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Rjyan Kidwell, aka Cex, is often called the Jackie Robinson of Playing a Laptop on Stage at a Concert.&nbsp;His most recent album Shamaneater is available <a href="http://automationrecords.bandcamp.com/album/shamaneater" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;You can follow him on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/cexmang" target="_blank">here</a>.
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Rjyan Kidwell

Music

The Red Hot Chili Peppers Should Bring Back the Socks

Eric Slick is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist based in Nashville, Tennessee. He has performed and recorded with Dr. Dog, Taylor Swift, The War on Drugs, Waxahatchee, Kevin Morby, Ruston Kelly, Adrian Belew, Ween, and many others. Eric has released several studio albums, including 2024’s New Age Rage. In addition to his work as a recording artist, he composes music for film and advertising. He scored The Good Mother, starring Hilary Swank, which received an international theatrical release. He is also currently working on a documentary about legendary drummer Bernard Purdie.

Eric Slick

What Eric Slick (Dr. Dog, Lithuania) Learned About Writing Lyrics from Steely Dan

Joe Dante is a lifelong film buff who turned his obsession into a career. He got his start cutting trailers for Roger Corman and later directed the hit movie Gremlins, as well as Gremlins 2: The New Batch, for producer Steven Spielberg. His feature films include The Howling, Innerspace, Matinee, Small Soldiers, The ‘burbs, The Hole and the zom-com Burying the Ex. His TV directing work includes the HBO film The Second Civil War, the Masters of Horrors titles, episodes of Eerie, Indiana (which he helped create), CSI: NY, Hawaii 5-0 and Salem.

Joe Dante

For Ben York Jones, it’s all about character. As a screenwriter, his feature writing credits include the 2011 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Like Crazy, Breathe In and the forthcoming WWII drama Ashes in the Snow. As an actor he can be seen in the Emmy- and Cannes Lion-winning web series The Beauty Inside, the 2010 Sundance Competition film Douchebag, and the short film Safety. He currently lives in Los Angeles where he is picking cat hair off one of his many plain black T-shirts. (Photo by Tiffany Roohani)

Ben York Jones

Golden Globe winner Victor Levin has written for numerous TV shows, including Mad Men, The Larry Sanders Show, Dream On, and Mad About You, where he penned some of the show&#8217;s most memorable episodes and ran the show in its final two seasons. His screenwriting work includes Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!, Then She Found Me (co-written with Helen Hunt and Alice Arlen) and the U.S. remake of My Sassy Girl. His feature directorial, 5 to 7, a romance with comedy for grown-ups, opens on April 3 in New York and Los Angeles and then expands to other cities and countries.

Victor Levin

Film

Talkhouse Film Contributors Remember Anton Yelchin

Colin Meloy is the singer and songwriter for the band the Decemberists. He is the author of The Wildwood Chronicles, a series of illustrated novels for children. He lives in Portland, Oregon. He, despite what you may think, continues to slavishly adore Morrissey.
<a href="http://www.colinmeloy.com/" target="_blank">www.colinmeloy.com</a>
(photo credit: Autumn De Wilde)

Colin Meloy

Colin Meloy (the Decemberists) Shares a Snapshot Memory in Honor of The Queen is Dead

Best known for his sixteen years as songwriter-performer-producer with Tracey Thorn in multi-million-selling alt-pop UK duo Everything But the Girl (1984-2000), London-born Ben Watt is also a prize-nominated non-fiction writer, record label boss and DJ. In 2014, he returned to his earliest folk-jazz roots as a solo singer-songwriter with the award-winning album, Hendra, his first for thirty-one years. The follow-up Fever Dream was released in April 2016. He has also written two memoirs; the first, Patient (1996), was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, the most recent, Romany and Tom (2014), was long-listed for the UK’s premier non-fiction award, the Samuel Johnson Prize.
(Photo credit: Tom Sheehan)

Ben Watt

Ben Watt Explains How He Picked the Openers for His Upcoming Tour

Bree McKenna is a musician, writer, Libra and feminist witch living in Seattle. She splits her time playing bass in Tacocat, the Hardly Art punk pop band responsible for anti-street harassment anthem &#8220;Hey Girl&#8221; and celebratory menstruation surf-rock hit &#8220;Crimson Wave,&#8221; and in pregnancy-themed supergroup Childbirth, who write funny feminist punk songs gleefully commemorating questionable sexual decisions and skewering dudes who ask rude questions about scissoring. As a writer, McKenna&#8217;s work has appeared in She Shreds, Vice and Seattle alternative weekly the Stranger, notably satirizing music journalism misogyny in a &#8220;Men Who Rock!&#8221; issue and calling out punk scene sexism in her essay &#8220;Sexist Queers.&#8221; McKenna loves chihuahuas, essential oils, and spell-casting.
(Photo credit: Michael Levine)

Bree Mckenna

Bree McKenna (Tacocat, Childbirth) Points out the Sad Irony Inherent in the Attacks Against Brock Turner’s Friend

Esmé Patterson&#8217;s decadal musical career sprang from Colorado&#8217;s mountains when she co-founded Denver&#8217;s beloved indie-folk ensemble Paper Bird. After four acclaimed albums and perpetual touring, Patterson set a new course. In 2012, she wove local talents, including Nathaniel Rateliff, into her first powerful, ethereal solo release All Princes, I. Her 2014 release, Woman to Woman, rounded out previously one-dimensional females from popular songs to the praise of The New York Times, The Guardian and others. “Dearly Departed,” her hit collaboration with Shakey Graves, led to millions of streams, sold out shows nationwide, as well as performances on Conan and The Late Show With David Letterman. Patterson&#8217;s newest record, We Were Wild, was released on June 10, 2016.
(Photo credit: Daniel Topete)

Esmé Patterson

Esmé Patterson Plans to Celebrate the Swedish Heroes of the Stanford Rape Case on Stage

Chris Gethard is a comedian, actor, and author based out of New Jersey. He’s the host of the Beautiful/Anonymous podcast, the former host of the underground cult classic The Chris Gethard Show, and the writer and star of the HBO special Career Suicide. As an actor, Chris has been seen in television shows such as Space Force, The Office, Parks and Recreation, Broad City, Inside Amy Schumer, and a lot more. He’s been in films like Don’t Think Twice, The Other Guys, The Heat, Anchorman 2 and Ghostbusters. Chris is the author of three books. He’s had a number of pieces appear on This American Life. He also travels the country both with Beautiful/Anonymous and his stand-up comedy, performing to sold out crowds all over America and much of the rest of the English-speaking world.

Chris Gethard

UPDATED: Please Help Chris Gethard Find This Lost J Church Single

Hutch Harris was born in New York City, raised in Silicon Valley and has resided in Portland, Oregon for the past twenty years.  Harris founded and was the lead singer/songwriter of the Thermals. He is currently working on his first solo LP. Follow Harris on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/instantanxiety" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://twitter.com/thethermals&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1539364798634000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFoiS1M3sGWO60C3dnqFFla-DuGbw">here</a>.
(Photo Credit: Westin Glass)

Hutch Harris

The Ain’t Rights are All Right: Four Days in the Green Room

John Colpitts, aka Kid Millions is a drummer, composer, drum teacher and writer based in Queens, NY. He is best known for his work in the experimental rock band Oneida and his percussion group Man Forever. His latest album with Oneida, <a href="https://www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com/products/expensive-air" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Expensive Air</a>, is out now on Joyful Noise.

John Colpitts

John Colpitts (Oneida, Kid Millions) Failed at His First Attempt to Soundtrack a Film

Ryan Lindsey is the lead singer and guitarist of BRONCHO. BRONCHO’s 2016 album Double Vanity shows the band transforming the raw angst of their first record into a sound decidedly more layered and complex. What began as an ode to ramshackle, high-energy early punk has become something deeper, weirder and much more nuanced. The undercurrent of early 1980s punk is still there, but the Ramones pogo has been replaced more often by a kind of Love and Rockets-inspired, honeyed, cotton-mouthed drift.
(Photo credit: Jaret Ferratusco)

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