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Bottom of the Map with Dr. Regina N. Bradley and her latest podcast, Vulture. Photograph by Alex Martinez Hot 107.9 on-air personality Brian ‘B High’ Hightower interviews up-and-coming artists on his new-music show and has one of the largest digital radio platforms in the South on YouTube, with more than 150,000 subscribers. In addition to his work as a DJ, Hightower is a professor at Clark Atlanta University, where he teaches communications in the Mass Media Arts department. BH: [M...

Hot 107.9 on-air personality Brian ‘B High’ Hightower interviews up-and-coming artists on his new-music show and has one of the largest digital radio platforms in the South on YouTube, with more than 150,000 subscribers. In addition to his work as a DJ, Hightower is a professor at Clark Atlanta University, where he teaches communications in the Mass Media Arts department. BH: [My Atlanta hip-hop origin story] started with Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik. That was the first CD that I ever ...

“Indianola Pizza Dough” is like an audio journey through the history of Anthony LaMarca’s family and of the Mahoning Valley. LaMarca, who is a member of the Grammy-winning rock band The War on Drugs and releases solo albums under the name The Building, weaves his own songs around polkas — a melody written by his grandfather, “Happy Time Polka” performed with Youngstown polka legend Del Sinchak — snippets of conversations recorded decades ago at a pizza shop owned by his great-aun...

But the local acts rival those more famous performers with one group — music collectors. Love and War, a hard rock band founded in Youngstown, only released one CD, but that 1994 release “War Rages On” has sold for $300 on Discogs, a website where fans can catalog their collections and buy / sell music. The asking prices for the two copies of “War Rages On” currently on eBay are $688.40 and $749. Moore, who lives in Warren, may be the local record holder on Discogs. His 1976 funk / so...