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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: [My Atlanta hip-hop origin story] started with Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik. That was the first CD...

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 bought in my whole life. I went to the mall over there at Greenbriar, went to Peppermint Records, an...

“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-aunt and great-uncle, and recording studio / radio soundbites by Peppermint Records owner and polka rad...

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 / soul album “Maurice” sold for more than $2,000 on Discogs last May. It came in at No. 13 on Discog...