities writing and otherwise, is social justice, and trying very hard to be the voice for the disaffected. This

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