Beatie Wolfe and Mark Mothersbaugh pull postcards from the tens of thousands they’ve received for their collective art demonstration ‘Postcards for Democracy’ and pair them with tracks of their choosing. Join this movement and potentially a future radio show by making and mailing your post art to 8760 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069. Alternatively if you’re in LA drop in on one of our pop-up postcard making events. Head to www.postartfordemocracy.com for all the info about this campaign celebrating USPS, our right to vote and the power of art with support from The Broad Foundation and dublab.

Tracklist:

• X-Ray Spex – Oh Bondage! Up Yours!
• Vaquita – On Her Side
• Blaze Foley – Oval Room
• Johnny Brewton – Small Metal Objects
• Staff Benda Bilili – Staff Benda Bilili
• Uno Lady – Uno Lady Sings Town of Don’t You Worry
• The Marvelettes – Please Mr Postman
• Siena Riley – Rich Kid Blues
• Leenalchi – Tiger is Coming
• Yuri Suzuki – AI Acid
• Mort Garson – Symphony for a Spider Plant
• Ian Svenonius – Rebel Outlaw
• Aretha Franklin – Think

POSTCARDS FOR DEMOCRACY
Ahead of the 2024 November presidential election, artistic visionaries Mark Mothersbaugh and Beatie Wolfe join forces to re-activate Postcards For Democracy – their non-partisan, collective post art campaign with support from The Eli & Edythe Broad Foundation and dublab. This collective post art campaign, originally launched in lockdown ahead of the 2020 election, stirred tens of thousands of people to create and contribute to the public art movement, supporting USPS in the process, and all the while reminding and mobilizing people to vote. Mothersbaugh and Wolfe received postcards from every part of the U.S. (and across the world) with the ever-growing collection first exhibited at the Rauschenberg Gallery before a selection of the art went into the Smithsonian. Such a chord was struck that post art is still being received today four years on! As democracy and our right to vote still hangs in the balance, Postcards for Democracy invites everyone and anyone to create a piece of mail art and send it in to become part of this public art demo, with an exhibition and book to follow.

With the aim of the campaign being to encourage as many people as possible to vote, you can join it by buying stamps, making a piece of postcard art and mailing it to:
8760 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069.

A is for Abalone: Beatie Wolfe interviews marine biologist and conservationist Dr Melissa Neuman about her upbring and work protecting conserving and restoring endangered white abalone, a key member of the kelp forest ecosystem in the US and Mexico, by reintroducing captive-bred white abalone into the wild.

Orange Juice for the Ears with “musical weirdo and visionary” (Vice) Beatie Wolfe explores the power of music across space, science, art, health, film and technology by talking to leading luminaries from Nobel Laureates to punk publishers about their life’s work and musical DNA. Beatie Wolfe is an artist who has beamed her music into space, been appointed a UN role model for innovation and held an acclaimed solo exhibition at the V&A Museum.

Dr Melissa Neuman⁠'s Orange Juice for the Ears

• First song that imprinted? “I’ll Walk In the Rain By Your side” by John Denver

• First album that shaped who you are? “Dreams” from the record: Everybody Else Is Doing It So Why Can’t We by The Cranberries (1993)
• The music you would send into Space? “Purple Rain” by Prince
• The song you would have at your memorial? “Orinoco Flow” by Enya
• The album you would pass onto the next generation? “Synchronicity I” from the record: “Synchronicity” by The Police

The radio show was mastered by Dean Martin Hovey at Soundwell Studios.

Marvel: Beatie Wolfe interviews x-ray visionary, superhuman casting director and producer Sarah Finn about building out the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe as well as casting the most awarded film in movie history, amongst many others. Listen to this show that takes you from sufism to being dubbed as the most valuable email address in Hollywood via the electrical charge of one’s intuition.

Orange Juice for the Ears with “musical weirdo and visionary” (Vice) Beatie Wolfe explores the power of music across space, science, art, health, film and technology by talking to leading luminaries from Nobel Laureates to punk publishers about their life’s work and musical DNA. Beatie Wolfe is an artist who has beamed her music into space, been appointed a UN role model for innovation and held an acclaimed solo exhibition at the V&A Museum.

Sarah Finn’s Orange Juice for the Ears

• First song that imprinted? “Yellow Bird” by The Mills Brothers

• First album that shaped who you are? “Home Again” from the record Tapestry by Carole King

• The music you would send into Space? “Somewhere over the Rainbow” as performed by Israel "IZ” Kamakawiwo'ole

• The song you would have at your memorial? “As” by Stevie Wonder

• The album you would pass onto the next generation? “Power of Two” from the record Swamp Ophelia by Indigo Girls

This show first aired live on dublab radio - tracks have been shortened for this podcast. The podcast was mastered by Dean Martin Hovey at Soundwell Studios.

Play: Beatie Wolfe interviews polymath, producer, philosopher, environmentalist, colour conductor and “toad in the hole” tosser Brian Eno about his journey from pioneering ambient music, ever-evolving light paintings, production styles, conceptual installations to his constant strategies of surrender. Listen to this show that takes you from co-founding Roxy Music to addressing the climate emergency via the thread of play. Blender of colours and bender of genres, when it comes to the truly mad and experimental, there is only “One Brain”.

Orange Juice for the Ears with “musical weirdo and visionary” (Vice) Beatie Wolfe explores the power of music across space, science, art, health, film and technology by talking to leading luminaries from Nobel Laureates to punk publishers about their life’s work and musical DNA. Beatie Wolfe is an artist who has beamed her music into space, been appointed a UN role model for innovation and held an acclaimed solo exhibition at the V&A Museum.

This show first aired live on dublab radio - tracks have been shortened for this podcast. The podcast was mastered by Dean Martin Hovey at Soundwell Studios.

***Read the article version in The Great Discontent (TGD) magazine***

An audience with Counterculture Godfather & Punk Publisher V. Vale hosted by Beatie Wolfe and Aaron Rose on Sunday April 16th at The Aster, Los Angeles.

Listen to this OJ special x LA event celebrating the life and work of one of this world’s true originals: RE/Search founder V. Vale – described as the first (and last!) punk publisher! After launching San Francisco’s first punk zine Search & Destroy in 1977 with $100 each from Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Vale founded RE/Search in 1980 for his other cultural-anthropological explorations including Industrial music, the writings of J.G. Ballard and William S. Burroughs, feminism, “Incredibly Strange” filmmaking and so much more. A cornerstone of the counterculture movement, Vale’s influence remains both all-pervasive and yet hidden in plain sight.

This event includes a conversation between Vale, Aaron Rose and Beatie Wolfe; a live DJ set from Money Mark on tape cassettes; a reading of Vale’s cat haikus and “Goals for Life” and a live performance from Vale and Marian.

Mastered by Soundwell

Beatie Wolfe interviews Garbage frontwoman, alternative icon, activist, feminist and undeniable tour de force Shirley Manson about her life and career forged by love and fury, all the while changing the face of Pop music as we know it and speaking out for the voiceless, the oppressed, the marginalized. Listen to this show that takes you from Somewhere Over the Rainbow to cleaning up the shit via the power of Truth.

Orange Juice for the Ears with “musical weirdo and visionary” (Vice) Beatie Wolfe explores the power of music across space, science, art, health, film and technology by talking to leading luminaries from Nobel Laureates to punk publishers about their life’s work and musical DNA. Beatie Wolfe is an artist who has beamed her music into space, been appointed a UN role model for innovation and held an acclaimed solo exhibition at the V&A Museum.

Shirley Manson’s Orange Juice for the Ears

• First song that imprinted? “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” by Judy Garland (from ‘The Wizard of Oz) /

• First album that shaped who you are? “Nicotine Stain” from the record ‘The Scream’ by Siouxsie & the Banshees /

• The music you would send into Space? “Spiegel Im Spiegel” by Arvo Pärt /

• The song you would have at your memorial? “White Horses” by Jackie Lee /

• The album you would pass onto the next generation? “Black Boys on Mopeds” from the record ‘I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got’ by Sinéad O'Connor //

This show first aired live on dublab radio - tracks have been shortened for this podcast. The podcast was mastered by Dean Martin Hovey at Soundwell Studios.

Beatie Wolfe interviews artist, director, curator and writer Aaron Rose about his journey from wanting to be a trash collector to creating a space for art-world outsiders, first at his renowned New York gallery Alleged and then in his documentary Beautiful Losers and follow-up exhibition. Listen to this show that takes you from conservative Calabasas to a subculture that swept the globe via the power of DIY.

Orange Juice for the Ears with “musical weirdo and visionary” (Vice) Beatie Wolfe explores the power of music across space, science, art, health, film and technology by talking to leading luminaries from Nobel Laureates to punk publishers about their life’s work and musical DNA. Beatie Wolfe is an artist who has beamed her music into space, been appointed a UN role model for innovation and held an acclaimed solo exhibition at the V&A Museum.

Aaron Rose’s Orange Juice for the Ears

• First song that imprinted? “Come Sail Away” by Styx /
• First album that shaped who you are? “Birth Control” by CRASS - from the album Christ The Album /
• The music you would send into Space? "Boléro" by Maurice Ravel /
• The song you would have at your memorial? “Blame It On My Youth” by Chet Baker /
• The album you would pass onto the next generation? “Wild is the Wind” by Nina Simone - from the album Wild Is the Wind //

This show first aired live on dublab radio - tracks have been shortened for this podcast. The podcast was mastered by Dean Martin Hovey.

Presented as part of ON AIR LA ANNEX, Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh and “musical weirdo and visionary” Beatie Wolfe discuss the art of composition, building worlds, and how being a conceptual artist can further open up and inform these spaces. Straddling multidisciplines, the pair also revisit Postcards for Democracy, their 2020 collective art campaign in support of USPS, and chat about its impact and how they are still receiving cards today ahead of the next election.

This program is part of New Music USA’s web magazine NewMusicBox “Guest Editor series”, which aims to celebrate a plurality of voices from across the nation and will feature exclusive content written, produced, or commissioned by a rotating artist or organization.

Artistic visionaries Mark Mothersbaugh & Beatie Wolfe share a love of tangible artforms, in and amongst their futuristic explorations. In the summer of 2020, in light of the threat to our 225yr old postal service and at a time that could jeopardize the democracy of the country, Mothersbaugh and Wolfe joined forces for this collective postcard art demonstration. The aim of this campaign is to encourage as many people as possible to support USPS, our right to vote, and democracy as a whole via the power of art. The demonstration asks you to buy USPS stamps, design your postcard and then mail it to 8760 Sunset Blvd. The pair has so far received tens of thousands of postcards from all over the world which were exhibited at the Rauschenberg Gallery and have also been archived by the Smithsonian.