Episodes

  • Episode 362: Baby Seals' Bassist Kate Shore

    Episode 362: Baby Seals' Bassist Kate Shore
    Nov 10 2026
    The Baby Seals(L-R): Amy Devine(drums/vocals), Kerry Devine(guitar/lead vocals), Kate Shore(bass/vocals) As the bassist for Cambridgeshire punk trio The Baby Seals, Kate Shore helps drive the band's fuzzy, deadpan sound. On tracks like their DIY single Mild Misogynist, Kate and the band turn mundane sexism into loud, heavy garage rock. The trio is currently touring and recording their next album.
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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • Episode 361: Filmmaker and Photographer Alicia J Rose

    Episode 361: Filmmaker and Photographer Alicia J Rose
    Oct 26 2026
    Photo By: Jason Quigley Award-winning filmmaker and photographer Alicia J. Rose has directed over three dozen music videos for artists like First Aid Kit, Cake, and Bob Mould, while visually branding bands like The Decemberists. Her unique visual style, grounded humor, and witty storytelling deliver deeply resonant, authentic narratives. Her acclaimed web series The Benefits of Gusbandry and award-winning debut feature A Kaddish For Bernie Madoff are widely available. She is currently helming the episodic Girls in Trouble: The Series and the film/podcast Menopunks. Rose is also a lifelong musician, former college radio DJ, rock promoter, and indie music industry leader.
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Episode 360: Tim Stegall Returns to Discuss His New Book Anarchy in the Studio: Punk Music 1970-1979

    Episode 360: Tim Stegall Returns to Discuss His New Book Anarchy in the Studio: Punk Music 1970-1979
    Oct 12 2026
    The veteran punk journalist and resident Austin chronicler Tim Stegall returns with a new book in tow. Anarchy in the Studio: Punk Music 1970-1979 (Ruffian Books) is a, five-hundred-page love letter to the genre's formative decade, told twelve inches at a time. Tim, who has been documenting punk and the underground since 1985, moves beyond the usual CBGB and Sex Pistols myth making to map the sweeping, messy cross-pollination of the era through more than a hundred and forty essential records. Lydia aptly notes that Tim is both a "master archivist" and a "fanboy fanatic".
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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Episode 359 Karen Fiorito

    Episode 359 Karen Fiorito
    Sep 26 2026
    Karen Fiorito returns to The Lydian Spin. On this episode, Lydia and Tim talk with her about The Urgency of Now: ¡No Pasarán!, a new multi-disciplinary political art exhibition and "Get Out The Vote" activation. Curated by Karen, Dale Youngman, and Isa Gordon, the project is a direct response to the current political climate, with the United States at the center of conflict and upheaval around the world—from Venezuela, Cuba, Canada, and the Russia/Ukraine war, to Trump's unnecessary war with Iran. The exhibition bridges historic movements of civil resistance with today's landscape, featuring local and international artists including Lydia Lunch, Dread Scott, Kim Abeles, Sue Coe, Guillermo Bert, Andre Miripolsky, Rick Robinson, Man One, and Karen will be exhibiting as well. Exhibition Details: The Urgency of Now October 1 – 31 Gloria Delson Contemporary Art (GDCA) 727 South Spring Street, Los Angeles
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Episode 358 Filmmaker Todd Stephens & Actor Birkett "Kett" Turton

    Episode 358 Filmmaker Todd Stephens & Actor Birkett "Kett" Turton
    Sep 6 2026
    Filmmaker Todd Stephens is best known for his semi-autobiographical "Ohio Trilogy" — Edge of Seventeen (1998), Gypsy 83 (2001) and Swan Song (2021) — all set in his home town of Sandusky. Gypsy 83, his directorial debut, follows two small-town goth outsiders who leave Ohio for New York, chasing Gypsy's dream of performing at Night of a Thousand Stevies, the long-running celebration of Stevie Nicks. Twenty-five years on, Stephens has re-edited the film from frame one and restored it in 4K from the original 35mm negative, adding over forty minutes of unseen footage and an expanded soundtrack featuring The Cure, Cocteau Twins, Echo and the Bunnymen, Ministry and Clan of Xymox. It stars Sara Rue, Karen Black, John Doe and Birkett "Kett" Turton, whose performance as Clive won the Grand Jury Award for Outstanding Actor at Outfest. Turton made his debut in Rollercoaster (1999), later trained at RADA, and has since appeared in Blade: Trinity, Saved!, Dead Last, Kingdom Hospital, iZombie, The Flash and Keeper.
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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Episode 357 Jeffrey Henson Scales

    Episode 357 Jeffrey Henson Scales
    Aug 15 2026
    Photo: Sabrina Santiago Early in his career, photographer and current New York Times photo editor Jeffrey Henson Scales documented the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s. These photographs were compiled in his 2022 monograph In a Time of Panthers: Early Photographs. During the 1970s, he worked in the music industry as a tour manager, production director, and equipment manager for acts including Minnie Riperton, Cher and Frank Zappa. He also shot album covers, film posters, and promotional photography for groups such as Michael Jackson, The Bangles, and Arrested Development. Jeffrey's photo work was featured in the National Gallery of Art's 2025 exhibition Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985. His photographs are held in the permanent collections of both the Museum of Modern Art and the National Gallery of Art.
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Episode 356:In the Red Records Head Larry Hardy

    Episode 356:In the Red Records Head Larry Hardy
    Aug 8 2026
    In 1991, Larry Hardy founded the enduring Los Angeles-based label In the Red Records. Guided by Larry's personal taste for raw, "atonal garage music" and sonic extremes, the small operation has cultivated a catalog of over 300 titles, championing underground acts like Ty Segall, the Black Lips, and Jay Reatard. On August 21st, In the Red Records—in partnership with the newly revived Vengeance Records—will release Gravest Gravy by The Cramps. This previously unreleased 12-track album is sourced from the band's October 1977 sessions at Ardent Studios in Memphis, produced by Big Star's Alex Chilton. While those sessions produced early classics like Surfin' Bird and Human Fly, an entire album's worth of material had been shelved and lost to time. Larry recently discovered the original quarter-inch reels in the vault of Cramps guitarist Poison Ivy. Now, with preservation and restoration help from Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye, these legendary tracks are finally getting their first official release.
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Episode 355: Lydia & Tim Summer Break / Tour Update

    Episode 355: Lydia & Tim Summer Break / Tour Update
    Jul 11 2026
    It's been a busy summer for Lydia and Tim. Stay tuned for more guests joining in the coming weeks, but for now, we're catching you up on everything in this brand-new "minisode"—recorded all the way from Lydia's bed in Brooklyn and from Tim's tour in Japan.
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    26 mins