The Trace

Natalia Keogan is a film critic who is especially passionate about the gendered and sexualized aesthetics of horror, LGBTQ+ cinema, Spanish-language films, punk music and anti-fascism. Women’s reprod…

On this episode of The Trace Kat Sommers and Andrew Hackett play “Outcast Songs”.

These are songs by or about people that are different, people that don’t have a place to be, people that don’t quite …

A 14 year-old makes his first true friend after his family moves to a commune in the San Fernando Valley foothills of Los Angeles.  They cause trouble, begin to discover sexuality, and fall in love w…

In the coming months I am going to be sharing audio stories here on The Trace.  I spent much of the quarantine part of the pandemic writing fiction.  Now I am ready to share these stories with you in…

What songs make you think of rebirth?  We are in the season of fall where the leaves are falling and the weather gets colder.  But we also know from experience that those leaves will return and it wi…

On this episode of The Trace Radio it's Andrew solo playing music and musing on mysteries.  The Coen Brothers are discussed as religious provocoteur filmmakers which leads into tracks by NIN, mewitho…

Steve Elkins is a filmmaker whose recent documentary Echoes of the Invisible takes the viewer on a "journey into the most extreme environments on earth to find the connective tissue between all thing…

Once a month I (Andrew) host a 2-hour Saturday morning radio show in Seattle on 107.3FM.  This is an opportunity to get a little more mystical and philosophical while pairing songs with thought medit…

What does freedom mean to you?  Is freedom connected to responsibility?  Does freedom mean that you can do anything you want regardless of how it effects others?  How does my freedom and your freedom…

On this episode of The Trace Podcast I talk with Professor Clare Carlisle of King's College.  She is the author of six books, most recently "On Habit, Spinoza’s Religion: A New Reading of the Ethics"…

Jonathan Parks-Ramage is a Los Angeles based novelist, screenwriter and journalist. His debut novel, YES, DADDY, will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on May 18, 2021. Amazon Studios is cur…

Devin Fei-Fan Tau is the director of "Who's On Top?" which is a feature-length documentary that shines a spotlight on a diverse group of the LGBTQ+ community to challenge stereotypes about gender and…

This week on The Trace I am very proud to have Tye Reed as a guest.  Tye is a mutual aid organizer in Seattle, Washington.  We talk mutual aid, how we can all support each other, and the movies.

Tye …

Todd Brown from Screen Anarchy and XYZ Films is my guest this week.  Todd and I talk about his life of writing about movies and music, producing films, and the movies that have shaped him.

Todd has b…

Low is one of the great bands of the last 25+ years.  Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker have been making transcendent, challenging, beautiful music consistently since they started Low.

Alan Sparhawk is m…

It was just over a year ago that quarantine started.  Before then I was managing/bartending at a Seattle bar.  Suddenly I was home and trying to figure out how to use the time.  I wanted to take adva…

About a year ago I woke up in the morning and saw a man in my mind.  His name was Terry.  I knew that Terry loved 80's Christian rock and that he managed a Christian bookstore in the mid-90's.  I wan…

Illustrator, designer, musician, instructor, and letterpress printer Demian Johnston spent his formative years playing bass in legendary hardcore band Undertow before moving to guitar to form Nineiro…

Do you know that phrase "get behind me, Satan"?  What's that about?  On this episode of The Trace I break down what is going on with this strange expression.  Surprise!  It's more political than you …