Across the Margin: The Podcast
Episodes
Episode 226: Plan C For Civilization with Ben Kalina
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with award-winning director and producer Ben Kalina, whose work centers on the c...
Episode 225: You're No Island with Andrew Daly Frank
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with singer-songwriter and guitarist Andrew Daly Frank. Andrew is an inimitable ...
Episode 224: The 90s Jam Band Explosion with Mike Ayers
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with author and seasoned music and culture journalist, Mike Ayers. Mike has had ...
Episode 223: Keep The Line Open with Joe Alterman and Mocean Worker
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with bassist/producer Mocean Worker (aka Adam Dorn) and pianist/composer Joe Alt...
Episode 222: Organize or Burn with Fabian Holt
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with Fabian Holt, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication an...
Episode 221: The Song That Changed Our Lives with Rick Korn
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with film and TV producer, writer, and director Rick Korn. Rick is the co-founde...
Episode 220: Jenna Nicholls β The Commuter
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with singer-songwriter Jenna Nicholls. Hailing from the small town of Irwin, PA ...
Episode 219: Orcutt Shelley Miller with Bill Orcutt
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with guitarist and composer Bill Orcutt. Bill is one of experimental music's mos...
Episode 218: A Hat Upon The Bed with Charlie Kaplan
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with Brooklyn- based independent singer and songwriter Charlie Kaplan. Charlie h...
Episode 217: Loud and Clear with Brian Anderson
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with Brian Anderson, a Webby Award-winning senior features editor, writer, and p...
Episode 216: That Book is Dangerous with Adam Szetela
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with Adam Szetela, who earned his Ph.D. in English in the Department of Literatu...
Re-release β Episode 184: Holy American Burnout! with Sean Enfield
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with Sean Enfield, an essayist, poet, bassist, and educator from Dallas, TX. Curr...
Re-release β Episode 167: The Age of Insurrection with David Neiwert
31 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with journalist, author, and an acknowledged expert in American right-wing e...
Episode 215: Brittany Davis' Black Thunder
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with Seattle-based multi-instrumentalist singer, songwriter, and soul innovator ...
Episode 214: Magnifier with Mason Jennings
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with acclaimed singer-songwriter Mason Jennings. Mason is a Minnesota-based arti...
Episode 213: It's All Gonna Break with Stephen Chung
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with Stephen Chung, an award-winning cinematographer with well over twenty years...
Episode 212: Songs of Black Folk with Haley Watson & Justin Emeka
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with the directors of Songs of Black Folk, Haley Watson & Justin Emeka. Song...
Episode 211: Copaganda with Alec Karakatsanis
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with Alec Karakatsanis. Alec is the Founder and Executive Director of Civil Righ...
Episode 210: Count Me In with Mark Lo
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with Mark Lo. Mark has worked on films and TV across many genres for over twenty...
Episode 209: The Untended with Mattea Kramer
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with Mattea Kramer, a writer who comprehensively explores weighty ideas about dr...
Episode 208: Riding with the Ghost (Jason Molina) w/ Erin Osmon
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with Erin Osmon, an award-winning, Los Angeles-based music journalist, critic, a...
Episode 207: Andy Cush's Domestic Drafts
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with Brooklyn-based musician and Garcia Peoples bassist/vocalist Andy Cush. Cush...
Episode 206: Andy Frasco's Growing Pains
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with musician and bandleader Andy Frasco. Frasco, celebrated for his good time s...
Episode 205: Forged By Fire with Lee Klinger
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with Lee Klinger, Ph.D., an Independent Scientist and Consultant in Big Sur...
Episode 204: Waiting For Robots with Antonio A. Casilli
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with Antonio A. Casilli, professor of sociology at the Institut Polytechnique de...
Episode 203: Planetwalker with Dominic and Nadia Gill
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with directors Dominic and Nadia Gill. Born in Oxford, United Kingdom, and educa...
Episode 202: The Chronicles of Doom with S.H. Fernando Jr.
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an with interview Sarath "SkIZ" Fernando, a former music critic, who has written for The New ...
Episode 201: We The Poisoned with Jordan Chariton
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with Jordan Chariton, an independent investigative reporter known for reporting ...
Episode 200: All Species Parade with Jenny Scheinman
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with acclaimed violinist and composer Jenny Scheinman. Scheinman has produced se...
Episode 199: The American Question with James Kicklighter & Guy Tal Seemann
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with director James Kicklighter and political analyst / producer Guy Tal Seemann...
Episode 198: UNCIVILISED with Subhadra Das
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with Subhadra Das who specializes in the history and philosophy of science, part...
Episode 197: Very Fine People with A.R. Moxon
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with A.R. Moxon, author of The Revisionaries, a genre-bending debut novel that T...
Episode 196: Seawind of Battery with Mike Horn & Jarrod Annis
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast presents an interview with New York City based musician Mike Horn, who helms the experimental folk pro...
Episode 195: Lonesome Highway with Rainy Eyes
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast presents an interview with singer / songwriter Irena Eide who goes by the stagename Rainy Eyes. A Norw...
Episode 194: When Houston Had The Blues with Alan Swyer
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast presents an interview with Alan Swyer, an award-winning filmmaker whose recent documentaries have deal...
Episode 193: The Language of Climate Politics with Genevieve Guenther
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with Dr. Genevieve Guenther, a former Renaissance scholar who turned to climate ...
Episode 192: After The Party with Leslie Mendelson
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Leslie Mendelson. Modeling her music after...
Episode 191: Murder Ballads with Santi Elijah Holley
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with journalist and essayist Santi Elijah Holley who covers music, books, cultur...
Episode 190: Your Wild and Precious Life with Liz Jensen
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast presents an interview with novelist and activist Liz Jensen, Lizβs critically-acclaimed work spans b...
Episode 189: How Coppola Became Cage with Zach Schonfeld
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with Zach Schonfeld, a freelance writer, journalist, and critic based in New...
Episode 188: This Is Hardcore with Jane Savidge
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with the author of the 33 β book dedicated to the legendary Britpop band Pulpβ...
Episode 187: Ahead of the Curve with Jen Rainin and Rivkah Beth Medow
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with Jen Rainin and Rivkah Beth Medow, co-directors of the critica...
Episode 186: She's a Badass with Katherine Yeske Taylor
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with music journalist and author Katherine Yeske Taylor. Taylor began her career ...
Episode 185: California Dreaming with Noa Silver
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with author Noa Silver, who was born in Jerusalem, raised between Scotland and Ma...
Episode 183: The Last Repair Shop with Ben Proudfoot
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast presents an interview with Ben Proudfoot, a Los Angeles-based filmmaker most noted as the directo...
Episode 182: A Father's Promise with Rick Korn
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with Rick Korn, the founder of In Plain View Entertainment who is a film and TV p...
Episode 181: Brother Outsider with Nancy Kates
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with Nancy Kates, the acclaimed filmmaker behind the groundbreaking documentary, ...
Episode 180: Distant Sons with Tim Johnston
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with author Tim Johnston, author of the novels Descent, The Current, the story c...
Episode 179: The Black Angels with Maria Smilios
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with Maria Smilios, a New York City native who has a Master of Arts in religion a...
Episode 178: The Power Worshippers with Katherine Stewart
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with Katherine Stewart, an investigative reporter and author who has covered reli...
Episode 177: Failure To Protect with Jeremy Pion-Berlin
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast presents an interview with innovative film and documentary Director and Producer Jeremy Pion-Berlin. J...
Episode 176: The Moth Project with Peter Kiesewalter
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast presents an interview with Peter Kiesewalter, who is the NYC-based composer and producer behind the ne...
Episode 175: Rivers in Our Veins with Allison Miller
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast presents an interview with lauded drummer, composer, bandleader, and teacher Allison Miller. Miller is...
Episode 174: Body Count with Ben Apatoff
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with author Ben Apatoff, whose writing has appeared in Alternative Press, Loudwi...
Episode 173: Louis Michot's ReΜve du Troubadour
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast presents an interview with musician Louis Michot, best known as the fiddle player and lead-singer for ...
Episode 172: Jewish Space Lasers with Mike Rothschild
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with journalist, author, and conspiracy theory expert Mike Rothschild. Mike has ...
Episode 171: Mike Baggetta & mssv's Human Reaction
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast presents an interview with musician Mike Baggetta, one third of the experimental rock/punk band Main S...
Episode 170 : To Catch A Killer With Doug Greco
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with author and political organizer Doug Greco. Greco has organized for ove...
Episode 169: The Beggar with Michael Gira (Swans)
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, author, and artist Michael Gira. ...
Episode 168: A House Made of Splinters with Simon Lereng Wilmont
20 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with director Simon Lereng Wilmont. Simonβs first feature documentary film, The...
Episode 166: Americonned with Sean Claffey
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with director Sean Claffey who has more than 25 years in the film industry spanni...
Episode 165: Scream of My Blood with Gogol Bordello's Eugene HΓΌtz
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with Ukrainian-born artist, songwriter, and frontman of International punk band G...
Episode 164: Healing Walls with Larissa Trinder
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast presents an interview with the senior director of the NYC Health + Hospitals Arts in Medicine program,...
Episode 163: Steven Bernstein & Sexmob's The Hard Way
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with musician trumpeter, slide trumpeter, arranger/composer and bandleader from N...
Episode 162: Madvillain's Madvillainy with Will Hagle
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with Los Angeles-based writer Will Hagle. Will is a co-host of the Connecting The...
Episode 161: Shielded with Joanna Schwartz
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast features an interview with Joanna Schwartz, a professor of law at UCLA, where she teaches civil procedu...
Episode 160: Future Sea with Deborah Rowan Wright
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast features an interview with Deborah Rowan Wright, an independent researcher, ocean advocate, and marine-...
Episode 159: Mike Dillon & Punkadelick's Inflorescence
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast presents an interview with prolific percussionist, vibraphonist, bandleader, and vocalist Mike Dillon....
Episode 158: Sentenced with Connor Martin & Tony Kriz
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast features an interview with Director Connor Martin and Executive Producer Tony Kriz, part of the team be...
Episode 157: To Pimp A Butterfly with Sequoia Maner
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with Sequoia Maner, Assistant Professor of English at Spelman College. She is aut...
Episode 156: The First Step with Louis L. Reed & Brandon Kramer
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast features an interview with Louis L. Reed who organized a national grassroots network of refor...
Episode 155: The Strangest Memoir You Will Ever Read with Howard Bloom
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast features an interview with prolific author and renowned scientist and thinker Howard Bloom, who was als...
Episode 154: William J. Carl's Assassin's Manuscript
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast features an interview with William J. Carl (PhD), a Greek scholar, screenwriter and playwright, fo...
Episode 153: Migration and Health with Catherine K. Ettman
18 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
his episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast features an interview with Catherine K. Ettman, the chief of staff and director of strategic initiatives...
Episode 152: LIVE from Love Velma with David Goodwillie
14 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast presents an interview with novelist David Goodwillie about his book Kings County. Goodw...
Episode 151: Trees β From Root To Leaf with Paul Smith
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with Dr. Paul Smith, who serves as the secretary-general of Botanic Gardens Conse...
Episode 150: Gratitude β A Conspiracy of Goodness Simulcast with Dr. Lynda Ulrich
23 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast finds our host, Michael Shields, in conversation with Dr. Lynda Ulrich, founder of the Goodness Exchang...
Episode 149: Pearl Jam's Long Road with Steven Hyden
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast, host Michael Shields interviews music critic and journalist Steven Hyden, the author of This Isnβ...
Episode 148: Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles with Alex Harvey
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with the author of Song Noir: Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles, Alex Harve...
Episode 147: The Border Within with Tara Watson & Kalee Thompson
07 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with Tara Watson, professor of economics at Williams College and a co-editor of t...
Episode 146: Harvardβs Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science with Patrick L. Schmidt
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with the author of Harvardβs Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science (The Rise and Fa...
Episode 145: Chris Forsyth's Evolution Here We Come
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with musician Chris Forsyth. It isn't hyperbole to describe Chris as one of rockβ...
Episode 144: Kenny Roby's Kenny Roby
09 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with Woodstock, New York via North Carolina singer-songwriter Kenny Roby. Roby is...
Episode 143: The National's Boxer with Ryan Pinkard
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with author Ryan Pinkard, a music journalist from Denver, Colorado. Pinkard is th...
Episode 142: From The Hood to The Holler with Pat McGee
18 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with Pat McGee, a documentary director in both film and television who works to u...
Episode 141: Stupid Don't Get Tired with Alonzo Bodden
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with comedian Alonzo Bodden who has been making people laugh for over twenty year...
Episode 140: Asking For a Friend with Joel Cummins
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with musician and founding member/keyboardist for the progressive rock band Umphr...
Episode 139: The Storm Is Upon Us with Mike Rothschild
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast features an interview with journalist, published author, and the foremost expert in this ever-changing ...
Episode 138: Beautiful Dreamer with Philip Watson
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with journalist and author Philip Watson. Philip worked for a number of years at ...
Episode 137: Marco Benevento's Benevento
27 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with pianist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer, who has be...
Episode 136: My Fourth Time, We Drowned with Sally Hayden
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast features an interview with award-winning journalist and photographer currently focused on migratio...
Episode 135: The 20th Anniversary of Personal Journals with Sage Francis
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with independent underground rapper Sage Francis, widely considered one of our ge...
Episode 134: Get a Job with Robert Walter
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with organ, keyboard, and synth extraordinaire Robert Walter, a founder member of...
Episode 133: Fight Like Hell with Kim Kelly
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with the author of Fight Like Hell : The Untold History of American Labor, Kim Ke...
Episode 132: Stuart Bogie's Prophets in the City
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, and music producer Stuart Bogie. ...
Episode 131: Black In White Space with Elijah Anderson
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast host Michael Shields interviews Elijah Anderson, the Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African...
Episode 130: Democracy In The Time Of Coronavirus with Danielle Allen
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast host Michael Shields interviews Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard...
Episode 129: Ugly Beauty with Phil Freeman
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with Phil Freeman, a renowned music journalist specializing in jazz and metal. He...
Episode 128: Scott Metzger's Too Close To Reason
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with guitarist Scott Metzger, a musician who has spent the past decade earning a ...
Episode 127: American Exceptionalism with Ian Tyrrell
12 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with Ian Tyrrell, emeritus professor of history at the University of New South Wa...