Kreative Kontrol

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 w...

EVERY OTHER  KREATIVE KONTROL  EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. This one is fine, but  please subscribe now on Patreon  so you never miss full episodes. Thanks! 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...

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EVERY OTHER  KREATIVE KONTROL  EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. This one is fine, but  please subscribe now on Patreon  so you never miss full episodes. Thanks! 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...

EVERY OTHER KREATIVE KONTROL EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. Enjoy this excerpt and please subscribe now via this link to hear this full episode. Thanks! 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 p...

EVERY OTHER  KREATIVE KONTROL  EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. This one is fine, but  please subscribe now on Patreon  so you never miss full episodes. Thanks! 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...

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EVERY OTHER  KREATIVE KONTROL  EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. This one is fine, but  please subscribe now on Patreon  so you never miss full episodes. Thanks! 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...

EVERY OTHER KREATIVE KONTROL EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. Enjoy this excerpt and please subscribe now via this link to hear this full episode. Thanks! 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 prais...

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EVERY OTHER  KREATIVE KONTROL  EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. This one is fine, but  please subscribe now on Patreon  so you never miss full episodes. Thanks! 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,...

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EVERY OTHER  KREATIVE KONTROL  EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. This one is fine, but  please subscribe now on Patreon  so you never miss full episodes. Thanks! 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...

EVERY OTHER KREATIVE KONTROL EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. Enjoy this excerpt and please subscribe now via this link to hear this full episode. Thanks! 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 Stev...

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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...

EVERY OTHER KREATIVE KONTROL EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. Enjoy this excerpt and please subscribe now via this link to hear this full episode. Thanks! 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, t...

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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, m...

EVERY OTHER KREATIVE KONTROL EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. Enjoy this excerpt and please subscribe now via this link to hear this full episode. Thanks! 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...

EVERY OTHER  KREATIVE KONTROL  EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. This one is fine, but  please subscribe now on Patreon  so you never miss full episodes. Thanks! 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 Philad...