Chuck Brodsky (born May 20, 1960 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American musician and singer-songwriter currently living in Asheville, North Carolina. He is particularly known for his often humorous and political lyrics, as well as his songs about baseball, such as “The Ballad of Eddie Klepp” and “Moe Berg: The Song”. On his 2004 album Color Came One Day, he took on pollution in “Seven Miles Upwind”, the destruction of independent business and regional culture by multinational corporations in “Trees Falling”, and the abridgement of civil liberties associated with Bush administration policies in “Dangerous Times”.

A mysterious, glowing cloud makes its way across Night Vale. Plus, new Boy Scouts hierarchy, community events calendar, and a PTA bake sale for a great cause!

Welcome to Night Vale is produced by Commonplace Books. Written by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor. Narrated by Cecil Baldwin. More Info: welcometonightvale.com, and follow @NightValeRadio on Twitter or Facebook.

Pilot Episode. A new dog park opens in Night Vale. Carlos, a scientist, visits and discovers some interesting things. Seismic things. Plus, a helpful guide to surveillance helicopter-spotting.

Welcome to Night Vale is produced by Commonplace Books. Written by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor. Narrated by Cecil Baldwin. More Info: welcometonightvale.com, and follow @NightValeRadio on Twitter or Facebook.

Fan art by Xib Vaine. DeviantART username: XibXib.

Commonplace Books is, among other things, you.

We are here to help express the global arts community that has formed over the last few years on the Internet.

We are about finding interesting and talented people, wherever they are in the world and in their careers, and helping them find a larger audience through communal projects and playful challenges.

Here is a simple fact: it is a better time to be an artist than any other time in history. Whether you are a writer or a painter or a musician or a filmmaker, you were born at a lucky time. Thanks to the Internet, global distribution and organization is now available to everyone.

The exact model for how all this should work isn’t settled yet. But that is why it is up to us, the artists of this generation, the generation living in the best time in history to be an artist, to create the world that we want to live in. To create the models to function in that world.

This is the world of Kickstarter and WikiLeaks. It is a world full of risk, but with the possibility for rewards unlike any that have existed before. And Commonplace Books was made for exactly that world.

I can’t wait to see what we all do next.

Joseph Fink
Editor

Disparition is the solo project of Jon Bernstein, a musician and composer currently living in Brooklyn, New York.

His music combines a variety of electronic and industrial influences and techniques with interpretations of histories and geographies. He releases standalone concept albums and also provides sound design and music for theater and film.

Joseph Fink co-founded Commonplace Books and created Welcome to Night Vale. He is a writer and an editor, putting together several publications such as What It Means To Be A Grown-Up and The Untold Stories Of H.P. Lovecraft, and has also contributed articles to Something Awful. Fink used to live in California and now lives in Brooklyn.

Jeffrey Cranor is co-writer of Welcome to Night Vale, as well as being the voice of Carlos The Scientist on that podcast. Cranor often writes and directs for stage, collaborating with choreographer (and wife) Jillian Sweeney.

He is involved in several theatres in NYC, including Vulture-Wally at Incubator Arts Project, This Could Be It at The Chocolate Factory, and the on-going show Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind by the New York Neo-Futurists.

Cecil Baldwin, voice of the character of the same name on the podcast Welcome to Night Vale, is a stage actor, performer and director, currently living in New York City.

Baldwin has been in several commercials, including one for Taco Bell, and has done a great deal of stage acting. He is currently performing in Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind with The New York Neo Futurists. He also narrated the audiobook for The Fall of the Hotel Dumort from the popular YA series, The Bane Chronicles, by Cassandra Clare and Maureen Johnson.

Twice-monthly community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, featuring local weather, news, announcements from the Sheriff’s Secret Police, mysterious lights in the night sky, dark hooded figures with unknowable powers, and cultural events. Turn on your radio and hide. Welcome to Night Vale.

Produced by Commonplace Books. Written by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor. Narrated by Cecil Baldwin.