Shakeytown Radio

Shakeytown Radio - Live from L.A. Zine Fest 2013 (34 min, 43 sec)

Brodie, Gene, Libby, and Bob report live from L.A. Zine Fest. Gene chats with Ben Lazarus, who sells his own buttons and his wife Mashanda's zines from the Shakeytown Radio table. Brodie interviews Beth Dean (Black Forest), Alex Wrekk (Stolen Sharpie Revolution, Portland Button Works, Brainscan, Copy Scams, Nobody Cares About Your Stupid Zine), Adam Scott Paul (L.A. Coffee Club), Claire Palermo (Punk Tree Distro), Sarah Bitely (Pimpkillah), and Elliot Fong (Double Fur Press, Riverside DIY Print Fest). Amber Garza is talked about but never captured on mic. Aziz Ansari does not make a special cameo on the show.

Featuring the music of The Copy Scams.

Adrian Chi is the writer and artist behind "Bite The Cactus" and a musician who has performed both solo and in bands such as Hotel LaRut and Spokenest. She will be on a panel for L.A. Zine Week called THE ZINE TABLE at Pop-Hop Books & Print that BFH is moderating, and tabling at L.A. Zine Fest. Adrian joins BFH, Gene, and Bob to chat about succulents, touring, Balinese music, urban legends, swearing in front of family, and much more. This episode features amazing music from Adrian and her bands, as well as Ike the Cat breathing audibly into the mic, in case you're wondering what that weird noise is.

Keenan Marshall Keller is a writer, artist, publisher and co-director at Drippy Bone Books, curator, and zinester who joined us a year ago to preview L.A. Zine Fest 2012. He has made his triumphant return to talk about L.A. Zine Fest 2013 and all the events he’ll be participating in or producing the next few weeks, such as the L.A. Art Book Fair, the Le Dernier Cri 20th Anniversary Show at Synchronicity (also the site of the Floating World Animation Fest’s DMTV2), and the L.A. Zine Fest Reading and Rock Spectacular.

Gene and Libby aren’t on this episode, so Bob produced a clone to be a special guest host. Enter Jonny, who has a stunning resemblance to Victor Vector of Man or Astro-man?, and a member of the band Humans (if you’re a fan of that band, or good music in general, there’s a surprise hidden for you in the episode). Keenan, Jonny, BFH, and Bob chat about zines, comics, music, communities in subcultures, collaboration, touring, and their inspirational first album purchases.

Bianca Barragan (@cocothegorilla) is a writer, journalist, and one of the organizers of L.A. Zine Fest and L.A. Zine Week.

Bianca joins BFH, Gene, Libby, and Bob to preview all the events surrounding the fest and L.A. Zine Week. They all discuss what titles hooked them into zine culture and how the DIY ethic is important for Los Angeles. Bianca also talks about her own writing and experiences in organizing last year's and this year's LAZF. Being that this is The Shakeytown Radio Hour, there are also wild tangents, including about Tim Roth, Bronson Pinchot, sentient garbage, The Barbarian Brothers, and how the Shakeytown Studio bathroom strengthened a friendship.

Los Angeles Zine Fest 2013 (http://lazinefest.com) is coming up on February 17, so we are talking to participants and organizers to preview the event. This week, it's illustrator, musician, and weapons enthusiast Adam Villacin (http://adamvillacin.com). BFH, Gene, Libby, and Bob talk with Adam about his work, his acting debut in the fantasy film "Teenius," and his stint in bands Totally Radd!!! and Dazzler, including when him and Brodie almost crossed paths in Phoenix. Plus, chat about the anti-D&D panic of the '80s, and a new spin on the game "F***, Marry, Kill."

Ring in the New Year with some magic, courtesy of magician Joel Ward and actress Allison Minick.

We discuss the magic circuit and stage scene, BFH's radical sixth grade interpretation of "Macbeth," caring for doves and hoarding tennis balls, Bill Murray as Joan of Arc, and what the International Brotherhood of Magicians really thinks of GOB Bluth and "Arrested Development."

Featuring the music of Hickey, Three Mile Pilot, and The Straight Arrows (pictured above).

What is the meaning of Hanukkah? What is the importance of Christmas? How does someone who doesn't believe in anything handle the holidays? What do a reggae musician, a basketball veteran and restaurant owner, a dead dog, a pixie imp, and one of the greatest comedians of all time have in common? It's part Charles Dickens, part Charlie Brown, and part Cult of Cthulhu, when BFH, Gene George, and Libby Ward celebrate the season on The Shakeytown Radio Holiday Special. With music from Yidcore, The Wailers, Galactic Pegasus, and Frank Black and the Catholics.

Why have the airwaves of Shakeytown Radio been silent so many months? Exactly what happened after Lizzy Pilcher's appearance? Where has Team Shakeytown been this entire time? What does the mafia, MMA, voter fraud, and the British actor Ade Brookshire have to do with all this? How can you say we go about things the wrong way? The Shakeytown Radio Reunion Special will answer all these questions and more as Libby Ward and Bob Schriner put on their reporter hats, flash their journalistic credentials, and interview Gene George and others in not only the most important episode of the podcast, but the most important work in the history of the medium.

Featuring the music of The Meatmen...

...a cameo by Adam Brooks, actor ("Millenium Bug," "Well of the Beast") and musician (Fossils, Egrets on Ergot)...

...and the theme song we've been waiting two years for, provided generously by the Brisbane, Australia band I Heart Hiroshima!

In our third annual Halloween special, musician and visual artist Carrie Kruger, and actor Ed Ackerman ("Hatchet 2," "Frozen," "Vegas") help Gene George and BFH bring this podcast back from the dead!

Oh, hey, it's a Shakeytown Radio Minute, which much like jazz, has lots of riffing. Libby shares her love of the musician's lifestyle and plans for a Vegas writing adventure. Gene details the joys and trials of daddyhood. BFH has got something to say, he pulled the string on a talking Mork doll today.