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Hosted by Lydia Lunch · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 100 episodes
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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.
Lydia Lunch hosts The Lydian Spin, a society show with 100 episodes published.
Photo: Sabrina Santiago Early in his career, photographer and former New York Times photo editor Jeffrey Henson Scales documented the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s. These photographs were compiled in his 2022 mon
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 ov
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 Br
During their June 2026 tour across New Zealand and Australia , Lydia turns the mic on her touring partner, Andrew Coates of Melbourne's Black Cab . Together, the duo brought a , live reimagining of Suicide and Alan Vega
Reg Bloor is a guitarist, instrument builder, and founder of the Systems Neutralizers record label. For 18-years she collaborated with composer Glenn Branca, serving as a guitarist, concertmaster, and manager on internat
Robert "Bobby" Swope belonged to a talented cadre of avant-garde visionaries—among them Arto Lindsay, Connie Burg, Mark Cunningham, and Gordon Stevenson—who first crossed paths as students at Florida's Eckerd College in
Lydia and Tim are on a whirlwind tour right now, hitting stages in Brazil, Australia, Japan, and Europe! The heavy travel and intense performance schedule have made pinning them down for an interview tough, but this week
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 mem
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
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
As the frontman for U.S. Maple, Al Johnson utilized his voice as a textural and percussive instrument rather than a melodic vehicle. His delivery consisted of rasps, sharply drawn breaths, and fragmented phrasing. Al ope
Part 2 of Larry Mullin's sit down with Lydia and Tim.
Larry Mullins, also known as Toby Dammit, is a musician, record producer, and composer who plays drums, percussion, and keyboards. He performs as a member of the bands Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Swans, and previousl
Ian Svenonius is a musician and author who began his career in the 1980s Washington D.C. punk scene. He has been the lead vocalist for several bands, including The Nation of Ulysses, The Make-Up, and Chain and The Gang,
Norman Westberg is a guitarist known for anchoring the monolithic avant-rock of Swans. Away from the band's trademark volume, however, his solo work—like the Lawrence English-produced After Vacation—abandons traditional
Nuha Ruby Ra is a London-based artist working across music, performance, and visual art. Blending industrial sound, art-pop, and spoken word, her work explores power, instinct, and transformation through raw, physical li
In 1977, Gary Wilson finished recording You Think You Really Know Me in his parents' basement and released it himself. Through the 1980s, his work in experimental music that draws across styles including new wave, rock,
Blake Fleming is a percussionist, author, and educator known for his work with experimental bands and for writing The Book of Rhythm, an encyclopedia of over 5,000 organized rhythms for all instruments. The book has been
Rhode Islander, Stephen Mattos is a musician and librarian. He's been performing since the late 2000s under the name Chrome Jackson, and his latest band is , THERE. Outside of music, he spends his time cycling, working o
Sonny Vincent fronted Testors in the mid-1970s New York punk scene, playing CBGB and Max's Kansas City before the band split in 1981. He later formed Sonny Vincent and the Extreme and Model Prisoners, and went on to reco
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The Lydian Spin is hosted by Lydia Lunch. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 100 episodes.
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