A-Sides & Besides

A-Sides & Besides

Storytelling at the crossroads where music meets memory.

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April 4, 2025 71 mins

This one goes out to all the older siblings who manage to impart cool taste and life lessons in between all the wedgies and purple nurples.

Follow Mark Pagán at Other Men on Substack, and be sure to subscribe to the Other Men podcast before the next season launches later this year.

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Our scrappy little show welcomes its first official guest storyteller, Amber Drea! A mainstay of the West Chicago comedy scene, Amber is a writer, performer, record collector, musician, mom, and all-around Renaissance Woman. 

This week's subject is the work of Tori Amos, a world renowned award-winning singer/songwriter who had that one song about, well, y'know. It wasn't subtle. All love and respect to a native Baltim...

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March 7, 2025 57 mins

A meditation on saying goodbye to loved ones, to expectations, and to the past. 

This week's story is inspired by the work of influential Pacific Northwest band Built To Spill. If you'd like to learn more about their work, you can read all about it in The Holy Bible. 

Please tune in to PBS's Stories From The Stage on March 10th to see Alexander Scott perform as part of the episode "Close Calls!" 

Long live Fel...

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February 28, 2025 31 mins

In which we begin in earnest by being entirely too earnest. 

And no, it's not the one by Semisonic. It's the one by Tom Waits. Get it right or pay the price. 

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February 17, 2025 9 mins

Enjoy an informal, chatty introduction to this, yet another log on the pile of obscure podcasts keeping the internet furnaces burning.

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