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The Lydian Spin

The Lydian Spin

Written by: Lydia Lunch
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A series of lively, deep and often hilarious interviews conducted by Lydia Lunch, one of the most vocal spoken word artists of this or any century and Tim Dahl, musician and general know it all.Copyright The Lydian Spin All Rights Reserved Art Social Sciences
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  • Episode 350 Writer Zoe Hansen

    Episode 350 Writer Zoe Hansen
    May 15 2026
    In this episode returning to The Lydian Spin is writer and artist Zoe Hansen. Zoe is a writer, video artist, and longtime friend of the podcast. On this episode she is here to celebrate a big milestone. Her brand new memoir, Going Down in Gotham, is officially out from Far West Press. It is an amazing, firsthand look at three decades of New York City's underground culture, documenting her survival and journey from a London runaway to a Manhattan madam.
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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Episode 349 Genre Is Death

    Episode 349 Genre Is Death
    May 8 2026
    Genre Is Death, a limitation-destroying noise band formed by Ty Varesi (guitar, vox) and Tayler Lee (bass, vox), release their debut album, Attractive People out May 1 2026 on In The Red Records. Their sound is abrasive yet melodic, using heavy distortion, dissonant riffs, and reverberating vocals to create music that feels both minimal and overwhelming. Their newest record Attractive People, recorded by legendary sound producer Martin Bisi, prods and pushes its listener with tongue in cheek lyrics that accuse and indict their audience, cacophonous guitar shrieks of power and madness, and bass lines that oscillate from funky to erratic dissonance. While comparisons to Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks are inevitable (and quite welcome), Genre is Death build's on NYC's legacy without repeating it… eschewing nostalgia and nihilism in favor of total sonic liberation. The duo moved from the south to NYC in August of 2023 looking for something more than their mundane lifestyle of day drinking and playing doom metal in friends' basements… Their move to NYC, coupled with their desire to express something, anything, led to the inception of Genre is Death. The pair hit the ground running, playing anywhere and everywhere they could… However, it was only after a chance encounter with 80s noise forerunners Live Skull that the pair was introduced to the strange underbelly of NYC noise and began playing regular gigs with The Art Gray Noizz Quintet and Lydia Lunch. In 2025 the pair played toured with Gogol Bordello, embarked on their first East Coast tour, and played gigs with Cherubs, Bush Tetras, and Jon Spencer. The album is out now. Order a copy here.
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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • Episode 348 Lorin Benedict

    Episode 348 Lorin Benedict
    May 1 2026
    Lorin Benedict is a California-based improvising vocalist (scat singer, essentially), who operates in the fields of jazz and jazz-adjacent music. In addition, he works as a theoretical and computational applied physicist where his focus is on understanding the properties of materials in extreme conditions of pressure and temperature.
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    1 hr and 24 mins
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