Kreative Kontrol
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Ep. #837: Aparna Nancherla
February 13, 2024 07:00 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MBAparna 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. Supported by you on ...
Ep. #836: Black Pumas
February 06, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBEric 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. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish onli...
Ep. #835: J. Robbins
January 30, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 68.6 MBJ. 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. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Join my Patreon by January 3...
Ep. #834: J Mascis
January 23, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 74.3 MBJ 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 oth...
Ep. #833: NYSSA
January 16, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 63.2 MBNYSSA 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. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online. Related episodes/l...
Ep. #832: Nick Zubeck
January 09, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBNick 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. Supported by you on Patreon, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Fo...
Ep. #831: Water From Your Eyes
January 02, 2024 07:16 - 1 hour - 72.1 MBRachel 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. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Pla...
Ep. #830: Michael Balazo
December 26, 2023 22:02 - 1 hour - 64.3 MBMichael 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. Supported by you on Patreon, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and...
Ep. #829: Robert Smigel
December 19, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBRobert 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. Supported by you on Patreon, Pizza Trokadero, the...
Ep. #828: 'Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine' with Mark Davidson & Parker Fishel
December 12, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 88 MBMark 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. S...
Ep. #827: Woods
December 08, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 86.1 MBJarvis 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. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, th...
Patreon Membership Drive 2023! Draw Prizes! Tell a Friend!
December 04, 2023 09:00 - 20 minutes - 18.3 MBThank 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...
Ep. #826: Steve Albini and Fred Armisen
December 04, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 77.4 MBSteve 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 dr...
Ep. #825: Dave Hill
November 30, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBDave 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. Support...
Ep. #824: Kliph Nesteroff
November 28, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 54.8 MBKliph 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. Supported by you on Patreon, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online. Related episodes: ...
Ep. #823: Espanola
November 23, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 52.5 MBAaron 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. Supported by you on Patreon, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Wo...
Ep. #822: MAYBEL
November 21, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 66.7 MBIn 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. Supported by you on Patreon,...
Ep. #821: Kurt Vile
November 16, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBKurt 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. Supported by you...
Ep. #820: Gregg Turkington
November 14, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBGregg 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,...
Ep. #819: Scream
November 09, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 49.8 MBPete 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, ...
Ep. #818: Jon Dore
November 08, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 56.9 MBJon 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. Supported by you on Patreon, Pizza Trokadero, the Book...
Ep. #817: Nicole Rampersaud & Off World
November 07, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 67.3 MBNicole 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 ...
Ep. #816: Roy Wood Jr.
November 04, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 53 MBRoy 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 Harri...
Ep. #815: Geordie Gordon
November 02, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 54.4 MBGeordie 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. Supported by you on Patreon, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. ...
Ep. #814: Badge Époque Ensemble / Symphony Orchestra
October 31, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 51.6 MBMaximilian 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. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Suppo...
Ep. #813: Marc Masters
October 26, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 56.9 MBMarc Masters discusses his fascinating new book, High Bias –The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape, why we fixate on music formats, the democratization of sound, why cassettes are still revered and collected around the world, tapers, the Grateful Dead, and Sonic Youth, how tapes foretold modern notions of on-demand music portability, what might be next for sound carriers and makers, book tour dates, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Pizza Trokadero, the Boo...
Ep. #812: Michael Azerrad on 'The Amplified Come As You Are - The Story of Nirvana'
October 24, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 72.3 MBMichael Azerrad discusses his wonderful new book, The Amplified Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana, interviewing Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, and Krist Novoselic for the original Come As You Are book and his subsequent friendship with the band, the truth and rock mythology, self-consciousness and indifference about perception, Kurt’s clinical conditions, how he seemed so relatable, shame, collage, and other recurring motifs in Nirvana’s work, jamming with Nirvana, citing certain podcasts, pos...
Ep. #811: Joseph Shabason
October 19, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 60.2 MBJoseph Shabason discusses his fascinating new concept album, Welcome to Hell, which rescores the classic, 1996 skateboarding video of the same name, his own skating history and how jazz, punk, and free improvisation relate to the sport, reclaiming public spaces, the amazing look and sound of skate videos and legends like Ed Templeton, bail sections, skate parks, tour dates, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Pla...
Ep. #810: Markus Floats
October 17, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 49.2 MBMarkus Floats discusses the lovely Fourth Album, working in Montreal, shifting from solitary to collaborative work with Egyptian Cotton Arkestra, fixed and fluid art, a koan by Fred Moten, problems and solutions, tarot cards and astrology, darkness and hope, playing shows, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online. Support this show...
Ep. #809: Faith Healer
October 12, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 70.4 MBJessica Jalbert and Rene Wilson discuss their band Faith Healer and brilliant new album, The Hand That Fits the Glove, strange Edmonton birds, why it’s been six years since they last released an album, working with many other people, intentionality and confidence, dogs and a specific dog, going viral, huge life news, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. an...
Ep. #808: Land of Talk
October 10, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 70.9 MBElizabeth Powell discusses the new Land of Talk album Performances, caregiving and a culturally-rich upbringing, experimenting with their singing voice, trading guitar in for keys, gender fluidity, abuse, and the lack of protection in music communities and infrastructures, voyeurism, objectification, and dress codes, sitcoms like Family Ties, the Twin Peaks theme song, reflecting on who they are and who they are becoming, Patreon treats, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you o...
Ep. #807: DFL
October 05, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBMonty Messex discusses the new reissue of My Crazy Life by DFL, seeing early shows by and becoming friends with members of Black Flag, the Germs, and Guns ‘N’ Roses, making music with the likes of Izzy Stradlin, Carla Bozulich, and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz, being in Beastie Boys’ social circle, signing with Epitaph as punk went mainstream again, what makes “Crazy” Tom Davis so crazy, touring, making a new album, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozi...
Ep. #806: The Breeders
October 03, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 59 MBKelley Deal and Josephine Wiggs from the Breeders discuss Last Splash (30th Anniversary Original Analog Edition) and the making of this landmark album in 1993, Local Rabbits and Protomartyr, photo curation, archiving, and social media pros and cons, how they first came to know each other and collaborate, how the success of Last Splash impacted the band, Kelley on playing a sewing machine and making a quilt, J Mascis singing lead, things that are also in Canada, touring, writing new music, ot...
Ep. #805: La Force
September 28, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 60.1 MBAriel Engle discusses the brilliant new album, XO Skeleton, by La Force, Paris and fandom, family ties that bind, grief and reflection, making heavy pop music, cynical mysticism, working with Andrew Whiteman, Shahzad Ismaily, and Warren Spicer, cigar box guitars, "Song a Day" and Feist, touring, new music, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Foll...
Ep. #804: Tommy Stinson
September 26, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 49.4 MBTommy Stinson discusses the wonderful new box set, Tim: Let it Bleed Edition by his old band, the Replacements, touring Canada in October with Tommy Stinson’s Cowboys in the Campfire and the stories behind the songs on their new album, Wronger, John Doe and Bob Dylan, the state of American life and writing new songs about it, loving Canada, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, plus Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’...
Ep. #803: The Replacements' 'Tim: Let it Bleed Edition' with Bob Mehr, Jason Jones & Ed Stasium
September 21, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 77.9 MBBob Mehr, Jason Jones, and Ed Stasium provide an exclusive and detailed perspective about their work together on the revelatory new box set, Tim: Let it Bleed Edition by the Replacements, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/kreative-kontrol. Hosted on Acast. Se...
Ep. #802: Sam Morril
September 19, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBSam Morril discusses his upcoming stand-up dates including a JFL Toronto stop on September 21, being a terrible driver and growing up in a blended family in Manhattan, how our parents measure our success, getting into comedy and admiring John Mulaney, attention spans and Oppenheimer vs. Barbie, telling David Letterman why he offers some specials to fans for free, corporate delays and greed, his 2020 pandemic-induced Up on the Roof special, what he knows and thinks about Canada, an update abo...
Ep. #801: Islands
September 14, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 52.7 MBNick Thorburn discusses his band Islands and their new, sunny/dark album, And That's Why Dolphins Lost Their Legs, making a musical trilogy, creative people striking and speaking out about cultural exploitation, pivoting in the modern age, John Lennon and Robert Smith, how to remain optimistic, always living near large bodies of water, making beats for people like Fat Tony, touring again, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet ...
Ep. #800: Buck 65
September 12, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 85.3 MBIn his first interview in nearly a decade, Buck 65 explains his self-imposed exile from hip-hop and why he’s back, incredible recent albums like 2022’s King of Drums and 2023’s Super Dope and making beats in secret, giving up space for other artists, attracting the attention of a New York Yankees scout as a kid and making a triumphant return to baseball as a middle-aged man, working with Controller 7 and asking Vincent Gallo for permission to create Billy, rapping his ass off, releasing more...
Ep. #799: Allison Russell
September 07, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 59 MBAllison Russell discusses her celebratory, thoughtful new album The Returner, the heady success of her 2021 debut, Outside Child, an update about her forthcoming memoir and its structure, Back to the Future and other trilogies, the power of the Rainbow Coalition, the right-ward shift of politics and fighting fascism with facts, loving The Sound of Music, inspiring work by Roberta Flack, Mavis Staples, Minnie Riperton, and Prince, her friendship with Brandi Carlile and their recent collabs wi...
Richard Laviolette Remembered
September 06, 2023 06:24 - 1 hour - 87.3 MBThe great Richard Laviolette died on September 5, 2023. I remember and celebrate Richard as a friend, a colleague in my community, and as a collaborator. Featuring radio interviews my wife and I conducted with Richard in 2006 and 2011, and a song I recorded with Richard and friends in 2018. For more information, read Richard's wonderfully written death notice, a record review I wrote in 2006, a 2017 article I wrote about him in a local Guelph newspaper, and listen to his lone appearance on K...
Ep. #798: Sean Michaels
September 05, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 53.6 MBSean Michaels discusses his compelling, contemporary novel, Do you remember being born?, the time we shared a helicopter ride in the Yukon, the late poet Marianne Moore’s life and how it inspired this book, his exploration and use of ChatGPT and A.I. to tell this story, what Nick Cave and Marc Maron might have wrong about such technology, collaboration, his book tour, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grand...
Ep. #797: Tough Age
August 29, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBJarrett Evan Samson talks about his band Tough Age and their new album, Waiting Here, leaving Ontario for western Canada, how the climate is changing, GBV, R.E.M., and Flying Nun, loving comics and the cinema vs. superhero movies debate, a brief history of Tough Age and its different configurations, continuity and a Jesse Locke update, working with new labels, future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and ...
Ep. #796: Ratboys
August 22, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBJulia Steiner discusses her band Ratboys and their eclectic, emotionally charged new album, The Window, living in places like Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky, her mother’s influential Beatles and Sheryl Crow CDs, a Bob Dylan detour, loving Wilco, Chad VanGaalen, and Sufjan Stevens, exploring grief and grieving on The Window, upcoming tour dates, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s...
Ep. #795: Hannah Georgas
August 15, 2023 06:00 - 59 minutes - 47.6 MBHannah Georgas discusses her deeply personal and revealing new album, I’d Be Lying if I Said I Didn’t Care, leaving Toronto behind, tennis and acupuncture, asserting herself and really, really communicating, producing this album herself, the Canadian music industry and authenticity, upcoming tour dates, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women U...
Ep. #794: Fenne Lily
August 08, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBFenne Lily discusses her wonderful new album Big Picture, running and sleeping, writing as a coping mechanism, why self-reflection alone won’t cut it, how literature and comedy influence her songwriting, letting listeners in, subtle bits of homage, profound bumper stickers, temporal temperature, future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Fol...
Ep. #793: Ray Padgett
August 01, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 66.2 MBRay Padgett discusses his remarkable new book, Pledging My Time – Conversations with Bob Dylan Band Members, his music journalism origin story, loving “Weird Al” Yankovic and MAD Magazine, first getting into Dylan and then the obsession with all things Dylan, why seeing one show is never enough and his excellent live Dylan newsletter, whether Dylan might be retiring, talking to people who rarely or have never discussed working with Dylan, learning more about the man through others, future pl...
Ep. #792: Nico Paulo
July 27, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBNico Paulo discusses her new, critically acclaimed self-titled album, living her life in Portugal, Toronto, and St. John’s, window shutter signals, learning other people’s music, how love can mean so many things even in the same languages, the water, new songs, upcoming tour dates, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish...
Ep. #791: Nina Nastasia
July 25, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 62 MB[TW: suicide, psychological abuse] Nina Nastasia discusses her latest wondrous solo album, Riderless Horse, living in Calgary, Alberta for a while, the longest walk in the world for a dog, the difficult life she lived with her late partner Kennan Gudjonsson, and the songs she wrote about it, inviting Electrical Audio’s Steve Albini and Greg Norman to upstate New York to make Riderless Horse, upcoming tour dates, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozi...
Ep. #790: Leith Ross
July 20, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 52.3 MBLeith Ross discusses their new album, To Learn, leaving Ontario for the prairies, music in their parents’ home, believing in boredom, what social media is good for, irl community connections, dehumanization, fantastical nostalgia, touring and playing the Hillside Festival, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online. ...