Join guest host Frank Uhle for a conversation with Rob Miller, co-founder of Bloodshot Records and former WCBN Rockabilly Show host. His memoir The Hours Are Long But the Pay Is Low (3 Fields Books, 2025) was recently named a Michigan Notable Book. Rob will be appearing at the Detroit Festival of Books on July 19, the […]
While in Ann Arbor, Kristin Hersh, Grant-Lee Phillips, and John Doe talk about their The Exile Follies 2020 tour. We talk about collaboration and process, mystery, and creating experience. We also talk about how music is fearless. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2020-02-12-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
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Guest host Frank Uhle talks with Mike McGonigal, editor of Maggot Brain magazine from Third Man Records, about the joys and challenges of print-only publishing, Detroit gospel music, and the state of the record industry. Mike McGonigal has also edited Chemical Imbalance and Yeti magazines; written a 33 1/3 series entry on My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless and for Spin, Pitchfork, and the Village
Guest host The Liz talks with Matt Doe, trumpet player of Too Many Zooz. They talk about brass house music; they also talk about starting out playing in the subway and now playing music around the world. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2019-03-13-1700-EDT.mp3 Download Audio photo credit: Too Many Zooz
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Here’s a special Fundraiser 2019 edition of Living Writers with wonderful guests George Cooper, Brent Bryan of Big Love Recording Collective, Angie Berkley + Gina Brandolino of the podcast Behind the Scaffolding, and Scott Beal from Skazat! http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2019-02-20-1700-EST.mp3 Download Audio Fun-Fundraiser 2019: any pledge big or small counts greatly to us. Donate online here!
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RussellBrakefield reads poems from his debut collection Field Recordings (Wayne State University Press 2018). We talk about Alan Lomax, the land, music, growing up in Michigan, and collecting sound and stories. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2018-10-10-1700-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
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Russell Thorburn reads from Somewhere We’ll Leave the World (Wayne State University Press 2017). We talk about wandering, Philip Levine, and garage bands. We also talk about being haunted by Lake Superior and being poet laureate emeritus of the Upper Peninsula. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2018-02-07-1700-EST.mp3 Download Audio
Michigan’s own Stephen Rush reads from Free Jazz, Harmolodics, and Ornette Coleman (Routledge 2017). We talk about the principle of human equality, enlightenment, unison, and interviewing Ornette Coleman. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2017-11-09-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
Billy Bragg talks about his book Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World published by Faber & Faber. We talk about how skiffle fits into musical history–US and UK. We also talk about research and stories, obsession and inspiration. And fidget spinners. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2017-08-23-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Little Bang Theory–Terri Sarris, Doug Shimmin and Frank Pahl– talk about their work and about the Ann Arbor Film Festival featuring the film A Page of Madness with musical accompaniment by Little Bang Theory–with Ichiro Kataoka as the benshi. We talk about toys, stop motion, puppets and adaptation. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2017-03-22-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more on the band, click here!
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