Josh Chicoine is the creative force behind Cult Canyon, a Chicago-based band that has recently released a debut album, ‘Smoke Tricks’.

Cult Canyon's music has been described as California-Style Folk Rock. The band features strings and other orchestrations to bring fullness to its pop stylings. As a new acoustic and rock music group on the Chicago scene, Cult Canyon is headed by singer-songwriter and Champaign native Josh Chicoine, who also performs in a Fleetwood Mac tribute band, Second Hand News.

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https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/01/08/cult-canyon-brings-california-style-folk-rock-to-hideout-saturday/

https://www.facebook.com/cultcanyon/

https://carconcarne.com/2026/03/05/the-diy-evolution-cult-canyons-josh-chicoine-on-the-making-of-smoke-tricks-episode-1112/

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Interview conducted by Marco Rixecker

https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixecker

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Radio Aula Mundi, August 2026

https://www.youtube.com/@radioaulamundi4206

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At the moment, Radio Aula Mundi is an evolving podcast station where no language and all languages are spoken…

It’s a multilingual mix of music, poetry, lectures, languages, interviews, documentaries, recipes, and a lot more, co-produced with the students of the ‘Aula Mundi International Cultural Center’…

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Radio Aula Mundi

Centro Cultural & Turistico Aula Mundi

Aula Mundi Cultural Travel Center

https://linktr.ee/radioaulamundi

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Todd Kessler is a singer-songwriter and recording artist in the Chicago area.

Born and raised in the Chicago suburbs, Todd Kessler was always singing.

He began playing the trumpet at 9 years old, but by 12, he’d fallen in love with the guitar and began writing his own songs.

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https://toddkesslermusic.com/

https://www.hemifran.com/artist/Todd%20Kessler/

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Daisychain is a female-fronted blues/psych rock band based out of Chicago. Drawing from influences like Patti Smith, Melvins, The Velvet Underground, and Jack White, audiences can expect expressive guitar solos, a dynamic rhythm section, and smoky vocal harmonies all paying homage to a familiar sound.

Their debut album, ‘All In A Name’, has been released June 27, 2025, and was produced by Sylvia Massy, who had worked with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Prince.

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https://www.daisychainmusic.net/

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC4EBZwe3YvBq3Snb5q2imAw

https://daisychainmusic.bandcamp.com/

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Interviews conducted by Marco Rixecker

https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixecker

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Radio Aula Mundi, July 2026

https://youtube.com/@radioaulamundi4206?feature=shared

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In this series, Radio Aula Mundi tries to build bridges between people by having them ask questions for anyone, anytime, anywhere in the world… https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0J-iNFOJ5e6_Q2wdtTrDQ1w2Ehh-vzvK

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At the moment, Radio Aula Mundi is an evolving podcast station where no language and all languages are spoken…

It’s a multilingual mix of music, poetry, lectures, languages, interviews, documentaries, recipes, and a lot more, co-produced with the students of the ‘Aula Mundi International Cultural Center’…

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Radio Aula Mundi

Centro Cultural & Turistico Aula Mundi

Aula Mundi Cultural Travel Center

https://linktr.ee/radioaulamundi

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Michael Hanna is the vocalist of Naked Brunch, a Chicago-based Slut Rock band.

Slut Rock is a fusion between Funk and Glam Rock with the purpose of getting into the rhythm of your own body.

In 2026, the Chicago Reader, one of the city’s most important cultural magazines nominated Naked Brunch ‘Best Emerging Band’.

Their recently released album ‘At The Humanoid Motel’ was voted ‘Best Local Album Of The Year’.

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https://www.ilovenakedbrunch.com/

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/nakedbrunch1/at-the-humanoid-motel?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=Email+&utm_source=SendGrid

https://linktr.ee/nakedbrunchbox?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAafftVRlv2DIzdyj6QlmXzHtqvdcjXceMEXUfV85FYT2KcpSZljOZMEoxh6--g_aem_C3qroO9BL1N-qEvvXuFEfA

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Interview conducted by Marco Rixecker

https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixecker

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Radio Aula Mundi, July 2026

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0J-iNFOJ5e7pEH8ldsVqlM272Ly4wwBQ&si=Db9cnIDPtz9uNC8O

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At the moment, Radio Aula Mundi is an evolving podcast station where no language and all languages are spoken…

It’s a multilingual mix of music, poetry, lectures, languages, interviews, documentaries, recipes, and a lot more, co-produced with the students of the ‘Aula Mundi International Cultural Center’…

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Radio Aula Mundi

Centro Cultural & Turistico Aula Mundi

Aula Mundi Cultural Travel Center

https://linktr.ee/radioaulamundi

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Sepultura (Portuguese: [sepuwˈtuɾɐ], ‘grave’) is a Brazilian heavy metal band formed in Belo Horizonte in 1984 by brothers Max and Igor Cavalera.

They were a major force in the groove metal, thrash metal and death metal genres during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

After 40 years of existence together, they are currently completing a farewell tour across the entire globe.

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https://www.sepultura.com.br/

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Left Bank Books has been a fixture of Seattle’s radical community since 1973.

It is a collective bookstore in the Pike Place Market.

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https://www.leftbankbooks.com/

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Interviews conducted by Marco Rixecker

https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixecker

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Radio Aula Mundi, July 2026

https://youtube.com/@radioaulamundi4206?feature=shared

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In this series, Radio Aula Mundi tries to build bridges between people by having them ask questions for anyone, anytime, anywhere in the world… https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0J-iNFOJ5e6_Q2wdtTrDQ1w2Ehh-vzvK

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At the moment, Radio Aula Mundi is an evolving podcast station where no language and all languages are spoken…

It’s a multilingual mix of music, poetry, lectures, languages, interviews, documentaries, recipes, and a lot more, co-produced with the students of the ‘Aula Mundi International Cultural Center’…

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Radio Aula Mundi

Centro Cultural & Turistico Aula Mundi

Aula Mundi Cultural Travel Center

https://linktr.ee/radioaulamundi

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All interviews conducted by Marco Rixecker in New York City, New York, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Ashland, Oregon, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Seattle, Washington, Chicago, Illinois, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, including with Estevan Rael-Gálvez and Kevin Schultz...

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Dr. Estevan Rael-Gálvez is the executive director of ‘Native Bound Unbound: Archive of Indigenous Slavery’,

leading a global team in the goal to document indigenous slavery across the Western Hemisphere.

Trained as an anthropologist, historian, and indigenous slavery scholar, Dr. Rael-Gálvez

has served as the former Senior Vice President of Historic Sites at the National Trust for Historic Preservation,

executive director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center, and as the state historian of New Mexico.

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https://crowcanyon.org/people/rael-galvez-estevan/ https://nativeboundunbound.org/home/

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Kevin M. Schultz is professor and chair of history at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) and an award-winning author.

He teaches 20th and 21st century American history with special interests in religion and American intellectual and cultural life.

Kevin M. Schultz’s most recent book, ‘Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals)’, explores the deeper reasons behind the motivations of Donald Trump's supporter base from a historical and psychological perspective.

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https://hist.uic.edu/profiles/schultz-kevin/

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/author/S/K/au102126783.html

https://chireviewofbooks.com/2025/05/05/kevin-m-schultz-why-everyone-hates-white-liberals-including-white-liberals/

https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/june-july-2025/in-defense-of-liberals/

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Interviews conducted by Marco Rixecker

https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixecker

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Radio Aula Mundi, July 2026

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0J-iNFOJ5e7zRG5Kyjop3CXRv_rirs6l&si=eXGfpK912Jxvomjh

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At the moment, Radio Aula Mundi is an evolving podcast station where no language and all languages are spoken…

It’s a multilingual mix of music, poetry, lectures, languages, interviews, documentaries, recipes, and a lot more, co-produced with the students of the ‘Aula Mundi International Cultural Center’…

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Radio Aula Mundi

Centro Cultural & Turistico Aula Mundi

Aula Mundi Cultural Travel Center

https://linktr.ee/radioaulamundi

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K. D. Harryman is the author of Girls’ Book of Knots, forthcoming in 2023 from BlazeVox Books, as well as Auto Mechanic’s Daughter (Akashic, 2007).

The recipient of the 2019 Rumi Prize and the 2018 James Hearst Poetry Prize, she serves as the poetry editor for Five South.

She is originally from Kentucky and lives in Los Angeles.

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https://poets.org/poet/k-d-harryman

https://karenharryman.com/

http://wp.blazevox.org/product/girls-book-of-knots-by-k-d-harryman/

https://twitter.com/poetrybite

https://www.instagram.com/poetrybite/?hl=en

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu

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David Richard Koepsell is an American author, philosopher, attorney, and educator whose recent research focuses on how ethics and public policy deal with emerging science and technology.

He has been a practicing attorney, been employed as an ontologist, been a university professor, and has lectured worldwide.

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http://davidkoepsell.com/

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Interviews conducted by Marco Rixecker

https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixecker

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Radio Aula Mundi, June 2026

https://youtube.com/@radioaulamundi4206?feature=shared

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In this series, Radio Aula Mundi tries to build bridges between people by having them ask questions for anyone, anytime, anywhere in the world… https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0J-iNFOJ5e6_Q2wdtTrDQ1w2Ehh-vzvK

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At the moment, Radio Aula Mundi is an evolving podcast station where no language and all languages are spoken…

It’s a multilingual mix of music, poetry, lectures, languages, interviews, documentaries, recipes, and a lot more, co-produced with the students of the ‘Aula Mundi International Cultural Center’…

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Radio Aula Mundi

Centro Cultural & Turistico Aula Mundi

Aula Mundi Cultural Travel Center

https://linktr.ee/radioaulamundi

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Robert Madden is an author and archaeologist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

For many years, he sifted through existing records of Native American artifacts to look for the oldest dice in the United States.

His research led him to the conclusion that dice, games of chance, and gambling have been a persistent feature of Native American culture for at least the last 12,000 years,

with the earliest examples appearing at Late Pleistocene Folsom-period archaeological sites in Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico.

These artifacts predate the earliest known Old World dice by more than 6,000 years.

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https://libarts.source.colostate.edu/how-native-americans-shaped-gambling-and-probability/

https://www.libarts.colostate.edu/people/rmadden/

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/08/science/native-american-earliest-dice-gambling-probability

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/article/probability-in-the-pleistocene-origins-and-antiquity-of-native-american-dice-games-of-chance-and-gambling/E38C7B1F4CE7F417D8EFAC5AFEEF20A2

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Interview conducted by Marco Rixecker

https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixecker

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Radio Aula Mundi, June 2026

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0J-iNFOJ5e7pEH8ldsVqlM272Ly4wwBQ&si=Db9cnIDPtz9uNC8O

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At the moment, Radio Aula Mundi is an evolving podcast station where no language and all languages are spoken…

It’s a multilingual mix of music, poetry, lectures, languages, interviews, documentaries, recipes, and a lot more, co-produced with the students of the ‘Aula Mundi International Cultural Center’…

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Radio Aula Mundi

Centro Cultural & Turistico Aula Mundi

Aula Mundi Cultural Travel Center

https://linktr.ee/radioaulamundi

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Viola ‘Vi’ Waghiyi is a Sivuqaq Yupik, Native Village of Savoonga Tribal Citizen, mother, and grandmother.

Since 2002, she has worked with Alska Community Action on Toxics (‘ACAT’) and serves as Environmental Health and Justice Director.

She is a nationally recognized environmental justice leader and is frequently invited to speak locally, nationally, and internationally.

Vi serves as a leader of the Global Indigenous Peoples Caucus that advises the United Nation’s international delegates for treaties concerning persistent organic pollutants.

In April 2021, she was appointed by President Joe Biden to the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC).

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https://www.akaction.org/

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Interview conducted by Marco Rixecker

https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixecker

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Radio Aula Mundi, June 2026

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0J-iNFOJ5e7pEH8ldsVqlM272Ly4wwBQ&si=Db9cnIDPtz9uNC8O

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At the moment, Radio Aula Mundi is an evolving podcast station where no language and all languages are spoken…

It’s a multilingual mix of music, poetry, lectures, languages, interviews, documentaries, recipes, and a lot more, co-produced with the students of the ‘Aula Mundi International Cultural Center’…

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Radio Aula Mundi

Centro Cultural & Turistico Aula Mundi

Aula Mundi Cultural Travel Center

https://linktr.ee/radioaulamundi

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Todd Kessler is a singer-songwriter and recording artist in the Chicago area.

Born and raised in the Chicago suburbs, Todd Kessler was always singing.

He began playing the trumpet at 9 years old, but by 12, he’d fallen in love with the guitar and began writing his own songs.

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https://toddkesslermusic.com/

https://www.hemifran.com/artist/Todd%20Kessler/

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Interview conducted by Marco Rixecker

https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixecker

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Radio Aula Mundi, June 2026

https://youtube.com/@radioaulamundi4206?feature=shared

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At the moment, Radio Aula Mundi is an evolving podcast station where no language and all languages are spoken…

It’s a multilingual mix of music, poetry, lectures, languages, interviews, documentaries, recipes, and a lot more, co-produced with the students of the ‘Aula Mundi International Cultural Center’…

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Radio Aula Mundi

Centro Cultural & Turistico Aula Mundi

Aula Mundi Cultural Travel Center

https://linktr.ee/radioaulamundi

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Joanna Hopson is an Iñupiaq Arctic games coach and athlete who competed in the annual Arctic Winter Games, held this year in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.

In addition to common winter events like curling and figure skating, the games include traditional indigenous competitions including single foot kick, knuckle hop, and stick pull.

https://www.facebook.com/share/1D4gJBdzsi/

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Interview conducted by Marco Rixecker

https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixecker

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Radio Aula Mundi, May 2026

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0J-iNFOJ5e7pEH8ldsVqlM272Ly4wwBQ&si=Db9cnIDPtz9uNC8O

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At the moment, Radio Aula Mundi is an evolving podcast station where no language and all languages are spoken…

It’s a multilingual mix of music, poetry, lectures, languages, interviews, documentaries, recipes, and a lot more, co-produced with the students of the ‘Aula Mundi International Cultural Center’…

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Radio Aula Mundi

Centro Cultural & Turistico Aula Mundi

Aula Mundi Cultural Travel Center

https://linktr.ee/radioaulamundi

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