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Each issue of ESOPUS features an audio CD with brand-new music inspired by a particular theme. For the forthcoming ESOPUS 23 (on newsstands in May), the CD explores the subject of "Close Calls." For it, we invited 13 musical acts to pick a close-call moment from their lives — ranging from near-death experiences to romantic misfires — that they've never been able to shake. For this podcast, ESOPUS editor Tod Lippy talks with four contributors to the CD — Anthony LaMarca (The War on Drugs), Darren Solomon (Science for Girls), Jo Lawry, and The Kickstand Band — about the songs they created and the near-miss moments that inspired them. The ESOPUS 23 "CLOSE CALLS" CD also includes new tracks by Kristin Andreassen, The Big Bright, Gabriel Birnbaum, Dollshot, Coling Gilmore, Lemolo, Trees Take Ease, Grant Widmer, and YC the Cynic. More information about ESOPUS 23 and its CD is available on our website: http://www.esopus.org