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Benny Bock is a musician from El Cerrito, California. He graduated from Berkeley High and Oberlin Conservatory. Currently, he is working as a pianist, producer, songwriter, arranger, and sound designer in Los Angeles.

Benny Bock

Nora Stanley is multi-instrumentalist composer, improviser, and songwriter based in Brooklyn who primarily works with saxophone, clarinet, and flute. Her latest record, Glass, is out now. 
(Photo Credit: Rachel Andes)

Nora Stanley

Music

Nora Stanley and Benny Bock Have Extreme Views on Banter

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Your favorite musicians, filmmakers, and other creative minds one-on-one. No moderator, no script, no typical questions. The Talkhouse Podcast offers unique insights into creative work from all genres and generations. <a href="https://pod.link/Talkhouse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Subscribe now</a>, and explore more illuminating shows on the <a href="https://talkhouse.com/category/podcast" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Talkhouse Podcast Network.</a>

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M.C. Taylor is the frontman and songwriter of Hiss Golden Messenger, whose most recent album, Heart Like a Levee, is out now. Hiss Golden Messenger’s Facebook page is <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HissGoldenMessenger" target="_blank">here</a> and its website is <a href="http://www.hissgoldenmessenger.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.
(Photo credit: Dan Huiting)

M.C. Taylor

Podcast

M.C. Taylor (Hiss Golden Messenger) Talks with Josh Kaufman (Bonny Light Horseman) on the Talkhouse Podcast

Beth B’s career has been characterized by work that challenges society’s conventions, and that focuses on social issues and human rights. Throughout her prolific career, B has produced over 29 films within the documentary, experimental, and narrative genres as well as having produced interdisciplinary work that has been shown in galleries and museums throughout the world.
(Photo Credit: Daniel R. Bright)

Beth B

Beth B and Jim Coleman Want to Transcend Pain

Aaron M Olson (aka Aaron MF Olson/Aaron M Fernandez Olson) is a Los Angeles based musician. He composes for film and television and his recording projects include L.A. Takedown, The Musical Tracing Ensemble, Mountain Brews, and other things. He performs live in these and many other groups including, but not limited to Richard Pictures, &#8220;L.A.&#8217;s most grateful Dead cover band.&#8221;
His record Songs Album II is out now on Country Thyme/Drag City.

Aaron MF Olson

Sometimes as a leader, sometimes as a sideman and collaborator; sometimes as an invisible musician but you&#8217;ve heard him: the chest-high bass drum thump, the tightly paired flight of guitars in odd harmony, the disorienting shift in time and texture that resolves itself into song. Chris Cohen has plied the inside and outside folds of pop musical possibility since at least 1978, when he first set infant drumstick to skin at the tender age of three, initiating decades of sonic experimentation across multiple bands and nearly a dozen recordings.
(Photo Credit: Kate Dollenmayer)

Chris Cohen

Chris Cohen and Aaron MF Olson Have Known Each Other for 20 Years

Holy Wave is a four-piece band from Austin, Texas. Their latest record, i’m DADA, is out now on Suicide Squeeze.

Holy Wave

Mood Board: Holy Wave’s i’m DADA

Tamara Yajia is an Argentine writer, comedian and former child star who is the author of the memoir <a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/cry-for-me-argentina-9781639733910/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cry for Me, Argentina</a>, which is out now in paperback through Bloomsbury. She has written for ClickHole, Funny Or Die, and several TV series, including Acapulco, This Fool and the upcoming Netflix animated series Strip Law. Tamara has performed on The Moth and was featured on NPR&#8217;s Fresh Air with Terry Gross. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and her dog, Odie.

Tamara Yajia

Film

Evita, Ballet and How I Became “The Girl Who Broke Her Pussy”

Nick Dawson talks with filmmakers, musicians and comedians whose work he loves, avoiding the mundane, predictable questions they&#8217;ve heard numerous times and instead asking substantive, thoughtful questions that get to the heart of who they are.

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Jana Naomi Smith is the writer-director behind the two-time Ambie and Tribeca Film Festival award-winning audio drama, <a href="https://www.redforrevolution.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Red for Revolution,</a> a six-part series exploring love and liberation starring Danny Glover, Jennifer Beals, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Vanessa E. Williams and more. Previously, Jana wrote the podcast <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1uS3Rie3yo&amp;t=11s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Built to Last</a>, hosted by Elaine Welteroth and featuring Issa Rae and Kimberly Drew, and is the creator of the meditation series <a href="https://www.jnsmeditations.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Relax, Relate, Release</a>, featuring insights from Dr. Maya Angelou, Ruby Dee, Dr. Angela Davis and others. In 2024, she launched <a href="https://patreon.com/relativelyconscious?utm_medium=unknown&amp;utm_source=join_link&amp;utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&amp;utm_content=copyLink" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Relatively Conscious</a>, a multimedia space inspired by the words of James Baldwin, which hosts bi-monthly in-person and virtual events. She is a recipient of the Ida B. Wells Disrupting the Master Narrative Award for her short film Baptême, and is currently participating in the Chicago International Film Festival Lab, bringing to life her debut narrative feature film.

Jana Naomi Smith

Finding the Revolution Within

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Song of Rimbaud

Warped depravity in pop bubblegum packaging, Emma Higgins is a writer and director interested in telling stories she hasn’t seen before through a genre lens. Emma’s debut feature as writer-director, <a href="https://fela.tv/work/special-projects/sweetness-first-look/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sweetness</a>, premiered at the 2025 SXSW Film Festival to rave reviews and is out now in theaters. A coming-of-age story for the digital age exploring the line between innocent fandom and twisted obsession, it stars Kate Hallett and Herman Tømmeraas. A self-taught filmmaker, Emma established herself directing commercials and music videos, helming Jessie Reyez&#8217;s music video “No One’s in the Room,” which earned the esteemed Video of the Year win at the 2021 Juno Awards. Emma currently lives in Los Angeles, where she enjoys living amongst the coyotes and nurturing the filmmaking community.

Emma Higgins

Sinking into Sweet Uncertainty – Otherwise Known as Making a Movie

Writer-director Carmen Emmi’s award-winning debut feature,<a href="https://www.magpictures.com/plainclothes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Plainclothes</a>, starring Tom Blyth, Russell Tovey, Maria Dizzia and Amy Forsyth, premiered at Sundance in 2025, was released theatrically by Magnolia and is out now on digital. Set in 1997, the film follows a promising undercover officer assigned to entrap gay men, who defies professional orders when he falls in love with one of his targets. Emmi is a filmmaker with deep roots in Syracuse, New York, where he grew up in a family of farmers. After graduating from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, Carmen began his career as an independent Director of Photography, contributing to a range of projects, including short films, commercials, and feature-length productions. (Photo by Lindsy Avritch.)

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