Gina Birch has been creating groundbreaking sound and images for nearly five decades. Best known as a founding member of the pioneering post-punk band The Raincoats, Birch helped shape a musical vocabulary that was raw, self-determined, and unconcerned with the rules. Formed in 1977 with Ana da Silva while at Hornsey College of Art, The Raincoats became a touchstone for artists from Kurt Cobain to Bikini Kill—valued as much for their fearless experimentation as for their songs.

Birch’s creative life has always extended beyond The Raincoats. She’s made music with Dorothy and The Hangovers, directed videos for New Order and The Libertines, and built an amazing visual art practice consisting of video work and painting.  Her piece “3 Minute Scream” was part of the Tate Britain's "Women in Revolt!" exhibition in 2024 and her work has been in shown in galleries worldwide..

Her solo work, produced by Youth of Killing Joke, includes 2023’s I Play My Bass Loud and her latest release Trouble (2025) all out via Third Man. 

ICYDNK: Dylan Hundley is an artist & performer. She is the co-creator and lead singer of Lulu Lewis & creator of all things at Darling Black. She co-curates & hosts Salon Lulu which is a New York based multidisciplinary performance series. She is also a cast member of the classic New York film Metropolitan.

Natasja Alers is the co-director of Grauzone Festival, a multidisciplinary event in The Netherlands that brings together post-punk, experimental music, visual art, and film. She’s also a sculptor, DJ, and painter with a background in ceramics, installation, and collage. Grauzone alumni include Echo & the Bunnymen, Lebanon Hanover, Anja Huwe (Xmal Deutschland), A Place to Bury Strangers, DAF and many more which speaks to the range of Natasja’s vision as a curator & artist.

Born in The Hague, she studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and later in Berlin. Her work has previously been on display at Design Museum Den Bosch,  Collectible Art Fair, Art Zuid, PAN Amsterdam, Big Art, Rademakers Gallery and foreign exhibitions in cities such as Berlin, Brussels, Antwerp and Copenhagen. Natasja’s work is included in private and museum collections worldwide.

We spoke about all these things plus her upcoming public installations that encompass her environmentalist efforts and her deep dedication to Grauzone plus all it stands for.

ICYDNK: Dylan Hundley is an artist & performer. She is the co-creator and lead singer of Lulu Lewis & creator of all things at Darling Black. She co-curates & hosts Salon Lulu which is a New York based multidisciplinary performance series. She is also a cast member of the classic New York film Metropolitan.

Joe Concra is a painter, a builder, and the CO+ founder of the O+ Festival, based in Kingston, NY. O+ is a community-rooted organization that connects artists and musicians with health and wellness care through a radical exchange model that started with an annual music & healthcare exchange festival and has expanded into year round care.

In this episode, we talk about how it all began, what it takes to create systems of care outside of the system, and the deep link between art, service, and place. Joe’s perspective is thoughtful, kind, and rooted in lived experience. This is a conversation about action, belief, and building something meaningful from the ground up & creating real positive change in communities.

ICYDNK: Dylan Hundley is an artist & performer. She is the co-creator and lead singer of Lulu Lewis & creator of all things at Darling Black. She co-curates & hosts Salon Lulu which is a New York based multidisciplinary performance series. She is also a cast member of the classic New York film Metropolitan.

I recently sat down with my old friend John Adams. John is an artist, songwriter and filmmaker. I first know him from his punk party band Banana Fish Zero that was based here in NY. You all may know him more from his incredible work as a filmmaker with his family, Adams Family Films. They have made eight features since 2012 including 2021’s Hellbender which is also the name of the family's super cool music project (spelled H6LLB6ND6R).

John was first inspired by bands like Black Flag that took him on a journey through punk with many bands and establishing himself and a benevolent master of chaos ceremonies. In 2008, he was cast in a Fuse Channel show called Rock and Roll Acid Test in a stuntman / maniac with a hammer role. This is what first brought the family out to California where they started making their very distinctive films entirely on their own. Now they have become punk masters of horror. 

I encourage you all to go track down all his music, all Adams Family Films and keep your eyes peeled for the next one currently making festival rounds, Mother of Flies and is being distributed by Shudder Films in 2026.

ICYDNK: Dylan Hundley is an artist & performer. She is the co-creator and lead singer of Lulu Lewis & creator of all things at Darling Black. She co-curates & hosts Salon Lulu which is a New York based multidisciplinary performance series. She is also a cast member of the classic New York film Metropolitan

I recently sat down with my partner in music & life, Pablo Martin. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Pablo is a multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer, engineer and master mixer. He’s been making music since he was sixteen years starting with Argentinian goth heroes El Corte. 

We spoke about his early musical life &  journey to New York. First working with R&B icons like Mary J. Blige as an engineer, to joining the Tom Tom Club as lead guitar, to forming The Du-Rites & Lulu Lewis and making ten full length albums between both of these last two acts over the last decade.

He has worked with an array of artists as a producer, mixer and engineer. J-Zone, Atmosphere, Sun Ra Arkestra, Sergio Rotman, Kid Cudi & Ghost Face Killah are some to note. I’m amazed at Pablo’s abilities which I have watched up close for a decade. 

Coming up next for him will be yet another Du-Rites EP entitled Tenement. Lulu Lewis just released our first single in a bit which we slaved over for some time, as we always do. It came out last week. It’s called Sinner. Proper 70’s disco with a twist. Upcoming is a live album which we recorded in May 2025 at The Bridge Studio in Brooklyn.

ICYDNK: Dylan Hundley is an artist & performer. She is the co-creator and lead singer of Lulu Lewis & creator of all things at Darling Black. She co-curates & hosts Salon Lulu which is a New York based multidisciplinary performance series. She is also a cast member of the classic New York film Metropolitan.

I recently sat down with my former bandmate and friend, Jay Mumford. Jay’s career as a session and touring drummer has paired him with artists across multiple genres. From Hermanos Gutierrez, to Danger Mouse; Lulu Lewis; Adrian Quesada; Vampire Weekend; Just Blaze; Dan Auerbach; Greyhounds; Madlib; Michael Kiwanuka and many more. He’s also co-founder and shares producer and songwriter duties with Pablo Martin (my partner) for their funk outfit, The Du-Rites.

Jay is on tour with Adrian Quesada with dates in August and September and played on Quesada’s Boleros Psicodelicos 2, which dropped June 27th on ATO Records. There’s a new EP (Tenement) from The Du-Rites dropping this fall and he’s back in the studio with Amsterdam-based keyboardist, producer and arranger, Soul Supreme, working on new material.

I recommend heading over to his Instagram, @jaymumfordmusic to stay in the loop.

ICYDNK: Dylan Hundley is an artist & performer. She is the co-creator and lead singer of Lulu Lewis & creator of all things at Darling Black. She co-curates & hosts Salon Lulu which is a New York based multidisciplinary performance series. She is also a cast member of the classic New York film Metropolitan.

Suzi Ronson is stylist, writer, musician and the woman who helped shape one of the most iconic eras in music first by co-creating David Bowie's groundbreaking look for Ziggy Stardust. Her memoir Me and Mr. Jones describes this along with the wild & interesting journey she shared as a part of the core group of people who propelled Bowie & themselves into history without expecting it.

Suzi and I spoke about these times, her career, life with her husband Mick Ronson and the aftermath of the Spiders from Mars ending. 

This episode is unvarnished and human as we like to keep Radar. Bowie was no saint but, we all love him, including Suzi, who tells her tales of these times from a deeply clear eyed place. 

ICYDNK: Dylan Hundley is an artist & performer. She is the co-creator and lead singer of Lulu Lewis & creator of all things at Darling Black. She co-curates & hosts Salon Lulu which is a New York based multidisciplinary performance series. She is also a cast member of the classic New York film Metropolitan.

I recently spoke with producer William Garrett. William is probably best known for his work as lead producer of Spotify Singles where artists re-recorded one of their original songs alongside a cover of their choice. Over the course of this project, he recorded an amazing array of artists. The list is wild. I’ll just shout out some of my favorites because it would be too lengthy to list 750 of them.

Yo la Tengo, Jack White, Idles, The Hives, Orville Peck, Toots and the Maytals, Yo-Yo Ma, Muse, Elton John, Lily Allen, Florence + The Machine, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem…you get the idea.

Before all that he was roaming around studios in NYC & Boston working on early Sugar Hill Gang, Afika Baambaatta and multiple albums with John Cale. We talk about ALL this. 

Recently, he worked with Jon Batiste on the soundtrack to the movie Saturday Night, and the Beethoven Blues album. Just completed an album with the Shedrick Mitchell Trio and he’s doing a song with Amber Rubarth, Sara Bareilles and Celisse. Just started a new album with Bandits on the Run, recording in a house in the Catskills, building a studio there from scratch. 

TUNE IN!

ICKDNK: Dylan Hundley is an artist & performer. She is the co-creator and lead singer of Lulu Lewis & creator of all things at Darling Black. She co-curates & hosts Salon Lulu which is a New York based multidisciplinary performance series. She is also a cast member of the classic New York film Metropolitan.

Mona Kayhan is the owner of The Bridge, a large room recording studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A stunning space devoted to making exceptional recordings in a manner that has become less common and is upholding the tradition of sonic excellence. The new tradition that should also be celebrated here is that this space is a woman-owned commercial recording studio.

Mona and I talked about her training as a classical pianist, making field recordings of traditional music in West Africa with Griot masters, working at indie labels, starting the Electronic Music School at the forefront of Dubstep, running stages at Lollapalooza & Austin City Limits and her deep love of artists & making them heard.

Dylan Hundley is an artist & performer. She is the co-creator and lead singer of Lulu Lewis & creator of all things at Darling Black. She co-curates & hosts Salon Lulu which is a New York based multidisciplinary performance series. She is also a cast member of the classic New York film Metropolitan.

Andi Harriman is a NY based DJ, producer, music journalist, and the boss of the party / label, SYNTHICIDE, which promotes live and DJ events all over NYC. She is the author of Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace, the worldwide compendium of post-punk and goth in the 1980’s. She is also an EBM artist.

We recently spoke about her upbringing in a Pentacostal family in Appalachia, how she first discovered 80’s Goth subculture, our shared love of Depeche Mode and her unending energy to create environments that support lovers of darker & synth driven sounds from multiple genres with no barriers. We both agree that there should be more women everywhere.

I really love everything that Andi makes & think she has an amazing story. I suggest heading over to Synthicide on Instagram where you can keep track of the events. You can find Andi’s page @andi80’s which has links to her music and piles of great stuff including vinyl over on Bandcamp on the Synthicide page.

Dylan Hundley is an artist & performer. She is the co-creator and lead singer of Lulu Lewis & creator of all things at Darling Black. She co-curates & hosts Salon Lulu which is a New York based multidisciplinary performance series. She is also a cast member of the classic New York film Metropolitan.