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Gary Lucas – A former member of Captain Beefheart’s Magic Band, Lucas is a NYC-based guitarist, songwriter, composer & producer who has earned a worldwide following with more than a dozen internationally acclaimed solo albums to date. He is known for his amazing solo guitar work (“legendary left-field guitarist” – The Guardian), his longstanding band Gods and Monsters (“an underground rock fan’s dream-team” – The New Yorker) & his collaborations with other musicians, including Jeff Buckley, Joan Osborne, DJ Shadow & John Zorn.

Danny Fields – “Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk” (Penguin Group, 1996) is dedicated to Fields as “the coolest guy in the room” – & rightfully so. Fields was the person who discovered & signed The MC5, The Stooges & The Ramones. He managed the careers of Iggy Pop & Jonathan Richman & many others. He also introduced Edie to the Factory, Brian Epstein to Lou Reed & informed America that John Lennon thought The Beatles were more popular than Jesus. Oh yeah, he’s also a nice Jewish boy from Queens.

Steven Blush – Author of the 2001 book American Hardcore: A Tribal History (Feral House Press), Blush was a prime mover in the scene he writes about. In the 1980s, Blush promoted many hardcore tours and shows, DJ’d an influential college radio show & ran a record label. Later, he published Seconds magazine and wrote for Paper, Spin, Interview, Village Voice, Details and High Times magazines. A documentary film based on American Hardcore was recently released nationwide.

Russell Wolinsky – Leader of the 1970s CBGB band The Sic F*cks, Wolinsky is the mind behind songs such as “Spanish Bar Mitzvah” (“We’ll invite the Garcias & the Schwartzes / drinking Manischevitz & tequila by the quartzes) & “We Are Jerry’s Kids” (“Rickles flies in, he drives us nuts / Richard Belzer tells jokes that make us platz”). In the day, he was backed by former Blondie singers Tish ’n’ Snooky, who appeared in fishnet stockings & nuns’ habits. Today he works at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.

Steven Lee Beeber – Author of The Heebie Jeebies at CBGB’s: A Secret History of Jewish Punk (Chicago Review Press, 2006), Beeber grew up in Atlanta where he bemoaned not just the fact that none of The Beatles were Jewish, but that Barry Manilow & Neil Sedaka were. The editor of the forthcoming anthology Awake! A Reader for the Sleepless (including work by such greats as James Tate, Margaret Atwood, Louise Bourgeois & the Suicide Girls), Beeber’s writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Fiction, Bridge, New York Times, Spin, MOJO, Maxim, Details, Conduit, Rain Taxi & elsewhere. He also blew sax for the Atlanta-based Gospel-punk band The Chowder Shouters. Once or twice, anyway.