Special// Audience with V. Vale hosted by Beatie Wolfe & Aaron Rose

An audience with Counterculture Godfather & Punk Publisher V. Vale hosted by Beatie Wolfe and Aaron Rose on Sunday April 16th at The Aster, Los Angeles.

Listen to this OJ special x LA event celebrating the life and work of one of this world’s true originals: RE/Search founder V. Vale – described as the first (and last!) punk publisher! After launching San Francisco’s first punk zine Search & Destroy in 1977 with $100 each from Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Vale founded RE/Search in 1980 for his other cultural-anthropological explorations including Industrial music, the writings of J.G. Ballard and William S. Burroughs, feminism, “Incredibly Strange” filmmaking and so much more. A cornerstone of the counterculture movement, Vale’s influence remains both all-pervasive and yet hidden in plain sight.

This event includes a conversation between Vale, Aaron Rose and Beatie Wolfe; a live DJ set from Money Mark on tape cassettes; a reading of Vale’s cat haikus and “Goals for Life” and a live performance from Vale and Marian.

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Verb: Punk Publisher V. Vale

Verb: Beatie Wolfe interviews 70s punk publisher and researcher V. Vale about his life documenting the underground and "countercultural continuum". Listen to this show that takes you from foster homes to founding San Francisco's first zine Search & Destroy and publishing house RE/SEARCH via the power of verbs.

Orange Juice for the Ears with “musical weirdo and visionary” (Vice) Beatie Wolfe explores the power of music across Space, Science, Art, Health, Film & Technology by talking to the leading luminaries in each field from Nobel Prize winners to multi-platinum producers and hearing the music that has most impacted them, their “Orange Juice for the Ears”. Beatie Wolfe is an artist who has beamed her music into space, been appointed a UN Women role model for innovation, and held an acclaimed solo exhibition at the V&A Museum.

V. Vale's Orange Juice for the Ears
* First song that imprinted? “Sh-Boom” by The Chords
* First album that shaped who you are? “Blowing in the Wind” by Peter, Paul & Mary - from In The Wind
* The music you would send into Space? “The In Sound from Way Out!” by Perrey and Kingsley
* The song you would have at your memorial? “Corona” by V. Vale
* The album you would pass onto the next generation? Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 by Toscanini

This show first aired live on dublab radio. The podcast was mastered by Dean Hovey. For rights reasons, the music in this podcast version is shorter than in the original broadcast.

Connected via Virginia Boston, author of Punk Rock