Thao P. Nguyen is a Artist, Activist, and Academic. She just finished up a solo performance run of her show Fortunate Daughter at Berkeley’s Impact Theatre. Erik Core talks to Thao about her training in performance art and comedy, studying under comedy legend W. Kamau Bell, and winning his “W. Kamau Bell Solo Performance Black Belt,” a […]
James Tracy is an author, activist, community organizer, and former singer with the Bay Area band Space Masons. MLR’s Erik Core talks with James about his musical past, his current organizing efforts, and his latest book (co-authored with Amy Sonnie) “Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times“. We also hear […]
Update: 1/30/2015 – Eddie Bell aka Cookie Dough passed away on 1/29/2015 after a brief illness while getting ready to perform in Puerto Vallarta. Read more about it here. Please visit the GoFundMe website to help raise money for medical, transportation, and funeral expenses. You can see the amazing outpouring of love and comments on […]
Lynnee Breedlove (aka Lynn Breedlove) is a visionary who has long been shaping revolutionary art. Lynnee was the front-person of the first American out dyke punk band, Tribe 8, which promoted queer, transgender, multiracial, and working class visibility. Lynnee went on to become a notable solo performer, and toured the world with the one-person performance […]
Michael Starita is a lifelong musician with over 15 years of experience as an engineer and producer. He started his career at the famous Hyde Street Studios in the late 90s learning from many of the Bay Area greats. Moving to EDNET, Starita had the pleasure of being the ISDN engineer for clients such as Rick Rubin, […]
TeaganIsm is a punk rocker, model, and performance artist in Oakland, California. She grew up in Portland, Oregon, then moved to the Bay Area to live in the punk rock community warehouse known as HAZMAT where she befriended many folks, including local Oakland Pyrate Punx, and soon began performing at punk rock shows and events with […]
Kathy Peck is co-founder of Hearing Education Awareness for Rockers aka as H.E.A.R, a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to preventing hearing loss and raising awareness of the real dangers of repeated exposure to excessive noise levels from music which can lead to permanent, and sometimes debilitating, hearing loss and tinnitus. Kathy talks about her first […]
022 – An Interesting Life: Jason Everman
002 – It’s Part of My Life: Tom Mulder
046 – Rabble Rouser: Bill Collins
036 – Tales of Tobolowsky: Stephen Tobolowsky
030 – Bobby Joe Ebola
073 – Carletta Sue Kay: Randy Walker
085 – Fortunate Daughter: Thao P Nguyen
062 – No Labels: Jack Conte
049 – Drummer’s Day: Steve Moriarty (1/2)
027 – Incompetech: Kevin MacLeod
