Just recorded Episode the 13th for Coincidence Control Network today! If you haven’t followed the podcast you have some catching up to do! CCN features Joseph Matheney, Kim Monaghan, Ken Eakins and yours truly in weekly round table discussions about current counterculture. It’s really a blast and we’ve been getting amazing feedback. If you like edgy books, challenging films, political activism, drugs, the occult, psychedelic culture, music, cryptozoology, the paranormal and most varieties of nerdiness, you’ll love CCN!

Today I talked about a report that celebrity chef Jamie Oliver found a stash of Joy Division master recordings when excavating the basement of a former bank for his new restaurant in Manchester, England. According to NME:

The new restaurant, which is being built in a former branch of Midland bank, was being excavated when the tapes were found, alongside guns, gold and jewellery. The total value of the haul is £1.1 million, reports Holy Moly. Oliver has since given everything found in the basement to the treasury.

Here is a great doc about the Manchester music scene from BBC 4: Factory – Manchester from Joy Division to Happy Mondays

Coincidence Control Network, Episode the 13th is scheduled to go live this Wednesday, February 22.

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Watch this performance of my OccupySong at Occupy Congress in DC!