Stories about finding purpose.
On this episode Kevin and Joshua sit down with Daryle Lamont Jenkins and talk about his early days as a punk, his work with One People’s Project, fighting Nazis, Antifa, and much, much more.
Daryle is an American political activist, best known for founding One People’s Project, an organization based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that is closely aligned with the antifascist movement. Jenkins serves as its Executive Director.
This week we sit down with Gabe Meline to talk about writing zines, booking Green Day in High School, the Sonoma county fires, and more!
Gabe Meline is KQED Arts’ Senior Editor. He entered the world of journalism at age 15 as the editor of a photocopied zine, and has since earned awards from the Society for Professional Journalists, the Online Journalism Awards, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies and the California Newspaper Publishers Association. Prior to KQED, he was the editor of the North Bay Bohemian and a touring musician. He lives with his wife, his daughter, and a 1964 Volvo in his hometown of Santa Rosa, CA. Find him on Twitter at @gmeline.
This week we sit down with ProPublica staff reporter A.C. Thompson.
His stories, which often examine the criminal justice system, have helped lead to the exoneration of two innocent San Francisco men sentenced to life in prison and the prosecution of seven New Orleans police officers. In addition to working as a print and web journalist, Thompson has reported extensively for television, serving as a producer and correspondent for the PBS documentary series Frontline. His life was fictionalized on the HBO show “Treme.”
This week we sit down with Larry Livermore and talk about his childhood in Detroit, wandering America, Lookout! Records, what he’s up to now and so much more!
Larry Livermore is an American singer, musician, record producer, and author, best known as the co-founder of Lookout! Records.
Season 2 is starting with a bang as we Welcome Larry Livermore to the show. Something tells us, this is going to be good. Not only do we get to interview one of our favorite people we get to do so from the comfort of our new studio.
Look for it soon.
We’re also excited to announce our second guest of Season 2, A.C. Thompson writer for Pro Republica and producer for @frontlinepbs. More guest announcements soon.
This is going to be a good season.
We sat down and had a conversation with Blake Schwarzenbach from Jawbreaker We discussed being the new kid all the time, art, music, cats, parents, low points and high points. It is well worth a listen. We expected more from him. We got it and then some.
This week, Kevin and Joshua sit down with Chris Bauermeister (Jawbreaker) to talk about getting into punk music, toy stores, tattoos, mental health, his work at the Thurston County Food Bank, and a lot more.
This week we talk to Cynthia Connolly about her early punk days in LA and Washington DC, publishing books, photography, working with Maximum Rock ‘n Roll, meeting the Mackaye family, growing up with a single mom, and continuing to create rad things.
Cynthia Connolly is an American photographer, curator, graphic designer, and artist. She graduated from Corcoran College of Art and Designand worked for Dischord Records and d.c. space. In 1988 she published Banned in DC: Photos and Anecdotes From the DC Punk Underground (79–85) through her small press Sun Dog Propaganda.
One of Cynthia Connolly’s most well known works, ironically, is one of her first works of commercial art. It is the image drawn for the band Minor Threat, in 1983, when she was 19 years old, for the 12″ LP entitled, “Out of Step” on Dischord Records. This drawing, showing a black sheep with his eyes wide open, drawn in crayon, leaping away from a group of white sheep rendered in watercolor is used, particularly the black sheep, as tattoo art for many around the world and represents an entire movement and idea from a generation of people who find the band Minor Threat and that entire hardcore (music) movement influential in their lives. Many of the artists in the “Beautiful Losers’ exhibit were influenced by the work and music, and the record album was exhibited in this show.
Cynthia Connolly continues to exhibit her photography, create ephemeral objects using her letterpress and photographs, and is Special Projects Curator for Arlington County, Virginia.
This week we talked with Emily Flake and had a lot of laughs, got insights into her life, creative process, what she’s up to next, and general shenanigans. Her cat liked us, obviously.
Emily makes cartoons for The New Yorker, mostly, but also sometimes MAD Magazine, the New Statesman, and other places. She had a weekly strip called Lulu Eightball that carried the jokes that are too vulgar for grown-up publications and too racy for MAD, back when alt-weeklies were strong and we were young. She also does a bi-weekly cartoon for The Nib, usually about whatever the political or cultural shitstorm du jour is.
She wrote and drew a book called These Things Ain’t Gonna Smoke Themselves (Bloomsbury USA). She also wrote and drew a book of cartoons and essays called Mama Tried. It is about parenting and was published by Grand Central Publishing. You can buy it here.
She also performs – a hybrid of cartoons and stand-up wherein she shows cartoons via the magic of PowerPoint and then tells funny stories. She has done this at Union Hall, the Bell House, QED Astoria, UCBEast, and a bunch of other places from the fancy to the hopelessly vile.
She also co-hosts a quarterly-ish comedy show called Shitshow with NPR’s Ophira Eisenberg; it’s comedy about parenting.
This week Kevin and Joshua talk with Alejandra del Pinal about her work with Punks with Lunch, the Homeless Youth Alliance, becoming a punk, Powerviolence, Los Crudos, and so much more!
Alejandra del Pinal was born in Guatemala and raised in the East Bay. She grew up in the Bay Area punk scene and ended up booking and becoming co-head booker at Gilman when she was 18.
She formerly worked as a cook at high end restaurants and changed career paths to work with marginalized communities in a harm reductionist capacity.
She currently sings in a band called Rapid Decline and formerly sang in MRSA and No Fucks Given.
In 2015, Alejandra and a group of friends formed Punks with Lunch operating out of her kitchen. That quickly changed her mindset and her goals and she eventually found work at the Homeless Youth Alliance.