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Episode 354 Black Cab's Andrew Coates
Jun 28, 2026
Unknown duration
Episode 353 Guitarist Reg Bloor
Jun 7, 2026
1h 01m 16s
Episode 352 Beirut Slump's Bobby Swope AKA Bobby Berkowitz
May 31, 2026
57m 59s
Episode 351 Short Tour Special
May 24, 2026
27m 52s
Episode 350 Writer Zoe Hansen
May 15, 2026
1h 13m 15s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/28/26 | ![]() Episode 354 Black Cab's Andrew Coates | During their June 2026 tour across New Zealand and Australia, Lydia turns the mic on her touring partner, Andrew Coates of Melbourne's Black Cab. Together, the duo brought a , live reimagining of Suicide and Alan Vega to stops in Wellington, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, and Perth. The run commemorated the tenth anniversary of Vega's passing, channeling the energy of the 1970s NYC underground where Lydia's bond with Vega and Martin Rev began. | — | ||||||
| 6/7/26 | ![]() Episode 353 Guitarist Reg Bloor✨ | guitarmusic collaboration+3 | Reg Bloor | Systems Neutralizers | Lincoln Center | Reg BloorGlenn Branca+5 | — | 1h 01m 16s | |
| 5/31/26 | ![]() Episode 352 Beirut Slump's Bobby Swope AKA Bobby Berkowitz✨ | No Wave movementavant-garde music+3 | Robert "Bobby" Swope | Beirut SlumpTeenage Jesus and the Jerks | New York CityFlorida+2 | Bobby SwopeNo Wave+5 | — | 57m 59s | |
| 5/24/26 | ![]() Episode 351 Short Tour Special✨ | tourlive performance+3 | — | — | BrazilAustralia+2 | tourlive shows+5 | — | 27m 52s | |
| 5/15/26 | ![]() Episode 350 Writer Zoe Hansen✨ | memoirNew York City culture+3 | Zoe Hansen | Far West PressGoing Down in Gotham | New York CityLondon+1 | Zoe Hansenmemoir+5 | — | 1h 13m 15s | |
| 5/8/26 | ![]() Episode 349 Genre Is Death✨ | noise musicdebut album+5 | — | In The Red RecordsLive Skull+2 | NYCsouth | Genre Is DeathAttractive People+8 | — | 1h 17m 33s | |
| 5/1/26 | ![]() Episode 348 Lorin Benedict✨ | improvisationvocal performance+3 | Lorin Benedict | Episode 348 | California | improvising vocalistscat singer+3 | — | 1h 23m 45s | |
| 4/17/26 | ![]() Episode 347 Al Johnson✨ | vocal techniquesexperimental music+3 | Al Johnson | U.S. Maple | — | Al JohnsonU.S. Maple+5 | — | 1h 15m 38s | |
| 4/7/26 | ![]() Episode 346 Larry Mullins Pt2✨ | interviewconversation+3 | Larry Mullin | — | — | Lydia LunchLarry Mullin+4 | — | 1h 01m 29s | |
| 3/27/26 | ![]() Episode 345 Musician Larry Mullins Part 1✨ | musicmusicians+3 | Larry Mullins | Nick Cave and the Bad SeedsSwans+3 | — | Larry MullinsToby Dammit+5 | — | 1h 12m 11s | |
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| 3/15/26 | ![]() Episode 344: Musician and Author Ian Svenonius✨ | musicpunk scene+3 | Ian Svenonius | The Nation of UlyssesThe Make-Up+4 | — | Ian Svenoniuspunk music+3 | — | 1h 09m 16s | |
| 3/7/26 | ![]() Episode 343 Swans Guitarist Norman Westberg | Norman Westberg is a guitarist known for anchoring the monolithic avant-rock of Swans. Away from the band's trademark volume, however, his solo work—like the Lawrence English-produced After Vacation—abandons traditional riffs for meditative, ambient drone. By manipulating sustained tones through effect pedals, Norman restructures the instrument's sound into atmospheric compositions. His career balances decades of dense post-punk with restrained, minimalist solo recordings. | — | ||||||
| 3/1/26 | ![]() Episode 342 UK Artist Nuha Ruby Ra | Nuha Ruby Ra is a London-based artist working across music, performance, and visual art. Blending industrial sound, art-pop, and spoken word, her work explores power, instinct, and transformation through raw, physical live performance. Following two critically acclaimed EPs, she is currently creating her debut album, a project unfolding under the creative force known as NOWSYN. | — | ||||||
| 2/21/26 | ![]() Episode 341 Gary Wilson | In 1977, Gary Wilson finished recording You Think You Really Know Me in his parents' basement and released it himself. Through the 1980s, his work in experimental music that draws across styles including new wave, rock, funk, jazz, lounge, and avant-garde. developed a following. After a 1981 tour, he was largely out of public view. Gary resurfaced around 1996, and Michael Wolk filmed his 2002 return to the stage for the documentary You Think You Really Know Me: The Gary Wilson Story. Gary has released seventeen full-length albums. | — | ||||||
| 2/14/26 | ![]() Episode 340 Percussionist Blake Fleming | Blake Fleming is a percussionist, author, and educator known for his work with experimental bands and for writing The Book of Rhythm, an encyclopedia of over 5,000 organized rhythms for all instruments. The book has been sold in more than 20 countries and was a top 5 instruction title in the 2020 Modern Drummer Reader's Poll, and Blake was featured in SPIN's 100 Greatest Drummers of Alternative Music. He has recorded and toured across jazz, rock, and avant-garde scenes, and his drumming has been covered by outlets including The New York Times, NPR, Spin, Rolling Stone, MOJO, Modern Drummer, and Pitchfork. In addition to studio work and teaching students worldwide through live online lessons, he has completed his second full-length album, The Beat Fantastic, scheduled for release later this summer on vinyl and digitally via blakefleming.bandcamp.com. Blake co-founded and drummed for the math-rock/post-hardcore group Dazzling Killmen in the early 1990s, later touring with Japan's Zeni Geva in 1996. In the late '90s, he formed the experimental instrumental quartet Laddio Bolocko, and in 2001 became the co-founding drummer of The Mars Volta, recording early demos and briefly returning for touring in 2006. He went on to form Electric Turn To Me, contributed to projects like The Rollo Treadway. Blake has an extensive studio résumé, recording with Omar Rodríguez-López on multiple solo releases and contributing session work for artists including Kim Taylor, The Ropes, and Israel Nash Gripka. | — | ||||||
| 2/7/26 | ![]() Episode 339 Musician Stephen Mattos | Rhode Islander, Stephen Mattos is a musician and librarian. He's been performing since the late 2000s under the name Chrome Jackson, and his latest band is , THERE. Outside of music, he spends his time cycling, working on photography, and cooking and gardening with his wife, artist Alicia Renadette. Stephen previously co-founded bands including Arab on Radar, Athletic Automaton and Doomsday Student. | — | ||||||
| 1/31/26 | ![]() Episode 338 Sonny Vincent | Sonny Vincent fronted Testors in the mid-1970s New York punk scene, playing CBGB and Max's Kansas City before the band split in 1981. He later formed Sonny Vincent and the Extreme and Model Prisoners, and went on to record and tour with Maureen "Mo" Tucker and Sterling Morrison from the Velvet Underground. He has continued releasing records and wrote the memoir Snake Pit Therapy. | — | ||||||
| 1/23/26 | ![]() Episode 337 Scott Bomar | Scott Bomar is a Memphis lifer who moves easily between the grit of garage-surf (Impala) and the deep-pocket groove of classic soul (the Bo-Keys), with credits alongside Stax/Hi orbit players and on Al Green's comeback-era sessions. As a producer/engineer and film soundtrack composer, he continues to drag the Memphis musical DNA into bigger rooms with work on movies such as Hustle & Flow, Black Snake Moan, Dolemite Is My Name. Scott's scores lean on funk, spy-noir, and vintage synth heat without turning into cosplay. | — | ||||||
| 1/16/26 | ![]() Episode 336 Kavus Torabi | Kavus Torabi is a British musician, composer, broadcaster, and DJ known for a "bent path" songwriting style. He's worked with Knifeworld, Gong, Guapo, and Cardiacs, and now focuses on structure-driven songs, home recording, and steering clear of cliché while bringing the music in his head to life. | — | ||||||
| 1/9/26 | ![]() Episode 335 Writer Mishka Shubaly | Mishka Shubaly is a nonfiction writer and storyteller known for essays on addiction, recovery, endurance, and reinvention. After earning an MFA in fiction from Columbia University, he toured as a musician before returning to writing. His seven Amazon Kindle Singles all became bestselling titles, praised for grit, dark humor, emotional honesty, and vulnerability. Each summer, Mishka teaches a nonfiction writers workshop at Yale Summer Session, helping writers refine their craft. | — | ||||||
| 1/2/26 | ![]() Episode 334 Byron Coley | This week's episode features a conversation with critic, Byron Coley, whose work has covered experimental music and independent culture. Byron discusses Now Jazz Now, the newly published, fully illustrated 270-page softcover book edited by Eva Prinz, with a preface by Neneh Cherry and an afterword by Joe McPhee. Now Jazz Now brings together the perspectives of Mats Gustafsson, Neneh Cherry, Joe McPhee, Thurston Moore, and Byron, compiling personal archival selections of recorded works that orbit free jazz and free improvisation. Structured around 100 essential releases presented chronologically—but explicitly rejecting hierarchy or competition—the book foregrounds album art, labels, liner notes, and collector reflections as lived history rather than canon. Byron discusses record collecting as a lifelong practice, the cultural conditions that shaped free music, and the idea of listening as an act grounded in curiosity, memory, and freedom. | — | ||||||
| 12/19/25 | ![]() Episode 333 Ben Roy | Stand-up comedian Ben Roy is also an actor, writer, podcaster, and musician. He began his career in Denver, developing his stand-up at Comedy Works, and has since appeared at festivals including Just for Laughs, the New York Comedy Festival, and South by Southwest. His television credits include HBO's Funny as Hell and Comedy Central's Adam DeVine's House Party, Corporate, @midnight, and This Is Not Happening. Ben is a co-creator, writer, and star of the truTV series Those Who Can't, which ran for three seasons. He hosts the podcasts 97.9 The Rat Race on the All Things Comedy network and The Grawlix Saves the World. In addition to comedy, Ben is a musician and serves as the lead singer of the pop-punk band SPELLS. | — | ||||||
| 12/12/25 | ![]() Episode 332 Harley Flanagan | Photo Maurice Nunez Harley Flanagan began performing in the city's punk scene at age 11 as the drummer for the Stimulators. In the early 1980s he founded the Cro-Mags, a band widely cited for its influence on later hardcore, punk, and metal groups. His memoir, Hard Core: Life of My Own, frames his career within the broader evolution of New York's punk and hardcore movements. Harley has also been active in Brazilian jiu-jitsu for decades, directing the kids' program at Renzo Gracie's New York academy. In recent years he has continued recording and performing while participating in film work and public discussions of mental health. | — | ||||||
| 12/1/25 | ![]() Episode 331 Martin Atkins | Martin Atkins's three decades in the music industry in nearly every aspect of record production, gives him a rare perspective on the music business past, present, and future. After early success as a drummer with Public Image Ltd. and later work with acts like Killing Joke, Ministry, and Nine Inch Nails, he launched his own projects including Pigface and the influential Invisible Records. He has since become an author, speaker, and educator, sharing his expertise at major conferences and now teaching music business at Millikin University. A father of four, he lives in Chicago with his wife, Katrina. | — | ||||||
| 11/21/25 | ![]() Episode 330 Filmmaker Jasmine Hirst | Longtime friend and collaborator of Lydia and friend of The Lydian Spin, Jasmine returns to the show. She is a filmmaker and artist who wrote letters to Aileen Wuornos and later conducted a filmed interview with her on death row in 1997. Jasmine's footage appears in the new Netflix documentary Aileen: Queen of Serial Killers; Wuornos had asked her to record her story before the execution to provide an account she felt the media had misrepresented. Jasmine is working on her own documentary, which is currently in progress. Jasmine and Lydia have also collaborated on the documentary and Artists Anxiety Depression and Rage. | — | ||||||
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