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Ep. #1101: Gina Gershon

Sat, 06 Jun 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Gina Gershon is here to discuss her new memoir, AlphaPussy: How I Survived the Valley and Learned to Love My Boobs, creating the perfect breakfast cereal, how this new book came to fruition, similarities shared between cats and men, why some younger artists see a toughness in her they feel they can’t harness themselves, writing a reflective book about being an independent, somewhat unparented child while caring for and then grieving for her mother, boxing with Bob Dylan and their enduring friendship, the gratitude she receives from fans inspired by her strong characters in Bound and Showgirls and rekindling her conflicted relationship with the latter in its thirtieth anniversary year, what’s next for her, and much more.

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Ep. #1100: The Creem

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Mike Stroud and Nick Thorburn from the Creem are here to discuss their new album A Taste of Cherry, why Los Angeles may in fact be hell, standard items available at most Connecticut shopping complexes, their social and working history, Mike’s gifts as a producer of instrumentals and how that inspired Nick to write clever lyrics and vocal melodies very quickly, expressing joy and humour in your art during very dark times, when Evan Gordon from Islands met and spoke with Paul McCartney, when Mike spoke with Paul McCartney and Jeff Lynne, Nick’s new comic book Pear Shape, the influence that comic artist Richard McGuire has had on Nick’s own comic pursuits, a new record by Mike’s band Kunzite, why this band is called the Creem, playing shows, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1099: Glissandro 70

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Craig Dunsmuir and Sandro Perri return to discuss Glissandro 70 and their new album G70 2: Bones Of Dundasa, getting emotionally attached to your neighbours who are cows, a table reading of this album’s promotional one-sheet, embracing your own creations after periods of self-doubt and reflection, Andy Magoffin’s playful humour and underrated songwriting genius in the Two-Minute Miracles, the key role Dunsmuir’s vintage Roland HandSonic drum pad plays in Glissandro 70, incorporating humour and embracing rhythmic flop, key influences such as Fela Kútì, Boredoms, godspeed you! black emperor, and Sun Araw among others, the guiding spirit of Arthur Russell and working with his collaborator Peter Zummo, performing at Standard Time in Toronto on June 4 as part of the Tone Festival, news about new music and releases in their own pursuits, what could be next for Glissandro 70, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1098: Zoh Amba

Thu, 28 May 2026 06:15:00 GMT

Zoh Amba is here to discuss their astonishing new album Eyes Full, making their podcast debut and a recent hang with folk bitch trio, how they got into guitar, songwriting, and rock music, recurring lyrics about God, eyes, searching, and observational behaviour, why “Southern Soil” is such a key song for them in their Tennessee trajectory, the story behind their collaboration with Jim White and Guy Picciotto on Jim’s recent album Inner Day, Jim’s joyful presence and great sense of fun, learning more about their Eyes Full collaborators or “musical babies” as they call them, getting an email from Iggy Pop requesting their presence in his band, writing new songs, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1097: American Football

Tue, 26 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Steve Holmes and Steve Lamos from American Football are here to discuss American Football (LP4), the joys of marking final papers by the college students you teach, the story behind the alluring, unsettling drum part in “Man Overboard” and an appreciation for James Bond soundtrack songs, why Lamos left and returned to American Football in recent years, the factual aspects of LP4’s lyrical themes and thoughts on Mike Kinsella’s direct, unadorned vocals, whether my theory that the album flows like a theatrical production has legs, a shoutout to English degrees, working with producer Sonny DiPerri in California and a surprising but very welcome surfing lesson, playing many shows, other future plans, and much more!

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Ep. #1096: Marisa Anderson

Thu, 21 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Marisa Anderson returns to discuss her compelling new album, The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music Vol. 1, the joys of touring, responding to a Patreon subscriber’s inquiry about her new band Ruminants, exploring the Bob Dylan Center and immersing herself in the private record collection of the late, famed cultural collector/curator, Harry Smith, how she landed on recording her own three-album set focussing on music from places that the United States of America has been in conflict with since 1970, including Southeast Asia, the USSR and the Arabic and Islamic regions of the world, why “UnAmerican” is such a loaded, multi-faceted term, upcoming shows, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1095: Holy Fuck

Tue, 19 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Brian Borcherdt, Matt Schulz, and Graham Walsh from Holy Fuck are here to discuss their new album Event Beat, moving back to Toronto and leaving New York City for Ohio, receiving noise complaints from studio neighbours because of the band Slayer, the growing trend of musicians not having access to isolated practice spaces, whether a hiatus ever placed the band’s future in doubt, making music for fun but also for other people to party to, the impact of having their songs placed in films and tv shows, writing thoughtful lyrics for textured singing, a tribute to compact discs, playing many shows, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1094: Jeff Miller

Thu, 14 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Jeff Miller is here to discuss his captivating debut novel, Temporary Palaces, living all over Canada and seeing an Edmonton Oilers hockey game in their championship heyday, our unexpected comedy connections, being inspired by bands like Shotmaker, Kepler, and Fugazi among others, hardcore punk rock lore and mythology, how Ottawa's punk community inspired him to participate generally and start writing zines, what his novel is about and what exactly inspired it, pondering your subcultural youth in adulthood, upcoming live book events, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1093: Spencer Krug

Tue, 12 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Spencer Krug returns to discuss his excellent new album, Same Fangs, local pigs under duress and songs inspired by animals, sharing early and in-progress versions of his new songs with his Patreon subscribers, philosophical notions of what songs actually are, parasocial interaction and the increased intimacy between creators and fans via crowdfunding sites, the ups and downs of Sunset Rubdown and its uncertain current status, feeling a profound sense of sadness and hopelessness about the suffering of others and how that can affect your relationship with your family, the trick of acquiring geopolitical knowledge, information, and news and knowing what to do with it to affect positive change, the reality and the internet, his Wolf Parade colleague Dan Boeckner’s political outspokenness as a prolific poster, his reaction to the Wolf Parade song “I’ll Believe in Anything” featuring in a key scene from the show Heated Rivalry and the ensuing popularity of both, updates about new Wolf Parade music, forthcoming solo show dates and performance configurations, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1092: Weird Nightmare

Thu, 07 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Alex Edkins returns to discuss the new Weird Nightmare album Hoopla, leaving Toronto to live in his childhood hometown of Ottawa, how touring and work travel can be difficult for a husband and a father, why the Buzzcocks and the Replacements inspired this latest batch of songs, the time a broken up METZ played Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney at the host’s request and interacting with him and Conan O’Brien, his thoughts on the end of METZ, recording with killer rhythm section Loel Campbell and Roddy Kuester and with producers Jim Eno and Seth Manchester, why he wrote such sentimental, nostalgic songs about his youth, upcoming shows, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1091: Ray Bull

Tue, 05 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Tucker Elkins and Aaron Graham from Ray Bull are here to discuss their new album, Please Stop Laughing, loving New York, being reunited with your old furniture and coffee mugs after your roommate moves out, art school, high art, academia, and folk art, their efforts to create viral segments to draw people to their music, having eclectic musical interests and learning how to play music on some of the loudest instruments around, loving Rufus Wainwright and his whole musical family, exploring various musical directions without having an identity crisis, working with producer Al Carlson and how two people can reflect Ray Bull’s sound live, shows, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1090: Crooked Fingers

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Eric Bachmann returns to discuss the wonderful new Crooked Fingers album, Swet Deth, his recent heart attack and an update on his health, the eerie nature of the lyrical themes and his son’s cover art for Swet Deth, working with featured guests like Sharon Van Etten and The National’s Matt Berninger, sentimentality and self-loathing, why this new album was almost two separate but similar records, the surprising story behind the sweet yet pointed song, “Spray Tan Speed Queen (In a German Car),” his current outlook on the future of Archers of Loaf, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1089: Raymond Biesinger

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Raymond Biesinger returns to discuss 9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off – An Informal Self-Defence Guide for Independent Creatives, what inspired him to write this book, his personal experiences with intellectual property and wage theft, distinctions between patented inventions and homage and emulation in artistic realms, the role A.I. plays in creative plagiarism, the scourge of uncredited work, memes, and my conflicts about compiling funny tweets and posts by other people, artistic intention vs. perception, his plans for future books and projects, and much more.

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Vic Chesnutt (2007)

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 06:00:00 GMT

The first of two interviews I conducted with the late Vic Chesnutt took place over the telephone on Tuesday, September 4, 2007, at 3:00 PM ET. The occasion was the impending release of the majestic North Star Deserter, which was his first album on Constellation Records. It was co-produced by Jem Cohen and features contributions from Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band, along with Guy Picciotto (Fugazi), Chad Jones & Nadia Moss (Frankie Sparo), Eric Craven & Genevieve Heistek (Hangedup), Bruce Cawdron (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Esmerine) and T. Griffin (The Quavers).

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Ep. #1088: Cadence Weapon / Rollie Pemberton

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Rollie Pemberton, a.k.a. Cadence Weapon returns to discuss his new album Forager and his new book of socio-cultural criticism essays, Ways of Listening: Building a Deeper Relationship with Music in the Streaming Era, the parallels between his writing on his album and his book, his renewed interest in crate digging for records and thrifting for great clothes, resisting passive cultural consumption during the age of the algorithm, the Juno Awards, Drake, and Canada’s confidence conundrum, being both the “Black Ian Curtis” and the “Black Bryan Ferry,” working with producer Junia-T and live musicians to rediscover his love of hip-hop and rapping, special Forager market events, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1087: Friko

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:00:00 GMT

David Fuller, Niko Kapetan, Bailey Minzenberger, and Korgan Robb from Friko are here to discuss their new album, Something Worth Waiting For, the state of Illinois and dystopian literature, bonding in a high school music theory class, loving noise-infused pop bands like Pavement, the Breeders, and, from Liverpool, England, the Beatles, inspiration from local bands like Smut and the Felix Culpa, the story of Friko, articulating Niko’s songwriting talents as though he is not on this call with us, why numbers seem to be invoked so often on this album, why they worked with producer John Congleton and what makes him such a great “coach,” tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1086: The Sadies & Billy Ray

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Mike Belitsky and Travis Good from the Sadies and Dave ‘Billy Ray’ Koster are here to discuss Live at 6 O’Clock by Gord Downie, The Sadies, and the Conquering Sun, Billy’s long and all-encompassing tenure in the working lives of Downie and the Tragically Hip as a technical director and confidante, how the Sadies and Downie connected and why he was so fond of playing with them, a look back at Downie’s first solo album Coke Machine Glow and him asking Travis to play on it, Downie’s deep love for artists like Fucked Up and Daniel Romano, insights about this collaboration and what the late Gord Downie and Dallas Good may have felt about it, when Downie planned to run the stage light show himself, poignant reasons for picking songs about ghosts and sadness for this live record primarily consisting of songs by other artists, further insights into how the Tragically Hip viewed Downie’s work outside of the band, Downie’s penchant for incorporating conversations and experiences he shared with Billy into his lyrics, the story behind “Introduce Yerself,” whether we may hear more unreleased music by Downie and the potential for Sadie to make a new album, upcoming tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1085: Richard Reed Parry

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Richard Reed Parry returns to discuss Were “The Watchtowers” by Dallas Good + Richard Reed Parry, his Skybarn recording studio, being a new dad and adjusting to life off the road, how he first got to know Dallas after they were randomly chosen to participate in a Dawson City Music Festival collaborative workshop, a shared love of the Everly Brothers and other key artists and records, instant friend crushes and a yearning to collaborate on music, how they wrote lyrics together in a shared, outdated daytimer, insights about how vocals and other recordings of Dallas were used posthumously, how the sessions for Colder Streams by the Sadies and the Watchtowers informed each other, a unique contribution by Neko Case and making an album with songs about the tragic loss of one of the creators of that same album, why it’s a Record Store Day exclusive, news about Richard’s other bands and pursuits, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1084: Janel Leppin

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Janel Leppin returns to discuss her new solo album Slowly Melting and Pluto in Aquarius by Janel Leppin's Ensemble Volcanic Ash, her ability to compartmentalize her visual art impulses from her musical ones, why she frequently releases more than one album on the same day, how Susan Alcorn and David Lynch remain constant inspirations, an eye-opening Mdou Moctar tour, making protest jazz music in a politically volatile time, her compelling and dynamic use of the cello as a lead instrument in jazz expressions, her tribute to Deerhoof, why she employs fuzz and distortion, loving pedals and naming songs after different ones, upcoming shows, another new record, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1083: Rheostatics

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Dave Bidini and Dave Clark from Rheostatics are here to discuss The Great Lakes Suite, politics and tensions between the U.S.A. and Canada, contemporary protest music, what prompted this album’s concept and improvisational approach, featured contributions by Alex Lifeson from Rush, Kevin Hearn, Hugh Marsh, Tanya Tagaq, Laurie Anderson, Chief Stacey LaForme, Anne Carson, Liz Howard, Kendel Carson, Maiah Wynne, and Gord Downie, why Alex Lifeson was so blown away by Tanya Tagaq’s performance on this record, insights about Gord Downie’s posthumous appearance here telling a poetic story, Martin Tielli’s current status in Rheostatics, Alex Lifeson’s current status in Rheostatics, the excitingly unique way they plan to stage live shows to represent this album, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1082: Joe Pernice

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Joe Pernice is here to discuss his excellent new album, Sunny, I Was Wrong, living in frigid Canada as a well-informed American, his obsession with bicycles and riding bikes, his close friendship with music writer Warren Zanes who penned lovely liner notes for this new record, being a dad and coaching baseball with some encouragement from Buck 65, writing music again after a substantial break and from a very honest, reflective perspective, why he chose to release a record under his own name, the killer studio band he assembled featuring Jim Creeggan, Mike Belitsky, and Mike Evin, bringing in very special guests like Aimee Mann, Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub, Rodney Crowell, and Jimmy Webb, what will become of the large number of unreleased songs he wrote and recorded towards this album, upcoming shows, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1081: The New Pornographers

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:00:00 GMT

A.C. Newman returns to discuss The Former Site Of by the New Pornographers, life in New York State, playing more mandolin in his home recording studio, R.E.M. snobbery, not knowing about a nearby Dry Cleaning show, and understanding fans who come and go, songs about grieving and newfound flower expertise and songs people misunderstand, spirituality and social media, how the song “Calligraphy” references the 2025 arrest of the band’s former drummer on serious criminal charges, accepting loss, touring line-ups and upcoming shows, other future plans, and much more.

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Bill Callahan (2011)

Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:08:17 GMT

My first interview with Bill Callahan took place over the telephone on March 31, 2011, ahead of the April 19 release of his album, Apocalypse. The interview was conducted for and broadcast on the Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show! on May 4, 2011, and also for a print magazine profile. Bill and I bonded over our shared love of The Larry Sanders Show among other things, which you can hear now. As usual with archival interviews presented here, this is a raw, unedited recording that reflects the actual experience shared between the interview subject and I on the day we spoke. The latest album by Bill Callahan is called My Days of 58, and it’s available now via Drag City Records.

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Ep. #1080: Charlotte Cornfield

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Charlotte Cornfield returns to discuss her new album Hurts Like Hell, living in Toronto after stints in Montreal and New York, how becoming a mother has altered her sense of self and her artistic perspective, notions of connection, teaching, and learning, how Lucinda Williams’ memoir impacted her relationship to narrative realities, talking about Neil Young, Zuma, and Tonight’s the Night, who the song “Lost Leader” might be about, recruiting special guest vocalists like Feist and Buck Meek, working with Merge Records, new songs, upcoming shows, and much more.

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Ep. #1079: MEMORIALS

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Verity Susman and Matthew Simms from MEMORIALS are here to discuss their new album All Clouds Bring Not Rain, the confusing measurement units different countries use to track distances, the roles their respective fathers played in inspiring them to explore music, telling me what a boffin is, working on film scores and soundtracks, a helpful boost from Stereolab, the significance of the Susan Sontag Memorial Water Slide, touring with Holy Fuck, writing new music, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1078: Geologist

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Brian Weitz is here to discuss the solo debut by Geologist, Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights?, his previous academic and vocational pursuits in environmental and ocean policy on Capitol Hill, how his interest in playing the hurdy gurdy led him to Ben Grossman, Guelph, Ontario, and my inbox a few years ago, why a Keiji Haino show at the New York City club Tonic made a huge impression on him as a university student, his friendship with the late David Berman and smoking the last cigarette David gave him after he died, his interest in drone, noise, and artists on the SST record label, how much he has always loved Pavement, a tangent about the life-saving film Spies Like Us, future plans for Animal Collective and himself, and much more.

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Ep. #1077: Jason P. Woodbury

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Jason P. Woodbury returns to discuss the new, self-titled album by Jason P. Woodbury & The Night Bird Singing Quartet, why he shifted from releasing records as JPW to his current band name and who’s part of the NBSQ, working to overcome self-consciousness about making music under his own name as an active music journalist, his fascination with birdsongs and rogue roosters, using your imagination on long drives as a kid, a deep interest in extraterrestrial life and spiritual searching, comic books and escapism, writing new songs, the status of his currently paused podcast Transmissions, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1076: Morgan Nagler

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Morgan Nagler is here to discuss her long-awaited debut solo album, I’ve Got Nothing to Lose, and I’m Losing It, her connection to nature, compiling songs she wrote during a long relationship that she realized predicted the end of that relationship, fuelling up with grassoline, a deep bond she has formed with Kim Deal after Deal suggested they write songs together, her prolific child acting career and the clever way she earned a role on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, encountering Michael Jackson during a screen test for the “Smooth Criminal” video, whether she’ll ever act again, the dynamic, multi-genre sound of her new record, future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1075: Bill Frisell

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Bill Frisell is here to discuss his new sextet record, In My Dreams, the different American and European cities he has lived in over the years and how they might inform his musical practice, his 75th birthday and the March 2026 tour dates that mark the occasion, a dream about music and its possibilities that he had 30 years ago and is still processing, the lessons mistakes teach us, how film noir scores and the work of Alfred Hitchcock film composer Bernard Hermann may have found their way to In My Dreams, the time he saw Bob Dylan and the Hawks in 1966 and why Dylan might be into Bill’s latest record, what inspired him to put together the In My Dreams sextet, future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1074: Status/Non-Status

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 23:57:14 GMT

Adam Sturgeon returns to discuss the new Status/Non-Status album, Big Changes, living in London, Ontario as it struggles through volatile and difficult socio-political conditions under late-stage capitalism, being a homebody and making music that your neighbours aren’t always into, lyrical themes and the sound of this new album, loving Eric’s Trip and collaborating with Julie Doiron, other guest contributors and new bandmates like Colleen “Coco” Collins, upcoming shows, another new album in the works, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1073: Gregory Uhlmann

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 07:00:00 GMT

Gregory Uhlmann is here to discuss his lovely solo debut album, Extra Stars, the lives he’s led in Los Angeles and Chicago, what it was like to be a student at CalArts, getting into blues and jazz music and music making thanks especially to his dad and his brother Evan, being a big Hanson and Backstreet Boys fan at one point, key venues from the past and present that fostered his musical communities, how he made Extra Stars and its sonic similarities to film and video game scores, the role improvisation plays in his practice, upcoming tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1072: Ani DiFranco

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:00:00 GMT

Ani DiFranco returns to discuss her new book, The Spirit of Ani: Reflections on Spirituality, Feminism, Music & Freedom, her involvement in establishing the Buffalo, New York arts hub known as Babeville, which is where I last saw Shellac play a show, why Buffalo was fertile ground for an aspiring musician, what prompted her to write this book with Lauren Coyle Rosen, the evolution of her position on God as an entity or name for our collective consciousness, striving for communication and connectedness, pondering fearlessness and perceptions of confidence, living in an age of disembodied music, distinguishing between escapism and transcendence, self-reflection borne of parenting, loving The Telepathy Tapes podcast, working on a soundtrack for a documentary, theatrical projects and her recent stint acting on Broadway, upcoming book events and tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1071: Buck 65

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 07:00:00 GMT

Buck 65 makes a rare reappearance to discuss his excellent new album, Do Not Bend, musical brevity, Joe Pernice inspiring him to start an insightful Substack, writing jokes and stories that wind up as rhymes, befriending the late great Biz Markie and hanging out backstage at a Beastie Boys show, meeting Lou Reed but being low key about their creative kinship, acquiring the four-track he once used in the mid-1990s to create new music but also incorporating Ableton, obvious and oblique pop culture references, when you don’t know where the words come from, why it’s healthy to listen to your own work, difficult time signatures for rappers, a loving celebration of vinyl record culture, many future plans, a hidden phone number, and much more.

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Ep. #1070: Buck Meek

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:00:00 GMT

Buck Meek is here for a talk about his charming, confessional new album, The Mirror, coming up in Wimberley, Texas and people’s misconceptions of the Lone Star State, the vibrancy of transient college towns, how his grandmother’s death and caring for his grandfather galvanized his family and inspired aspects of The Mirror, writing songs about communication, teaching, language, speech, parenting, and family, pondering duality, mid-life, and overcoming societal inhibitions, a unique recording studio set-up, ambience and intuitive expression, being a participant in Bob Dylan’s Shadow Kingdom film and recording project, upcoming solo and Big Thief tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1069: The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 07:00:00 GMT

Brendan Canty, Joe Lally, James Brandon Lewis, and Anthony Pirog return for a Valentine’s Day discussion about Deface the Currency, the excellent new album by The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis, what led them into a studio with engineer Don Godwin fresh off of some tour dates, the noisier, aggressive aspects of this record, social currency and community-building in music, the significance of the names of their instrumental songs, my dog Indiana Bones, how authenticity is freedom, exciting updates about their individual pursuits, upcoming tour dates, other future plans, and much more!

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Ep. #1068: Sahan Jayasuriya on ‘Don’t Say Please: The Oral History of Die Kreuzen’

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 07:00:00 GMT

Sahan Jayasuriya is here to discuss his book, Don’t Say Please: The Oral History of Die Kreuzen, loving living in Milwaukee, benefitting from the reverence that artists like Beastie Boys and Nirvana exhibited for their own influences and favourite musicians, discovering that people like Neko Case, Matt Sweeney, Dave Grohl, and David Pajo all love Die Kreuzen as he was writing a book about them, what compelled him to tell this story and his perspective on the band’s trajectory, legacy, potential reunion shows and reissues, renewed interest in his own band Good Night & Good Morning, future writing prospects, and much more.

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All Things Konsidered: The Beatles Anthology

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 04:56:53 GMT

During Family Day in Canada, my wife and kids and I gathered around our kitchen table to discuss our shared experience watching all nine episodes of The Beatles Anthology documentary series. Please enjoy two parents and their 14- and 11-year-old children reflecting upon what we learned and liked about the Beatles, including who loves John, Paul, George, and Ringo the most. One correction: contrary to what I stated during this talk, Elvis Presley did in fact perform outside of the United States of America for a run of shows in Canada, sorry.

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Ep. #1067: The Paranoid Style

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:43:13 GMT

Elizabeth Nelson returns to discuss the Paranoid Style and their new album, Known Associates, life near Washington D.C., a recap of our recent discussion about the Replacements’ Let It Be reissue, a brief overview of American paranoia, her penchant for wordy lyrics and how that impacts her as a singer, some of her favourite sincerely humorous songwriters, Scott Joplin’s “The Entertainer” and Bob Dylan’s “Love and Theft,” her love of musicals and nodding to other people’s songs, why I think she might dig Carolyn Mark, playing rare shows, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1066: Michael Longfellow

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:00:00 GMT

Michael Longfellow is here to discuss life as a lazy student and his creative writing academic pursuits, how and why he got into comedy and music as a kid, growing up with different step-parents and step-siblings and what his kinfolk think about him making jokes about them specifically, why he’s uncomfortable being compared to Norm Macdonald but why he reminded me of Norm when he was on Saturday Night Live, insights about how SNL works and why Lorne Michaels knows what he’s doing, how he actually got on the show in the first place and his background as a sketch writer and performer, what we both got out of reading a recent Lorne Michaels biography, his perspectives on not being asked back to SNL this year after three seasons and personal highlights from his time on the show, what fans can expect from his Just for Laughs Vancouver show on February 13, a new stand-up special and other writing and performance plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1065: Brian Raftery on 'Hannibal Lecter: A Life'

Sat, 07 Feb 2026 09:00:00 GMT

Brian Raftery is here to discuss his excellent new book, Hannibal Lecter: A Life, the Burbank Burger King from Back to the Future, what exactly prompted him to explore the origin story and pervasiveness of Hannibal Lecter, his mysterious and seldom-interviewed creator, the best-selling author Thomas Harris, why people love fictitious and apparently also real-life antiheroes, a rundown of the history of Lecter in literature, television, and film beyond The Silence of the Lambs and why Brian Cox was such a compelling Hannibal, how the character is scarier the less we see of him, a great Patton Oswalt bit about prequels, the underrated NBC series Hannibal, why Donald Trump may have started saying, “The late, great Hannibal Lecter” at his political rallies, whether we may ever hear from Harris and Lecter again, Brian’s future plans, and much more!

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Ep. #1064: Aquakultre

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 07:00:00 GMT

Lance Sampson from Aquakultre returns to discuss his new album 1783, the time I saw him request and receive chicken wings while performing on-stage and why his friends and family often engage in their own version of Hot Ones, how his research about the history of African Nova Scotia or Black Nova Scotia led him to write songs, why he engaged in this research initially and what he learned about his home province, his fascination with historical fractures and community-building, police and cultural erasure, archival recordings and eeriness, working with producer Erin Costello and the sound of this record, a family singalong and the motion picture Jaws, what’s next for 1783, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1063: Ratboys

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 07:00:00 GMT

Julia Steiner from Ratboys returns to discuss their new album, Singin’ to an Empty Chair, processing the death of comedy legend Catherine O’Hara, writing songs inspired by her first experiences in therapy, working with producer Chris Walla and songs that combine session work at a rented cabin with those recorded at Electrical Audio, Steve Albini’s drum sound, anxiety, dogs, and Indiana Jones, our shared love of the Beths and Miriam Toews, addressing empty chairs and the time Clint Eastwood did that, Jimmie Kilpatrick, Thrush Hermit, and Joel Plaskett, going to a songwriting camp with Blake Mills, tour dates, other future plans, and much more!

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Ep. #1062: ER Jurken

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 07:00:00 GMT

ER Jurken returns to discuss his wonderful new album, To Be Continued, topical and timeless songwriting, political satire and comedy on late night tv talk shows, the band Wilco playing Ed’s song “Let Go the Coat” through the P.A. at their shows after they’ve left the stage, getting over a prolonged bout of writers’ block, why several of his new songs invoke travelling, key inspirations like Neil Young, Crosby, Stills, and Nash, the Grateful Dead, and Steely Dan, what it could mean to become continued, working with the band Junegrass, future plans, and much more!

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Ep. #1061: Pelican

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 07:00:00 GMT

Trevor Shelley de Brauw from Pelican is here to discuss the band’s album, Flickering Resonance, our history of working together because of his role in music publicity, the city of Chicago’s music dynamism, a brief foray into North Carolina farming, how guitar teachers underestimate Ramones songs, seeing significant shows at Fireside Bowl as a teenager, the antagonistic antics of Tusk, where Pelican came from and why its original line-up reunited, why I think every band should break up so they can miss the band and then appreciate it more when it gets back together, temporality and self-awareness, working as a music publicist, the future of Pelican, and much more! A note that since Trevor and I recorded this interview, Run For Cover released a new EP by Pelican called Ascending on January 23, 2026.

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Ep. #1060: Motherhood

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 07:00:00 GMT

Brydon Crain, Adam Sipkema, and Penelope Stevens from Motherhood are here to discuss their January 2026 shows in the Canadian Prairies, their latest album Thunder Perfect Mind, university courses, music school, and religious studies, spiritual and musical communities, Penny’s time in Vietnam and observations about communism, the story of Motherhood, how I think my son is trying to be better at life than me, the band’s Deerhoof connections, fantastical aspects of Motherhood’s music and the sci-fi themes on their latest album, their other bands like Sam Salmon and Penny & The Pits, future plans, and much more!

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Ep. #1059: Hiss Golden Messenger

Tue, 20 Jan 2026 07:00:00 GMT

MC Taylor from Hiss Golden Messenger is here to discuss life in Durham, North Carolina and the time he spent in San Francisco, California, the Grateful Dead and Dead Kennedys, why he was so fascinated by the American South, he decided to move there 20 years ago, his love for the Band and the motifs in their music, if his academic background in American studies, folklore, and history offers him much perspective on the current state and future path of his country, his decision to work with Chrysalis Records and what may have inspired any new songs he may have written and recorded for a new Hiss album, how travel and touring can inspire him as an artist, his Winterruption 2026 dates in Edmonton and Winnipeg, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1058: Paul Myers on ‘John Candy: A Life in Comedy’

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 07:00:00 GMT

Paul Myers is here to discuss his new book, John Candy: A Life in Comedy, how the actor and producer Ryan Reynolds helped him get from a Boston event about the documentary, John Candy: I Like Me, to an Edmonton book event within 24 hours and in style, the fortuitous connection between the documentary and the book, which were made independent of one another but released around the same time, a Myers family member’s pivotal interaction with John Candy and why Paul decided to write this book, the remarkable array of people he interviewed, including Catherine O’Hara, Joe Flaherty, Tom Hanks, Steve Martin, and Martin Short, what he learned about Candy’s sensitivity to body shaming and other emotional hardships, the Record Store Day Podcast, future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1057: cub

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 07:00:00 GMT

Lisa G and Lisa Marr from cub are here to discuss the 30th anniversary vinyl edition of Come Out Come Out, the significant year in culture that was 1995, being pegged as “cuddlecore” in a time where labels and preconceptions were being shaken off on the regular, not identifying as men in a predominantly male underground music community and how some fans treated cub, vinyl records and the pros and cons of the internet, when Nardwuar asked Lisa Marr to join his band the Evaporators so she learned how to play the bass in five days by playing along to Ramones songs and also what it was like for her to meet Joey Ramone, learning how to be a performer in public, why cub broke up, what this reissue might mean for future cub activity, what’s next for each of the Lisas, and much more!

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Ep. #1056: ‘Plenty for All: The Art of Rick Fröberg’ with Sohrab Habibion & Johnny Temple

Tue, 13 Jan 2026 07:00:00 GMT

Sohrab Habibion and Johnny Temple are here to discuss the book, Plenty for All: The Art of Rick Fröberg, how they each met and got to know Rick and how this book came to be, the role the late Rich Jacobs played in this project, how this book and the zine that’s part of the deluxe edition might surprise Rick’s fans, the story of Akashic Books and why Sohrab thought it was the perfect home for Rick’s art, Rick’s different names and a surprising umlaut, upcoming book and live music events that commemorate this book, whether we may hear unreleased music by Rick’s bands like Hot Snakes and Obits someday soon, Fake Names and Savak updates, a by now unsurprising tangent about the Doors on this show, new Akashic titles, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1055: Pullman

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 07:00:00 GMT

Chris Brokaw, Ken “Bundy K.” Brown, Curtis Harvey, and Doug McCombs are here to discuss III, the first album by Pullman in 25 years, what inspired Pullman to explore acoustic guitar sounds in the late 1990s, the positive but also harsh critical reception their first two albums, 1998’s Turnstyles & Junkpiles and 2001’s Viewfinder received, how Tim Barnes joined Pullman and also his role as the drummer on American Water by Silver Jews, which David Berman had originally invited Chris to appear on and Chris’ feelings about not doing that, the fan mail Berman sent to Chris’ band Come, having Pullman’s second of two New York City shows get cancelled because of 9/11 and what it was like to be in the city that day, Doug’s sudden departure, how Tim contributed to III, Doug’s surprising return, whether Pullman might play shows, everyone’s respective future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1054: Mark Medley

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 07:00:00 GMT

Mark Medley is here to discuss his remarkable new book, Live to See the Day - Impossible Goals, Unimaginable Futures, and the Pursuit of Things That May Never Be, our experiences at writers’ festivals, questions I have about how book publicity works and whether or not some publishers promote their authors and books, what inspired him to write this 10-chapter book of case studies about people who knowingly and passionately engage in difficult if not impossible projects and don’t seem to worry about reaching a goal of some kind, selfless pursuits to help generations to come, normal people attempting to make life extraordinary, understanding risk aversion, what’s next for him, and much more.

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Ep. #1053: Mint Mile

Fri, 02 Jan 2026 07:00:00 GMT

Tim Midyett from Mint Mile returns to discuss andwhichstray, what recent Silkworm reunion shows have been like, the throughlines between songs he wrote in that band about mortality, connection, and community and his most recent Mint Mile material, how fortune enabled him to make one more record with his late friend Steve Albini, who engineered andwhichstray in France during the second last recording session of his life, how he relates to records he has made with people who are gone, finally listening to and recording a song that the late Jason Molina wrote for Silkworm after drummer Michael Dahlquist was killed in a car accident twenty years ago, bands like Pavement who play live but don’t make new records and whether he thinks Silkworm might write new songs, Aerosmith and Die Kruezen, upcoming Silkworm shows, other future plans, and much more!

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All Things Konsidered: The Best Albums of 2025

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 07:00:00 GMT

My son, who is 14, and I discuss our top 10 albums of 2025, along with several honourable mentions. Each of us mostly highlighted records the other wasn’t all that familiar with, and other members of our family make background or brief appearances on this episode as well. All in all, these are some eclectic lists, so we hope our music recommendations help you in some way!

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Ep. #1052: Sleepytime Trio

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 07:00:00 GMT

Dave NeSmith and Drew Ringo from Sleepytime Trio are here to discuss Memory Minus Plus Minus, their current music community involvement, the Guelph house show they played and the ice cream tricycle Drew rode around on that day, the significance of bands like Hoover, Shotmaker, Fugazi, Slint, and Drive Like Jehu, making hip-hop music and getting into shoegaze, why kids can’t be blamed for the technology at their disposal, the odds of Sleepytime Trio recording new songs, upcoming shows, other future plans, and much more!

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METZ (2010, 2012)

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Ep. #1051: Friendly Rich

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 07:00:00 GMT

Friendly Rich returns to discuss his latest album, The Birds of Marsville, his Brampton, Ontario pride, completing his PhD in music education and becoming a doctor, what having a giant beard might mean, playing the artistic and comedic long game, learning more about Marsville, the eighteenth-century researcher C. Smalloochi, and the orchestrion’s capabilities as a musical instrument, getting into birds, birders, and birding, Canadian arts grants, challenging the players on this album, Gordon Heavyfoot, future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1050: Jimmie Kilpatrick

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 07:00:00 GMT

Jimmie Kilpatrick returns to discuss his excellent album Jimmie, the heartening experience of living in Manitoba, Canada these days and concentrating on his community, why he retired his Shotgun Jimmie name, bringing his sound sculpture work into his indie-rock aesthetic, collaborating with Ladyhawk’s Ryan Peters and messing around with tape loops, making subversive pop music, numerous lyrical references to analog and communication technology and falling asleep, keeping a little too busy, touring with the Burning Hell and alluding to Joni Mitchell, pondering work with John Samson Fellows, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1049: Rebecca Foon and Aliayta Foon-Dancoes

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 07:00:00 GMT

Rebecca Foon and Aliayta Foon-Dancoes are here to discuss their debut album, Reverie, studying at Princeton, their family dynamic and their respective early forays in classical music, how much formal music education can inform improvisation and punk rock, Rebecca’s work on the Lost River Music Festival and the Pathway to Paris initiative, how their feelings about the ecological inspiration behind Reverie are more melancholy since collective climate change mitigation targets have not been met, a conversation about the novel The Alchemist with Patti Smith and Jesse Paris Smith, what’s next, and much more.

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Nomeansno (2011)

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 18:25:53 GMT

On a recent Kreative Kontrol episode, Mark Molnar mentioned his fondness for a radio interview I once conducted with Tom Holliston, John Wright, and Rob Wright from Canada’s greatest band, Nomeansno. And so, here’s that interview, which occurred over breakfast at the By the Way Café in Toronto, Ontario on April 5, 2011. It’s one of my most cherished work life experiences, so thank you again to Nomeansno, whose entire catalogue is now available on streaming services, and Alternative Tentacles is reissuing their catalogue in physical forms too.

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Ep. #1048: Mark Molnar

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 07:00:00 GMT

Mark Molnar is here to discuss his new album EXO, being made to take classical music lessons at three years old over pursuing sports, key figures in his life who exposed him to music, musicians, and ways to approach your musical instrument, the death of arts funding and risk aversion in the cultural sector, his engagement with my music journalism and a breakfast interview I once did with Nomeansno, the state of contemporary classical music and whether he and other Constellation Records artists might fit within it, his own label Black Bough Records, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1047: Lonnie Holley

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 07:00:00 GMT

Lonnie Holley is here to discuss his 2025 album Tonky, his view of and appreciation for Canada, the role the country played for African-American slaves and the evolution of terms ascribed to Black people in America, growing up in juke joints, whiskey houses, and slave camps in Alabama in the 1950s, his interest in salvaging objects to make art, his observations about historical cycles, his song “Protest With Love” and viewing presidencies as temporary viruses, what’s next, and much more.

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Buck 65 on Bike For Three! (2009)

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 21:48:55 GMT

Sometime this past November, a Patreon subscriber named Brian asked me if I might have any older interviews with Buck 65 in my archives. So, I took a look and sure enough, I do, including a 2009 talk about his Bike For Three! collaboration with Joëlle Phuong Minh Lê. Then, on December 4, 2025, Mr. 65 released a Deluxe Edition of More Heart Than Brains, which was the debut record by Bike For Three! and was originally released on May 26, 2009. Then I thought, “Huh, sharing this old interview is rather timely,” and so that’s what I’m doing. From what I can tell, this interview with Rich Terfry was recorded in May 2009. Enjoy!

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Ep. #1046: Jim White and Guy Picciotto

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 07:00:00 GMT

Jim White and Guy Picciotto return to discuss Jim’s new album Inner Day, the beginning of New York City’s Zohran Mamdani era, Jim’s recent shows with Ed Kuepper, Jim’s decision to write lyrics and sing them, his relationship with words and their power, Jim briefly singing on a Hard Quartet song, my favourite song of the year, “I Don’t Do / Grand Central” and how this collaboration with Zoh Amba came to pass, dancing with your musical instrument, their new trio with Colleen Burke, contributing music to a Jem Cohen film, new ideas, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1045: The Beths

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 07:00:00 GMT

Elizabeth Stokes and Jonathan Pearce from the Beths are back to discuss their new album, Straight Line Was a Lie, NBA basketball, cricket, and baseball, overcoming writer’s block by reading a book by Stephen King, Liz’s health challenges and her current state of mind, how Jonathan and his bandmates have supported and worked with her in recent years, a helpful typewriter, accepting that people change, Sonic Youth’s “Teenage Riot” and writing a rather dynamic Beths record, Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Ark, cover songs, current tour dates, new songs, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1044: Steve Albini (2008)

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 07:00:00 GMT

On Saturday, November 29, 2025, the annual Letters to Santa Holiday Gala is taking place at the Chop Shop in Chicago. This year’s event is headlined by Fred Armisen and Jeff Tweedy and if you can’t make it to Chicago, you can learn how to livestream it and donate money to this remarkable and life-affirming and live-saving poverty alleviation initiative at letterscharity.org.

People who are familiar with the history of Kreative Kontrol know that the late Steve Albini and I would often have talks just ahead of each year’s Letters to Santa event, to catch up on stuff, ponder the year that was, and spread the word about Letters to Santa.

While Steve and I can’t have such conversations anymore, to maintain the tradition and spirit of the talks we had, I plan to feature archival interviews I conducted with Steve over the years, presenting them here ahead of Letters to Santa events for as long as possible.

If my records are correct, here now is the third radio interview that I asked Steve to participate in. It took place in the early fall of 2008 just ahead of Shellac playing what I’m rather certain were their first and only ever shows in Toronto and Montreal. Discussion topics included the friendly but somewhat tense diplomatic relationship between Canada and the United States of America, and how the Republican Party was letting “the oldest man in the world” run for president to further their ruinous policies and strengthen their vision for a police state. Again, this talk is from 2008.

Enjoy this blast from the past, support Letters Charity, and always and forever, thank you Steve Albini.

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Ep. #1043: Hélène Barbier

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 07:00:00 GMT

Hélène Barbier is here to discuss her excellent new record Panorama, difficulties an untrained musician might have playing music publicly in France compared to Montreal, being drawn to the low notes, imposter syndrome and loving low-key rock stars, being something of a homebody, dealing with a health diagnosis with some measure of humour, avoiding pigeonholing yourself in the press, writing songs in French or English depending on the rhythmic feel of the words, the Celluloid Lunch record label, being a dog person, upcoming shows, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1042: Liam Kazar

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 07:00:00 GMT

Liam Kazar is here to discuss his lovely new album Pilot Light, parts of Canada, living in Brooklyn but missing Chicago, being in Jeff Tweedy’s solo band and working on his recent triple album, Twilight Override, performing on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert so soon after its impending cancellation announcement, constantly touring with Jeff, Waxahatchee, Sam Evian, Kevin Morby, and on his own, multi-instrumentalists who are stymied by the drums, growing up close to the Tweedys and his father’s musical and writing pursuits, the Windy City and minimalism, board games, chess, and chance, lyrical juxtaposition, mourning what could’ve been, tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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All Things Konsidered: JID, Sloan, Julianna Riolino, Live shows

Sun, 23 Nov 2025 07:00:00 GMT

My son, who is 14, and I have been to a couple of shows together recently, including taking a trip to Vancouver to see JID and more recently, a drive to nearby Sherwood Park to see Sloan, just ahead of us heading to the Aviary in Edmonton to see Julianna Riolino on November 23. And so, we decided to record a pod about these experiences and people, and ponder what it means to see live music together, as a dad and son.

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Ep. #1041: Ryan Davis

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 07:00:00 GMT

Ryan Davis is here to discuss the new Roadhouse Band double-album, New Threats From the Soul, Indiana/Kentucky cultural and college sport rivalries, his parents’ musical interests and what led him, as a boy, to write songs for Michael Jackson and mail them to him to sing, pondering songs as puzzle pieces on his albums, Will Oldham and musical multiverses, his penchant to reference pop culture in his writing and choices he makes, the humour vs. novelty conundrum, storytelling and personal revelation, dynamic musical arrangements, interning at Drag City and befriending the late David Berman, unexpected adulation, touring, other future plans, and much more.

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Patreon Subscriber Drive 2025! Target: 700 Subs!

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 07:00:00 GMT

We did something like this successfully last year, and we’re doing it again: it’s the 2025 Kreative Kontrol Patreon subscriber drive! From November 21 to 28, we’re aiming to reach 700 paid Patreon subscribers and we can do this! Also, a new gift will be announced daily and awarded via random draws among eligible paid subs!

I will publicly announce each drive day’s prize pack in the morning on my Patreon and on socials, and people will have until midnight MT that day to subscribe and be eligible to be entered into these random draws.

All new annual subscribers will receive as many entries into the daily draw as their subscriber tier amount (i.e. if you sign up for an annual sub at $6/month, you’ll receive six entries for that day’s draw) and all existing paid subscribers and new monthly paid subscribers will receive two entries per draw.

If you’re already a paid subscriber and you refer-a-friend to subscribe during the drive, please ask them to message me and mention you, and I’ll double your entries for that day’s draw!

Thanks for your support! Let’s get to 700 Patreon subscribers! Hear me say some of these words on this episode.

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Ep. #1040: The Replacements' 'Let It Be (Deluxe Edition)' with Peter Jesperson, Jason Jones & Elizabeth Nelson

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 07:00:00 GMT

Peter Jesperson, Jason Jones, and Elizabeth Nelson are here to discuss their work on Let It Be (Deluxe Edition) by the Replacements, Peter’s fondness for Elizabeth’s writing and her excellent liner notes for this edition, Bob Mehr’s decision to step away from the Replacements reissue campaign for now and its impact on this project, the ‘Mats’ penchant for cover songs, what this might signify, and their love of NRBQ, the energetic live records included here and tracking down a fan who taped one of the shows, news about Elizabeth’s band the Paranoid Style, what’s next in Replacements reissues, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1039: Austra

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 07:00:00 GMT

Katie Stelmanis from Austra is here to discuss her new album, Chin Up Buttercup, food-related music interviews and relatable human beings, settling back in Toronto after living elsewhere, delving into heartbreak and the stages of grief to compose songs, diaristic writing about personal cataclysms and not being a words person, pandemic isolation, bubble babes, and living for Eurodance music, having to create internet content to let people know about your new album, touring, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1038: Hallelujah The Hills

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 07:00:00 GMT

Ryan H. Walsh from Hallelujah The Hills is here to discuss Deck, the band’s new star-studded 52-song, four-record set and its playing card themes, our shared love for and interactions with the late David Berman, the Toronto Silver Jews show I saw, which the Hills opened, Berman’s generosity as a mentor and a friend, his “google purity” measure, and his music competitiveness, Ryan not being into Bruce Springsteen and contemplating Nebraska and the film, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, the power of The Best Show with Tom Scharpling, the thrill of failure, his acclaimed book Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968 and what he learned from learning more about Van Morrison’s conduct, film studies and ambitious projects, the magical, sordid, and mystical history of cards, celebrating 20 years of the Hills, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1037: Sloan

Sat, 08 Nov 2025 09:00:00 GMT

Jay Ferguson and Chris Murphy from Sloan return to discuss their album, Based on the Bestseller, how their own bandmates inspire them to write better songs, why Chris’ “Open Your Umbrellas” reminds me of Dick Van Dyke and how Jay’s “Capitol Cooler” has its own whimsical yet pointed motif, connecting music, books, and movies, trying to have a fun album rollout, a funny observation about Chris by Mike O’Neill, writing topical songs, being an active band that some associate with the distant past, whether Sloan would be as big as Geese if this was their first album, touring, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1036: Overnight

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 07:00:00 GMT

Carla and Lynette Gillis from Overnight are here to discuss their new album, Put Me In Your Light, being so close, they’ve followed each other around North America, loving fashion and heavy metal, whether or not the androgyny of hair metal was more subversive than we tend to think, escapism and separation anxiety, loss, grief, and therapy, the surprising resonance of their old band Plumtree’s song “Scott Pilgrim” well after it inspired a graphic novel and major film, working with the great producer Charles Austin, the comprehensive Gillis Music Archive on Bandcamp, a hometown release show in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, other future plans, and more.

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Ep. #1035: Ed Kuepper and Jim White

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 07:00:00 GMT

Ed Kuepper and Jim White return to discuss their remarkable debut album, After the Flood, their recent Australian tour, when Ed played a show with Dirty Three in 1994 and became enamoured with Jim’s playing, the massive role Ed’s bands played in Jim’s development as a young drummer, revisiting and recording some of Ed’s songs in the Saints, Laughing Clowns, and from his solo albums, the lively, live-off-the-floor sound of their first album, plans to make another one, North American shows in November 2025, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1034: Sean Wilentz on Bob Dylan's 'Through The Open Window'

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Sean Wilentz is here to discuss co-producing Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series Volume 18: Through The Open Window, 1956-1963, New Jersey and New York City, his family’s roots in the 1960s Greenwich Village folk community, his Bob Dylan fandom origins, why he was asked to helm this volume, write its liner notes, and what he learned about Dylan, the variety of Dylan’s voices and gifts as a music interpreter, the evolution of recording technology and live bootlegs, our experiences at the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, OK, the subtlety of Dylan’s political songs, this era of Dylan’s music and the recent film, A Complete Unknown, Dylan using social media, Sean’s next book, the Court of History podcast, and much more.

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Ep. #1033: Shad

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Shad returns to discuss his new album Start Anew, the connections between its title and his 2005 debut, When This is Over, and a Hayden song, persona, the person, and ego death, yearning for challenges in life and creative work, conquering the fear of stories ending, anti-capitalism, technocracy, and the fact that the inventor of A.I. believes there’s a small chance it might kill all of us and people are ignoring him, the devaluation of music, addiction and smartphones, ending another musical chapter, touring, other future plans, and much more!

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Ep. #1032: Caged Animals

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Vincent Cacchione from Caged Animals is here to discuss the band’s new album Make Strange Friends, our encounter at Sappyfest this past summer, his move from Brooklyn to Canada and why he loves it here, working with Jon Mckiel, his work as a podcast producer, the unique radio play that ends the new album and features the esteemed writer, Larry “Ratso” Sloman, how his parents’ work in comedy, theatre, and education have shaped his own path, Sackville’s Drama Queenz and Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, loving John K. Samson, writing new songs, tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Patreon Profile: Tony Hobbs

Sun, 26 Oct 2025 19:00:00 GMT

Tony Hobbs subscribes to Kreative Kontrol on Patreon at a monthly tier that offers people a chance to appear on this show and talk about things that might be relevant to its audience and wide-ranging interests. Tony’s here to discuss Lot Miracles, a limited-edition zine series he helped launch that is inspired by the music, art, and community surrounding the Grateful Dead, and features a new curator and charitable beneficiary (i.e. the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Planned Parenthood), for each edition. Lot Miracles Issue 3 was curated by @felixheads, benefits the Divided Sky Foundation in honour of Brian Eddleman, and can be pre-ordered until October 31, 2025.

Ep. #1031: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Sat, 25 Oct 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson returns to discuss her new album Live Like the Sky, why people are so often air unaware, her book Theory of Water and how a world ending means a new one is beginning, the concept of generative refusal, lakes, oceans, skiing, running, and surfing, holding a tape recorder up to a car radio speaker to capture underground rock music in the 1980s and how those new wave and post-punk sounds inform this new record, learning to sing and making music that is fun even though the lyrics are heavy, touring, a new book, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1030: Muncho

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Andrew Mazerolle from Muncho is here to discuss his new album Is This Something?, life on both the east and west coasts of Canada, Muncho Joe and Munchos, the fried potato snack, singing in church and getting into Christian ska as a kid, falling in love with the Beatles, why Maritimes bands have such an affinity for 1960s Brit-pop, why he enjoys the limitations of four-track recording and being a one-man operation, video rental stores and the internet, writing new songs, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1029: Julianna Riolino

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Julianna Riolino returns to discuss her excellent new album, Echo in the Dust, hanging out in her childhood bedroom and reflecting upon life with our respective parents, being a particularly sensitive person and artist, existentialism, pondering the universe, and billionaires who wish to escape Earth, reflecting upon her time in and outside of Daniel Romano’s Outfit, theatricality on the new record that may stem from her youth as a drama kid, growth and heights, music production approaches, the Beatles and the Who, writing new songs, touring, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1028: Jane Inc.

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Carlyn Bezic from Jane Inc. returns to discuss her deeply personal new album, A RUPTURE A CANYON A BIRTH, moving up in the world in her Toronto home, the end of a long-term relationship and beginning a new one, a life-changing near-death experience on the road, being diagnosed with cancer and how overcoming it gave her a greater appreciation for joy and grace, the emergence of her Jane Inc. alter-ego, allusions to Nadine Gordimer and David Cronenberg, pondering the music industry, a Toronto record release show at Baby G on December 12, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1027: No Joy

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 07:00:00 GMT

Jasamine White-Gluz from No Joy is here to discuss their latest album Bugland, patios, porches, decks, and why she moved outside of Montreal, her Gord Downie-like penchant for placing the same lyrics in different songs, a shared affection for Canadian music television in the 1990s, representation, laziness, and making an effort to be a decent person to other people, a brief history of No Joy and why she always thinks it’s done after every record, working with Fire-Toolz, tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1026: Tortoise

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Dan Bitney and Douglas McCombs from Tortoise are here to discuss their new album Touch, Dan being the lone band member I’d never interviewed before now, living in Chicago under fascism, how they met because of one of Dan’s earlier bands, how Touch was made with only two bandmates living in the same city, writing some of the shortest Tortoise songs ever, leaving Thrill Jockey for International Anthem/Nonesuch, Douglas’ many other bands and upcoming releases, the stunning cover art for Touch, touring, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1025: Esther Rose

Sat, 11 Oct 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Esther Rose is here to discuss her new album Want, living in New Mexico and how locals regard Vince Gilligan’s groundbreaking TV shows, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, growing up in Detroit and going to London, Ontario to attend punk shows, the raw, confessional work of John Lennon, dealing with trauma and exploring ketamine-based psychedelic therapy, giving up drinking and pondering alcohol’s oddly dominant role in the music industry, recording emotional songs live to tape, loving standup comedy and Ann Powers’ book Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell, writing new songs, touring, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1024: Black Eyes

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Hugh McElroy and Mike Kanin from Black Eyes return to discuss their first new album in 20 years, Hostile Design, the state of American socio-political discourse, the inspiring resistance that D.C. residents have exhibited as the federal government has sent military personnel and ICE agents into the area, American history and foreign policy and where power truly lies, songwriting themes and topics explored by Black Eyes, working with Ian MacKaye as a producer, tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1023: Cate Le Bon

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Cate Le Bon is here to discuss her lovely new album Michelangelo Dying, moving closer to home in Cardiff, her initial reticence about writing a record based on declarative sentiments about a failed relationship, why she invoked an iconic artist in expressing herself through her own art, the concept of aspirational jealousy, spirituality and gratitude, collaborating with John Cale on a song and thoughts about the Velvet Underground, producing records like Cousin by Wilco, touring, writing new songs, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1022: Case Oats

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Casey Gomez Walker from Case Oats is here to discuss their new album, Last Missouri Exit, why no federal government should ever underestimate the grit and resolve of the people of Chicago, growing up in St. Louis and being assigned school band instruments, music lessons and having the right learning tools, falling in love with storytelling, a song about an ex’s girlfriend and that same girlfriend knowing about the song, writing and singing that recalls David Berman, touring, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1021: Hotline TNT

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Will Anderson from Hotline TNT is here to discuss their new album, Raspberry Moon, his love of Canada and why he almost lived here forever, moving to New York City only a few months before the COVID-19 pandemic started and how the isolation of that time bolstered his DIY ethic, a line-up shake-up, his Association Update fanzine and our love and criticism of the NBA, streaming strangeness and why he pulled his band’s catalogue from Spotify, world-building in his songs, a loving nod to Dinosaur Jr and Prince, tour, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1020: Amy Millan

Tue, 30 Sep 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Amy Millan is here to discuss her latest and deeply personal solo album, I Went to Find You, remembering Dallas Good of the Sadies, finally, as an adult and as an artist, processing the sudden death of her father when she was only five years old, how a person’s actual age might be different than their spiritual age, the key role that producer Jay McCarrol and her longtime partner and musical collaborator Evan Cranley played in shaping the sound and tone of this record and the eerie significance of the production crew being dubbed "the Diamonds," updates about Stars and their indefinite hiatus, solo tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1019: Friendship

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Dan Wriggins from Friendship is here to discuss their latest album, Caveman Wakes Up, being and having a roommate, his interest in creative writing and poetry, and being from the same state as noted author Stephen King, seeing Bob Dylan live with his father, his own musical influences and academic pursuits, temporality, fashion, and subcultural explosions, gassing up his bandmates and how Friendship works, exploring minutiae with an abstract, surreal bent, the future of Friendship, a rough Edmonton story featuring Advance Base, and much more.

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Ep. #1018: Advance Base

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Owen Ashworth from Advance Base is here to discuss his latest album, Horrible Occurrences, life in Illinois, his parents’ San Francisco high school rivalry with Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Fogerty brothers, his friendship with Dan Wriggins from Friendship and starting Orindal Records, why he ended Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, what draws him to narrative songwriting about transience and disappearances, and making conceptual records, how Pavement’s Rebecca Clay Cole connected us, future music and writing plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1017: Dun-Dun Band

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Josh Cole, Craig Dunsmuir, and Colin Fisher from Dun-Dun Band are here to discuss the September 27 Toronto release party for their new LP, Pita Parka, Pt. II : Nim Egduf, where they live and how they met, the best pizza slice in Toronto, the Holy Oak Family Singers, Not the Wind, Not the Flag, Sandro Perri, and other musical pursuits, a growing interest in physical media, Colin and I unknowingly crossing paths and sharing stages in our post-hardcore bands some 25 years ago, a mutual love for Owen Pallett and his old band Les Mouches, the inspiring work of Josh Abrams, how Dun-Dun Band operates, future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1016: Abby Govindan

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Abby Govindan is here to discuss her Pushing 30 stand-up show at Just For Laughs Toronto on September 22, visiting her family in her beloved Houston, Texas hometown, her excitement as a New Yorker with high hopes for mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, being outspoken, translating one’s affluence into empathy and fighting for those who are less fortunate than you are, the end of centrism, Malcolm X and the Black Panthers, how first generation immigrant alienation can lead to anxiety, stress, and depression, why a traumatic self-harming incident drew her family closer together, the end of her How to Embarrass Your Immigrant Parents performance run and building a new hour with Pushing 30, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1015: Alan Licht

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Alan Licht is here to discuss his recent releases, including Havens, New York City politics, plugging in and then improvising on an acoustic guitar, fond memories of the Hoboken, New Jersey venue Maxwell’s and seeing memorable shows by Ween and Eric’s Trip, meeting and playing with his old friend Tim Barnes, interpreting a Stooges song, revisiting Love Child, upcoming tour dates, other future plans, and more.

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Ep. #1014: Swans

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Michael Gira from Swans is here to discuss their exhilarating new album Birthing, an erotic dream he had about Roy Cohn, Richard Nixon, and the current president of the United States, which inspired a new song, dishonesty and the relative truth, what he reveals about himself in his music and how his aesthetic might relate to those of Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison, including contributions by his wife and children on his records, why Swans might take on a new form, debuting new songs on the road, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1013: Carson McHone

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Carson McHone is here to discuss her brilliant new album, Pentimento, news about Daniel Romano’s Outfit recording and touring activity, artistic foundations, layers, and repentance, the journal full of messages to her from her mother, which were entered since Carson was born, pondering history and the personal passage of time, celebrating creativity, motherhood, and children, assembling a band of esteemed musicians and taking some risks, theatrical and film work, touring, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1012: Jens Lekman

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Jens Lekman is here to discuss his new album and novel, Songs for Other People’s Weddings, life in Sweden, insights about being a musician and also part of an arts community that works on weddings, distinctions between authentic and cheesy music, Frank Sinatra’s album Watertown, working with author David Levithan and conversations they had about love and relationships, staging this album for a tour, an update about new music he’s working on, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1011: Saul Williams

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Saul Williams is here to discuss Saul Williams meets Carlos Niño & Friends at TreePeople, performing and improvising while suffering from jet lag, geopolitics and the crumbling American Empire, technology’s impact on socio-political awareness, capitulation, civil unrest, and anti-capitalism, working with Deerhoof and outspokenness in censorious times, his working relationship with Carlos Niño, knowledge sharing and how artists use their platforms, the reception to the film Sinners, touring, many other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1010: Kathleen Edwards

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Kathleen Edwards is here to discuss Billionaire, becoming a snowbird by getting married and moving to Florida from Canada, how relocation and travel and running a coffee shop can foster curiosity and appreciation for the human condition, accepting yourself and pondering other people’s behaviour and pain, embracing growth and confidence that stems from lived experience, reflecting upon relationships and loss, another new album, touring, other future plans, and much more!

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Ep. #1009: Superchunk

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Mac McCaughan and Laura King from Superchunk are here to discuss their new album, Songs in the Key of Yikes, North Carolina living and many Ludwig drums, writing dark-hued songs packaged in sunny, energetic arrangements, Jon Wurster retiring from Superchunk and how the band have met the challenge of filling his role, Laura’s musical background and why drummers have been in the news so much in 2025, why Mac wanted so many women from the Merge community to sing on this record, whether Superchunk could tour across Canada by train, confirmed upcoming non-train tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1008: Marc Ribot

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Marc Ribot is here to discuss his new album Map of a Blue City, his late, dear friend and beloved music producer, Hal Willner, and demoitis, how producer Ben Greenberg helped him finish an album 30 years in the making, the best way to catch bluefish and also fish you really shouldn’t eat, his relationship with his own singing voice and recent lyrical themes centred around loss, god, German Romanticism, and the Holocaust, reciting work by his late friend Allen Ginsberg, new music with Hurry Red Telephone, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1007: Chris DeVille

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Chris DeVille is here to discuss his excellent new book, Such Great Heights – The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion, his history as a music fan, musician, and music journalist at Stereogum, the impact that mass media once had on him as a source for music and music news, why his book has a particular focus on the outsized influence that Pitchfork has had on 21st century pop culture, indie rock, mainstream pop, and poptimism, what is and isn’t covered in his book and a Substack that fills some gaps, upcoming book tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1006: The Hives

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Howlin' Pelle Almqvist from the Hives is here to discuss The Hives Forever Forever The Hives, living in Sweden, whether or not the band’s substantive, outspoken lyrics get enough attention, the eerily cyclical nature of western civilization, reflecting upon being in a band for 30 odd years, another artistic outlet he has but has never really talked about before, recording fidelity and punk rock, the Bon Scott era of AC/DC, working with Beastie Boys’ Mike D who produced this album, future plans for the Hives, and much more.

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Ep. #1005: Brian Fauteux

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Brian Fauteux is here to discuss his book, Music in Orbit: Satellite Radio in the Streaming Space Age, his lifelong interest in underground music, culture, and media, how the advent of satellite radio in the early part of this century modelled the way subscription culture functions now, the huge role Howard Stern, Bob Dylan, and Eminem played in all of this, and much more. Part of the South East Community Leagues Association’s speaker series, this episode was recorded live before an outdoor audience on June 22, 2025, at Edmonton’s Capilano Skate Park.

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Ep. #1004: Liz Pelly

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Liz Pelly is here to discuss her book Mood Machine – The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, loving New York City and high hopes for mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, rationality and current reality, becoming a music fan, musician, and investigative journalist, questioning authority, corporations, and oligarchs, why Spotify has become so prominent and why some of its practices warranted further examination, how randomly viral TikTok songs lead to large Spotify pay days, ghost artists and generative AI, what’s next for her, and much more. See Liz speak at Mutek Forum in Montreal between August 20 and 22, 2025.

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Ep. #1003: Marissa Nadler

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Marissa Nadler is here to discuss New Radiations, leaving the Boston area to live in the American South, the small number of non-male music producers and why she produced her latest record herself, loving Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, dealing with the doubt, why she’s associated with metal, singing songs of solitude and independent departure, her novelist brother Stuart Nadler, characters in Bob Dylan songs, referencing cinema and making short films, a new side project, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1002: Peter Ames Carlin on Bruce Springsteen's 'Born to Run'

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Peter Ames Carlin returns to discuss his new book Tonight in Jungleland – The Making of Born to Run, the fireside chat he had at Bruce Springsteen’s home, how Springsteen was pegged to be dropped by Columbia Records if this record failed, the desperation of the artists creating this music and how that was reflected in the protagonists and narratives in these songs, the Boss’s impulsive and indecisive nature, the forthcoming biopic, Springsteen – Deliver Me From Nowhere, the Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, book tours and moderating a panel with Bruce, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1001: Thanya Iyer

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 18:00:00 GMT

Thanya Iyer is here to discuss TIDE/TIED, her recent Canadian tour and what exactly is a jazz festival these days, Montreal music inspirations, her South Indian heritage and studying music from a young age, how synthesizers and pedals impact improvisation, dealing with chronic pain and becoming a music therapist, thematic lyrics about water and breathing, writing new songs, playing Sappyfest, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1000: Ty Segall

Tue, 29 Jul 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Ty Segall is here (at last!) to discuss Possession, the vibe lights in his recording studio, how the late Steve Albini gave him great advice about studio design and construction and the time they recorded themselves smashing a toilet, starting songs off on the drums and reflecting upon click tracks, demoitis, and studio trickery, connections between his three recent records, his singing voice and writing songs with filmmaker Matt Yoka, the Guns ‘n’ Roses song “Paradise City” and Drag City album bios, working on a soccer stadium riff, future plans, and much more. This episode is dedicated to Steve Albini.

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Julie Doiron (2011) - Teaser

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 19:00:00 GMT

Between August 1 and 3, 2025 in Sackville, New Brunswick, Sappyfest celebrates its twentieth anniversary as one of the world’s best programmed and most fun music and arts festivals. Back in the summer of 2011 just ahead of the sixth annual Sappyfest, I met Julie Doiron and three of her children at Grapefruit Moon for an interview over breakfast. Aside from her inspirational work in the band Eric’s Trip and her award-winning solo trajectory, Julie founded Sappy Records and co-organized early iterations of Sappyfest. And so, I’m sharing this 2011 encounter with Julie and most of her kids (plus a cameo by Rheostatics’ Dave Bidini), because it’s enjoyable and provides some insights about her music and Sappyfest.

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Ep. #999: Cory Hanson

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 20:47:49 GMT

Cory Hanson returns to discuss “I Love People,” becoming a father and how that has altered his relationship with sleep, creativity, and time, his personal interactions with the late Lou Reed and the song he wrote about him, whether he truly loves people, his interest in folk heroes and villains like the Joker, soldiers, and one of the Eagles, a potential Western Cum trilogy, risk-taking in contemporary art and the Kendrick Lamar/Drake feud and Clipse disses, deleting twitter, playing a Wand show in Edmonton this fall, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #998: Nina Nastasia

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Nina Nastasia is here to discuss Songs for a World of Trouble, how she wound up living in Seattle and why she prefers coastal states, why her new album is currently only available on Bandcamp and not on streaming services, the strangeness of the current cultural economy, the lovely book of artwork, poems, stories, and lyrics that complements this record, making her first album without Steve Albini, inspiration from Will Oldham, touring with Mogwai, playing shows with Jolie Laide, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #997: Bria Salmena

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Bria Salmena is here to discuss Big Dog, ambivalence about moving out of Canada and my perspective on Los Angeles, the cool Toronto high school she attended and her interest in photography and art, the significance of great teachers like Jim Henderson, how co-producer Meg Remy of U.S. Girls helped her enhance her work as a vocalist, what inspired the deeply personal and clever lyrics on this album and their transitional themes, playing summer musical festivals like Hillside, new music, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #996: Bibi Club

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Adèle Trottier-Rivard and Nicolas Basque are here to discuss Bibi Club and their latest album, Feu de garde, a camping trip and returning to Guelph’s Hillside Festival, how six of their fellow 2025 Polaris Music Prize nominees are from Quebec but may not know each other, Montreal missed connections, their bilingual lyrics and upbeat sound, addressing anxiety with music to help themselves and others, Stereolab and the Stone Bonnet Choir, finishing a new album, other future plans, and much more.

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All Things Konsidered: ‘Let God Sort ‘Em Out’ by Clipse

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 08:00:00 GMT

My son, who is 13, and I have both been rather excited about the new album by Clipse coming out and when it finally did on July 11, Let God Sort ‘Em Out lived up to the hype. We’ve been listening to it and analyzing it so much, we decided to do a pod about it, so, please enjoy listening to a dad and his son talking about a rap record they like and some of the stories behind Let God Sort ‘Em Out.

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Ep. #995: Roger Clark Miller

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Roger Clark Miller is here to discuss Curiosity for Solo Electric Guitar Ensemble, life in Vermont, our warm feelings about the Steve Albini memorial we first met at, the tinnitus that initially led Mission of Burma to disband and their current status, studying music as a child, formative influences like Béla Bartók and the Beatles, seeing early shows by the Doors, the Stooges, and MC5, digital delays, surrealism, tripping, and documenting dreams, upcoming releases, tour, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #994: mclusky

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Andrew Falkous from mclusky is here to discuss the world is still here and so are we, distinctions between Britons, Canadians, and Americans and how a Vancouver show altered his perception of Canada, Brexit, Donald Trump, Ricky Gervais, Alan Partridge, and Bill Burr, artistic journeys, spite, logic, and how language can be fun and manipulative, why mclusky returned, trying to blow the Jesus Lizard off the stage, mourning his friend and frequent collaborator Steve Albini, mclusky’s penchant for pop, new songs, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep: #993: Cassia Hardy

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Cassia Hardy returns to discuss her new album In Relation, a mustard headache cure, a provocative new voicemail song that accuses her of shoplifting, craftsmanship, tech oligarchy, and repair culture, the ways that this new album is and isn’t accessible to the general public and its complementary book, pondering the Prairies from an Indigenous perspective, saluting Steve Albini and Fiver’s Simone Schmidt, hoping Bluesky is fun, playing shows, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #992: Tanya Talaga

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Tanya Talaga is here to discuss her award-winning book and its complementary documentary film, The Knowing, Scarborough pride, being discouraged to learn about her Indigenous heritage as a child, her lifelong interest in storytelling, writing for the student newspaper at the University of Toronto, establishing her Makwa Creative production company and the importance of diversification for modern media workers, what justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls looks like, why governments and the Catholic Church finally acknowledged and apologized for their treatment of Indigenous people, perspectives on genocides continuing in broad daylight despite humanity’s shared history and knowledge, what’s next for Talaga and her team, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #991: Elle Barbara

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Elle Barbara is here to discuss Word On The Street by Elle Barbara’s Black Space, Montreal construction, putting on a performance this past May in which she got married to herself, exploring terms like autogynegamy and sologamy, how this album examines and critiques food, consumerism, and classism, street art and conspiracies regarding capitalism, alienation and Scientology, working with producer Renny Wilson and the story behind the Black Space band, what’s next, and much more.

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Ep. #990: Michael Cloud Duguay

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Michael Cloud Duguay is here to discuss Wobbly Yonder, playing the 2023 Hillside Festival in Guelph with Steven Lambke and Wax Mannequin, working on new music with Mathias Kom in Newfoundland, heading north when it gets cold, a traumatic, life-altering music festival experience, dealing with addiction and anxiety, Peterborough’s vibe and the Sliver Hearts, Quinton Barnes and other exciting artists on Watch That Ends the Night, David Cloud Berman, future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #989: Bundy K. Brown, Glenn Kotche, and Jim O'Rourke on Tim Barnes

Sat, 21 Jun 2025 17:40:28 GMT

“Bundy” Ken Brown, Glenn Kotche, and Jim O’Rourke discuss Tim Barnes, who was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s in recent years, Barnes’ work as an utterly original drummer and percussionist (O’Rourke, Silver Jews, Faust, Royal Trux) and cultural curator, the June 27 release of Lost Words and Noumena by Barnes featuring contributions by Chicago Underground Duo, Deerhoof, Gastr del Sol, Helado Negro, Minutemen, Slint, Tortoise, and Wilco among others, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #988: U.S. Girls

Thu, 19 Jun 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Meg Remy from U.S. Girls makes her sixth appearance on this show to discuss Scratch It, her twin boys’ interest in sports, the influence that John Carey’s book Eyewitness To History had on her latest songs, remembering her late friend Riley Gale of the band Power Trip and reflecting upon death, celebrating and working with the great Toronto songwriter Alex Lukashevsky, the xenophobic trap that Donald Trump has set and avoiding the shaming that nationalism inspires, not meeting Patti Smith at a show they both played, a Nashville adventure featuring the legendary Charlie McCoy, the song and video for “Bookends,” writing new songs, touring, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #987: Tropical Fuck Storm

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Gaz Liddiard from Tropical Fuck Storm is here to discuss Fairyland Codex, running into kangaroos and routinely having one of the world’s most poisonous snakes show up in your house, the Gutenberg printing press, the internet, and extremist ideologies, Kurt Cobain and cultural conformity vs. galvanization and shared experiences, his musical trajectory from Australia to London, a long tour including a Calgary stop for Sled Island, writing new music, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #986: John Congleton

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Grammy Award-winning producer, engineer, and musician John Congleton is here to discuss his Animal Rites recording studio, the aftermath of the California wildfires and its air quality impact, American empathy and cruelty, why evil always loses, his dad’s inspiring musical pursuits and parental expectations, finishing his friend Steve Albini’s final recording session, starting a new all-star band, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #985: PUP

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Steve Sladkowski discusses PUP and Who Will Look After the Dogs?, sports and loud, boastful sportscasting's Canadian connection, Metallica’s Some Kind of Monster, The Beatles’ Get Back, and dysfunctional band communication, working closely with producer John Congleton, Steve’s background in jazz and improvised guitar, PUP’s ambitious, sentimental six-date Mega-City Madness Tour of Toronto, conjuring Marc Ribot and Joel Plaskett for a new song, future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #984: Lifeguard

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Asher Case and Isaac Lowenstein from Lifeguard are here to discuss Ripped and Torn, doing a podcast on the very day you graduate from high school in Chicago or while you’re stuck in New York City, side projects and hectic schedules, fine arts and electrical engineering, Electrical Audio, Tortoise, and other inspiring Chicago things, who Asher’s dad is and why he was once a guest on this show, the story of Lifeguard and their interest in song structures, abstract lyrics, and sheets of noise, writing new songs, touring, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #983: Bells Larsen

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Bells Larsen is here to discuss Blurring Time, performing duets with his old alto voice and his new baritone, cancelling an American tour in the wake of government policies that persecute and harass people with non-conforming gender identities, the widespread attention his statement on the matter received, addressing transphobia in public and his general interest in discourse, dichotomies and multiplicity, Montreal’s bagels and Liverpool’s Beatles, the male voices of Elliott Smith and Sufjan Stevens, significant numbers, working on a children’s book with his father Andrew Larsen, writing new songs, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #982: Jake Xerxes Fussell

Sat, 31 May 2025 08:00:00 GMT

Jake Xerxes Fussell discusses When I’m Called and Arthur Russell’s “Close My Eyes,” misperceptions about his relationship to folk music history, his late mentor Art Rosenbaum, why he couldn’t rebel against rebellious parents, Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music, the work of Vic Chesnutt, his own evolution as an interpreter of songs, perspectives on the merits of writing original lyrics to sing songs for a living, working on a soundtrack, tour, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #981: The Minus 5

Thu, 29 May 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Scott McCaughey discusses Oar On, Penelope! by the Minus 5, the vast collection of records in his Dungeon of Horror, the recently departed folk artist Michael Hurley, how suffering a stroke in 2017 has impacted him as a musician and songwriter with a penchant for music production perfectionism, songs about the sky, Neko Case’s memoir and Peter Ames Carlin’s recent book about R.E.M. and Scott’s thoughts about resurgent interest in his old band and the odds of them reconvening, new songs and touring, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #980: Alan Sparhawk

Tue, 27 May 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Alan Sparhawk discusses his stunning new album, With Trampled by Turtles, being home between tours, collaborating with Circuit des Yeux, how the internet affects the risks that audiences and musicians take, his daughter Hollis’ band Willem Dafoe Fanclub, mourning his late wife and musical collaborator Mimi Parker and ways friends can help you grieve, Trampled by Turtles and the gift of normalcy, working with them on this album, dealing with changes, how musicians have to hustle, the Low audio archives, writing new songs, other future plans, and much more.

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GZA (2008) - Teaser

Sat, 24 May 2025 15:00:00 GMT

During my recent conversation with Andy Shauf about the new Foxwarren album, 2, he mentioned that one of his primary production influences for this record was Liquid Swords by GZA. And so now, I present the first interview I ever conducted with GZA. This phoner took place on Monday, October 6, 2008, just before midnight, and was focused on his solo album Pro Tools, and we covered other things too, including whether Wu-Tang Clan might reconcile after their album 8 Diagrams created bad blood in the group. As it happens, Wu-Tang will be launching their final tour, Wu-Tang Forever: The Final Chamber, this summer. This interview originally aired on the Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show! on October 22, 2008.

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Ep. #979: Cici Arthur

Thu, 22 May 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Chris A. Cummings, Thom Gill, and Joseph Shabason discuss Way Through by Cici Arthur, Toronto life and the city’s best pizza, making music without drums, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Gregg Turkington, and Frank Sinatra’s Watertown, Chris’ child acting gig on SCTV, what Dorothea Paas and Owen Pallett brought to this record, songs about working, playing shows, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #978: Foxwarren

Tue, 20 May 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Andy Shauf returns to discuss Foxwarren’s excellent album 2, making his recording studio as efficient as his father’s accounting practice, Foxwarren’s origins, trying to make a live-off-the-floor record together, whether people like Paul McCartney are annoying when trying to keep recording sessions on track, not drinking and feeling healthier, the album Liquid Swords and obtaining a sampler to make a folk-rock record, Phil Donahue and the Grateful Dead, dancing, communication, and body language, making sprint records based on acrostics, his next solo album, Foxwarren tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #977: Lou Tides

Thu, 15 May 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Teeny Lieberson returns to discuss Lou Tides and Autostatic!, living in America as a Canadian, why she chose a person’s name other than her own for her solo work, making “beautiful and scary” music, how celebrating antiheroes in pop culture is working out for all of us, employing different voices as a singer when dealing with difficult lyrical themes, sobriety, shame, and psychedelia, working with Sharon Van Etten and Sleater-Kinney, ghostly visual imagery, writing and touring, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #976: Dirty Projectors

Tue, 13 May 2025 06:00:00 GMT

David Longstreth is here to discuss David Longstreth’s Song of the Earth, Performed by Dirty Projectors and s t a r g a z e, life in Los Angeles in a tumultuous ecological era, working with s t a r g a z e and the influence of Gustav Mahler, the revenge of the Earth, orcas, and using gardens as a metaphor, despair and the Beatles, why Phil Elverum from Mount Eerie might be the poet laureate of nature, working with Steve Lacy, loving Stephen Malkmus and Pavement, production ideas, other future plans, and much more.

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Grandaddy's Jason Lytle (2012) - Teaser

Sat, 10 May 2025 15:00:00 GMT

During my recent conversation with Niko Stratis about her new book, The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman, she described her affection for Jason Lytle’s band Grandaddy, and I mentioned I’d interviewed Jason before. Well, this got me looking for that talk and here it is! This phoner between Jason and I took place on Tuesday December 4, 2012 at 11 AM ET and was focused on his solo album Dept. of Disappearance, and we covered other things too, including whether or not Grandaddy might ever make music or play shows again. As it happens, Grandaddy will be on tour soon!

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Ep. #975: Deerhoof

Thu, 08 May 2025 07:00:00 GMT

John Dieterich, Satomi Matsuzaki, Ed Rodríguez, and Greg Saunier from Deerhoof discuss Noble and Godlike in Ruin, the band’s history and recurring lyrical themes about animals and magic, seeing Dokken and Krokus, the evolution of DIY music culture, the state of immigration, dehumanization, and capitalism, the Anishinaabe concept of “all of our relations,” working with Saul Williams, celebrating 31 years of Deerhoof on tour, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #974: Niko Stratis

Tue, 06 May 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Niko Stratis discusses her wonderful new memoir-in-essays, The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman, moving to Toronto by driving across Canada with a cat, Bruce Springsteen and fluid masculinity in rock, the ingenious, inspiring writings of Hanif Abdurraqib, living up to what we think our parents’ expectations of us are and honing a work ethic, love and addiction, Jon-Rae Fletcher and Kurt Cobain, physical torment and transness, Courtney Barnett and the Burning Hell, Richard Laviolette and the Community Theatre project, upcoming reading events, other future plans, and much more.

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Nikki Glaser (2016) - Teaser

Sun, 04 May 2025 21:00:00 GMT

Comedian Nikki Glaser and I spoke on the phone at 3:30 PM ET on Wednesday, July 6, 2016, not long before she was set to appear at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal. At the time, the prospects of Donald Trump becoming president of the United States of America seemed slim, but we discussed that, the political climate and how it influenced her incisive TV show Not Safe with Nikki Glaser, why comedians are often called upon to discuss socio-political issues, some people’s bizarre worldviews, and other things too. See Nikki on tour soon!

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Ep. #973: Jolie Laide

Thu, 01 May 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Nina Nastasia, Clinton St. John, Jeff MacLeod, and Morgan Greenwood from Jolie Laide discuss their new album, Creatures, Nina’s championship Kuriky skills and remembering Steve Albini, a spooky synthesizer part that was written by either Morgan or Clinton’s cat, the Edmonton/Calgary rivalry, the characters that populate the post-apocalyptic landscape of their latest songs, fifth member/producer Colin Stewart and a unique vocals approach, touring across Canada, writing again, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #972: Circuit des Yeux

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Haley Fohr returns to discuss Halo on the Inside by Circuit des Yeux, stylish, warm hats and accessories, the end of a long-term relationship and how women and men are treated differently when they create "diaristic" art, exploring new music technology and song ideas in the middle of the night, her four-octave voice, existentialism and cathexis, honesty and artifice, Diamanda Galás and having a sense of humour, her exciting live show, improvisation and Bill Nace, other future plans, and much more.

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METZ (2010, 2012) - Teaser

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 15:45:00 GMT

Toronto’s METZ were recently asked to reunite for a performance on Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney, and so I dug into my archives for my first conversation with the band’s Alex Edkins. My digging led me to our second conversation as well, so I’ve combined them here for you and other METZ fans. Alex and I had met a number of times at METZ shows before our first interview, which was a phoner that took place on Tuesday December 14, 2010, at 2:00 PM ET. Our next interview, again via telephone, took place on Tuesday June 12, 2012, at 1:00 PM ET, and we discussed the band’s big news: they’d finished their debut album, and were about to start working with Sub Pop Records.

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Ep. #971: Change of Heart

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Ian Blurton and Rob Taylor discuss the return of Change of Heart and In the Wreckage, their first album since 1997, Rob’s 1992 departure and its impact on Ian who carried on, the savvy lawyer who oversaw Change of Heart’s major label deal and helped them retain their masters, whether we might see reissues of Tummysuckle and Steelteeth, why they made a new album, Toronto themes and socio-political tones within their respective and collaborative songwriting, remembering Mike Armstrong and Al Miller, why Change of Heart are only playing two shows, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #970: William Tyler

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 06:00:00 GMT

William Tyler returns to discuss his alluring new album, Time Indefinite, moving home to Nashville from Los Angeles during a pandemic, our perspectives on a paradigm shift and political contentions about a nebulous status quo, utilizing lo-fi media sources out of necessity to write songs and make films, the state of documentation and cultural erasure, exploring family histories, trusting artistic phases, touring, other future plans, and much more.

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Nick Cave (2009) - Teaser

Sat, 19 Apr 2025 14:45:00 GMT

On the afternoon of Thursday, September 17, 2009, I interviewed Nick Cave in (what I recall was) the Park Hyatt's restaurant located in the Yorkville area of Toronto, Ontario. The occasion was to discuss his then new novel, The Death of Bunny Munro, and we also covered his work with Warren Ellis and the filmmaker John Hillcoat to score the film, The Road, why his new novel’s depiction of sexuality was revealing for both men and women, the marvels of emerging app technology and Apple's fledgling iPhone, compartmentalizing his songwriting and literary work and heading to an office every day to get those things done, and other subjects as well. This interview was originally broadcast on the Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show! on November 11, 2009. See Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on their Wild God Tour. Thank you Nick.

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Ep. #969: Yves Jarvis

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Yves Jarvis returns to discuss his astounding new album, All Cylinders, artistic growth and personal maturity, musical colours and poetic symbolism, dynamic inspirations like Paul McCartney, Prince, Stevie Wonder, and King Crimson, employing multi-instrumentalism, the admirable autonomy of stand-up comedians, expressing every single thing, tour, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #968: Kerosene 454

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Erik Denno and brothers James Wall and John Wall discuss their work together in Kerosene 454 and the Solid Brass reissue of their second album, Came By To Kill Me, the band’s history, the roads that brought them from Arizona to D.C. to California, getting into punk rock, touring with Hoover and filming some of their sets, the connection between their album art and the film The Crow, how they relate to the music and lyrics they created decades ago, whether they might play together again, other future plans, and much more.

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Reggie Watts (2012) - Teaser

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 15:00:00 GMT

I recently shared a new conversation with the band Regulator Watts, so it now seems fitting to share an older talk I had with their distant cousin, Reggie Watts, the gifted comedian, musician, and actor. Reggie and I first spoke on Wednesday May 9, 2012, at 3 PM ET, ostensibly about his then new special, A Live at Central Park, but we also covered his comedic and musical influences, his interest in Canadian television, opening for Conan O’Brien on his Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour 2010, which I saw at Massey Hall, a question from Nick Flanagan, a forthcoming television adaptation of the Comedy Bang! Bang! podcast he was co-starring in, and other things too.

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Ep. #967: Casper Skulls

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Melanie St. Pierre-Bednis, Neil Bednis, and Fraser McClean from Casper Skulls discuss their new album Kit-Cat, the TV show character Frasier Crane, the significance of alt-rock radio and MuchMusic on young minds, Robert Frost poems and being goth, the Bunnies in Berlin record made at the Romano brothers’ studio in Welland, moving from stark post-punk to heartfelt indie-rock, loving bands like Sonic Youth and Silver Jews, inspirations like “Rowdy” Roddy Piper, a Richard Hell biography, and There Will Be Blood, upcoming shows, writing new songs, other future plans, and much more!

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Ep. #966: Regulator Watts

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Alex Dunham and Areif Sless-Kitain from Regulator Watts discuss The Mercury LP, Alex building a new house in Minnesota, Areif’s stint drumming in Bluetip and his love of Hoover, why Hoover broke up and how Regulator Watts began, the cinematic nature of the band’s sound, Regulator Watts reconvening recently and recording new songs at Electrical Audio, whether this means the band might play shows again, other future plans, and much more!

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Father John Misty (2012) - Teaser

Sun, 06 Apr 2025 06:00:00 GMT

On Tuesday August 21, 2012, at 3:30 pm ET, I spoke with Josh Tillman, who’d left a popular band called Fleet Foxes to venture out on his own. He called himself Father John Misty and earlier that spring, Sub Pop had released his acclaimed debut album, Fear Fun. Josh and I had a talk about its meta- and philosophical themes, why he name dropped people like Neil Young and Jean-Paul Sartre, the novel he’d written, why he left Fleet Foxes, his interest in comedy, what his favourite Bob Dylan song was and under appreciated and over discussed aspects of Dylan’s work, future plans, and more.

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Ep. #965: Marlaena Moore

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Marlaena Moore discusses Because You Love Everything, leaving Edmonton for Montreal, being tall among the smaller, playing bass in a garage rock band, why imposter syndrome can be a form of narcissism, working with “Monty” Munro and Chris Dadge, Chad VanGaalen’s way of life, loving Sarah McLachlan and Annie Lennox, being at peace with death, the Cherish This Tour with Land of Talk, working on new songs, other future plans, and much more!

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Ep. #964: Daryl Hall

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Daryl Hall is here discuss to his latest album D, historic home preservation and restoration, working with the Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart, classic rock radio and how legacy artists stay vital, why he started the inventive, award-winning web series Live from Daryl’s House and its current status, working with Robert Fripp on 1980’s Sacred Songs and his interest in outsider music, what he makes of contemporary pop singing, working with younger artists, whether he misses working with John Oates, touring a lot, other future plans, and much more.

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Patti Smith (2007) - Teaser

Sun, 30 Mar 2025 06:00:00 GMT

On April 12, 2007, I had two phone calls with Patti Smith for a print piece about both her then-new album, Twelve, which features her interpretations of songs by other artists, and her life and work. We were originally only meant to speak once but, after a publicist cut us off after 25 minutes, Patti told me she found my questions thoughtful, asked for my phone number, and promised to call me later that night to talk further, after she was done the press junket she was on. Roughly four hours later, she called me back and we spoke for another 35 minutes. I still marvel at this kindness and respect she displayed to me, a young, green journalist she felt some connection with. We were both ailing with a stubborn, recurring cough and cold that day, which we commiserated over, but we also talked about Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan, how Donald Trump and other real estate developers were ruining New York City, Robert Mapplethorpe’s role in her work, gravitating to male musicians, losing her husband Fred “Sonic” Smith and balancing work and raising a family, what the future held, and more.

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Ep. #963: Destroyer

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Dan Bejar discusses the new Destroyer album Dan’s Boogie, why he feels better about this album than his last one, expressing opinions to collaborator John Collins without saying a word, whether or not he thinks Jim Morrison is still alive and well in Syracuse, New York, collaborating with Fiver’s Simone Schmidt and why they’re one of the best singers working today, his interest in Italian crooners and jazz musicians, improvising lyrics about the Houston Rockets and orgies, quoting Bob Dylan and Scott Walker, dark comedy and getting older, playing shows, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #962: Tom Beaujour & Richard Bienstock on 'Lollapalooza'

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock discuss their new book Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story Of Alternative Rock’s Wildest Festival, living among bears, whether Guitar World journalists are required to shred, why their book Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion and Michael Azerrad’s Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981–1991, led them to Lollapalooza’s rise and fall, activism, credibility and selling out, why many artists who played or agreed to play Lollapalooza were not into it, Guided by Voices destroying Beastie Boys in backstage basketball games, the infamous year Metallica headlined, why Kim Thayil wrote the foreword, if this book could be more than a book, other future plans, and much more.

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Van Dyke Parks (2010) - Teaser

Sat, 22 Mar 2025 16:00:00 GMT

Back in September, 2010, I had the tremendous opportunity to interview Van Dyke Parks on two occasions. The second time was live before an audience at Pop Montreal. The first time was over the phone for the Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show!, which I co-hosted with my wife Michelle. Here for you now, as it aired on September 29, 2010, is my radio interview with Van Dyke Parks.

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Ep. #961: Eliza Niemi

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Eliza Niemi is back to discuss her wonderful new solo album Progress Bakery, her creative life post-Mauno, why she’s been focusing more on cello and the creative and collaborative opportunities it’s providing her, working closely with Dorothea Paas and Louie Short, dealing with a frightening illness alone while completing a residency in New Mexico, Dogman, fireflies, and other creatures and themes on her new album, playing shows, writing new songs, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #960: Kim Thayil

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Kim Thayil from Soundgarden, 3rd Secret, and Nudedragons is here to discuss how the roots of Sub Pop and Seattle’s sound are in Illinois, growing up as Indian guys in a rather white underground rock world, his foreword for the new Lollapalooza book and the festival’s positive and negative impacts on independent culture, the story behind 3rd Secret, whether people got Soundgarden’s sense of humour, if Soundgarden’s members will play together again, fascinating updates about Soundgarden material recorded before Chris Cornell’s tragic death, Cornell’s remarkable coordination as a singer playing complex guitar parts, future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #959: Real Sickies

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 06:00:00 GMT

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Ben Disaster is here to discuss Real Sickies and their new album Under a Plastic Bag, his weekly CJSR radio show, This is Pop, festive DIY kitchen parties on the east coast of Canada and the uniquely different Alberta vibe, the girl in grade three who gave him a mixtape that changed his life when he was in kindergarten, feeling rather informed when you’re involved in underground culture, being a fan of Green Day as a kid and then becoming friendly with Billie Joe Armstrong after he said he likes Real Sickies, working with Josh Wells from Autogramm, field recording trains and burying your phone in dirt, the new album’s dark but empowering themes, new music, shows, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #958: Nels Cline

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 06:00:00 GMT

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Nels Cline returns to discuss his new album and band, Nels Cline: Consentrik Quartet, empathetic collaboration and op art, composition and improvisation in music and also in films like 1953’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, a James Brandon Lewis observation about what experienced players bring to in-the-moment music-making, the role of stage wear, having your name in your band’s name, not loving guitar solos, Wilco news, what’s next for his own work, other future plans, and much more.

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Bob Mould (2014) - Teaser

Sat, 08 Mar 2025 23:30:00 GMT

I’ve had the good fortune of interviewing Bob Mould a couple of times in my life. In honour of his new album, Here We Go Crazy, here’s a previously unreleased conversation we had at 1:30 PM ET on Wednesday, June 25, 2014, about his album Beauty & Ruin.

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Ep. #957: The Burning Hell

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 07:00:00 GMT

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Ariel Sharratt and Mathias Kom from the Burning Hell are back to discuss their new album, Ghost Palace, DIY home renovations and instructional videos on YouTube, writing songs about death and the apocalypse but in a super fun way, how we strangely can find time for leisure during horrible events and post through everything, sci-fi and prescient art, nostalgia, disassociation, and song lyric misinterpretation, the collaborative framework of this new album, its stunning artwork, replacing social media with physical zines, touring, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #956: The Tubs

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 07:00:00 GMT

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Owen Williams from the Tubs discusses their excellent album, Cotton Crown, DADGAD guitar tuning and affinities for artists like Big Star, Richard Thompson, and SZA, how the humour in his music can be overlooked for its sentimentality, his unique musical upbringing and penchant for misbehaviour as a young teen, processing his mother’s suicide, his prose writing background, starting Perfect Angel Press, and updates about two of his novels, what Gob Nation is all about and spitting on people, Sonic Youth and Superchunk allusions, touring, working on a new album, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #955: Bonnie Trash

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 07:00:00 GMT

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Emmalia Bortolon-Vettor and Sarafina Bortolon-Vettor from Bonnie Trash are back to discuss their new album Mourning You, the narrative aspects of Emma’s instrumental pieces, Sara’s personal lyrics, and track list typography on Mourning You, how to get revenge on death, Diamanda Galás, comedy in horror, and kissing symbolism, Emma Howarth-Withers and Dana Bellamy joining as the rhythm section, Sara’s octopad liberation but not yet performing like Michael Stipe and Eddie Vedder, touring, writing new songs, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #954: Peter Ames Carlin on R.E.M.

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 07:00:00 GMT

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Peter Ames Carlin is here to discuss his new book, The Name of This Band is R.E.M., his background as a fledgling musician and culture writer, developing lovely rapports with Brian Wilson and Bruce Springsteen but not so much with Paul Simon, why he wanted to write a definitive book about the rather private R.E.M. and why they chose to participate only from a distance, the quiet manner in which R.E.M. broke up and also why they seem to be popping up a lot these days, Carlin’s forthcoming book about Springsteen, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #953: Steve Moriarty from the Gits

Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:00 GMT

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Steve Moriarty from the Gits is here to discuss his book, Mia Zapata & The Gits: A Story of Art, Rock, and Revolution, his literary influences, his issues with the true crime industry and why he wanted to tell the Gits’ story from his own perspective, the band’s unique rhythm section and why the Gits still stand out, a chaotic attempt to hang out with Nirvana and speak with Kurt Cobain when their bands played together, love from Kathleen Hanna and the Gits’ influence on subsequent bands, the Sub Pop reissue of their debut album Frenching the Bully, future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #952: Silkworm

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 07:00:00 GMT

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Andy Cohen and Tim Midyett from Silkworm discuss the new Developer reissue, our shared experience at a memorial for Steve Albini this past summer where Joel RL Phelps joined them for their first Silkworm set together in 30 years, monumental news about upcoming Silkworm shows, revisiting Developer’s lyrical themes and Albini’s sounds, rarities, including a Bob Dylan song performed with Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus, Midyett’s band Mint Mile making a new album with Albini a week before he died and what his loss means to Silkworm, forthcoming solo music, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #951: Mark Ibold, Scott Kannberg, Jeffrey Lewis Clark, Jed I. Rosenberg & Brian Thalken on ‘Louder Than You Think: A Lo-Fi History of Gary Young And Pavement’

Tue, 18 Feb 2025 07:00:00 GMT

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Mark Ibold and Scott Kannberg from Pavement, director Jed I. Rosenberg, and producers Jeffrey Lewis Clark and Brian Thalken discuss Louder Than You Think: A Lo-Fi History of Gary Young and Pavement, our states of being near the strange top of 2025, their respective experiences knowing Gary and playing in the Fall of Christianity and Pavement, Mark’s memory of Scott’s socks-and-Birkenstocks stage wear and first encountering Gary, how this film was conceived of and navigating Gary’s alcoholism and ill health to interview him, marionettes, LSD, and Pavement puppets, Gary’s remarkable drumming, another new Pavement song that appears in this film, future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #950: Gianmarco Soresi

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 07:00:00 GMT

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Gianmarco Soresi is here ahead of his Biltmore Cabaret Just for Laughs Vancouver shows on February 17 and 18, and discusses recurring crowd work characters, moving to L.A. just before the recent wildfires, what air travel bits really tell us about capitalism and bureaucracy, America wanting to overtake Canada, perspectives on Broadway and theatre that pops, creating socially conscious, political comedy that actually makes everyone laugh, why politicians cozying up to wealthy comedians and podcasters like Joe Rogan seems not good, why someone like Michelle Wolf should be celebrated, something special he’s taping at The Elysian Theater in L.A. from February 13-16, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #949: Richard Davies from the Moles

Wed, 12 Feb 2025 07:00:00 GMT

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Richard Davies is here to discuss Composition Book, the new album by the Moles, life in New England and a fascination with the sharks there and in Australia, how his lifelong hearing impairment has impacted his work as a lawyer and musician, telling relatable stories before an audience and a jury, his questions about my own trajectory and work and a Beatles tangent, a new song with nods to Bob Dylan and Chuck Berry, his long and active handwritten letter correspondence with Robert Pollard from Guided by Voices and other insights about Bob, tour dates with Tobin Sprout, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #948: Margaret Cho

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 07:00:00 GMT

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Margaret Cho is here to discuss her album Lucky Gift, her February 16 Live and LIVID! tour date at Just For Laughs Vancouver, her experience with the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires and our increasingly hot planet, the socio-political state of the USA, its impact on her stand-up tour, and whether or not total losers can be beaten if they keep winning, her parents’ love of music and comedy concerns, Korea’s collective comedians, inspirations like Sandra Bernhard and Billy Bragg, how Tim Heidecker may have perfected the comedy/music tour, writing songs in tribute to Robin Williams and Nex Benedict, whether she’ll do a full music-oriented tour, and much more.

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Ep. #947: FACS

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 07:00:00 GMT

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Brian Case discusses the new FACS album Wish Defense, when we met in Edmonton, St. Louis musical mentors, seeing Fred Armisen’s band Trenchmouth, loving underground Chicago rock music and key British post-punk bands, a shared adoration for Hoover, exploring duality via Naomi Klein, why FACS recorded Wish Defense with Steve Albini, his perspective on Steve’s demeanour and behaviour during what was sadly his final session, how they and Electrical Audio colleagues dealt with Steve’s sudden death by honouring and finishing the work he’d started, FACS tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #946: James Brandon Lewis

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 07:00:00 GMT

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James Brandon Lewis returns to discuss the new James Brandon Lewis Trio album, Apple Cores, playing with Josh Werner and Chad Taylor, Werner’s Wu-Tang Clan connections, Buffalo-based inspirations like Rick James and Soulive, significant works by A Tribe Called Quest and Black Star, how Don Cherry and Amiri Baraka are reflected on this new record, touring with the Messthetics again and what encountering their audience has meant for him, other future plans, and much more.

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Bonnie "Prince" Billy (2019) - Teaser

Sun, 02 Feb 2025 20:47:13 GMT

In my most recent Kreative Kontrol newsletter, I mentioned that I’d done a long-form interview with Will Oldham about his 2019 album, I Made a Place, but it was only used for a print piece, not for this podcast because, at the time, he was feeling ambivalent about being on pods. Sometime in the last couple of years, I asked Will if I could share this phoner, and he said yes, so here it is finally, virtually unedited.

The conversation lasted about an hour and took place on Monday, September 29, 2019 at 11:00 AM ET, and you’ll hear us discussing topics like, me attempting to call him using the telephone app on my MacBook, as I often did at the time, but for some reason my computer perplexingly launched a program I’d never used before called Zoom, the return of Bonnie “Prince” Billy music after a long absence, the albums of songs he made written by the likes of the Everly Brothers, Merle Haggard, Susanna, and Mekons, wariness about oversaturated streaming culture, recording a Ramones song with David Berman (who’d died on August 7, just weeks before this conversation) and thoughts on DCB, Will’s love of Jake Xerxes Fussell, the Oldham family’s lengthy history with and a then-recent pilgrimage to Hawaii, and much more.

The wonderful new Bonnie “Prince” Billy album, The Purple Bird, is out now!

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Ep. #945: The Gits

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 07:00:00 GMT

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Matt Dresdner and Andy Kessler from the Gits are here to discuss the 2025 Sub Pop reissue of their excellent 1992 debut album, Frenching the Bully, moving to Seattle in 1989 before Nirvana broke, youthful record store hangouts, rock god encounters, CBGBs shows, and seeing Descendents, why Andy initially despised Matt, recalling their late bandmate Mia Zapata, where the Gits might’ve taken their music, if they see their influence in younger musicians, whether there’re more stories to tell about the Gits, a Bob Dylan tangent, this weekend’s Gits celebrations, future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #944: Bonnie "Prince" Billy

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 07:00:00 GMT

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Will Oldham is back to discuss the excellent new Bonnie “Prince” Billy album, The Purple Bird, stoves and broilers, Lori Damiano’s album art, first encountering producer David “Ferg” Ferguson, our lengthy 2006 hangout, singing one of his own songs as a duet with Johnny Cash in a vocal booth, marvelling at great conversationalists, why me and my family think this new album is all hits, “Cowboy” Jack Clement and why a song about gun violence is a polka, pondering water, why living and trying to make a living isn’t in vain, new song updates, touring, other future plans, and much more.

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Bonnie "Prince" Billy (2006) - Teaser

Sat, 25 Jan 2025 21:14:25 GMT

The first time I interviewed Will Oldham, it was in-person at a Toronto café on August 19, 2006. He’d played an in-store at Rotate This (Queen & Bathurst location) earlier in the day, and I was told I had 25 minutes to ask him about his then new album, The Letting Go. It was a magazine assignment, but I also planned to use it for my young campus/community radio show, and so we pretended we were live on the air, early on a Wednesday morning (it aired on September 13, 2006). I abided by the 25-minute limit, turning my minidisc recorder off once the interview was done. Will and I then chatted in that noisy café for close to three more hours. In a way, we’ve been bonded ever since, having had many of the most enjoyable, insightful conversations I’ve had with anyone since I began interviewing people for a living.

The new Bonnie “Prince” Billy album, The Purple Bird, is out January 31, 2025. There’s a connection between how this record was made and that long, informal talk Will and I had, so I thought I’d share my first interview with him.

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Ep. #943: André Ethier

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 07:00:00 GMT

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André Ethier is back to discuss his new album, Cold Spaghetti.., personal fitness routines and preferences, musical theatre and cultural adaptation in songwriting, art galleries, museums, and colonialism, compensation, labour, and attribution, caterpillars as a muse, Sandro Perri as a muse, revisiting indie-rock recordings made as a teen, contemplating new songs, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #942: Nap Eyes

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 07:00:00 GMT

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Nigel Chapman and Josh Salter from Nap Eyes stop by for a talk about their new album, The Neon Gate, working remotely and living in a house together, producer Rene Wilson and the synthesized, electronic drum sounds on this record, people swapping instruments and a tremendous guitar part that recalls Nels Cline, adapting poetry for new song lyrics, two bands called Quivers, an appointment with Dr. Cool, writing new songs, touring a lot, playing in Edmonton at Winterruption on January 22, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #941: Songhoy Blues

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 07:00:00 GMT

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Garba Touré and Oumar Touré from Songhoy Blues discuss their new album, Héritage, our previous encounters when they played shows in Guelph, Ontario, fleeing a civil war and Sharia law in Timbuktu and how safe they feel playing music in Mali, the sound and themes of their new album, stories about each and every song, touring, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #940: Madi Diaz

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 07:00:00 GMT

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Madi Diaz is here to discuss the one-year anniversary of her Grammy-nominated album, Weird Faith, our Office Hours Live connection, humour, spirituality, love and other things that ground her, how her album and planning this interview cheered me up recently, the surprising resonance of her song “God Person,” her family life and being home schooled, picking up on a thread from my recent Dorothea Paas interview, how she got into music, an update about the new record she’s making with Gabe Wax, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #939: Contrived

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 07:00:50 GMT

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Loel Campbell and Michael “Turk” MacNeil from Contrived are here to discuss Addicted to Sadness, the band’s first album since 2008, growing up in Stellarton, Nova Scotia and bonding over music, the Dependent Music community, how Brian Borcherdt often shared new music discoveries with friends, key producers like Charles Austin and Andy Magoffin, when Wintersleep blew up and people moved to Montreal, Turk’s unique skills as a narrative lyricist, why Contrived is a going concern again, what’s next for the band, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #938: Daryl Johns

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 07:00:20 GMT

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Daryl Johns is here to discuss his new self-titled album, how an elevated bed is a marker of adulthood, missing Jersey, why Sting cannot possibly be the same guy who was in the Police, how musical technique ebbs and flows in popular music, how he’s been bringing his studio sound to the stage, genre signifiers like “diner rock” and “bubble gum country,” loving sitcom theme music and 1980s sounds, playing shows in New York City, writing new songs, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #937: Mouth Congress

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 07:00:39 GMT

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Paul Bellini and Scott Thompson return to discuss Valley of Song, the new album by Mouth Congress, recent Kids in the Hall shows featuring banned material, the fate of Amazon Prime’s Kids in the Hall series, Bubby and the Mouth Congress band, Sandinista! by the Clash and making a double-LP, singing influences like Johnny Cash and Buck 65, sexuality, urban myths, and gerbiling, the Gabors vs. the Kardashians, Scott addressing the school shooting he survived in Brampton, Ontario, reflecting upon family, what’s next for Mouth Congress and Kids in the Hall, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #936: Maddee Ritter

Thu, 26 Dec 2024 07:00:08 GMT

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Maddee Ritter is here to discuss their debut album, Songs of Love & Death, a possible move to the United States and the best ways to know a city, growing up in a music-loving Toronto household, finding their own influences like Ella Fitzgerald and Feist, writing songs about lost love and grieving a friend, and how the sensations for each are very similar, the dynamic sound of this new album, new music, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #935: Elijah Wald on 'A Complete Unknown'

Mon, 23 Dec 2024 07:00:22 GMT

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Elijah Wald is here to discuss the new Bob Dylan film, A Complete Unknown, which is based on his 2015 book, Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties, Dylan tweeting praise for his book, being from Dylan’s world, why the Newport Folk Festival became a generational nexus point for music in the 1960s, his access to unreleased Newport audio and film footage by the likes of Murray Lerner, what he makes of A Complete Unknown’s depictions of real people and events, how it’s more brooding than the comical Dylan and Joan Baez really were, his new book about Jellyroll Morton, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #934: Rebecca Clay Cole

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 07:00:49 GMT

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Thanks to Bob Nastanovich, Rebecca Clay Cole from Pavement is here to discuss her Elephant 6 Recording Co. community, Pavement’s influence on it, and the recent and painful losses they’ve endured, the rise of Neutral Milk Hotel, how she got into playing music and embraces "sideman" roles, the beginning and end of her supergroup Wild Flag and Stephen Malkmus’ quiet role in that, joining Pavement and her thoughts about the various aspects of the forthcoming film Pavements, which she is in, current projects like Clay Cole, future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #933: Alex Ross Perry, Scott Kannberg, and Robert Greene on 'Pavements'

Tue, 17 Dec 2024 07:00:44 GMT

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Alex Ross Perry, Scott Kannberg, and Robert Greene are here to discuss their film Pavements, whether or not it's a comedy, documentary subjects who reflect pluralities, how the band reacted to aspects of the in-progress film they saw, who was responsible for giving the film its final narrative structure, deceptive complexity and intellectual malarkey, why it’s good that Pavement maniacs are already seeing and contemplating this strange film, the forthcoming Pavements soundtrack and a significant Pavement announcement, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #932: Tim Heidecker

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 07:00:10 GMT

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Tim Heidecker returns to discuss his lovely album, Slipping Away, effective ways to discuss your work these days, mid-life, narrative voices on his album, and its themes of hope, dread, empathy, family, and unease, American politics and elite paternalism, his song “Bottom of the 8th” and metaphors about protecting your kids from uncertain endings, why it can be “cool” to be “normal,” the video for "Well's Running Dry," his January tour with special guests like Neil Hamburger and Kyle Mooney, Office Hours Live news, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #931: Franz Nicolay

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 16:24:46 GMT

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Franz Nicolay from the Hold Steady is here to discuss his new book, Band People: Life and Work in Popular Music, once living in Toronto and how couples in the creative arts and humanities support each other, balancing passion and pragmatism in the music business, how musicians tend to communicate and miscommunicate, getting credit and valuing cultural labour, whether musicians can truly jam remotely, what’s next for his writing and music work, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #930: Dog Day

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 07:00:05 GMT

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Nancy Urich and Seth A. Smith are here to discuss their band Dog Day and new album, A T-Shirt with Writing on It, their filmmaking pursuits and origin stories, the differences and similarities between the strained material conditions that musicians and people in the film industry share in streaming times, why their previous band the Burdocks was a bit weird, the unique architecture of HomeSkull, which is their house and creative hub, how their young son Woody collaborates with them, “Weird Al” Yankovic and prepared accordion, what’s next for their film work and Dog Day, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #929: Bill Stevenson from Descendents, ALL

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 07:00:40 GMT

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Thanks to listener and Patreon subscriber Brian Mock, Bill Stevenson from Descendents/ALL/The Blasting Room studios is here to discuss his road from Hermosa Beach to Fort Collins, smart ways to tour America’s quadrants, how he met Keith Morris as a kid because of fishing and his father’s influential, tireless work ethic, why his kids asked him to teach them about making music, psychology and a health update, American politics and elitism, his thoughts on Filmage, the documentary about his life’s work, updates on the new Descendents album and tour dates, what’s next for ALL, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #928: Verböten

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 07:00:53 GMT

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Jason Narducy is here with remarkable stories about the magical return of his childhood band Verböten, their new album, and opening for Frank Black at the Metro in Chicago on January 25 and 26, 2025, being in the KISS Army, playing R.E.M. songs with Michael Shannon in Athens, Georgia, with actual members of R.E.M., singing at a Chicago Bulls game and later encountering Michael Jordan up close, knowing Steve Albini and their final meaningful interaction at Steve’s studio, Electrical Audio, playing songs just added to Superchunk sets, punk rock lyricism, touring the R.E.M. project again, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #927: Papa M

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 07:00:31 GMT

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David Pajo returns to discuss Papa M's Ballads of Harry Houdini and provide insights about each song, reflecting upon the profound memorial gathering for Steve Albini that we attended this past July and also Steve’s talents and knowledge-sharing generosity, embracing improvisation and never touching a computer to make his new record, how playing in Tortoise still informs his work, unsettling songs and horror movies, reissuing Slint's Tweez and releasing Aerial M's Peel Sessions, making new music, touring with Gang of Four, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #926: OMBIIGIZI

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 09:00:53 GMT

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Adam Sturgeon and Daniel Monkman from OMBIIGIZI discuss their new album Shame, life in Ontario and Manitoba and some of the better Canadian provinces to live in, the biting tone, exploration of improvisation, and math rock influences that seeped into their latest songs, why being on a supportive record label is important, how figures like Marek Tyler have been positive leaders to Indigenous musicians in Canada, notions of tokenism and post-commodity, what’s next for this band and their individual pursuits, and much more.

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Ep. #925: Steve Albini (2007)

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 07:00:11 GMT

At my invitation, Steve Albini appeared on Kreative Kontrol at least once a year since its inception in 2013. We started a tradition where we spoke just ahead of annual, poverty alleviation Letters to Santa live events, such as the gala they’re holding on November 23, 2024, at the Brookfield Zoo Chicago: Discovery Center, featuring Jeff Tweedy, Fred Armisen, and Kim Deal among others. To maintain the tradition and spirit of the talks we had, I plan to feature archival interviews I conducted with Steve over the years, presenting them here ahead of Letters to Santa events for as long as possible. Here’s the second radio interview we ever did. It took place in the early summer of 2007 and was ostensibly about the then new Shellac album, Excellent Italian Greyhound, and touched upon local radio fame, Martina Navratilova, people who film concerts instead of participating in them, Canada, SCTV, John Peel, and more.

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Ep. #924: Lance Bangs and Bob Nastanovich on ‘Pavements’

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 07:00:44 GMT

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Filmmaker Lance Bangs and Pavement’s Bob Nastanovich discuss the new film Pavements, how they met in the early 1990s when Lance began filming shows by the likes of Pavement, the Replacements, and Nirvana, his mentor Jem Cohen, the story behind Lance’s 2002 Pavement DVD/documentary Slow Century, what Kurt Cobain said to Bob at the Reading Festival that Nirvana invited Pavement to play, what David Berman yelled at the Lollapalooza audience that infamously flung mud and rocks at Pavement, why Bob thinks adding Rebecca Clay Cole as a member is the most interesting thing about recent Pavement tours, unusual depictions of Pavement and their crew and why releasing Alex Ross Perry’s Range Life biopic was reconsidered by all involved, how Pavement’s members really feel about the project, what’s next for Pavement, Bob, and Lance, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #923: Dorothea Paas

Thu, 14 Nov 2024 07:00:00 GMT

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Dorothea Paas on the sound and substance of Think of Mist, spending more time in Rochester, NY, listening to and making notes about records by Sade and Hiroshi Yoshimura, writing things down and listening to lectures, the sense of self and losing one’s ego, sublimation and sexuality, serious personas and having a sense of humour, tour dates, writing new songs, other future plans, and much more.

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600 Subs! Not Sandwiches, Subscribers

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:00:45 GMT

I’m holding a Patreon membership drive November 14 to 21, 2024 with a goal of reaching 600 paid subscribers, with as many new subs at the $6 and higher monthly tiers as possible!

During this seven-day membership drive, I have some particularly unique gifts that I’ll be drawing for, among all existing and new $10 and above subs at the end of this campaign. Special and one-of-a-kind pieces of art, music, and merch were contributed by Lou Barlow, Rick White, Lori Damiano, John Samson Fellows, Chad VanGaalen, and Electrical Audio!

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Ep. #922: The Saints ’73-’78

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 07:00:58 GMT

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Ed Kuepper and Mudhoney’s Mark Arm from The Saints ’73-’78 discuss the new (I’m) Stranded box set, how they’d never ever met in person (at the time we recorded this), why Mark was asked to sing in the Saints and what the band has meant to him, how the Saints got started and their early interest in Elvis, Beatles, and the Rolling Stones, why AC/DC and their success in Australia didn’t much motivate the Saints, how Mark first heard the Saints and whether or not they’re unheralded, why Ed and Mark’s music strikes a good balance between aggression and humour, what’s special about this box set, an Ed and Jim White collaboration, what’s next for the Saints and Mudhoney, tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #921: Tsunami

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 07:00:27 GMT

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Kristin Thomson and Jenny Toomey from Tsunami are here to discuss their band’s new 5LP box set, Loud Is As, living in upstate New York with the AC on in October and also living in Philadelphia but being from Canada, loving hockey but not liking sports, how they first met via punk and Positive Force, the band Geek, touring with Superchunk, and starting Simple Machines Records, Dischord and the D.C. music community, nostalgia vs. longing, the contents of their Numero Group box set, touring again, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #920: A Place to Bury Strangers

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 07:00:55 GMT

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Oliver Ackermann from A Place to Bury Strangers is back to discuss their uniquely packaged new album Synthesizer, the latest audio inventions in production at Death by Audio, why the Synthesizer album cover includes a circuit board that anyone can use to create their own synthesizer, the pros and cons of the Biden Administration’s CHIPS Act for a small batch electronics manufacturer, the new album’s abrasive sound and lyrical themes exploring interpersonal dynamics, alienation, and relentlessness, how we connect art to the artists who create it, tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #919: Oren Ambarchi

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 06:00:15 GMT

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Oren Ambarchi discusses his trio with Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin and their latest album, Ghosted II, living in Berlin and Winnipeg, Drag City Chicago pizza advice, when he lived in New York for stints as a young man until he was broke from buying records and seeing shows by Cecil Taylor and Miles Davis, why Stephanie Stone woke John Zorn up to meet Oren and be friends with him ever since, his work with Jim O’Rourke and Alvin Lucier, forthcoming projects and shows, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #918: Mount Eerie

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 06:00:56 GMT

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Phil Elverum is here to discuss the new Mount Eerie album, Night Palace, moving back to Washington State after a period living in New York, immersion in your community with family and friends, home ownership and having a sense of place, wealth accumulation and land back, singing and talking to animals, dating songs like journal entries, elaborate album packaging, parents and Palace Brothers, meditation and loving Eric’s Trip and Rick White’s artwork, a complementary book, future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #917: Heather O'Neill

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 06:00:52 GMT

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Heather O’Neill returns to discuss her latest novel, The Capital of Dreams, a fairy tale about a young girl fleeing a genocidal invasion in a fictional European region, armed only with a pivotal piece of outspoken literature penned by her infamous mother while accompanied by a talking, opinionated goose, how the book’s socio-cultural and political themes echo WWII, but also resonate with current events, and the erasure of citizens and their culture, how Heather’s difficult upbringing and complicated relationship with motherhood and parenting are reflected in this work, why tea and teacups work as a metaphor, cultural capital and the black market, an extensive Canadian tour, new projects, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #916: Mercury Rev

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 06:00:18 GMT

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Grasshopper from Mercury Rev is here to discuss their new album, Born Horses, his time in Buffalo, NY, its vibrant live music scene, and shopping for music-related items in Canada, collaborations and interactions with members of The Band, exploring poetry recitation, celebrating animals, their freedom, and human duality, writing about mental health, his film studies background and making cinematic music, upcoming work by Mercury Rev, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #915: Cursive

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 06:00:30 GMT

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Tim Kasher from Cursive is here to discuss their new album, Devourer, its lyrical themes and why imperialism was on his mind, why the “you” in Cursive songs is often actually addressing himself, how people are navigating a golden age and glut of information, maintaining the status quo and denying reality, loving and hating oneself, being on a new label to expand your music community, touring with Cursive, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #914: American Football

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 06:00:13 GMT

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Steve Holmes from American Football is back to discuss American Football (25th Anniversary Edition) and American Football (Covers), Chicago pizza, a brief history of American Football, why Mike Kinsella is overdue for his flowers, having fans like the 1975 and Phoebe Bridgers, the fascinating story of the now iconic American Football house in Illinois that adorns their album art and the fact that the band now owns that house, updates on new music by American Football, and much more.

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Ep. #913: Quivers

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 06:00:07 GMT

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Sam Nicholson from the Australian indie-rock band Quivers is here to discuss their brilliant Merge Records debut, Oyster Cuts, life in Tasmania and down under, an inadvertent Pavement allusion and recent encounter with Mark Ibold, how Quivers wound up on Merge and Sam’s affection for Calgary’s Chad VanGaalen, surviving cancer as a child and hanging out with Ringo Starr from the Liverpool-based band, the Beatles, covering grief, joy, telephones, technology, and more in his songs, the Wiggles and music inclusivity, when Quivers played Guelph and I wasn’t there, current and future tour dates in North America and beyond, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #912: WE ARE WINTER’S BLUE AND RADIANT CHILDREN

Tue, 08 Oct 2024 06:00:51 GMT

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WE ARE WINTER’S BLUE AND RADIANT CHILDREN’S Mat Ball (BIG|BRAVE), Jonathan Downs (Vervain, Rhubarb), Efrim Manuel Menuck (godspeed you! black emperor, ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT), and Patch One (Vervain, Pond 1000, Greef) discuss their new album, No More Apocalypse Father, starting a band with people you’ve never met before, an affinity for winter, parents, children, and patriarchy, when Michael Jackson dangled his baby Blanket over a balcony and how the concept of a family can be exploited, singing lullabies in a baritone and having empathy, spectating atrocities from afar, denying reality and having hope, what’s next for WAWBARC, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #911: Richard Laviolette's 'All Wild Things Are Shy'

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 06:00:36 GMT

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All Wild Things Are Shy is Richard Laviolette’s final album and was released posthumously one year after he sought MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) on September 5, 2023. To provide more insight about its creation and Richard’s state of mind in writing and recording these songs while struggling with Huntington’s disease and the sudden onset of accelerated, severe symptoms, I organized a discussion with his partner and collaborator sophia bartholomew, the record’s lead instrumentalist, Rich Burnett, producer Scott Merritt, and artistic advisor and You’ve Changed Records label manager, Steven Lambke. We love Richard and will never forget him.

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Ep. #910: The Hard Quartet

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 06:00:11 GMT

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Stephen Malkmus and Matt Sweeney discuss their band the Hard Quartet and its new, self-titled debut LP, living in places like Chicago and New York City, the memorial weekend event for Steve Albini that Matt and I attended in Illinois this past July and playing complicated games of dice, the friendship that Stephen and Matt shared with the late David Berman and fresh perspectives on the time Berman, Stephen, and Bob Nastanovich infamously heckled Nirvana, how the Hard Quartet all became friends and eventually started this band where all the guitarists take turns playing bass, the stories behind some of the songs and sounds by the Hard Quartet, the Edmonton Oilers and Neil Young’s iconic father, the late hockey writer, Scott Young, Matt’s amazing video series Guitar Moves, what’s next for the Hard Quartet, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #909: Jade Hairpins

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 06:00:35 GMT

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Jonah Falco returns to discuss the brilliant new Jade Hairpins album, Get Me the Good Stuff, his work-related education and academic background, writing deeply reflective yet catchy songs about his aging parents and middle age, the development of his British dialect as a Canadian living on boats, where the “wrong pop” of Jade Hairpins comes from, stories about the ambitious 24 hour livestream that Fucked Up held recently where they publicly wrote, recorded, and released a new album in one day, Jade Hairpins’ live line-up and tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #908: ASKO

Tue, 24 Sep 2024 06:00:26 GMT

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Marek Tyler discusses his work as ASKO and self-titled debut album, first concerts and early, formative drumming influences like Stewart Copeland, Larry Mullen Jr., Brendan Canty, and Mac McNeilly, pretending you know how to play instruments to start bands, music media and pointing people to significant but marginalized artists, entering the rock music realm as a person of colour, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and following familial protocols, bringing ASKO to life on-stage, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #907: Sunset Rubdown

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 06:00:34 GMT

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Spencer Krug discusses Always Happy to Explode, which is the first Sunset Rubdown album in 15 years, the various islands he’s called home and why he appreciates the solitude of island living, how touring can impact musicians and create interpersonal obstacles, why his bands tend to take long breaks, why his latest songs might relay so much empathy and contemplation about the impact that working has on life, things to listen to while running, fantastical storytelling and rewatching legacy TV shows, going back on tour, a Wolf Parade update, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #906: Joel Plaskett

Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:00:15 GMT

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Joel Plaskett returns to discuss his dreamy, solitary new album, One Real Reveal, the retail space he and friends set up in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, consisting of his studio, a record store, a coffee shop, and a bookstore, singularity and multitudes, poetry, journeys, and dreams, his classic solo debut, In Need of Medical Attention, romance and travelling, middle age, technology, and atomization, why we need tension and letting go, getting into Nick Cave and paying homage to favourite artists, how his long tour for One Real Reveal will be staged, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #905: Duane Denison from The Jesus Lizard

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 06:00:38 GMT

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The Jesus Lizard Week ’24 concludes with Duane Denison discussing the Jesus Lizard’s new album RACK, why Nashville has been so enticing for musicians looking for a home, working as a guitar teacher and providing remote lessons to students, why he thought to employ quality control measures in writing new songs in the Jesus Lizard, whether or not the band ever contemplated making RACK with previous collaborators like the late Steve Albini, some of the guitar players and musical heroes he pays homage to on the new album, his golden era for the Jesus Lizard, touring again, writing new songs, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #904: Mac McNeilly from The Jesus Lizard

Wed, 11 Sep 2024 06:00:36 GMT

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The Jesus Lizard Week ’24 is still going with Mac McNeilly discussing the Jesus Lizard’s new album RACK, building a home studio, navigating how political correctness and being decent to other people works, his interest in preserving vintage drums and teaching music students, why he left the Jesus Lizard when he did and why he came back, the stamina and fitness it takes to play drums in this band, how he came up with his parts on RACK, touring again, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #903: David Wm. Sims from The Jesus Lizard

Tue, 10 Sep 2024 06:00:38 GMT

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The Jesus Lizard Week ’24 continues with David Wm. Sims discussing the band’s new album RACK, recent music festival experiences, the significance of the Jesus Lizard’s close friendships, his own golden era in the band, how and why they chose to write and record RACK the way they did, what may become of the songs that were captured but didn’t make the album, his penchant for coming up with fresh bass parts by playing along to music made by people like War and Wu-Tang Clan, why he is contemplating moving out of the United States of America, upcoming tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #902: David Yow from The Jesus Lizard

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 06:00:05 GMT

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The Jesus Lizard Week ’24 begins with David Yow discussing the Jesus Lizard's new album RACK, loving Los Angeles but moving out of the United States of America, his writing practice these days and those few but notable people who’ve contributed to lyrics in the Jesus Lizard over the years, how the late Lhasa de Sela and also Led Zeppelin influenced his vocals and writing on RACK, working on his singing in his old band Qui, and how he almost fronted a reconstituted Nirvana for an event a few years ago, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #901: John Early

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 06:00:44 GMT

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John Early is here to discuss his brilliant comedy special and album, Now More Than Ever, life in Los Angeles and how Toronto works as a city in a province in Canada, the talented Lemon Squares band, his remarkable skills as a singer and taking up guitar with a little help from the Beatles, how his talents were honed singing hymns in church, anarchy and normalcy, his working relationship with Kate Berlant, getting into Neil Young and why one of his songs is a surprising centrepiece in his new special, how the HBO version and record differ and complement each other, what are we all really doing on the internet, his comedy and music heroines, Vicky with a V, Bernie Sanders, and American politics, hitting the road for a tour with all new comedy and new songs, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #900: Fugazi and Jem Cohen

Tue, 03 Sep 2024 06:00:34 GMT

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Brendan Canty, Joe Lally, Ian MacKaye, and Guy Picciotto from Fugazi and filmmaker Jem Cohen discuss their 1999 documentary, Instrument, how it was captured using film technologies of the time, how live and interview footage was used to reflect the band’s inventive music-making, insights about memorable moments from the film, its remarkable soundtrack, Jem’s focus on audience portraiture and commentary, the basketball hoop, what may become of the longer edit of Instrument and film footage we haven’t yet seen, Fugazi’s most iconic song, and much more.

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Ep. #899: Ghostkeeper

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 06:00:49 GMT

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Sarah Houle, Shane Ghostkeeper and JOYFULTALK’s Jay Crocker discuss their work together on the new Ghostkeeper album, Cîpayak Joy, their history as friends and collaborators, Shane’s fascinating and initially discouraging foray into music-making after devoting his youth to playing hockey, Jay’s focus on passion and creativity over musical proficiency, what prompted Sarah to explore synthesized drums over the louder, real thing, how hip-hop, R&B, and electronic music influenced Cîpayak Joy, its lyrical themes and music videos, a planned companion release, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #898: Jon Benjamin - Jazz Daredevil

Tue, 27 Aug 2024 06:00:14 GMT

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Jon Benjamin is here to discuss The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack of The (Unproduced) Film…The Jazz Daredevil, the H in his name, his Massachusetts roots, attending a Guelph Storm hockey game, the Edmonton Oilers and the Boston Celtics, working from home and how recording sessions for Archer and Bob’s Burgers differed, why he should consider playing the Guelph Jazz Festival and the Jazz Daredevil’s overall perspective on jazz, the story and cast of characters behind this new soundtrack, which is an unusual soundtrack, trying to make this Jazz Daredevil movie, perhaps with Daniel Day-Lewis attached, what’s next for the Jazz Daredevil, other future plans, and more.

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Ep. #897: Tom Mullen

Thu, 22 Aug 2024 06:00:16 GMT

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Tom Mullen discusses his Washed Up Emo podcast and archival enterprise, working for different labels and conceiving of the video chronicling the road Bob Dylan might have taken from Greenwich Village to Big Pink, getting Jeff Bridges to narrate it and also to join Facebook, a fascinating promo project about Jeff Buckley, bringing Fred Armisen together with members of the Clash for a Funny or Die bit, why he started Washed Up Emo, what emo even means these days, news about the latest season of Washed Up Emo, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #896: The Folk Implosion

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 06:00:45 GMT

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Lou Barlow and John Davis from the Folk Implosion discuss their first album in 25 years, Walk Thru Me, the significance of college and community radio, punk rock humour and intellectualism exhibited by Gerard Cosloy and Steve Albini, John’s early collaborative relationship with Will Oldham and why he didn’t appear on his first album, how Lou and John first met, how the Folk Implosion’s name is an homage to/dig at the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, working on the soundtrack for the controversial 1995 film, KIDS, why the Folk Implosion ended and why it’s back, touring, making new music, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #895: Al Tuck

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 06:00:23 GMT

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Al Tuck and Aaron Comeau discuss their work together on Tuck’s latest records, Tuck’s recent triple-disc, Water, Blood & Whiskey, making records inside of transport truck trailers and school portables, the days when the people were small and few and finally recording a song that Al debuted some 20 odd years ago, family stories and familial connections to Leonard Cohen, recording a few takes all at the same time, coffee breaks, improvisation and not fielding questions, smartphones and why the Earth might be flat, having children who sing, the Main St. Music Library, new Al Tuck albums, other future plans and much more.

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Ep. #894: "Weird Al" Yankovic

Tue, 13 Aug 2024 06:00:32 GMT

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“Weird Al” Yankovic returns to discuss his new single “Polkamania!,” life in Los Angeles, the tenth anniversary of Mandatory Fun, why the relative popularity of vinyl hasn’t altered his stance to not make any more full-length albums, the surprising popularity of and critical acclaim for the 2022 biopic, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story and his bond with actor Daniel Radcliffe, what keeps him busy beyond music, his love for sketch comedy and prospective projects, touring again, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #893: Energy Slime

Thu, 08 Aug 2024 06:00:53 GMT

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Jay Arner and Jessica Delisle discuss their band Energy Slime and self-titled full-length debut, Planet Perfect, the sentimental attachment they have for their impractical apartment, a huge announcement by Jay about a major change in his life, the significance of this realization and how it has impacted Jessica, relying on humour to ward off existential despair and make fun art, the Pet Shop Boys and horses, the moon and ZZ Top, the “Bongo Dance” and giving up your podcast, a profoundly funny new music video, tour ideas, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #892: Fucked Up

Mon, 05 Aug 2024 06:00:53 GMT

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Mike Haliechuk from Fucked Up discusses the band’s new album, Another Day, its place in the band’s apparent “Day” album series, which may or may not have begun with 2023’s One Day, the 24-hour live stream of a studio session the band will participate in starting at 1:00 PM ET on August 6, 2024, which you can watch on Fucked Up’s YouTube channel, playing at MergeFest and the band’s future with Merge Records, working midnight shifts, forthcoming records by Fucked Up, tour, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #891: Bed Maker

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 06:00:27 GMT

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Amanda MacKaye and Jeff Barsky discuss their band Bed Maker and self-titled debut, the good and weird things about living where they do, how DIY culture has impacted the value of craftsmanship, actual community and internet information sharing, poetry and animal cruelty, imposter syndrome and great singers like Johnny Rotten, Amy Taylor, and Steve Albini, future plans, and much more!

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Ep. #890: Man Man

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 02:37:57 GMT

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Ryan Kattner discusses the new Man Man album, Carrot on Strings, his recent move from California to New York and the many places he has lived, his love of film and his interactions with and roles he’s had in the movie business, the 2024 NBA Finals and players he finds appealing, wanting to write a stadium anthem, our love for Stephen Malkmus and Pavement, future and hope for future film and music projects, tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #889: Rick White and The Sadies

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 04:00:52 GMT

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Rick White, Mike Belitsky, and Travis Good discuss their new album, Rick White and the Sadies, Ontario heat waves, a parrot gender reveal, how Rick and the Sadies began working together, wonderful drummers like Mark Gaudet and Gary Young, inadvertently naming new songs the same names as other people’s songs, how the late Dallas Good appears in people’s dreams, visions, and in other ways, contemplating playing live shows but also, a post-recording update to report that Rick White and the Sadies are playing at the Great Hall in Toronto on September 6, 2024, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #888: Wand

Tue, 23 Jul 2024 04:00:48 GMT

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Cory Hanson and Robbie Cody discuss the new Wand album, Vertigo, the California heat, the Kendrick Lamar / Drake feud, buying a large amount of recording gear using crypto and other financial planning advice, Bob Dylan’s 2024 tour behind the 2012 album Tempest, the history of Wand, cinema, film noir, and physical media, making a Wand record in a very different, improvisational manner, admirable production work by the likes of Bill Schnee and Jim O’Rourke, directing an emotional vocal take, abiding by the doomsday clock, touring with Red Hot Chili Peppers, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #887: Janel and Anthony

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 06:00:31 GMT

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Janel Leppin and Anthony Pirog discuss their new Janel and Anthony double-record, New Moon in The Evil Age, Leppin’s Ensemble Volcanic Ash: To March Is To Love, and Pirog’s The Hunger Artist, growing up and moving around a lot, living in small houses in a forest, being both grunge and rockabilly kids and meeting in high school, how they respectively began pursuing cello and guitar and the road from classical and composition-based music to improvisation, singing and songwriting, the state of music and protesting to preserve it, other future plans, and much more!

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Ep. #886: Chris Corsano

Tue, 16 Jul 2024 06:00:23 GMT

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Chris Corsano discusses his new album, The Key (Became The Important Thing [& Then Just Faded Away]), his life in New Jersey and what we can learn about it from The Sopranos, dementia, psychedelia, and how a mind can be altered, imagination, illness, and art-making, the now infamous episode of this show that Chris was on with his band Rangda just prior to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, our shared admiration for the double bassist William Parker, a relaxation trick, the projects we each have going with Mike Watt, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #885: Laughing

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 06:00:49 GMT

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Laura Jeffery, Josh Salter, Andre Charles Thériault, and Cole Woods from Laughing discuss their debut album, Because It’s True, our previous interactions and how this band formed around a democratic principle of four singers and songwriters who can swap instruments where necessary, their love of power pop and bands like Big Star, the Replacements, and Pavement, writing clever, biting songs about love and being outside, making their album with Faith Healer’s Renny Wilson, promoting Montreal businesses like Pizza Bouquet and Star Bar, what’s next for Laughing and the members’ respective pursuits, other future plans, and much more!

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Ep. #884: Tim Kinsella

Tue, 09 Jul 2024 06:00:20 GMT

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Tim Kinsella discusses the elaborate new Joan of Arc box set, A Window & A Mirror, his Chicago upbringing and how he and his brother, Mike Kinsella from American Football, first got into playing music, their band Cap’n Jazz and its post-breakup mythological status, Tim’s relationship with music journalism and his public personas, punk rock and rebellious conservatism, times I saw the Promise Ring and Joan of Arc in southern Ontario in the mid-to-late 90s, why Joan of Arc might sound more normal these days, the band Tim Kinsella & Jenny Pulse and their next album, an upcoming reunion show by Cap’n Jazz and why Tim would love to write new songs with them, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #883: Steven Hyden

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 06:00:00 GMT

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Steven Hyden discusses his excellent new book, There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born in the U.S.A.’ and the End of the Heartland, the state of music and cultural criticism, how film critics have long had more cachet than music critics, the various and confusing ambiguities in the work and life of an American like Bruce Springsteen, how the Boss rejected his most successful album and got lost in the 1990s just as Nirvana were rejecting their own most successful album, why Springsteen’s narrative voice became more inward, why he and America were never the same after Born in the U.S.A., a fascinating alternate history of Bruce events, Steven’s tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #882: Islands

Tue, 02 Jul 2024 06:00:02 GMT

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Nick Thorburn discusses the new Islands album, What Occurs, whether or not it concludes a trilogy, why he chose to make an album on Vancouver Island for the first time and also its unique, live-off-the-floor recording style with Adam Halferty and Evan and Geordie Gordon, a bad basketball injury and air guitar, paraphrasing John Lennon and/or Pusha T, conceptual lyrics and David Geffen’s Jackson Pollock, whether or not Islands has reached its end, the pros and cons of running a Patreon crowdfunding initiative, uncertain future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #881: Kass Richards

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 06:00:17 GMT

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Kass Richards discusses her powerful second album, New Love Meditation, becoming a mother during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Boston Celtics and their fanbase, needing to live near water, being encouraged to enter recording studios by Basia Bulat and Meg Remy and making New Love Meditation with Maximilian Turnbull, how Geordie Gordon can play every instrument, growing up near the busy Washington D.C. live music circuit, mindfulness and grieving, how going through labour can feel close to death, some tour dates, other future plans, and much more!

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Ep. #880: Guided By Voices

Tue, 25 Jun 2024 06:00:38 GMT

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Doug Gillard from Guided By Voices discusses the band’s 41st album, Strut of Kings, living in Queens and a Joey Ramone encounter, how Robert Pollard writes and shares songs with the rest of GBV and how his collaboration with Doug has evolved over three decades, loving Canadian comedy and sharing a flight with Kids in the Hall’s Dave Foley, late night TV talk show performances on Open Mike with Mike Bullard, loving Conan O’Brien and writer-performers like Robert Smigel and Brian Stack, appearing on Late Night with Conan O’Brien the night Bill Hader made his panel debut, what got Doug into music and the love he and Bob share for the Beatles, why Bob doesn’t really do radio or podcast interviews these days, GBV tour dates, another Doug solo album, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #879: Dead Best

Thu, 20 Jun 2024 08:00:04 GMT

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Adam Goren and Brian Sokel from Dead Best discuss their album Second and its lyrical themes, growing up together and now living right next to each other, a Guelph house show my old band Captain Copilot played with Atom and His Package in 1999 before I randomly ran into Adam in Philadelphia a year later, finally having Adam on the show after conversations I’ve had about Atom and His Package with guests like Chris Gethard, Kurt Vile, and Pissed Jeans’ Matt Korvette, being straight edge in grade one and high school reunions, getting into punk and DIY culture and infusing it all with comedy, why a number of post-hardcore bands in the 1990s seemed to be named after American historical figures except for Franklin, playing shows, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #878: Ted Leo

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 06:00:29 GMT

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Ted Leo discusses the 20th anniversary tour behind Shake the Sheets and the album's contemporary resonance, moving back to New Jersey, Bruce Springsteen’s enduring influence and the realistic aspects of The Sopranos, punk rock influences and dark songs living in sunny arrangements, loving early Beatles and being part of the Dischord Records community in D.C., dense lyricism in rock and hip-hop, the isolation and exhaustion that inspired Shake the Sheets, how the Foreign Correspondents came about and why more people should listen to Michael Pagliaro, touring more, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #877: Gastr del Sol

Thu, 13 Jun 2024 06:00:13 GMT

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David Grubbs and Jim O’Rourke discuss the history of their band Gastr del Sol and their beautiful new box set, We Have Dozens of Titles, comedy, Albert Brooks, and Robert Smigel, locating live recordings from a Canadian Gastr del Sol concert that was their final show, memories of living and working in Chicago, how Gastr del Sol inspired other musicians including Jim Guthrie, why the band ended, how David and Jim began communicating again, what’s next for Gastr del Sol, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #876: Ibibio Sound Machine

Tue, 11 Jun 2024 06:00:57 GMT

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Eno Williams and Max Grunhard discuss the brilliant new Ibibio Sound Machine album, Pull the Rope, living in London and loving Ninja Tune Records, aspirational truths and the clarinet, how music is a language, Eno’s exposure to highlife and jùjú music and why openly loving Fela Kuti could be precarious, empathy, inclusion, and improvisation, intergenerational culture clashes, working with Ross Orton, upcoming tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #875: Ann Powers

Thu, 06 Jun 2024 06:00:31 GMT

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Ann Powers discusses her wondrously written new book, Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell, Pacific Northwest punk bands like D.O.A. and Nomeansno, how she positioned her role in writing this book after years of research and dozens of interviews, her decision about pursuing an interview with Mitchell herself, perspectives on motherhood and what it meant for Mitchell to be a woman in music starting in the 1960s and how that era is perceived today, the problematic critiques of that time period by Mitchell and other artists, Ann’s own trajectory as a lover and critic of music, what it means to interrogate the work of people you love, how artists who have had medical scares like Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, and Neil Young might gain a new appreciation for their own work and audiences, Ann’s upcoming book tour dates, her work on the NPR music newsletter, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #874: Mdou Moctar

Tue, 04 Jun 2024 06:00:30 GMT

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Mdou Moctar and Mikey Coltun discuss their band's wondrous new album Funeral for Justice, singing new songs about worldwide problems and not just in Africa, landing on an album title that tonally suits the lyrics and sound of Funeral for Justice, jet lag and feeling sleepy, why doing interviews is so important to explain Mdou Moctar songs, trust and being a better band, why their music and vocals might incorporate repetition, Mikey’s new tape label Purplish Records and Marc Masters’ book about cassette history and culture, new Mdou Moctar music and philanthropic projects, touring the world, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #873: Luka Kuplowsky

Thu, 30 May 2024 06:45:00 GMT

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Luka Kuplowsky discusses How Can I Possibly Sleep When There Is Music, his new album with the Ryōkan band, film studies in Toronto, life-changing Beverly Glenn-Copeland encounters, exploring Buddhism, meditation, Tang Dynasty poetry, and speak-singing, why producer Sandro Perri suggested he perform one song like a tentative fifth grader, the magical gathering place and venue that is Toronto’s Tranzac, wanting to be Jackie Chan, theatrical staging, his next album, tour, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #872: Mike Watt and Papa M

Tue, 28 May 2024 06:00:56 GMT

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Mike Watt and Papa M's David Pajo talk about their new split-single for Red Parakeet Records’ “one-for-one” series, their history together as admirers and friends and a fateful party for Lance Bangs, how punks share helpful information, the vaudeville circuit, the Beatles and arena rock, J Mascis and the Breeders, David’s work in Gang of Four and a project between him, watt, and Hugo Burnham, the brilliance and resourcefulness of George Hurley, a musical project that watt and I are working on together, other future plans, and much more. Photo: Lance Bangs

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Ep. #871: Bill MacKay

Thu, 23 May 2024 06:00:20 GMT

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Bill MacKay is back, this time to discuss his new album Locust Land, lyrical themes and singing more, a song specifically inspired by Neil Young, travelling a lot as an adult after moving around a fair bit as a child, how our luggage connects us to our homes, the freeform but purposeful artwork he created for Locust Land, his collaborations with Cooper Crain and Janet Beveridge Bean among others, touring a lot, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #870: The Lemon Twigs

Tue, 21 May 2024 06:00:05 GMT

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Brian and Michael D’Addario from the Lemon Twigs discuss their new album, A Dream is All We Know, birthday presents and the Lovin’ Spoonful, who they think their core audience consists of, the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and “Mersey Beach,” ambitious instrumentation and mixing, Sloan and Royal Trux, their respective songwriting modes, brotherly love, working with the likes of Foxygen, Sean Ono Lennon, Weyes Blood, and Tim Heidecker, tour, future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #869: Steve Albini

Wed, 15 May 2024 06:00:58 GMT

After almost 20 years of conversations, my final talk with Steve Albini took place on April 23, 2024. Steve died suddenly on May 7. This chat was about the new Shellac album, To All Trains, and Steve told me about every song, though I hadn't yet heard the album. Preparing this episode was sad and surreal; it felt like Steve was still here. The interview itself appears at roughly the 45:00 mark, after my own remembrance and tribute. I love you Steve and will miss you forever. Thank you for everything.

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Ep. #868: Kathleen Hanna

Mon, 13 May 2024 06:00:31 GMT

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Kathleen Hanna discusses her new memoir Rebel Girl – My Life as a Feminist Punk, why she wrote this book and what that experience was like, what she learned about her own workaholism and setting boundaries, trauma and therapy, how punk orthodoxy led to a painful exile, the actual material conditions of being known as an “activist icon,” prescience and hindsight, how the writing in Rebel Girl relates to the depiction of her in the 2013 documentary, The Punk Singer, forgiveness, friendship, and self-awareness, a shout out to her husband Adam Horovitz for being a generously supportive family man, and much more.

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Ep. #867: BIG|BRAVE

Fri, 10 May 2024 08:33:34 GMT

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Robin Wattie, Tasy Hudson, and Matheiu Ball from BIG|BRAVE discuss their wonderful new album A Chaos of Flowers, their lives in Montreal and in Alberta, how the band formed, squirrels, rabbits, and making BIG|BRAVE new fans, one dad at a time, musical origin stories, sidechains and ducking, working closely with producer Seth Manchester, heavy metal and Levon Helm, poetry research, making a new album, tour, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #866: Jim White and Marisa Anderson

Thu, 09 May 2024 06:00:47 GMT

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Jim White and Marisa Anderson discuss their lovely new album Swallowtail, why they recorded it in Australia, the distinction between ideas, possibilities, and arrangements in an improvised music practice, melodic drumming and rhythmic guitar, the Velvet Underground, peregrination and the natural world, the artwork of Anna White, cats and the Bitterroot Valley, things I think I see that might not be real, touring more than ever, future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #865: Myriam Gendron

Wed, 08 May 2024 06:00:33 GMT

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Myriam Gendron discusses her moving new album Mayday, some of the places in the world she lived in before moving to Montreal, a good job at a bookstore, playing in metal bands, a charming close encounter with Leonard Cohen, why she is generally disinterested in the personalities behind the art she loves, losing her mother and being a mother and some of the lyrical themes on the bilingual Mayday, collaborating with Bill Nace, Marisa Anderson, and Jim White among other people, why we love flowers, transmission and keeping our parents with us, how her boyfriend helps her be online, touring, writing more music, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #864: Mary Lattimore and Walt McClements

Tue, 07 May 2024 06:00:58 GMT

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Mary Lattimore and Walt McClements discuss their wonderful new album, Rain on the Road, a secret Sonic Youth show they both attended in North Carolina before they knew each other, their work and connection with Weyes Blood, their interest in synthesizing acoustic and otherwise distinctive instruments to conjure new sounds, how they got into harp and accordion respectively and music lessons along the way, Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged performance, elemental influences and The Far Side by Gary Larson, avoiding bears to get to a show, touring, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #863: Amen Dunes

Mon, 06 May 2024 06:00:00 GMT

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Damon McMahon discusses the multi-layered new Amen Dunes album Death Jokes, how his exploration of hip-hop music technology stems from stumbling upon a discarded cassette tape in his youth, the instruments he can play and what prompted him to find a teacher to learn a new one, why Bob Dylan’s singing is such a huge influence on him, musicians who are prescient, spirituality, teachers, and Hinduism, becoming a parent during a pandemic but transcending anxiety, legacy and protest music, tour, new music, other future plans, and much more.

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Announcing Kreative Kontrol 's SubscrHybrid Plan!

Fri, 03 May 2024 06:00:58 GMT

I'm going to experiment with a hybrid subscription model for Kreative Kontrol. Every other episode will be free as usual, while the others will be for Patreon subscribers at the $6 a month level. Those will be full, ad-free episodes. The general public will receive clips/teasers of these episodes on their podcast players with a link to subscribe to hear the whole episode.

I’ve chosen every other episode as a model because it’s consistent and fair. I don’t want to attribute more value to one episode over another because it might draw larger audiences to the show. Just, every other episode will be subscriber only, so half the episodes will be accessible to the general public.

The $4 tier will still consist of ad-free versions of the episodes that are otherwise accessible beyond Patreon. To access the subscription-only episodes though, everyone will have to join the $6 tier. The $6 tier will also still include any bonus content that is offered to listeners. Any tier that’s $10 and higher will include all of those perks plus entry into our monthly random prize pack draws. As usual, Patreon subscriptions are flexible so that you can raise, lower, or cancel your support at any time.

I know paywalls are no fun, but I think this hybrid is a nice way of experimenting with a subscriber model while still doing the work of supporting my guests and their work and my listeners who want to engage with the show both as Patreon supporters and as casual listeners.

So, thanks for listening and supporting me on Patreon!

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Ep. #862: Jon Mckiel

Thu, 02 May 2024 06:00:58 GMT

Jon Mckiel discusses his excellent and beguiling new album, Hex, Canadian cities he’s lived in and his connections with Jay Crocker and Chad VanGaalen, drop C tuning, the hip-hop flavours of the otherwise indie-folk album Hex and whom it may be inspiring to rap, hexes, conspiracies, capitalism, and The Curse, movie scores and the musical touchstone that is the Arnold Schwarzenegger film, Predator, feeling burdened, videotaping MuchMusic programming as kids, that time his album 2020 album Bobby Joe Hope went viral, future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #861: Camera Obscura

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 06:00:50 GMT

Tracyanne Campbell discusses the wonderful new Camera Obscura album, Look to the East, Look to the West, motherhood, sibling rivalries, and grieving, duality and figuring yourself out, some of the clever and heartfelt new Camera Obscura songs, reverb and country music, bonding among women and family members, what’s next for Camera Obscura, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #860: Six Organs of Admittance

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 06:00:40 GMT

Ben Chasny discusses the lovely new Six Organs of Admittance album, Time is Glass, his return to northern California after many years living throughout the United States, the politically charged conversation we had when Ranga was on the show and made some incorrect 2016 U.S. presidential election predictions, getting himself a dog and reading about demon familiars, living in the moment and spiritual practices, unreliable narrators, shifting pronouns, and songs that contain multitudes, a Simpsons easter egg, touring again, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #859: Raymond Biesinger

Tue, 23 Apr 2024 06:00:08 GMT

Raymond Biesinger discusses his best-selling book, 305 Lost Buildings of Canada, and trajectory as an illustrator, when Cadence Weapon introduced us outside of a Sadies show in Edmonton, why he didn’t actually feel like attending that show, his time in the Famines and why he retired from music making, his Edmonton social circles, why his work highlights marginalized lives and his use of historical adaptation, how his collaboration with Alex Bozikovic and their book came about, people who steal his work, an idea for his next book, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #858: Cadence Weapon

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 06:00:51 GMT

Cadence Weapon discusses his explosive new album ROLLERCOASTER, Hamilton joyriding and being a proud citizen, the time he introduced me to the visual artist Raymond Biesinger outside of a Sadies show in Edmonton, life as a new dad and why I think he might want to enjoy every moment, why ROLLERCOASTER is a revolutionary meditation on modern technology and how we interact with it, celebrating his late uncle and musical influence, Brett Miles, breaking down bot farms that juice music and podcast streaming stats, working on a new book, touring again, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #857: Michael Feuerstack

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 06:00:31 GMT

Michael Feuerstack discusses his thoughtful and infectious new album Eternity Mongers, its social, philosophical, and interpersonal lyrical themes, a discussion about the phrase “It is what it is,” and Michael’s new song, “What Isn’t What it Is,” creating an artistic space to convey thoughts and ideas and Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, making an album in a Nova Scotia shack with producer Charles Austin and bringing a talented horn section and guest vocalists into the mix, upcoming tour dates and work with Land of Talk, Bell Orchestre, and the Luyas, celebrating Snailhouse, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #856: ROY

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 06:00:52 GMT

Patrick Lefler discusses his band ROY and their beautiful new album, Spoons for the World, working as a foley artist and a brief lesson in making good sipping and kissing sounds, the role room sounds and ambiance play in his work, Patrick Roy, LeBron James, and Bryan Trottier, growing up in Guelph and the premise that it’s a music and arts city, his dad’s record collection, his new record’s lyrical themes and Jeff McMurrich’s strings suggestion, upcoming shows, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #855: Mikey Day

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 06:00:53 GMT

Mikey Day discusses his work hosting Is it Cake? and as a performer and writer on Saturday Night Live, why Is it Cake? features so many SNL cast members as celebrity judges, how his work on both shows might inform one another, legendary Canadians like SNL producer Lorne Michaels and Ryan Gosling, playing a part in Unfrosted, which is Jerry Seinfeld’s new movie about Pop-Tarts, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #854: METZ

Tue, 09 Apr 2024 06:00:01 GMT

Alex Edkins, Hayden Menzies, and Chris Slorach from METZ discuss their new album Up on Gravity Hill, its hard themes and dynamic emotional tenor, the evolution of METZ and the beginning of a new chapter, surprising each other musically, music videos and how songs can be de-valued, loving Eric’s Trip, working with producer Seth Manchester, filmmaker Colin Medley, and musician Owen Pallett, comfort, confidence, and consumption, touring again, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #853: forestlike

Sun, 07 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Joshua Wayne Hensley and Jared Myers discuss their band forestlike and recent self-titled debut album, life in Indiana and first bonding over buckets, the very flattering song that Josh wrote about me, why Jared abandoned a promising music trajectory and why he’s back at it now, a profound and somewhat unusual experience I had listening closely to their new album, spiritual and even Christmas themes in their latest songs, writing new music together and apart, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #852: FYEAR

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 07:00:16 GMT

Kaie Kellough and Jason Sharp discuss their work together in FYEAR and their new, self-titled debut album, our Alberta commonalities and the Edmonton Oilers, the origin of their social and musical relationship, writing one piece that has been divided into chunks for this dynamic album and its concept and sound, what certain children think of the record, being a tension, how they work together, writing more music, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #851: Mark Mothersbaugh

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 06:00:23 GMT

Mark Mothersbaugh from DEVO discusses his new hardcover art book, APOTROPAIC BEATNIK GRAFFITI, how limited eyesight helped make him a visionary, a 2020 hospital admission for COVID-19 that changed his life forever, mail art and thousands of art cards, how visual art led to the pursuit of music and DEVO’s formation, very old and very recent personal interactions with three Beatles, loving the Rolling Stones and avoiding LSD, the essay Ian Svenonius wrote for this book, the current state of devolution, what’s next for him and DEVO, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #850: You've Changed Records is 15!

Fri, 29 Mar 2024 02:12:13 GMT

You’ve Changed Records is 15! A celebration featuring reflections by Steven Lambke, Daniel Romano’s Outfit, Attack in Black, Shotgun Jimmie, Julie Doiron, Marine Dreams, Apollo Ghosts, the Burning Hell, Nap Eyes, Partner, Mar Sellars, Jon McKiel, Status/Non-Status, Fiver, Colin Medley, and Julianna Riolino, plus a tribute to Richard Laviolette and love for Leanne Betasomasake Simpson, and much more!

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Ep. #849: Jim White and Guy Picciotto

Tue, 26 Mar 2024 06:00:46 GMT

Jim White and Guy Picciotto discuss their work together on Jim’s first solo album, All Hits: Memories, drumming, our relationship with artifacts and memories in an age of informational saturation, experimenting with keyboards and music production, perspectives on Jim’s idiosyncratic approach to drumming and ambient music, working in film and a lost soundtrack opportunity, tour, updates on new projects, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #848: SAVAK

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 06:00:19 GMT

Sohrab Habibion and Michael Jaworski discuss the new SAVAK album, Flavors of Paradise, dancing seahorses, snow shovelling adventures, the late Rick Froberg’s role in influencing aspects of SAVAK and his constant presence in our lives, U.S. politics and the media, singing about years, defending your band name, gallows humour and punk-infused pop music, many project updates, tour news, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #847: Rosali

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 06:00:13 GMT

Rosali discusses her beautiful new album Bite Down, Michigan, Philadelphia, and school trips to Canada, the important details, living in North Carolina with a dog and commuting to Nebraska, her band Long Hots’ Third Man Records single, befriending the David Nance Group and the Mowed Sound’s live-off-the-floor approach on Bite Down, our shared admiration for H.C. McEntire, her parents' rock band, appreciating the Grateful Dead, escaping pigeonholes, touring, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #846: BOECKNER

Thu, 14 Mar 2024 06:00:45 GMT

Dan Boeckner discusses BOECKNER and Boeckner!, Canada’s politics, history, and capitulation to fascism, feckless Canadian journalism, Israel, Palestine, and perceptions of the war crimes in Gaza, how aspects of the pandemic and human behaviour influenced the lyrics on his otherwise upbeat and powerful new album, collaborating with Matt Chamberlain, Brad Laner, and Kiwi Jr.’s Jeremy Gaudet, answering a Patreon question, tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #845: The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis

Tue, 12 Mar 2024 06:00:04 GMT

Brendan Canty, Joe Lally, and Anthony Pirog from the Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis discuss their wonderful new self-titled debut album, when musicians “sat in,” freedom from genre signifiers, music school pros and cons, why Anthony and James connected and what makes Brendan and Joe such a special rhythm section, upcoming tour and festival dates, other future plans and much more.

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Ep. #844: Pissed Jeans

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 07:00:12 GMT

Matt Korvette from Pissed Jeans talks about their excellent, ferocious, and funny new album, Half Divorced, Philly, Kurt Vile, and Atom and His Package, writing angry, funny songs as, and even for, adults, having fun playing music like Mudhoney does, hating our phones, helicopter parents and what kids get up to these days, covering a Pink Lincolns song and how everywhere is bad, tour, other future plans and much more.

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Ep. #843: Spencer Burton

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 07:00:02 GMT

Spencer Burton discusses his lovely new album, North Wind, farming and regenerative agriculture, escapism and writing songs in a remote cabin, family ties, the pace of life, pondering cultural work, making records with Nashville-based producer Andrija Tokic, a dental emergency and a beautiful live take, Clint Black and The Larry Sanders Show, writing the children’s album/book The Mountain Man, three Ontario shows, tour, other future plans and much more.

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Ep. #842: Daniel Romano's Outfit

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 07:00:59 GMT

Daniel Romano’s Outfit discuss their brilliant new album, Too Hot to Sleep, why the Outfit has different members now, presence and what sleeping means in a time of great consciousness, songs like “That’s Too Rich,” which delve into wealth inequality, classism, and human rights violations, the fascinating stories behind the band’s new videos for singles, “Chatter” and “Where’s Paradise,” unreleased and new music by the Outfit and Carson McHone, touring, other future plans and much more.

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Ep. #841: This is The Kit

Tue, 27 Feb 2024 07:00:29 GMT

Kate Stables discusses Careful of Your Keepers, the latest album by This is The Kit, touring Canada in the winter, why references to The Simpsons, Despicable Me, and Pride and Prejudice might make it into her songs, chewing, biting, babies, and dogs, how repeating the same things doesn’t mean they’re not changing, being parented and parenting, more touring, other future plans and much more.

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Ep. #840: Mint Mile

Thu, 22 Feb 2024 07:00:20 GMT

Tim Midyett discusses the incredibly impassioned new Mint Mile album, Roughrider, loving a home recorded performance as much as one made at Electrical Audio, singing about sex, love, mortality, and society, football, eschewing social media one platform at a time, collaborating with Joel RL Phelps and Nina Nastasia, conjuring Lou, Iggy, and Bowie, a fine day at Abbey Road, Silkworm reissues, tour, other future plans and much more.

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Ep. #839: Mary Timony

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 07:00:35 GMT

Mary Timony discusses her excellent and introspective new album, Untame the Tiger, teaching guitar and creative coaching, caring for and then losing her parents to illnesses, what that taught her about herself, thinking about thinking and writing songs about her brain, favourite guitarists like Jimi Hendrix and Christina Billotte, touring a lot, other future plans and much more.

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Ep. #838: ANGRY BLACKMEN

Thu, 15 Feb 2024 07:00:34 GMT

Quentin Branch and Brian Warren from ANGRY BLACKMEN discuss their new album, The Legend of ABM, Santa Fe, Chicago, and leaving a place that makes you unhappy, musical and cinematic inspirations, dissing music journalism and getting nice reviews, racism in America and cyclical progress, exploring noise, punk, and pop in hip-hop, new music, other future plans and much more.

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Ep. #837: Aparna Nancherla

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 07:00:27 GMT

Aparna Nancherla discusses her return to standup and public life after taking time away to write a book of personal essays called Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Imposter Syndrome, when interviewers don’t engage with the things you make, being the child of immigrants and first generation anxiety, keeping up South Asian appearances, familial mental health stigmas and acceptance, an unforgettable joke, performing at JFL Vancouver on February 16 and 17, and much more.

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Ep. #836: Black Pumas

Tue, 06 Feb 2024 07:00:25 GMT

Eric Burton and Adrian Quesada from Black Pumas discuss their latest album, Chronicles of a Diamond, the band’s history, Steve Martin’s The Jerk, RZA and Wu-Tang Clan, writing songs about relationships and also birds, unintentionally making psychedelic soul, hitting the road, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #835: J. Robbins

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 07:00:37 GMT

J. Robbins discusses his excellent new album, Basilisk, life in Baltimore, band resurrections, punk and synthesized music, getting musicians together in a room again, January 6, ahistoricism, and temporality, a Jawbox update, hitting the road with these new songs, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #834: J Mascis

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 07:00:05 GMT

J Mascis discusses his new solo album, What Do We Do Now, recent live Dinosaur Jr. jams with friends like Lee Ranaldo, Kurt Vile, and Kim Deal, what we learned about “Divine Mascis” from the Breeders and J’s recollection, Kurt Cobain inviting him to join Nirvana, expensive cities like Oslo, Norway, working with Ken Mauri and Matthew “Doc" Dunn, loving early work by the band Chicago, Van Morrison vs. Bob Dylan, band chemistry and case studies like Metallica and Ramones, how musical heroes other than Lou Reed never seem to understand him, Dino and solo show news, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #833: NYSSA

Tue, 16 Jan 2024 07:00:20 GMT

NYSSA discusses her brilliant new album Shake Me Where I’m Foolish, witchcraft, paganism, and tarot, desire and capitalism, magical thinking and spiritualism, DIY empowerment and expertise, band chemistry and companionship, playing record release shows, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #832: Nick Zubeck

Tue, 09 Jan 2024 07:00:49 GMT

Nick Zubeck discusses his lovely new album, Echo Park, Cliff Clavin and watching Cheers and Late Night with David Letterman with his late father, a fascinating family history, once running a yoga studio, meditation and existentialism, remembering lost friends and celebrating their work, record release shows, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #831: Water From Your Eyes

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 07:16:14 GMT

Rachel Brown and Nate Amos of Water From Your Eyes discuss their 2023 album Everyone’s Crushed and its recently released remix record, Crushed By Everyone, playing basketball with kids in Brooklyn, loving but leaving Chicago, bluegrass, the Beatles, and Ween, stand-up comedy and being a lead singer, “punk,” theatricality and trusting your instincts, 2024 tour dates, CanCon, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #830: Michael Balazo

Tue, 26 Dec 2023 22:02:19 GMT

Michael Balazo discusses his hilarious new stand-up album, Michael 1, Comedy 0, the year-in-review and 2023 highlights, co-hosting the Evil Men podcast, travelling back and forth between Toronto and England and performing for different audiences, Burton Cummings and the fake Guess Who, seeing James Cameron’s Titanic, Metallica, and Ramones, future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #829: Robert Smigel

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 07:00:43 GMT

Robert Smigel discusses co-directing and co-writing the hilarious new film, Leo, why he rarely does podcasts, why kids know comedy better than some adults do, performing The Lost Hans and Franz Movie on Conan O’Brien’s podcast this year, writing songs and not promoting musicals, singing well in character the way Adam Sandler, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, and Neil Hamburger do, critical acclaim and awards season, future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #828: 'Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine' with Mark Davidson & Parker Fishel

Tue, 12 Dec 2023 07:00:46 GMT

Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel discuss their work on the essential new book, Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine, its fascinating essays and notable contributors and their access to almost any of Dylan’s manuscripts and lyric notebooks at the Bob Dylan Center that they asked for, clamouring for mythical material by Dylan, Charlie Parker, and Fugazi, why it feels like Dylan is telling us he’s retiring, the latest on the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #827: Woods

Fri, 08 Dec 2023 07:00:29 GMT

Jarvis Taveniere from Woods discusses the sound and lyrical themes on their new album, Perennial, our shared love and interactions with the late David Berman, the work that Woods did with Berman in their band, Purple Mountains, a brief Wikipedia-like history of Woods and recalling former members like Kevin Morby, from digital to analog, the Woodsist universe, working on new music, touring, other future plans, and much more.

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Patreon Membership Drive 2023! Draw Prizes! Tell a Friend!

Mon, 04 Dec 2023 09:00:57 GMT

Thank you to anyone who supports Kreative Kontrol on Patreon! If you or someone you know loves this podcast but isn’t yet a donor, please go to our Patreon page and become a member during our membership drive between December 4 and 14! If you become an annual member at the $10 a month tier, you increase your chances of winning draws for prize packs provided by record labels like Beggars Group Canada, Constellation, Drag City, Merge, Rhino, and You’ve Changed! Winners will also receive a copy of Marc Masters’ High Bias – The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape. This show would not exist without you and its future now depends on donor and listener support! So please, visit our Patreon membership page, read this post and listen to this episode for more detailed info about our 2023 campaign, and support Kreative Kontrol today! Thank you so much! Follow vish online.

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Ep. #826: Steve Albini and Fred Armisen

Mon, 04 Dec 2023 07:00:30 GMT

Steve Albini and Fred Armisen discuss Letters to Santa: The Holiday Gala in Chicago, which stars John Mulaney and takes place December 5 in Chicago, and Letters To Santa: The 24 Hour Comedy and Music Marathon in Los Angeles on December 16-17, their long friendship, their respective interactions with Conan O’Brien, Fred’s talents for mimicry, Steve’s penchant for comedic logic, Chicago’s distinction as a hub for top-tier comedy, music, and recording studios, Fred’s interest in “complicated drumming techniques,” the fact that a new Shellac album will likely be released soon, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #825: Dave Hill

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 07:00:20 GMT

Dave Hill discusses his endearingly insightful, heartwarming, and hilarious book, The Awesome Game – One Man’s Incredible, Globe-Crushing Hockey Odyssey, the state of hockey and reasons why basketball might be more popular, performing national anthems on electric guitars, a funny story about seeing Fugazi in Cleveland, knowing Dick Cavett, the artful awfulness of sports interviews, whether Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, and LeBron James are funny people, future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #824: Kliph Nesteroff

Tue, 28 Nov 2023 07:00:52 GMT

Kliph Nesteroff discusses his intriguing new book, Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars, the life of an author in a time when people seem to be reading less, strange yet predictable historical cycles, media literacy and the lack thereof, some of the new taboos, future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #823: Espanola

Thu, 23 Nov 2023 07:00:10 GMT

Aaron Goldstein discusses his band Espanola and their new album, Espanola, Again, what it was like touring with Willie Nelson in Kathleen Edwards’ band, why and how he became such a sought-after pedal steel player, the blurry line between producing and writing a song, writing about displacement, southern rock from southern Ontario, future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #822: MAYBEL

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 07:00:35 GMT

In their first ever interview, Fez Gielen, Ali Hendra, Loris Kecaj and Lauren Spear from MAYBEL discuss their wonderful new and second album, Gloam, loving Montreal but moving away, working with producer Jonas Bonnetta from Port William Sound/Evening Hymns, folk singer Bob Dylan from Minnesota, how this band first met and began working together, obsessions, classical music, bluegrass, Nirvana, and O Brother, Where Art Thou?, MAYBEL’s future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #821: Kurt Vile

Thu, 16 Nov 2023 07:00:45 GMT

Kurt Vile discusses his lovely new EP, Back to Moon Beach, Philly, Boston, and Atom and His Package, pandemic prescience, writing songs that show love for George Jones, Dead Milkmen, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and David Berman, our personal connections to Berman, Silver Jews, and Purple Mountains, interacting with Neil Young, bringing your children to work, our shared love for the late Dallas Good and the Sadies, working with Cate Le Bon, tour, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #820: Gregg Turkington

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 07:00:47 GMT

Gregg Turkington discusses his collaboration with Erik Paparozzi on the wonderful new album, Neil Hamburger Presents Seasonal Depression Suite, why a Christmas-themed concept record set in a chain hotel works so well, surveys, reviews, and why customers get so entitled at hotels and motels, Frank Sinatra’s Watertown and David Berman’s songwriting, serious artists who are very funny, the star-studded and collaborative nature of this release, Bob Dylan’s Desire and working with Scarlet Rivera, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #819: Scream

Thu, 09 Nov 2023 07:00:04 GMT

Pete Stahl discusses the celebratory, star-studded new album, DC Special, by Scream, the heartbreaking, recent passing of founding member Kent Stax, Dave Grohl’s pre-Nirvana role in Scream and his engagement with the band since, working at the longstanding location of Inner Ear before the studio was displaced, our shared love of the people in Fugazi, the strange cycle of similar socio-political lyrical themes within over 40 years of Scream songs, whether Scream can continue on without Stax, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #818: Jon Dore

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 07:00:39 GMT

Jon Dore discusses his November 2023 tour of the Canadian Prairies, wanting to move from Alaska to Ottawa, his incredible partner, his recent and great CBC show, Humour Resources, whether audience feedback has ever made him reconsider a joke, what the term “post-pandemic” actually means right now, why Tom Green and vish need to talk, gambling with Norm Macdonald, a new comedy special and a new podcast, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #817: Nicole Rampersaud & Off World

Tue, 07 Nov 2023 07:00:55 GMT

Nicole Rampersaud and Off World’s Sandro Perri discuss their respective new albums, Saudade and 3, how they first met in Toronto and where they each live now, barbecue liberation and Grub-a-Dub, swan songs and other bird activities, the sounds of nature and surprising people with the sounds of their instruments, being a dub bub and the role of a producer in songwriting, temporality and nostalgia, the maybe end of Off World and new solo Sandro music, touring together, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #816: Roy Wood Jr.

Sat, 04 Nov 2023 06:00:59 GMT

Roy Wood Jr. discusses headlining a coast-to-coast Just for Laughs tour across Canada in November, the World Series, being on the road and learning a lot about Canada, why he left his correspondent role on The Daily Show and whether he’s still interested in hosting it, the fragile state of late night TV and other ways comedians thrive these days, his work on Better Call Saul, performing at the 2023 White House Correspondents Dinner and what President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris said to him afterwards, the CFL, talking to regular people, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #815: Geordie Gordon

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 06:00:39 GMT

Geordie Gordon discusses his excellent, reflective new solo album, Tambourine, writing about his teenage years playing music and contemplating his sexuality, loving sad songs, his role in U.S. Girls and seeing an important show by the Hidden Cameras, growing up in the closet in a university town, pondering his next record, playing shows, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #814: Badge Époque Ensemble / Symphony Orchestra

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 06:00:13 GMT

Maximilian Turnbull discusses the new Badge Époque Ensemble album, Air, Light & Harmony, and this past spring’s Radiant Music by Symphony Orchestra, touring and speaking with toddler twins and also Bill Callahan, composing and also composting music, sampling your own work and conceptual complexity, working with his friend Michael Rault, future plans, and much more.

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