Audio/Podcasts

Fall of Autumn: Independent Publishing, Creative Resources & Distribution. Chicago, IL

Fall of Autumn's Alan Lastufka has bee hosting Zinesters Podcasts: Readings from Zines since December 2005. Interviews and readings are posted irregularly every week or two. Listen to Niku Arbabi read from her zine Ms Films DIY Guide to Film & Video. Listen to Joel Biel discuss his distro, Microcosm Publishing and other projects.

Marc Steiner Show, WYPR. Baltimore, MA

The Marc Steiner Show is WYPR's daily public affairs talk program.

Listen to the November 3, 2005 episode: The World of Zines in our Culture. Davida Gypsy Breir publisher of review zine Xerography Debt; Miriam DesHarnais, Zine Librarian at the Baltimore Public Library Zine Collection at the Cockeysville Branch and Benn Ray, co-owner of Atomic Books and former professor of cultural studies at Townes University. Guests discuss the importance of Xerography Debt and other zine review zines to help locate zines, the diverse content covered in zines and zine genres, the effect of the Internet on zine production as well as information on the zine collection at Baltimore Pubic Library.

Mediageek. Champaign-Urbana, IL

Media geek is a radio show/podcast, blog and zine "about grassroots and independent media, and the issues that affect our ability to create and use that media freely." Began in 2000 as a blog, the weekly mediageek radioshow first aired in 2002 and regularly includes zine readings and news. Archived radioshows date back to 2004 and may be browsed by date or searched by keyword.

Listen to the interview (April 16, 2004) with Adam Davis, zine librarian at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center Library & Archives. Davis discusses his library's zines and the difficulties libraries have with maintaining and creating zine collections.

ZineVox. Norristown, PA

"a podcast about zines or selfmade media, the people who create them, and the culture surrounding the DIY underground." Raequel author of Childlike Empress zine hosts this podcast began January 2006. The first issue (March 10, 2006) Distro-Mania & Microcosm Publishing 10th Anniversary includes zine news and zine interviews. Listen to guest interviewer Sister Diane of Craftypod interview Joel Biel of Microcosm Publishing. Biel discusses amongst other things, his distro, the zine scene in Portland and how the North American zine scene has changed over the last 10 years.