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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 120 Halloween Special

The Lydian Spin ·

2021/10/29

Lydia and Tim ring in the Halloween weekend with members of Lydia's coven. Jasmine Hirst, Elise Passavant & Sadie Mae discuss a wide range of spooky subjects including, but not limited to psychic encounters with Andy Warhol, LSD laced gold leaf, the commodification of Halloween, swollen 16th century witch hands and penis snatching. This lively episode concludes with the Lydia and Rowland S. Howard's duet I Fell In Love with a Ghost. Happy Halloween!

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Episode 119 Tim Biskup

The Lydian Spin ·

2021/10/22

Tim Biskup is a Southern California artist whose practice is focused mainly on abstract and figurative painting, but also extends into sculpture, printmaking and music. He went to art school before entering the animation and illustration industries, where he honed his technical skills. In 1999 he gathered a community of artists and began hosting live art auctions at bars around Los Angeles. He quickly found an audience for his personal work and began a career showing his art in gallery settings

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Episode 118 Mariam Atash

The Lydian Spin ·

2021/10/15

Mariam Atash is an attorney with experience in the business, government relations, media and nonprofit sectors. She serves on the United States Institute of Peace Gender and Law Working Group. She has also been an adjunct professor of law at The University of La Verne School of Law. Mariam was a senior advisor to the Commercial & Trade Counsel at the Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington, DC. She has taken part in numerous international conferences and speaking engagements on issues related to

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01:07:52

Episode 117 Sean Carnage

The Lydian Spin ·

2021/10/08

Sean Carnage is a big fan of rock, noise concerts, art, gay stuff and technology. In fact, over the past 40 plus years he has been either a promoter, writer, publisher, filmmaker, archivist and all around enthusiastic participant of all of the above. In the 1990s in Cleveland Ohio Sean teamed up with his friend Brenda Mullen and published U.S. Rocker Magazine. He and Brenda built the magazine over a decade into Northeast Ohio's number 1 free underground music magazine. In the early 2000s, on the

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Episode 116 Trevor Dunn

The Lydian Spin ·

2021/10/01

Bassist Trevor Dunn began studying the electric bass right after his older brother brought home a 7” of Detroit Rock City. Soon after that, he quickly joined two bands, one was Ful Choke and the other, was Gemini. In 1986, Trevor, along with Mike Patton and Trey Spruance started the band Mr. Bungle. Mike Patton's success as the lead singer of Faith No More paved the way for Mr. Bungle being signed to Warner Brothers. In 2000, Mike relocated to Brooklyn, NY. Currently he plays in several bands

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Episode 115 Vanessa Skantze

The Lydian Spin ·

2021/09/24

Vanessa Skantze is a Butoh artist who has performed and taught in the US and Europe for over 20 years. She became a student of Jinen Butoh founder Atsushi Takenouchi in 2003; having already co-created the sound/movement improvisation ensemble Death Posture in New Orleans. Currently based in Seattle, Washington, Vanessa is a co-founder of Teatro de la Psychomachia, a DIY space that has hosted national and international performing artists and musicians for more than a decade. Collaborations with

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01:08:18

Episode 114 Tyler Hubby

The Lydian Spin ·

2021/09/17

As a boy, Tyler Hubby began making films and photographs. While in high school, he was mentored by then unknown director David Fincher. Later on, Tyler went on to study film and photography at the San Francisco Art Institute with "low-fi" underground film legend George Kuchar. His subversive and irreverent short films and videos detailing fetishism, co-dependency and bodily mutations have screened internationally, and are featured in Jack Sargeant's book Cinema Contra Cinema. Tyler has documented

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Episode 113 Byron Coley

The Lydian Spin ·

2021/09/10

Music critic Byron Coley wrote for Forced Exposure magazine in the 1980s until the magazine ceased publication in 1993. Prior to Forced Exposure, he wrote for NY Rocker, Boston Rock, and Take It! . During 1980s and '90s, he was a contributing writer to Spin. Byron has contributed liner notes to albums by The Flesh Eaters, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Yo La Tengo, John Fahey, and numerous others. He has also appeared in documentaries about artists Half Japanese, Minutemen, Jandek, and The Holy

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01:13:27

Episode 112 Merrill Garbus

The Lydian Spin ·

2021/09/03

Merrill Garbus is a founding member of the band Tune-Yards. The other regular member of the band is her partner Nate Brenner. Back in 2009, Merrill recorded the first Tune-Yards album Bird-Brains on recycled cassette tape using a voice recorder and then self released it. The album was well received and led to the band being signed by 4AD records several months later. Since Bird-Brains Tune-Yards has released four more albums including Sketchy, which was released this past March. Merrill has

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01:09:38

Episode 111 Bil Brown

The Lydian Spin ·

2021/08/27

Bil Brown is a lens-based artist living and working in Los Angeles. Whether working in portraiture, fashion, or photojournalism, Bil’s imagery captures energetic moments of the conscious world, as well as the foreboding of what is to come. Often using his work as a platform for advancing ideas, social-change, and excising historical reference addressing current events, Bil pushes the boundaries of his visual storytelling as a “concrete-poetry” infused with empathy for our current cultural milieu

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Episode 110 Jack Sargeant

The Lydian Spin ·

2021/08/20

Jack Sargeant PhD is the author of various books on underground film and culture, including Flesh And Excess: On Underground Film, Against Control, Naked Lens: Beat Cinema, and Deathtripping: The Cinema of Transgression (republished as Deathtripping: The Extreme Underground). He has written introductory essays for works by Lydia Lunch, Joe Coleman, McLean Stephenson, and Karolina Urbaniak and Martin Bladh, among others. His writings focusing on underground film, outsider art, photography, and

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Episode 109 Billy Chainsaw

The Lydian Spin ·

2021/08/13

Billy Chainsaw is an artist whose work uses a mix of pulp and the arcane to engage with ideas of mortality, magic and sensuality. Working with paints, screen prints, photographs and decals, Billy has developed a personal collection of imagery and gestural approaches which are recognizable yet seemingly open to infinite interpretations too. Billy cites the beat author William S. Burroughs as his "ghost muse". Like Burroughs, Chainsaw's art represents a collision of the matter of fact and the

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Episode 108 Shirley Manson

The Lydian Spin ·

2021/08/06

Vocalist Shirley Manson has been the lead singer of the band Garbage since 1994. The band became one the best selling acts of the 1990s. Nearly thirty years later the band has just released their seventh album No Gods No Masters, which is a socially conscious mix of goth and pop. In addition to her music Shirley has done a bit of acting. In 2008 she was in the second season of Terminator: The Sarah Chronicles. Shirley lives in Los Angeles with her husband sound engineer Billy Bush. You can see her

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Episode 107 Bob Calhoun

The Lydian Spin ·

2021/07/31

Without further delay we bring you Bob Calhoun. Bob is a San Francisco Bay Area author, journalist, and former punk wrestler and peepshow emcee. Since 2015, he has recounted his city's most gruesome and lurid events in his regular SF Weekly column, Yesterday's Crimes. His punk wrestling memoir, Beer, Blood & Cornmeal, is a national bestseller. His most recent book, The Murders That Made Us: How Vigilantes, Hoodlums, Mob Bosses, Serial Killers and Cult Leaders Built the San Francisco Bay Area tells

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Episode 107 Will be released later than usual.

The Lydian Spin ·

2021/07/29

Most of the Lydian Spin is in Los Angeles today. This means this week's episode(107) will be arriving a little later than usual as everyone is excited to attend Lydia's performance tonight. Episode 107 should drop Friday late morning. If you are in Los Angeles come out and say hello!

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Live in Los Angeles July 29th: Lydia, Sylvia Black,...

The Lydian Spin ·

2021/07/25

If you are in Los Angeles July 29th, come out to the Moroccan Lounge and see Lydia, Sylvia Black(Episode 14), Lisa Kekaula(Episode 106) and Adele Bertei(Episode 89) perform live. This a special spoken word and musical event in celebration of the Lydia Lunch - The War is Never Over documentary premiering at the Nuart on July 30th. Get your ticket now while supplies last.

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Episode 106 Lisa Kekaula

The Lydian Spin ·

2021/07/23

Since 1990, singer Lisa Kekaula has been the lead vocalist of The Bellrays. From 2003 to 2007, Lisa was part of a cast of vocalists who sang live with the surviving members of the MC5. Lisa has also been featured on many singles and album tracks for other artists including, British house music band Basement Jaxx, and Crystal Method. In 2014, Lisa contributed vocals to two tracks for the Re-Licked album of Iggy and the Stooges songs re-recorded by former Stooges guitarist James Williamson. Lisa has

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Episode 105 Ian White

The Lydian Spin ·

2021/07/16

Musician(drummer, percussionist, composer) Ian White is known for being the drummer of the London band Gallon Drunk. Ian is also a member of Lydia's band Big Sexy Noise. This year Ian via his instrumental solo project Blyth released an album titled Confessions of a Justified Sinner, which has been described by the Reprobate Press as "thunderous, organic-industrial collision of percussion and brutal instrumentation – a sound that at once obliterates and raises to levels of ecstasy, the soundtrack to

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Episode 104 Anniversary Special

The Lydian Spin ·

2021/07/09

This week the Lydian Spin celebrates year two of the podcast. Lydia and Tim take time to look back, take stock, and of course share some of their fondest memories. Thank you to all guests both past and future who have made this podcast so much fun to do.

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Episode 103 Faris Badwan

The Lydian Spin ·

2021/07/02

English rocker Faris Badwan is best known as the lead vocalist of The Horrors. Before beginning his association with The Horrors, he played with The Rotters. Faris is also an artist who briefly trained as an illustrator at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Check out some of his paintings below.

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