Heavy hitter alert. This month I talked to artist, activist, scholar, illustrious zine maker, and my very old friend Mimi Thi Nguyen (https://www.mimithinguyen.com) about coming to the US as a refugee as a child; getting into punk through Maximum Rocknroll (http://maximumrocknroll.com);  falling out of love with punk because of a bunch of shitty men involved with MRR; falling back in love with punk through a zine project she made in response (https://issuu.com/poczineproject/docs/evolution-of-a-race-riot-issue-1); connecting the dots between her refugee experience and the legacies of US imperialism; her work as a scholar; the statement she wrote about the massacre in Atlanta (https://gws.illinois.edu/news/2021-03-18/aasgws-statement-anti-asian-violence). Plus I talk a bunch of shit and threaten to break a 50 year old's glasses if I ever see him. We didn't talk about the Legend of Billie Jean, and that's my fault, but you should read Mimi's old punk planet column about it (https://threadandcircuits.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/punk-planet-46-sometime-in-2001/).

Mimi Thi Nguyen (The Gift of Freedom)

WHATS GOOD INTERNET this month's guest is the delightful and charming Raquel Namuche who I met because she yelled at me on the street and we've been friends ever since. We talked about her childhood in Lima and Queens, getting into punk at ABC No Rio, finding other immigrant punk kids in the Migra Punk scene, becoming involved with activism as a teen at Charas/El Bohio, and how that ultimately led to her work today with Ridgewood Tenants Union (https://www.ridgewoodtenantsunion.org).  Also! This is the article about nazis in Ridgewood that we talked about:
https://brooklynrail.org/2021/04/field-notes/Reading-Ridgewood. And you can listen to the Huasipungo discography that I mentioned in the outro here: https://archive.org/details/jamendo-042705

Episode 49 Raquel Namuche (Ridgewood Tenants Union)

Here's a sneak peak at my conversation with Tom Scharpling! Full episode airs on Infinite Distortion tomorrow night, 8-9 pm on WFMU.

Tom Scharpling "Pizza 9/11"

This month I sat down with Osa Atoe of Shotgun Seamstress fanzine! She is so cool and smart and it was really cool to hang out with her. We talk about Shotgun Seamstress, Osa's zine "by, for, and about black punks," and the complicated, sometimes conflicted relationship between Osa's black identity and her punk identity. It's not all somber or serious! We laugh a bunch and it's a really complex and enlightening conversation. Check out Osa's web presence at: http://shotgunseamstress.blogspot.com

Osa Atoe (Shotgun Seamstress)

Las Cruxes Mixtape Club #5! Supposed to make a "single artist" mixtape. I was hella tossed up between Nicki Minaj and Dipset but then I realized I wanted to put that Hold Yuh remix on a tape so here you go. Download here: http://bit.ly/2bC6SBR

SIDE A: 1. Jump Off '07 / 2. Firm Biz ft. Jadakiss / 3. I Get Crazy ft. Lil Wayne / 4. Warning / 5. Playtime Is Over / 6. Itty Bitty Piggy / 7. I'm Cumin / 8. Easy ft. Gucci Mane & Rocko / 9. Dead Wrong / 10. Dirty Money Freestyle

SIDE B: 1. Flawless w/ Beyonce / 2. Boss Ass Bitch / 3. Hold Yuh w/ Gyptian / 4. Did It On Em / 5. Beez In The Trap ft. 2 Chains / 6. Feelin Myself ft. Beyonce / 7. Down In The DM w/ Yo Gotti / 8. Bossed Up/Pickle Juice Outro

Mixtape Club #5 - Nicki Minaj

Las Cruxes Mixtape Club #5

Las Cruxes Mixtape Club #7 - Women In Music. This one is pretty self explanatory. Cover image is from the movie Crossroads in case you're a dummy. Have you seen it yet? It was written by Shonda Rhimes. It's very good. Don't play yourself, go see it. Download link here: http://bit.ly/2iybt7K

Side A:
Gina X Performance - Nice Mover
Young M.A - OOOUUU
Black Abba - Betting On Death
Sacred Paws - Everyday
The Sunshine Sisters of Africa - Nitori W.A.I. (African Thriller Music)
Lita Ford - Kiss Me Deadly
Opposite Sex - La Rat
Hothead - Hothead
Princess Nokia - Tomboy
Bossy - Who Loves You More
Sneaks - True Killer

Side B:
Brigitte Fontaine avec Art Ensemble of Chicago - Tanka II
One of You - Faded Flowers
Wizard Apprentice - Malaquite Beach
Junglepussy - Nah
Dawn Penn - You Don’t Love Me (No No No)
Little Ann - Deep Shadows
Quix*o*tic - Tell It Like It Is
Hole - Malibu
In School - Cement Fucker
Malportado Kids - Mi Concha
Allergic to Bullshit - I’m Not Ashamed
Dorothy Masuka - Khauleza

Mixtape Club #7

Las Cruxes Mixtape Club #7

This month I sat down with Ted Leo over a giant vegan pizza and we talked about his punk roots in Jersey, why going to college is stupid, how to dress well as you get older, Skrewdriver records, touring, etc, etc etc. Ted is a handsome mensch who makes good music and you should listen to what he has to say! He has a new record he's kickstarting, so bless him with some cash (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/98880859/new-ted-leo-album?ref=7t6hle). If you're wondering why we didn't talk about the current political climate it's because this interview happened a long ass time ago! Luckily, Ted was on This Week In Atrocity last week talking about the artist's place in the current political climate and it's a great convo, so if you can't get enough of the man TL, listen to that (https://soundcloud.com/user-695156563/006-myths-of-the-near-future).

Ted Leo

Ted Leo (Ted Leo)

This month's interview is with John & Megan from Street Eaters! This is the first extended cut of an older, shorter podcast. I intended to put it out a few weeks earlier so it would be out while they were still on tour, supporting their new record The Envoy (https://streeteaters.bandcamp.com) out soon on their label Nervous Intent Records (http://nervousintent.bigcartel.com) but I fucked up and it's too late and they're home now. What are you gonna do! I think John and Megan are both really cool, smart people and I'm very happy to have spoken to them. Also this interview took place at Carmine's Original on Norman Ave in Greenpoint! What a place. RIP. Also my email address is sliceharvester at gmail, in case you needed to know.

Street Eaters

Megan March & John No (Street Eaters)

The mixtape club theme this month was "covers," and this tape starts out with two originals, but it's for a greater good! This tape is just "Sitting in the Park" and "Dark End of the Street" back and forth, like two sides of a spinning coin, over and over and over again. I know it sounds repetitive, but it spans a number of genres and there's some really interesting contenders. This mix was originally conceptualized with my good buddy Mike Stoltz many years ago and I'm so happy to have finally brought it to fruition. Tracklist and download link below.

Side A - Dark End of the Park
Billy Stewart - Sitting in the Park
James Carr - Dark End of the Street
Alton & Hortense Ellis - Sitting in the Park
Lee Moses - Dark End of the Street
Dezzy Hollow - Sitting in the Park
Dorothy Moore - Dark End of the Street
Risco Connection - Sitting in the Park
Lee Hazelwood & Ann Margret - Dark End of the Street
Quixotic - Sitting in the Park

Side B - Sitting in the Street
Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner - Dark End of the Street
Bobby McClure - Sitting in the Park
Flying Burrito Brothers - Dark End of the Street
Thriller U - Sitting in the Park
Afghan Whigs - Dark End of the Street
Deadly Weapons - Sitting in the Park
Diamanda Galas & John Paul Jones - Dark End of the Street
Pierfranco Calonna - Sitting in the Park
Cat Power - Dark End of the Street

Download here: http://bit.ly/2viINd3

Cover illustration from "The Patch" by Joe Kessler, originally printed in Smoke Signal #17

Mixtape Club #18

Las Cruxes Mixtape Club #18: Sitting in the Dark

Me and Mark sat down at his art gallery, Mudd Guts (http://muddguts.com), and talked about the suburbs being weird, getting into graffiti, getting into tattooing and opening his own shop (http://www.rosetattoonyc.com), sobriety in adulthood, anonymity at the level of press radio and film, being a "wretched flesh formation," and more. Please enjoy. I don't know why my outro sounds so bad but it's like the last two minutes of the damn thing, suck it up.

Season 3

Mark Cross (Mudd Guts)

WHAT'S GOOD welcome back to Radio Harvester after we had to take June off cause I had LYME DISEASE (oy vey) !!! Very excited for this month's guest, Madeleine Campbell, who runs Accessible Recording (https://accessiblerecording.com) and does the zine Women In Sound (https://www.womeninsound.com). We talked about growing up in The Triangle, the parallels between punk/hardcore and modern avant garde composers, getting into recording, doing zines, and THE LUNACHICKS (mostly I talked about the Lunachicks, tbh). This interview rules and you should definitely listen. Thumbnail photo taken by Hooper Schultz.

Madeleine Campbell

Madeleine Campbell (Women In Sound)

In early March I interviewed Paula Martinez of Demystification Zin and now you I can whisk you away to a time before we were all sheltering in place. Paula rules and her zine Demystification rules, and she talked to me about her Harmony Korinne childhood in Brazil and Miami, beatdown hardcore, haircut patterns, what it's like to work collaboratively with a perfectionist when she herself is a slob, and SO MUCH MORE. It's a really good convo and I hope you like it. ALSO please buy Demystification (https://demystification.bigcartel.com) it's for your own good. And please subscibe to my newsletter Life Harvester for free digitally (https://lifeharvester.substack.com) or for money and you'll get one in the mail (https://www.patreon.com/lifeharvester).  OKAY BYE.

Paula Martinez

Paula Martinez (Demystification)

This month I talked with Nick Anglin of Black Young and Educated (https://www.instagram.com/blackyoungedu/), about Civil Saturdays, BYE’s ongoing Saturday afternoon protest against PA Section 508 which gives police discretion to use lethal force when they “perceive danger,” organizing in this current moment, building sustainable movements, and where he sees BYE turning their attention once 508 is amended. Give these kids your money! They accept Cashapp (https://cash.app/$blackyoungedu) or Venmo (https://venmo.com/blackyoungedu)! Episode photo by Shane Berman (https://www.instagram.com/shanebermanphoto/).

Nick Anglin (Black Young & Educated)

This month Ana Armengod talks about growing up in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, MX; her wild adolescence in Mexico City; distributing anarchist propaganda on Warped Tour; dealing with deportation from the US and the arbitrary violence and cruelty of immigration in this country; singing in her hardcore band, De Rodillas; her work as an artist & educator. The conversation gets pretty rough at times, so heads up: we discuss sexual assault, deportation, kidnapping, and many other forms of violence. Ana is amazing, and I feel so lucky to have had the opportunity to have this conversation. I hope you enjoy listening to it. Make sure to listen to De Rodillas (https://derodillas.bandcamp.com/album/rather-die-standing-demo) and check out Ana's instagram (https://www.instagram.com/humanleather/). And don't forget to rate (5 stars only), review (nice stuff please), and subscribe (in whatever app you like) to Life Harvester Radio for more.

Ana Armengod (De Rodillas)

This month I talked to my friend and yours, Jolie M-A! We discussed her freak on a leash childhood in Miami, discovering punk through Facebook stalking older kids she had a crush on, Gina Gershon in the movie Bound, her time working posting bail in the Bronx court system with Bronx Freedom Fund, and bands Ribbon Stage (https://ribbonstage.bandcamp.com/), Tens Unit (https://tensunit.bandcamp.com/), Boys Online (https://boysonline.bandcamp.com), and more. Jolie rules!

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Life Harvester Radio

Jolie M-A (Ribbon Stage)

Me and my best friend in Pittsburgh talked about pervy cassingles, finding a sense of safety from dysfunction in punk, the growth of the harm reduction movement from illegally distributing narcan to now, her cool and political statement jewelry. We crack each other up a ton, and at one point I say the word "pussy" 6 times in like 2 minutes 😳 Check her website (https://visceraljewelry.com) for updates on when she's reopening the shop and for now look at her instagram (https://www.instagram.com/visceraljewelry/) to see the goods!

Radio Harvester

Kelly AH (Visceral Jewelry)

Talked on the phone with my cool friend Marissa Chavez from Austin, TX, about her wild childhood, her outlaw family, dropping out of high school to sell weed, oogling around the American West trying to find the best heroin, getting sober, staying connected to the streets through photography , her handmade t-shirt label Official Bootleg (https://www.instagram.com/official_bootleg/), and so much more. Marissa is a magnetic personality and her kindness, generosity of spirit, and willingness to connect and share with others are center stage in this interview. The animals you hear in order of appearance: Marissa's cat Alice purring, my cat Growler screaming, my dog Rubi barking. There were some unexpected issues with the phone recording software, and so for a time at the beginning our conversation is slightly out of sync and it seems like we're talking over each other. I did my best to get rid of the worst of it, but try to bear with it, because it goes away eventually and this convo is too good to miss.

Marissa Chavez (Official Bootleg)

This month I talked to Elizabeth Whitney, my dear friend in New York who is an empowerment, sex, and wellness coach (https://www.instagram.com/enlivenstudios/) and the only person I've ever seen wear a Supreme fanny pack on her waist. Imagine the freedom! We talked about being born into a Christian cult, the Footloose soundtrack, her seemingly innate interest in fashion, getting into cigarettes and punk in the psyche ward at 14, her struggles with disordered eating, running away to live in the Bay at 16, finding community while living in a punk house for 20 years, getting over shyness through waitressing, how moving across the country can be alienating but shift your outlook, training to be a sex coach. There's too much to mention it all but it's an incredible conversation. There was another issue with the audio syncing incorrectly, so about halfway through it starts to sound like Elizabeth is interrupting me all the time, but she isn't! She's very considerate. It's just the internet fucking up.

Elizabeth Whitney (Enliven Studios)

Erin Yanke fuckin rules. I asked her on the show to talk about her incredible podcast, It Did Happen Here (http://itdidhappenherepodcast.com), but we also touched on her band Noxeema (https://noxeema.bandcamp.com/releases), the film she worked on, Arresting Power (http://www.arrestingpower.com), growing up in Humbolt and the Bay, interning at NPR, and I somehow forgot to ask about the fucking DEAD MOON BOOK(https://www.deadmoonnight.com/dead-moon-book)!!! This is why you gotta keep your notes in front of you when doing interviews and not wander around your house like a toddler. This is a good one so please listen, and remember to rate review subscribe whatever in all the places you can do that I need affirmation.

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