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Playlist for “Around The Fringe” - IAH Bob Marley/Ish Ahmed Edition 2/6/26
Returning to my original radio stomping grounds of Around The Fringe , a live radio program that I’ve been helping host for nearly twenty years, and one which is a direct inspirational template for It’s All Happening . The program, created and hosted by my friend and compatriot the Rev. Cool, airs on WYSO 91.3 FM, serving as a cultural fixture among the indie music and media scene in the Dayton, Ohio area and beyond for over four decades now. I was hosting this week’s episode

Andy Valeri; Big Beef Productions
Feb 7


Being Taken For A Ride
Motoring Away - Driving Off A Cliff This new year already feels like its running off the road, as what feels like some of the last remaining parameters of justice and accountability get shot in the head in the front seat of a car in Minneapolis. Cars. They loom large in our culture, a fact that drives more than people around, but drives a major portion of the foreign policy of the U.S. and its fanatical defense of the petrodollar. And cars loom large in Audiobahn , an episod

Andy Valeri; Big Beef Productions
Jan 25


IAH on Live Radio - Playlist for “Around The Fringe" (Cool Improv Edition 11/21/25)
The Rev. Cool in an improvisational moment from back in the day ") Returning once again to my live radio roots hosting another edition of Around The Fringe , a many decades running radio program that airs on WYSO 91.3 FM and is a cultural fixture among the indie music and media scene in Dayton, Ohio and beyond. I’ve been DJ’ing with and for the ever-esteemed Rev. Cool (producer and host of ATF) for nearly twenty years, on a program that is a direct inspirational template for

Andy Valeri; Big Beef Productions
Nov 24, 2025


Albatross Neck Tie
"Woman, Old Man, and Flower" (Max Ernst; 1923) I’ve always pretty much hated ties. Maybe it stems from my being born with the umbilical cord wrapped around my neck, threatening to choke the life from me before I was even able to begin it, I don’t know. But they’ve always struck me as a kind of symbolic leash of conformity. Of course a certain conformity is a prerequisite to maintaining civilized society itself, but becomes rather problematic when that society is clearly st

Andy Valeri; Big Beef Productions
Oct 14, 2025


We Want The Funk!
We do indeed, and not only wanting it but needing it, with a full dose of it delivered at the Yellow Springs Film Festival via the...

Andy Valeri; Big Beef Productions
Oct 6, 2025


Going Music For Gong Gong - IAH Live on the Radio - Playlist for “Around The Fringe" 7/18/25
'Around The Fringe' taking you higher I've been DJ'ing with and for the ever-esteemed Rev. Cool on Around The Fringe for nearly twenty...

Andy Valeri; Big Beef Productions
Jul 22, 2025
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