Life Harvester Radio (formerly Radio Harvester)

This month on the podcast we sit down with Gina Favano of Come Holy Spirit to talk about growing up in South Philly, discovering she was adopted, moving to the Misfits home town, driving around the country like a maniac, the Sopranos, chronic illness, free jazz, sign painting, being a lifer freak. Gina is so cool and such an inspiration and I feel so lucky to be friends with her. Hope you enjoy listening to this conversation as much as I enjoyed having it. For more information about Life Harvester Radio visit http://www.colinhagendorf.com/audio. If you enjoyed this episode please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen.

This month I sat down with my old friend Maggie to talk about growing up in Queens, discovering punk through TRL, dealing with grief through an artistic practice, parenting, and a bunch more. She is such a delightful person and I'm so glad to know her and I can't wait for you to hear this conversation. The Jamie we talk about throughout the episode is Jamie Ewing from Bent Outta Shape. As mentioned in the outro, here's something I wrote a year after Jamie died. It includes a link to download a zip file of most of their recordings if you wanna check that out. And if you like it, maybe buy some of the records. There's links for that as well. And as promised in the intro, here's the info about my newsletter Life Harvester. For more information about Life Harvester Radio visit http://www.colinhagendorf.com/audio. If you enjoyed this episode please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen.

This month I sit down with my old friend Tamara Santibañez to talk about growing up in Athens, GA, getting into punk, discovering her queerness, getting into tattooing, connecting with Chicanx culture, being an artist, prison abolition work, running a publishing house. The conversation goes a lot of places, but I think it's a really good one, so please give it a listen! Also don't forget to subscribe to Life Harvester, my monthly email newsletter! Thank you! For more information about Life Harvester Radio visit http://www.colinhagendorf.com/audio. If you enjoyed this episode please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen.

WHATS UP this month I talked to my best friend, artist and freakazoid Caroline Paquita, about growing up in Miami, getting into woo woo spirituality and health practices, running her publishing house Pegacorn Press, connecting with queer elders, and MORRRRE. This is a long one but we really packed it in. Also here is the newsletter I mentioned in the intro. Thumbnail pic borrowed from Caroline's instagram. For more information about Life Harvester Radio visit http://www.colinhagendorf.com/audio. If you enjoyed this episode please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen.

This month I sit down with one of my oldest and dearest friends Mya Spalter to talk about her new book Enchantments: A Modern Witch's Guide to Self-Possession. We also discuss our high school literary magazine, spellcasting etiquette, whether or not we'd want to be psychic, The Game ft. 50 Cent's "Hate It Or Love It," and more. TUNE IN and the BUY MYA'S BOOK. For more information about Life Harvester Radio visit http://www.colinhagendorf.com/audio. If you enjoyed this episode please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen.

Bryony was courteous enough to wake up early on tour to sit with me in my office and talk shit while we were both too tired and drinking coffee. We talked about the barriers of entry--social, physical, emotional--for women getting into underground music, 90s street punk in NYC vs South Wales, the Beatles, the joy of discovery vs the urge to pretend you already know everything, the drive to create, the generative power of just talking to your friends, internet CANCELLED culture. Also my cat meows and we gush a bunch about being friends which is nice. Buy the BB & the Blips record cause it fuckin rips and check out some of Bryony's writing on her website. For more information about Life Harvester Radio visit http://www.colinhagendorf.com/audio. If you enjoyed this episode please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen.

WHAT'S GOOD welcome back to Radio Harvester after we had to take June off cause I had LYME DISEASE (oy vey) !!! Very excited for this month's guest, Madeleine Campbell, who runs Accessible Recording and does the zine Women In Sound. We talked about growing up in The Triangle, the parallels between punk/hardcore and modern avant garde composers, getting into recording, doing zines, and THE LUNACHICKS (mostly I talked about the Lunachicks, tbh). This interview rules and you should definitely listen.  For more information about Life Harvester Radio visit http://www.colinhagendorf.com/audio. If you enjoyed this episode please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen.

Me and Mark sat down at his art gallery, Mudd Guts (http://muddguts.com), and talked about the suburbs being weird, getting into graffiti, getting into tattooing and opening his own shop (http://www.rosetattoonyc.com), sobriety in adulthood, anonymity at the level of press radio and film, being a "wretched flesh formation," and more. Please enjoy. I don't know why my outro sounds so bad but it's like the last two minutes of the damn thing, suck it up. For more information about Life Harvester Radio visit http://www.colinhagendorf.com/audio. If you enjoyed this episode please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen.

What's good! Radio Harvester is back and we're starting Season 3 strong with a longer cut of a 2015 conversation I had with Brontez Purnell, because my girl won a MOTHERFUCKING WHITING AWARD and we're all very proud of him. This conversation is a little rambly but I think Brontez is so charming I didn't edit out too many of his ADD ass tangents. We talk about writing books, artistic practice, dance, being a multi-disciplinary multimedia queen in a digital age, garage rock as a haven for boring white boys, and more. I don't know if Brontez got a website but if he does I can't find it so just check out his nasty instagram or read about him in Vanity Fair. https://www.instagram.com/brontezpurnell/ https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/03/whiting-award-ceremony-winners-2018 For more information about Life Harvester Radio visit http://www.colinhagendorf.com/audio. If you enjoyed this episode please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen.

This month's interview is with John & Megan from Street Eaters! This is the first extended cut of an older, shorter podcast. I intended to put it out a few weeks earlier so it would be out while they were still on tour, supporting their new record The Envoy out soon on their label Nervous Intent Records but I fucked up and it's too late and they're home now. What are you gonna do! I think John and Megan are both really cool, smart people and I'm very happy to have spoken to them. Also this interview took place at Carmine's Original on Norman Ave in Greenpoint! What a place, one of my historic favorites. RIP. Also my email address is sliceharvester at gmail, in case you needed to know. For more information about Life Harvester Radio visit http://www.colinhagendorf.com/audio. If you enjoyed this episode please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen.

This month's guest Faiza Kracheni—singer of Bondage and Body Pressure, coordinator at Austin School of Film, all around cool & stylish gal about town—talks about getting into hardcore as a delinquent teen in Austin, TX; being a brown woman in punk; the grim reality of punk/hardcore message board culture; dudes trying to shame you for wanting to look fly on tour; etc. Plus I earnestly apologize for two different things in the intro and disingenuously apologize for one thing at the end. For more information about Life Harvester Radio visit http://www.colinhagendorf.com/audio. If you enjoyed this episode please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen.

This podcast almost broke my computer! I just got it out of the shop and the first thing I did was make sure the episode was safe because lemme tell you, folks, this episode is a doozy. Firstly, it's the first episode not recorded in a pizzeria. Wanna know why? Because I live in Texas. Instead, I sat down with multidisciplinary multimedia artist Kenya (Robinson) at Taqueria Los Jaliscienses, one of the only Mexican restaurants in the world where the Jamaica isn't too sweet for me. We discussed growing up in Gainesville, her unconventional path to life as a working artist, navigating the art world as a black woman, why she puts parentheses around her name. Check out Kenya's radio shows on Clocktower FM and if you wanna know more, as she puts it "I'm googlable." This episode ended with a clip of the song I'm Sick by Bondage . For more information about Life Harvester Radio visit http://www.colinhagendorf.com/audio. If you enjoyed this episode please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen.

This month I sit down with Ted Leo and we talked about his punk roots in Jersey, why going to college is stupid, how to dress well as you get older, Skrewdriver records, touring, etc, etc etc. Ted is a handsome mensch who makes good music and you should listen to what he has to say! He has a new record he's kickstarting, so bless him with some cash. If you're wondering why we didn't talk about the current political climate it's because this interview happened a long ass time ago! Luckily, Ted was on This Week In Atrocity last week talking about the artist's place in the current political climate and it's a great convo, so if you can't get enough of the man TL, listen to that. For more information about Life Harvester Radio visit http://www.colinhagendorf.com/audio. If you enjoyed this episode please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen.

RADIO HARVESTER IS BACK. After a year of nothing we've returned with a banger of an episode. This month's guest is Shannon Thompson, a punk rocker and a best friend to a best friend of mine. Shannon is one half of Nervous Nelly Records, which she runs with her partner Kale, she sings in Pandemix and plays drums in Long Gone. We talked about Connecticut, having parents who listen to punk music, and how hard writing is. This is the first episode in our new longer form and the debut of our new editor Pat Ganley who will be helping me from here on out and I couldn't be more excited! For more information about Life Harvester Radio visit http://www.colinhagendorf.com/audio. If you enjoyed this episode please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen.

This month on the podcast I read an excerpt from my book, Slice Harvester: A Memoir In Pizza, which comes out on August 11th, 2015 on Simon & Schuster. Buy that shit please.books.simonandschuster.com/Slice-Harve…81476705880 For more information about Life Harvester Radio visit http://www.colinhagendorf.com/audio. If you enjoyed this episode please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen.

Brontez Purnell (of Younger Lovers, Gravy Train!!!, The Brontez Purnell Dance Company, author of Fag School and co-author of The Cruising Diaries with Janelle Hessig) talks to Colin about growing up queer and black in the Deep South, finding punk, his familial history in Oakland, studying and performing dance as an extension of punk performance plus talks mad shit on white garage rock douchebags and everyone else from Alabama. For more information about Life Harvester Radio visit http://www.colinhagendorf.com/audio. If you enjoyed this episode please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen.

This month I sat down with Osa Atoe of Shotgun Seamstress fanzine! She is so cool and smart and it was really cool to hang out with her. We talk about Shotgun Seamstress, Osa's zine "by, for, and about black punks," and the complicated, sometimes conflicted relationship between Osa's black identity and her punk identity. It's not all somber or serious! We laugh a bunch and it's a really complex and enlightening conversation. Check out Osa's web presence at: http://shotgunseamstress.blogspot.com For more information about Life Harvester Radio visit http://www.colinhagendorf.com/audio. If you enjoyed this episode please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen.

This month I sat down with Freddy Alva who runs Wardance Records to talk about the history of ABC No Rio and the climate of the hardcore scene in NYC when Freddy and some of his friends decided to start putting on shows there every Saturday. These shows still happen today, though Freddy and his crew are All Grown Up and it's a different gang of kids involved. Now Freddy's label Wardance Records (wardancerecords.bigcartel.com) has been reissuing some of the coolest releases from Back In The Day. Check it out! For more information about Life Harvester Radio visit http://www.colinhagendorf.com/audio. If you enjoyed this episode please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen.

This month I sat down with my hero Tom Scharpling of the Best Show. I'm just gonna let this interview speak for itself. If you're unfamiliar with Tom's work, head to http://www.thebestshow.net and check it out. He's a force of nature, this guy. For more information about Life Harvester Radio visit http://www.colinhagendorf.com/audio. If you enjoyed this episode please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen.

I've known Cindy Crabb for about ten years but she's been doing zines for way longer than that. We talk about her trajectory from being a weirdo teen in Minneapolis who was curious about punks but didn't quite know where she fit to her decision to losing faith in everything and moving to Portland to finally deciding to "access the rage" and be a punk in the Bay. Doris is one of the most important zines. If you've read it you know that, but if you haven't, check it out at: http://www.dorisdorisdoris.com For more information about Life Harvester Radio visit http://www.colinhagendorf.com/audio. If you enjoyed this episode please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen.