Scene Report

We spoke with Sarim Al-Rawi -- front person of the cult garage punk band Liquor Store (2000s/2010s, New York/New Jersey), and crime blues jamrock band Prison (today, New York) -- about various scenes including: 

1. Brooklyn DIY punk and indie heyday of the Pitchfork era 

2. Brooklyn DIY punk and indie now

3. New York’s shifting Arab-American neighborhoods

4. grad school terrorism classes

5. New York and New Jersey sanitation work

6. New York Times columnists who know nothing about the Middle East

7. Ralph Nader’s American Museum of Tort Law

8. Etc.

Host/Producer/Editor: Reed Dunlea

Executive Producer: Ash Tyner

Music: Jesse Crawford

Logo: Kyle Seely

Associate Producer: Tina Halladay

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On this latest episode of SCENE REPORT we talk with Ana Armengod -- who also goes by Humanleather -- about her varied artistic practices: visual art, filmmaking, poetry and music. We speak about telling immigration stories in her experimental films, her own immigration and deportation story, exploring her family history through art, singing in Pittsburgh hardore punk band De Rodillas, and exploring a little-known women’s self-immolation protest movement in Cuba. Recorded in my kitchen on 5/31/24.

Host, Producer & Editor: Reed Dunlea

Executive Producer: Ash Tyner

Theme Song: Jesse Crawford

Logo: Kyle Seely

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On this latest episode of SCENE REPORT we talk with Nao -- vocalist of the Barcelona punk band Taqbir -- about starting Taqbir as a bedroom Covid project, the revolutionary spirit of signing in Darija (Moroccan Arabic), breaking the band’s anonymity, immigrating to Europe, and returning to Morocco through music. Recorded in Dan, Dane and Chase’s woodshop on 2/23/24 on the last night of Taqbir’s first U.S. tour (with Haram).

Host, Producer & Editor: Reed Dunlea

EP: Ash Tyner

Associate Producer: Dane Winkler

Theme Song: Jesse Crawford

Logo: Kyle Seely

Thanks Nao

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Josephine is on a victorious rock n’ roll joy ride. For SCENE REPORT, we spoke about blurring the rock n’ roll and queer scenes, her timeless New York yenta ancestry, using art to manifest her transition, and channeling Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris all at once.

Host, Producer & Editor: Reed Dunlea

Executive Producer: Ash Tyner

Associate Producer: Jason Halal

Theme Song: Jesse Crawford 

Logo: Kyle Seely

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On this latest episode of SCENE REPORT, we talk with Fat Tony from Houston Texas about the legacy of Houston hip hop, being a DIY hustler across genre and scenes, and his family's African roots. Recorded in my kitchen on 10/20/23.

Host, Producer & Editor: Reed Dunlea

Executive Producer: Ash Tyner

Theme Song & Logo: Kyle Seely

Thanks Tony

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On this introductory episode of SCENE REPORT, we talk with my Palestinian American brother Johnny Hummus about ending false hummus, metal/punk in New York and Florida, and the historic and modern struggles of his people. Recorded in my kitchen on 7/23/23 with a preface recorded on 12/4/23.

Host, Producer & Editor: Reed Dunlea

Executive Producer: Ash Tyner

Associate Producer: Conor Williams

Theme: Kyle Seely with Hart Seely

Logo: Kyle Seely

Banner: Elvis Metcalf with Miles Shelton & Ash Tyner

Thanks Johnny

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A new podcast from Reed Dunlea, formerly of "Protest & Survive." "Scene Report" explores counterculture artists and the communities that sustain their work. Dropping real soon.

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Winona LaDuke is probably the most dedicated, smart and hilarious activist you will ever come across. She lives on the White Earth Indian Reservation in Northwestern Minnesota, with about 130,000 other Anishinaabe and Ojibwe people. Since founding the White Earth Land Recovery Project in 1989, and Honor the Earth in 1983, she’s been fighting to preserve the indigenous sovereignty and environmental integrity of her land and people there. She also notably ran for Vice President with Ralph Nader for the Green Party in 1996 and 2000. LaDuke and her collaborators in Minnesota just waged a years-long battle against the Line 3 pipeline, which Canadian energy company Enbridge ultimately pushed through in 2021. That fight was building on her work against the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock, a watershed moment in anti-pipeline protest, and in building a new type of movement linking environmental, indigenous, and racial justice activists. In this wide-ranging interview for Protest & Survive, LaDuke discusses being present in her community, anti-colonialism land back, building local sustainable economies, and trying every tactic to win. 

Produced and hosted by Reed Dunlea, edited by Jason Halal, music by Jesse Crawford, and photography by Keri Picket.

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The 83rd, whose name is reclaimed from a Bushwick police precinct, is a record producer who runs a record label and media company called Sermon 3. "My biggest driving factor is pushing boundaries in art, music and possibilities; and also giving priority to people who deserve it, who a lot of times are the foundations of art, music, culture, that don't get the proper privy. When I look at my family, the Black community and all the things that we've done and all the things that go unwritten and uncovered, with Sermon 3 I wanted to cover deep roots in Mississippi and ghetto house and things that were happening in hoods and rural areas that impacted the rest of the world, but they never got an interview." I met The 83rd at Occupy City Hall in New York City in June 2020. The 83rd was projecting a message on a building across the street from the protest, which was a 5-point plan he’d developed about how to address police violence: end qualified immunity, pass a Civilian Defense Act, divest the police, invest in black communities, and end petty-crime arrests. The 83rd amplifies these and other messages through Sermon 3, a platform for art, music, culture, protest and news. He’s connecting people to organize and participate in direct action, and to treat cultural expression as a shared language of resistance. If you're only going to listen to one thing from The 83rd, skip this interview, and check out his incredible Solitary Souls project, an archival EP exploring the history of slavery in Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana. This episode was edited by Jason Halal. Music is by Jesse Crawford and The 83rd.

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Lorelei Ramirez is a comedian, artist, writer, and activist. Since the pandemic they have been working to build an organization called Helper's International, which distributes money, resources, and supplies to those who need it most. Their art and performance has been shown in venues across New York City and they've worked on television shows such as High Maintenance and Los Espookys. Their comedic work is absurd and sometimes grotesque, and they are currently hosting a weekly Twitch stream called "Art is Easy." This week, guest host and producer Sophia Steinert-Evoy spoke with Lorelei over Zoom about mutual aid, forming community networks in times of crisis, Bernie Sanders, and Ric Wilson's banger "Fight Like Ida B and Marsha P," which led to a tangent on the union anthem, "Which Side Are You On?" Lorelei recommends the podcast, "We The Unhoused." Music by Ric Wilson, Florence Reece, Pete Seeger, Billy Bragg, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, and Black Lives Matter Berkeley.  Photo by Daniel Rampulla.

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