
A-Sides & Besides
Storytelling at the crossroads where music meets memory.
Podcasting since 2025 • 5 episodes
A-Sides & Besides
Latest Episodes
Staying Alive with Mark Pagán
This one goes out to all the older siblings who manage to impart cool taste and life lessons in between all the wedgies and purple nurples.Follow Mark Pagán at Other Men on Substack, and be s...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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1:11:36

From The Choirgirl Hotel, with Amber Drea
Our scrappy little show welcomes its first official guest storyteller, Amber Drea! A mainstay of the West Chicago comedy scene, Amber is a writer, performer, record collector, musician, mom, and all-around R...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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1:27:27

Carry The Zero
A meditation on saying goodbye to loved ones, to expectations, and to the past. This week's story is inspired by the work of influential Pacific Northwest band Built To Spill...
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Episode 2
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57:30

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