Chicago-based nonprofit organization ➚ESS Creative Audio Archive brings us sounds from the collection of activist and recording engineer Malachi Ritscher, who died by self-immolation in an act of protest against the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

➚Listen HERE

Bonus links:

➚>>> His recordings

➚>>> Lore

➚>>> Deep Lore

Lizzie is a Parisian. Teddy is a New Yorker. Both have lost a shoe sole.

Listen to the radioplay ➚here.

And check out Jazz's live set from our studio in May ➚here.

Joel Dean's “Still, Falling,” is a radio drama about collapse as the organizing principle in New York City's skyline.

➚Listen Here

And then fiind more Joel at his ➚dispensary.

To have a delightmare = to be terrorized by stupid shit. 

Ben Davis and Shanti Escalante-De Mattei follow up conversation to Davis' article "➚Culture Has No Name for This Cursed Vibe. It’s Everywhere," included in MPR's second series, ➚Stand Up Fall Down: The Politics of Irony and the Irony of Politics.

Listen ➚here. 

Three months after Dena Yago unpacked the Blue Man Group’s metamorphosis from an experimental art collective to a global entertainment brand as part of MPR's first series ➚Love Thy Network, she continues to be haunted by the Blue Men. "This was just on the top of someone’s free pile on their stoop this weekend, from 1992." In her program, "➚Touching Blue," Dena explores the commodification of creative subcultures and the limits of collective autonomy through the lens of capitalist realism.

Artist/musician Leah Hennessy and punk legend Richard Hell on crying at readings, Rimbaud, being a vampire, psychoanalyst magicians, Crick and Watson, and Hell’s first full collection of poetry in 50 years, What Just Happened. Listen ➚here. Buy the book ➚here.

In advance of the release of Viscose Journal's next issue, co-edited by Bill Kouligas and Montez Press Radio, focusing on sound and its relationship fashion, you can catch up on Viscose by listening to highlights from a century of fashion criticism from a past issues of Viscose, TEXT—read by editor in chief, Jeppe Ugelvig.

Listen to the segment ➚here.

Read more about Viscose ➚here.