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Mike Clark is guitarist with the Los Angeles-based band Final Gravity. Formed in 2007, the quartet adds a hard edged sound to a progressive rock base that comes to the fore on the 2024 effort Stormchaser.

Brock Geiger has appeared on nearly 50 albums in his career, highlighting his role as both an attentive collaborator and musical chameleon. Geiger’s new release moves across a broad range of musical settings that reveal the full depth of their charms with each repeated listen.

This is a month when readers of all ages celebrate the joy and magic of children’s literature, and especially books written for that 8- to 12-year age group. We talking about the appeal of middle-grade books and share some recommendations. Plus we talk about our current reads.

Beth Golay recently spoke with Evie Wyld about her novel, 'The Echoes,' which touches on the indigenous Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history in Australia.

We celebrate our 200th episode (!) by taking a trip back in time to look at some words that popped up 200 years ago.

Stories I Only Tell My Friends is the latest album from Chicago-based singer-songwriter and guitarist Nikki O’Neill.

Beth Golay recently spoke with Karen Russell about where her novel "The Antidote" began for her.

Put on your best evening wear, we're getting fancy! Or maybe we're just getting stuffy. This week we're looking at language that's grammatically correct, but that sounds like you're just trying to impress.

Luther Russell is a singer-songwriter and producer based in Los Angeles, California. Already a dedicated writer and musician in his teens, he formed the band The Bootheels, which featured Jakob Dylan (The Wallflowers) and Aaron A. Brooks (Moby, A.J. Croce), before founding The Freewheelers, which released three albums between 1991 and 1996.

Vicki Randle is a multi-instrumentalist based in Oakland, California who has performed and/or recorded with Aretha Franklin, Mavis Staples, Wayne Shorter, Todd Rundgren, Laura Nyro, and Herbie Hancock among others.