The Lydian Spin

Episode 352 Beirut Slump's Bobby Swope AKA Bobby Berkowitz

May 31, 2026

Robert “Bobby” Swope belonged to a talented cadre of avant-garde visionaries—among them Arto Lindsay, Connie Burg, Mark Cunningham, and Gordon Stevenson—who first crossed paths as students at Florida's Eckerd College in the mid-1970s. This collective moved to New York City in 1977, where they formed the...

Episode 351 Short Tour Special

May 24, 2026

Lydia and Tim are on a whirlwind tour right now, hitting stages in Brazil, Australia, Japan, and Europe! The heavy travel and intense performance schedule have made pinning them down for an interview tough, but this week we've got the scoop on exactly where you can see them live. If they are coming to your city, you...

Episode 350 Writer Zoe Hansen

May 15, 2026

In this episode returning to The Lydian Spin is writer and artist Zoe Hansen. Zoe is a writer, video artist, and longtime friend of the podcast. On this episode she is here to celebrate a big milestone. Her brand new memoir, Going Down in Gotham, is officially out from Far West Press. It is an amazing, firsthand look...

Episode 349 Genre Is Death

May 8, 2026

Genre Is Death, a limitation-destroying noise band formed by Ty Varesi (guitar, vox) and Tayler Lee (bass, vox), release their debut album, Attractive People out May 1 2026 on In The Red Records.

Their sound is abrasive yet melodic, using heavy distortion, dissonant riffs, and reverberating vocals to create music that...

Episode 348 Lorin Benedict

May 1, 2026

Lorin Benedict is a California-based improvising vocalist (scat singer, essentially), who operates in the fields of jazz and jazz-adjacent music. In addition, he works as a theoretical and computational applied physicist where his focus is on understanding the properties of materials in extreme conditions of pressure...