WMSE Local/Live: The Blight Record Project

Join Cal and Sid for another episode of Local/Live with a performance and interview by The Blight Record Project.The Blight Record Project produces adaptations of contemporary short stories (and other experimental storytelling ventures) printed to vinyl in limited run. The debut full length split features Angel of Death by Brian Evenson and A Skull Dreams It Is A Horse by Ashley Mayne. Both stories are scored and composed by Nathaniel Heuer and the band Hello Death.On Saturday March 11th at Muza Church in South Milwaukee, there will be a record listening and live performances, including music by Nathaniel Heuer, Liv Mueller and a reading by Ashley Mayne. This will be the first time the record will be available to purchase! Attendees of the show will also have the option of purchasing a ticket that includes a copy of the record (at a 5$ discount).The record we be released for streaming as well as digital and physical sales March 14th.ABOUT THE ARTISTSBRIAN EVENSON is the author of over a dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collection The Glassy Burning Floor of Hell (2021). His collection Song for the Unraveling of the World won the Shirley Jackson Award and the World Fantasy Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times’ Ray Bradbury Prize. He is the recipient of three O. Henry Prizes, an NEA fellowship, and a Guggenheim Award. His work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the Critical Studies Program at CalArts.ASHLEY MAYNE’S work has appeared in Fence, Post Road, Juked, Peripheries, Blight Podcast, Metambesen, and elsewhere. She lives in Upstate New York and edits fiction for Fence.NATHANIEL HEUER is a musician and artisan. He currently writes, records, and performs with some of Milwaukee’s preeminent bands, including genre-bending Group of the Altos (The Altos), experimental rockers Marielle Allschwang and The Visitations, and his own indie folk project Hello Death.–In The wide world of dirt. Tune in WMSE at 91.7FM or stream live or in the archive at WMSE.ORGLocal/Live is sponsored by Thiurd Space Brewing. You have your home. You have your work. Everyone needs a Third Space.