Welcome to EPISODE FOUR of NO ONE TURNED AWAY, a seasonal radio show on dublab exploring the lore, legacies, and ontological mutiny of interdependent and diy arts communities. Throughout this series we’ll be checking in with some of the wonderful humans that participate in stewarding their scenes & setting the tone with us this afternoon is Liz Pelly, a Brooklyn-based lifer, music journalist, organizer, professor, musician, and most recently author of Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify & The Costs of the Perfect Playlist.

For the next hour we’ll dive into Liz’s gateways into grassroots arts + activist communities, solidarity economies, some good lore, and hopefully get into some of the the what’s why’s who’s and how’s of participating in alt-weeklies like the Boston Phoenix as well as arts spaces like Lower Allston’s Dreamhaus & Brooklyn’s The Silent Barn.