Amanda Palmer, Jace Clayton, & Lydia Loveless

Studio 360 | Aug 25, 2016

Jace Clayton has traveled the world collecting and playing music as DJ /rupture, and he gives Kurt a lesson in spinning records. Plus, the singer-songwriter Lydia Loveless overcame her social anxiety by coming to terms with the fact that everyone is laughing at you. And indie lightning rod Amanda Palmer picked up the ukulele on a whim, but when she started playing Radiohead’s famously downbeat songs on it, she discovered the perfect mix of sweet and salty.

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