Sunday, and the sun is going down on the week that was. Let's finish up with a quiz, bears that act like people, and a fantastic interview with The Pretender. Issue #326 is in the books, and we are coming up on the final month of Volume 1 of With A Shout. What a year it has been!

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Most of us probably heard Chrissie Hynde in the 80s with her band The Pretenders and didn’t realize how close she was to the UK's 70s and 80s punk rock scene. In this spotlight by The Guardian, the story adds that Hynde almost married both Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious to obtain a work permit. It is also rumored that she auditioned to be in The Clash. Talk about starting out in the right place to create music.

Hynde and The Pretenders are about to release a new album called Relentless, and they are already on the road playing the hits from a catalog that covers four decades and helped define Indie Rock in the 80s. Hynde answered questions from fans and other artists; the interview Q&A starts with a question from old friend Paul McCartney and other artists like; Johnny Marr, Rufus Wainwright, Don Letts, and Brett Anderson. Many of the questions we had not heard before, including where Hynde was during the Kent State shooting in 1970.

If With A Shout could identify as one artist, it would be Chrissie Hynde, and she would hate the compliment.

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The Puzzle People are at it again; this time, they've created a Weekly History Quiz, and your job is to figure out the timeline for historical events. We took the new quiz today and ended up with a respectable 7 out of 8 – where did you fall?

The Sunday edition of Morning Brew is another story about a bear. A week in the mountains where we came windshield to face with a live bear may have us more attuned to seeing stories about bears, but some of these stories are making our point for us. The real-life bears we encountered did not give us a second thought; we were neither in its way nor a threat by the look on its face. The story in Morning Brew and on CNN explains a similar tone; the first picture is of a bear sitting in a hot tub in Burbank, CA. In the picture, the bear is just chilling like a human wearing a bear costume. The second picture and video are of a couple of Sun Bears who look like the bear equivalent of baggy-jeaned teenagers. The Sun Bears look so fake as bears that the zoo in China had to issue a formal statement saying the bears were actually… bears!

In classic Austin Kleon fashion, artist Amy Corson was cleaning out her closet and found some old cassette tapes; this sparked an idea that became artist portraits using cassette tape. If you are old enough to remember what it was like to have your 84 Honda Civic with the tape deck and eat your favorite cassette tape, then you remember what the actual tape looked like. It was a deliquiate black or brown strip of maybe 1/8th of an inch wide. The cassette tapes had two spinning reels that pulled the tape over the "player," and your music would play. 

Corson turned the tape into a portrait of the artist the cassette tape was for.  Creative use of materials from an artist inspired by the music. What do you have lying around your house that says something about the artist in you?

A sweet melody.

Click on the Apple Music image to listen to the song on Apple Music or on the Spotify Image to listen to Spotify.

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Thank you for spending a few minutes with us. Here’s one for the road!

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