Audio Interference: Season 1

Breakfast w/ Felix Joy & Prole Teeth - George Michael Special 16TH JUN 2021

“So much of the dominant mainstream society at that point was so odious that it felt like a desperate need to find a place that was different and alternative.” —Josh MacPhee 

Greg Mihalko interviews Josh MacPhee, co-founder of Interference Archive, about his collection of hardcore punk flyers and ephemera.  

Music includes: "Guilty" by Spewing Cum and "While You're Waiting for the Revolution" by Action Will Be Taken, courtesy of the Free Music Archive.

Produced by Interference Archive.

Audio Interference 01: Josh MacPhee

“Communities have given up our power to police and institutions, and we have to take it back.” —Laura Whitehorn

Laura Whitehorn is a lifelong organizer and activist whose work spans anti-war, AIDS, anti-capitalist, anti-racist, and prison abolition movements.  Laura was interviewed by Lani Hanna about her work, including the recent Interference Archive exhibition, Self-Determination Inside Out.  

Music: "Improvisation in D" by Tate Peterson, courtesy of the Free Music Archive.  

For more information about Laura's work, visit thejerichoproject.com or rappcampaign.com. 

Produced by Interference Archive. 

Audio Interference 02: Laura Whitehorn

“I knew there was this punk rock stuff, I didn’t know anything about it, I just went to a show, and it was like, this is really weird and I kinda like it.” —Dread Scott

Dread Scott, artist and friend of Interference Archive, speaks with Vero Ordaz about his art, life, and connections to the Chicago punk scene--including memories prompted by his recent donation of posters to the archive.  Image: Burning the US Constitution, documentation of a 2011 performance by Dread Scott (www.dreadscott.net).  Music: "Sick of You" by the Britemores, performed live on WFMU's Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock.

Produced by Interference Archive.

Audio Interference 04: Dread Scott

“In retrospect, we tend to create these seamless histories to tell a particular kind of story, but Greenham--it was messy. It was a messy occupation.” —Susan Jahoda

Susan Jahoda is an artist, educator, and organizer whose work includes video, photography, text, performance, installation, and research-based collaborative projects. Charlie Morgan speaks with Susan about her experiences organizing the September 2014 exhibition at Interference Archive about the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, a 19-year anti-nuclear protest and encampment at a U.S. Military Base in Berkshire, England.  

This podcast contains music as sung by the women of Greenham Common.


Audio Interference 03: Susan Jahoda

“It’s not about the things, it’s about the people: who made it, who saw it, who was influenced by it.” -Lincoln Cushing

Lincoln Cushing is an artist, author, and archivist from the Bay Area, who worked with Interference Archive on our recent exhibition on the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America (OSPAAAL), Armed by Design.  Lani Hanna interviewed Lincoln about movement archives,  large institutions vs. community-based organizations, and the importance of accurately documenting the past.

A selection of OSPAAAL posters can be seen in Lincoln’s book, "Revolución!: Cuban Poster Art."  You can also visit his website, docspopuli.org, for more information.

Music: "Mid-Day Blues" by Tate Peterson, courtesy of the Free Music Archive.

Produced by Interference Archive.


Audio Interference 05: Lincoln Cushing

“It’s difficult for people to imagine an organized workplace in the arts, but we really want to make it a reality.” —Chloe Siebert

Interference Archive's current exhibition, Just Cause : Bad Faith - Art Workers' Activism and Organizing in NYC and Beyond, presents a history of cultural workers’ organizing efforts and demonstrations as well as the recent investigations and concerns of artists and individuals working within the culture industry.  As part of the programming for this show, which was organized by Art Handlers Alliance of New York, AHA member and exhibition organizer James Whitman interviewed Kevin McGrath, Chloe Siebert, and Neal Vandenbergh, three art handlers at the Chicago-based company Terry Dowd, Inc, where workers successfully organized and fought to unionize their workplace.  

Image Credit: Neal Vandenbergh. “The Equality Rule”. 2015. Vinyl, Graphite, Resin on Panel. Detail View. Courtesy of Neal Vandenbergh.

Produced by Interference Archive.

Audio Interference 06: Chicago Art Handlers

"The image allows for the viewer to interpret it quickly.  And I guess that's what an advertiser tries to do--that's what a propagandist tries to do."  - Kevin Caplicki

In this episode, Brooke Shuman talks to Kevin Caplicki, one of the founders of Interference Archive and a member of Justseeds.  Founded in 1998, Justseeds is a worker-owned cooperative that produces politically-themed prints.  With members working from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, Justseeds operates both as a unified collaboration of similarly minded printmakers and as a loose collection of creative individuals with unique viewpoints and working methods.  Justseeds produces collective portfolios on subjects including climate justice, the Zapatista movement, migration, reproductive rights, and the US prison system. 

Music included: 
"Kufanya Mapenzi (Making Love)" 
Ramsey Lewis
7" Single (Columbia Records, 1972)

"Anti-manifesto"
Propagandhi
How to Clean Everything (Fat Wreck Chords, 1993)

Produced by Interference Archive.  For more information, see the following links:

http://justseeds.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taller_de_Gr%C3%A1fica_Popular

Culture Strike
http://www.culturestrike.org/

Justseeds works with frontline advocacy organizations to create their prints. Here are a handful:

Critical Resistance
http://criticalresistance.org/

Marcellus Shale Earth First!
https://marcellusshaleearthfirst.org/

Audio Interference 18: Kevin Caplicki

Full 35-minute interview & performance by Hurray for the Riff Raff’s Alynda Segarra in our Democracy Now! studio. Over the past decade, Hurray for the Riff Raff has become one of the most celebrated bands in modern folk music while tackling issues from gentrification to gender-based violence. Segarra talks about her upbringing and inspirations. She also performs four songs: "The Body Electric," "Rican Beach," "The Navigator" and "Hungry Ghost."

Web Extra: Full Interview & Performance: Hurray for the Riff Raff's Alynda Segarra on Democracy Now!

Welcome to the latest episode of The Rebel Beat, a Firebrand Records podcast!

This is our year end episode, and it is a HUGE one. Every year, the Polaris Music Prize is awarded for the best album in Canada, as selected by a jury of music journalists. The winner of that award in 2017 was Lido Pimienta for her album “La Papessa”. Lido is a queer Indigenous afro-Colombian musician who lives in Toronto, she is rad as fuck, she is never shy to speak her mind, and she is our guest today on The Rebel Beat. Check out Lido’s music and buy her stuff here:
lidopimienta.bandcamp.com


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Want to see our round-up of best radical music in 2017? Check out our blog post here!
https://rebelbeatradio.com/2017/12/10/the-rebel-beats-best-of-2017/
 

In our Turn It Up segment, we drop a brand new tune from the Palestinian band 47 Soul, and honor the hundreds of thousands of people who are taking to the streets around the world to say #HandsOffJerusalem!

The Rebel Beat is a proud member of the Channel Zero Network of anarchist podcasts. www.channelzeronetwork.com

See ya in 2018!

The Rebel Beat 080: Lido Pimienta on motherhood, music & fending off the trolls

It's hard to over-state the influence Ron Morelli has had on
contemporary electronic music world over the last ten years. As head of the vital L.I.E.S. label, and as a DJ and a producer, he has, in his own words, "unintentionally" shaken things up with a forward thinking sonic aesthetic which evolved from a tight knit group in his local NYC scene. Now globally recognised (and often imitated) Morelli is known as the centerpiece of this new wave, continuing to confound expectation with each new move, always with the goal of evolving in one form or another.

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https://www.facebook.com/ronmorelliofficial/
https://www.discogs.com/artist/462093-Ron-Morelli

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#SlamRadio - 275 - Ron Morelli

Welcome back to The Rebel Beat's monthly podcast for January, 2018. And happy new year!

We have an amazing show to get to today, we’re gonna bring you a people’s history of music à la Howard Zinn with Dror. Dror is grassroots music journalist, a blogger, and a community organizer with the BDS movement in solidarity with Palestine. Check out his blog, Entre Les Oreilles ("Between the Ears") here:
entrelesoreilles.blogspot.ca

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Also on the show, we reflect on the one-year anniversary of the mosque shooting in Quebec City, when a white supremacist killed six Muslim men as they were praying. It was just one week after Trump was inaugurated as President of the USA. If you're on Facebook, check out this beautiful collection of tributes here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/RememberJan29

We also reflect on a year of inspiring resistance against the white supremacist, sexist, ecocidal, and transphobic policies of the Trump regime. There are many frontlines of the struggle, but one in particular you can support are the J20 Defendants:
www.defendj20resistance.org

Finally, in our Turn it Up segment, we honour not one, but TWO groundbreaking musicians:

* Jackie Shane, a pioneering transgendered soul singer. Check out her recently re-released album here:
http://www.numerogroup.com/products/jackie-shane-any-other-way

* Hugh Masekela, the god-father of South African jazz, and anti-apartheid icon, who died this month at the age of 78. Rest in Power!

** Playlist **

The Narcicyst feat. Shadia Mansour - Hamdulillah
Oshun - Not my President
Entrance - Not gonna say your name
James Brown - Say it Loud (I’m Black and I’m proud)
Rachid Taha - Ya rayah
Rim Banna - Fares Odeh
Prince - Baltimore
Victor Jara - Venceremos
Miriam Makeba - Beware Verwoerd
Fela Kuti - Colonial mentality
N.W.A. - Fuck tha police
Zone d’Expression Populaire - Nique la France
Pussy Riot - Mother of god, drive Putin away
Roger Waters - Is this the life we really want?
Jackie Shane - Sticks and stones
Hugh Masekela - Stimela

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The Rebel Beat 081: A People's History Through Song

We're back with another monthly edition of The Rebel Beat, a Firebrand Records podcast, and your purveyors of class war on the dance floor, each and every moon cycle.

Our special guest on the podcast this time around is Maddie Ruthless, the front woman of the band The Far East. The Far East hail from Brooklyn, NY, and play a blend of unapologetic reggae that is as sultry as it is hard-edged.

We spoke with Maddie about the radical, anti-imperialist and anti-racist message of reggae, being a woman in the music scene, anti-fascist music in the age of Trump, AND touring with 2-tone ska legends The Specials. 

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In our Turn It Up segment, we big up the Black activists, scholars, and musicians such as Talib Kweli, Tom Morello, and Vic Mensa who signed an open letter from the Dream Defenders calling for the freedom of Palestinian youth activist Ahed Tamimi. Here is their letter:
http://mondoweiss.net/2018/02/activists-defenders-supporting/

*Playlist*

Hortense Ellis - People make the world go round
Mos Dub - Johnny too beef
Maddie Ruthless and the Forthrights - They didn't build this world for you
The Far East - Youthman
Lady Ann - Doctor doctor
The Far East - Can we make it up
The Specials - Racist friend
The Far East - Betrayer
Vic Mensa - We could be free

The Rebel Beat 082: Burn Down Babylon with Maddie Ruthless and The Far East

"Almost fifty thousand workers went on strike at General Motors Sept 16th, 2019, after management and United Auto Workers Union negotiators failed to agree on a new contract. GM has bounced back from recession thanks to a taxpayer bailout, government tax breaks and contracts and a brutal restructuring of the workforce. Now even though the company’s made $35 billion in the last few years - they want concessions, and yet more plant closures and layoffs."

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The Laura Flanders Show

F-Word:  Climate Strike/Auto Strike: Same Struggle, Same Fight

Interference Archive is a social space, exhibition venue, and open stacks archive of movement culture, based in Brooklyn. 

Audio Interference 06: Chicago Art Handlers

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