--Beneath the Underground fetes NYC downtown arts, surfaces on WFMU--
Beneath the Underground airs Wednesdays 10pm-midnight EST at https://wfmu.org/sheena and our archive is available anytime at https://wfmu.org/playlists/UN
Beneath the Underground provides your weekly dose of downtown with music, spoken word and talk capturing New York City’s avant, renegade, punk, cutting-edge underground. Com
e and celebrate the history and living legacy of indie arts “from John Reed to Lou Reed, The Masses to the moderns and Post-Punk to Punk Jazz”. And on the last Wednesday of each month, Beneath the Underground features the “XX-centric Behavior” edition of our show, a deep focus on rad women in the arts. Beneath the Underground’s hosts, John Pietaro and Laurie Towers, are life-long New Yorkers entrenched in the indie arts scenes since the 1980s. Pietaro is a writer, spoken word artist, musician and labor activist. Staff writer of The NYC Jazz Record, he’s a contributing arts journalist to PleaseKillMe, The Wire, The Village Sun, AllAboutJazz and others. His most recent work is poetry/fiction collection A Bleeding in Black Leather (Uncollected Press/RAR, 2022). Towers is a publicist, musician, business owner, feminist activist, public speaker, writer and longtime host of the women's empowerment podcast She's Raising the Bar. Sheena’s Jungle Room is a freeform livestream of independent radio WFMU-FM and WFMU.org.
