FOR EPISODE 56, JESSICA LIPSKY GIVES US A NICE ALL 45’S PLAYLIST OF HER CURRENT FAVES, featuring tracks by Prince Buster, Alton Ellis, Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes, Eddie Floyd, Yvonne Fair, Willie Hutch, Ramones, and much more.

Jessica Lipsky is an editor and reporter covering culture, politics and music, and her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek, Salon, Billboard, Wax Poetics, LA Weekly, SF Weekly, and the San Francisco Chronicle etc etc etc. Currently she is the senior editor of the Recording Academy’s GRAMMY.com. Jessica is the author of the award-winning book It Ain’t Retro: Daptone Records & The 21st-Century Soul Revolution.  Her Harvey Averne interview/overview is coming out in the NY Times soon. Jessica also DJs under the name Terry Dactyl and has done radio at KUSF, KPOO, and a number of seedy establishments on both coasts.

To hear Jessica’s in-depth Stark Reality interview with Host James Dier aka DJ $mall Change, go to Episode 55 of STARK REALITY.

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