Kreative Kontrol

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

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

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, a...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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, Predato...

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. Join my Patreon to hea...

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 spirit...

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 historica...

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 l...

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 Ch...

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 lyric...

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...

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, comfo...

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 the...

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, wr...

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 Roll...

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...

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 pro...

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 futu...