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Scene ReportSheer Mag on Signing to Jack White's Record Label, Creed Stealing Their Logo, and Their Bad Pitchfork ReviewWe spoke to Sheer Mag from Philadelphia about scenes around the world including:* Tina stealing Dan Deacon’s glasses* Crazy Spirit beating up a member of their old band on New Year’s Day* The twisted legacy of Mummer’s Day* The South Philly DIY venue/house where they lived, Nut House* Pitchfork’s 6.7 review of Playing Favorites* Irish car bombs in Las Vegas* Touring Japan* Meeting Billy Joe Armstrong, John Waters, Mavis Staples, Adam Lazar (Taking Back Sunday), Dead Moon, and Kendrick Lamar
2025-05-211h 43
Scene ReportLive From the Palestinian Land Day 2025 Protest in New York CityOn March 30, 2025, a few thousand New Yorkers marched from Union Square to Times Square. We spoke with organizers from the People's Forum, Palestinian Youth Movement, Jewish Voice for Peace and other participants in the streets of New York City. Topics included:1. The Meaning of Land Day2. Israel Breaking the Ceasefire3. Mahmoud Khalil4. Donald Trump & Elon Musk5. Being Jewish & Anti-Zionist6. The Student Encampments7. All Punks Free Palestine8. How to Sustain a Movement Against GenocideHost/Producer/Editor: Reed Dunlea
2025-04-0249 min
Scene ReportSarim Al-Rawi (Liquor Store, Prison) on the Brooklyn DIY Golden Era, Studying Terrorism, and Hillary Clinton Photo Ops with Iraqi ChildrenWe spoke with Sarim Al-Rawi -- front person of the cult garage punk band Liquor Store (2000s/2010s, New York/New Jersey), and crime blues jamrock band Prison (today, New York) -- about various scenes including: 1. Brooklyn DIY punk and indie heyday of the Pitchfork era 2. Brooklyn DIY punk and indie now3. New York’s shifting Arab-American neighborhoods4. grad school terrorism classes5. New York and New Jersey sanitation work6. New York Times columnists who know nothing about the Middle East...
2025-01-071h 35
Scene ReportAna Armengod on Exploring Her Indigenous and Basque Revolutionary Heritage in Film, Getting Deported, and Cuban Self-ImmolationOn this latest episode of SCENE REPORT we talk with Ana Armengod -- who also goes by Humanleather -- about her varied artistic practices: visual art, filmmaking, poetry and music. We speak about telling immigration stories in her experimental films, her own immigration and deportation story, exploring her family history through art, singing in Pittsburgh hardore punk band De Rodillas, and exploring a little-known women’s self-immolation protest movement in Cuba. Recorded in my kitchen on 5/31/24.Host, Producer & Editor: Reed DunleaExecutive Producer: Ash TynerTheme So...
2024-09-121h 35
Scene ReportTaqbir on Taking Her Mask Off, Rediscovering Morocco Through Music, and Touring America with HaramOn this latest episode of SCENE REPORT we talk with Nao -- vocalist of the Barcelona punk band Taqbir -- about starting Taqbir as a bedroom Covid project, the revolutionary spirit of signing in Darija (Moroccan Arabic), breaking the band’s anonymity, immigrating to Europe, and returning to Morocco through music. Recorded in Dan, Dane and Chase’s woodshop on 2/23/24 on the last night of Taqbir’s first U.S. tour (with Haram).Host, Producer & Editor: Reed DunleaEP: Ash TynerAssociate Producer: Dane Winkler
2024-04-191h 19
Scene ReportJosephine (of the Josephine Network) on Queer Rock, New York Jewish Grandmas, and Being Your Total Unhinged SelfJosephine is on a victorious rock n’ roll joy ride. For SCENE REPORT, we spoke about blurring the rock n’ roll and queer scenes, her timeless New York yenta ancestry, using art to manifest her transition, and channeling Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris all at once.Host, Producer & Editor: Reed DunleaExecutive Producer: Ash TynerAssociate Producer: Jason HalalTheme Song: Jesse Crawford Logo: Kyle Seely This is a public episode. If you would like to di...
2024-03-051h 13
Scene ReportFat Tony on Houston Texas Rap, Online Music Nerds and Being 90% African in AmericaOn this latest episode of SCENE REPORT, we talk with Fat Tony from Houston Texas about the legacy of Houston hip hop, being a DIY hustler across genre and scenes, and his family's African roots. Recorded in my kitchen on 10/20/23.Host, Producer & Editor: Reed DunleaExecutive Producer: Ash TynerTheme Song & Logo: Kyle Seely Thanks Tony This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit scenereportpodcast.substack...
2024-01-091h 18
Scene ReportJohnny Hummus on Palestine, False Hummus and Arab American PunkOn this introductory episode of SCENE REPORT, we talk with my Palestinian American brother Johnny Hummus about ending false hummus, metal/punk in New York and Florida, and the historic and modern struggles of his people. Recorded in my kitchen on 7/23/23 with a preface recorded on 12/4/23. Host, Producer & Editor: Reed DunleaExecutive Producer: Ash TynerAssociate Producer: Conor WilliamsTheme: Kyle Seely with Hart SeelyLogo: Kyle SeelyBanner: Elvis Metcalf with Miles Shelton & Ash Tyner
2023-12-061h 37
Scene ReportScene Report TrailerA new podcast from Reed Dunlea, formerly of "Protest & Survive." "Scene Report" explores counterculture artists and the communities that sustain their work. Dropping real soon. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit scenereportpodcast.substack.com
2023-12-0401 min
Scene Report'Don't Pick A Fight With Mother Earth, You're Not Going To Win.' Winona LaDuke on Indigenous Sovereignty, Land Back, and Fighting PipelinesWinona LaDuke is probably the most dedicated, smart and hilarious activist you will ever come across. She lives on the White Earth Indian Reservation in Northwestern Minnesota, with about 130,000 other Anishinaabe and Ojibwe people. Since founding the White Earth Land Recovery Project in 1989, and Honor the Earth in 1983, she’s been fighting to preserve the indigenous sovereignty and environmental integrity of her land and people there. She also notably ran for Vice President with Ralph Nader for the Green Party in 1996 and 2000. LaDuke and her collaborators in Minnesota just waged a years-long battle against the Line 3 pipeline, which Canadian en...
2022-03-1741 min
Scene Report'Black Is Nothing But Resilient.' The 83rd (of Sermon 3) on Direct Action and Cultural ResistanceThe 83rd, whose name is reclaimed from a Bushwick police precinct, is a record producer who runs a record label and media company called Sermon 3. "My biggest driving factor is pushing boundaries in art, music and possibilities; and also giving priority to people who deserve it, who a lot of times are the foundations of art, music, culture, that don't get the proper privy. When I look at my family, the Black community and all the things that we've done and all the things that go unwritten and uncovered, with Sermon 3 I wanted to cover deep roots in Mississippi...
2020-12-2355 min
Scene Report'Which Side Are You On?' Lorelei Ramirez on Resource Redistribution (and Comedy)Lorelei Ramirez is a comedian, artist, writer, and activist. Since the pandemic they have been working to build an organization called Helper's International, which distributes money, resources, and supplies to those who need it most. Their art and performance has been shown in venues across New York City and they've worked on television shows such as High Maintenance and Los Espookys. Their comedic work is absurd and sometimes grotesque, and they are currently hosting a weekly Twitch stream called "Art is Easy." This week, guest host and producer Sophia Steinert-Evoy spoke with Lorelei over Zoom about mutual aid, forming com...
2020-08-2124 min
Scene ReportCookie Hagendorf on Zines, Restorative Justice and Trans SupportCookie is a punk, zine maker, writer, podcaster, and restorative justice and trans support advocate based In Pittsburgh, PA. She is also my friend. I first met Cookie via their incredible fanzine about eating every slice of pizza in Manhattan, Slice Harvester, when I was a young punk living in New York City. In this episode we have different recollections of our first interaction, but either way, we've spent years collaborating and chilling since. Cookie was a member of the now-defunct Support New York, an anarchist collective that developed methods for facilitating community-based accountability processes around sexual violence. Cookie...
2020-06-221h 08
Scene ReportThe Uprising for Black LivesThis special episode of Protest & Survive is coming live from the streets of New York, in their own words. Recorded on Saturday June 6, 2020 at The March for Stolen Lives and Looted Dreams, hosted by Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour, including a performance by the Resistance Revival Chorus. The rally is followed by ambient field recordings from a march over the Brooklyn Bridge. Black Lives Matter. Justice for George, Breonna, Ahmaud, and all others who have died too soon. Change is coming. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers...
2020-06-091h 00
Scene ReportProtest & Survive Season 2 TrailerIt’s been over a year and ten episodes of Protest & Survive. In season one, we recounted fighting Proud Boys, learned what it takes to repeal a century-old racist law, saw the response to the Muslim Ban at JFK Airport, heard about the awful people effects of the drug war in the Philippines, reminisced on an Arabic-language punk band’s tour of Southeast Asia, and I got a tattoo. In Season 2, we’re going to keep talking to a lot of dedicated people that you’re probably not going to hear interviewed in too many other places. To all our list...
2020-05-1302 min
Scene ReportNader Haram on Touring Southeast Asia with his Arabic-Language Punk Band“This was the first time, and probably the last time this will ever happen. In Jakarta, the mic got taken from me, many f*****g times throughout the set," says Nader. "It gives me some hope to continue doing this. They took the mic and sang the songs in Arabic, and my heart was just melted. I couldn’t believe it.”New York City Arabic-language punk band Haram went on tour in Southeast Asia and Japan last summer. It was the first time Nader, who grew up Muslim in Yonkers with Lebanese refugee parents, got the chance...
2020-04-091h 36
Scene ReportTamara Santibañez Pt. 2 on Trauma-Aware Philosophy of Tattooing, and Gives Reed a TattooTamara Santibañez is a multidisciplinary artist, working in tattoos, visual arts, and publishing. We spoke to her on the last episode of P&S about her work with people in jail and prison. In this follow-up episode, we wanted to more explore an idea Tamara has been developing that we touched on in the last episode, her Trauma-Aware Philosophy of Tattooing. We figured the best way to do that was to record getting a tattoo from Tamara, and talk about how she applies this philosophy. You can find more about Tamara's work here, and view her tattoos here.
2020-02-2214 min
Scene ReportTamara Santibañez Pt. 1 on Teaching in Jail/Prison and TattooingTamara Santibañez is a multidisciplinary artist, working in tattoos, visual arts, and publishing. She also works with people in jail/prison and recently out, having taught drawing at Rikers Island and Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women, working with a reentry program in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and giving free tattoo cover ups to women who were tattooed during their criminal justice involvement. Tamara's tattoo work draws on West Coast Chicanx black and gray technique, while also incorporating the punk aesthetics of her life, resulting in a historic but deeply personal style. You can find more about her work here, an...
2019-10-2948 min
Scene ReportJessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli of "So Pretty" on Gender Deviant FilmJessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli is a filmmaker. She recently wrote, directed and starred in a feature titled "So Pretty," which is, according to Jessie, "a narrative-ish film following four to six young gender deviants in New York City as they nap and f**k and try to get by as best they can." The film is an adaptation, and translation, of a novel by gay German writer Ronald M. Schernikau, which originally was set in 1980s West Berlin. The worlds of queer housing and rave scenes overlap with mass protest in "So Pretty," as staged and real settings blend...
2019-09-0338 min
Scene ReportAJ Santos on Immigrating to America, Filipino Rights Organizing, and Filipino PunkAJ Santos is a punk. He grew up in the Philippines, playing in punk bands, running in gangs, and using drugs. People referred to him and his friends as “scums of society.” In 2013, AJ immigrated to the United States, where he built a new life for himself. He started some punk bands in New York, called Namatay Sa Ingay and Material Support. He also started organizing with Migrante International, a migrant rights organization that is part of the National Democratic Movement of the Philippines. With Migrante, AJ and other Filipino immigrants lobby the U.S. government and raise awareness abou...
2019-08-0540 min
Scene ReportUna Osato on Brown Ass Radical Burlesque and Anti-Zionist JewsUna Osato grew up in New York City in the 1980s, where art and protest were part of the fabric of daily life. Una found early success as a child performer, but her art later brought her outside of the mainstream, and into the world of radical burlesque. She’s a co-founder of brASS Burlesque (brown radical ass burlesque), a multi-disciplinary performance troupe from NYC. Una is active in the New York City chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace, where she draws inspiration from the lineage of internationalist anti-Zionist Jews to fight for Palestinian human rights. Una uses her ar...
2019-07-0132 min
Scene ReportRafael Shimunov on Guerilla Art at The Whitney and the JFK Airport Muslim Ban ProtestsRafael Shimunov is "just someone from Queens" who was born in Uzbekistan, and incorporates creative tactics into grassroots campaigns. Rafael is a board member of Jews for Racial & Economic Justice, and formerly with the Working Families Party and the Center for Constitutional Rights. In December 2018, Rafael guerilla-style installed his own painting on a wall in the Whitney Museum of American Art. The piece depicted a family running from teargas that was fired at the U.S./Mexico border. The action was in protest of The Whitney's Board of Trustees Vice Chairman and owner of Safariland, Warren Kanders. Art magazine H...
2019-06-0335 min
Scene ReportFrankie Decaiza Hutchinson on Discwoman, Gender and Race in Techno, and Repealing New York's Cabaret LawFrankie Decaiza Hutchinson is a New York by way of UK electronic music promoter and grassroots organizer. She is one third of Discwoman, a collective, booking agency, and event platform representing and showcasing female talent in the electronic music community, who have pushed the needle on gender representation in techno. Frankie was also an active member of the Dance Liberation Network, a group of New York nightlife advocates who helped push the city of New York to repeal the Cabaret Law. The Cabaret Law was a century-old law, enacted with a racist intent, which was weaponized against nightclubs that...
2019-05-0629 min
Scene ReportAlli Logout on Queer Black Film and Representation in PunkAlli Logout is a Texas-raised, NOLA-based punk musician (Special Interest, Lassie) and radical filmmaker (Lucid Noon, Sunset Blush). Alli works to increase the representation of their community in media, in addition to making the tools to create that media more accessible. Simply, Alli is creating their own world with the people they love. But we all know it isn't that simple. In episode one, we interviewed the promoter of the punk festival This Is Austin Not That Great. We conducted this interview for episode two during that fest, on the roof of a parking garage in downtown Austin, right after...
2019-04-0131 min
Scene ReportJuan-Carlos Silva on Fighting Proud Boys and Texas PunkJuan-Carlos Silva is an Austin Texas born and raised punk musician, concert promoter, and anti-racist agitator. He works hard to create radical spaces of music and resistance, and isn't afraid to bounce the Proud Boys from his side of the city. We talked with Juan Carlos after he wrapped up the third installment of his international DIY punk festival This Is Austin Not That Great, which he also performed at with his band Strutter. We spoke about the fest, the legacy of Texas punk, politics in Austin and Texas, electronic scooters, benefit concerts, confronting white nationalists, the police, and...
2019-02-2034 min