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Noah23 discusses his brilliant new album, Ikosi Tria , numerology, synchronicity, temporality, pharmacology, sanity, reality, hilarity, hip-hop superiority, 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&n...

Kid Koala discusses his elaborate new album and board game, Creatures of the Late Afternoon , music interactivity, self-recording, self-sampling, and self-pressing his records, what scratching does to vinyl, the night time, ambitious stage shows, films, upcoming tour dates , other future plans and much more. Supported by you on  Patreon ,  Blackbyrd Myoozik ,  Pizza Trokadero ,&nbsp...

To celebrate the release of Bob Dylan ’s Fragments – Time Out Of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series Vol. 17 , Daniel Lanois reflects upon producing Time Out of Mind and also 1989’s Oh Mercy , his entire working and social relationship with Dylan, perspectives on Dylan’s lyrics and interest in sounds, a shared belief in the power of imagination, future plans and much more. Supported by y...

Meg Baird discusses her wonderful new album Furling , New Jersey and Philadelphia, radio and music discovery, piano and cello, field hockey and basketball, guitar and drums, Neil Young and Charlie Saufley, the pandemic and touring , other future plans and much more. Supported by you on  Patreon ,  Pizza Trokadero ,  the Bookshelf ,  Planet Bean Coffee , and  Grandad’s Donu...

Sandy Miranda , Jonah Falco , Mike Haliechuk , and Damian Abraham discuss the excellent new Fucked Up album, One Day , creative stipulations, 24 hours, grieving, positivity, trauma, punk, Who’s Emma, gentrification, agoraphobia, fatalism, writing lyrics again, making 900 records, playing Winterruption YEG , touring , other future plans, and more. Supported by you on  Patreon ,  Blackbyrd...

H.C. McEntire discusses her wondrous and thought-provoking new album, Every Acre , North Carolina life and growing up a jock, getting into college radio, guitar, and poetry, contemplating naming history and the stolen lands of Indigenous and BIPOC peoples on this new album, future plans, and more. Supported by you on  Patreon ,  Pizza Trokadero ,  the Bookshelf ,  Planet Bean C...

Christina Billotte , Kathi Wilcox , and Steve Dore discuss their unique history and work together as the Casual Dots , living far apart but making it work, two-guitar interplay, recording their new album Sanguine Truth with Guy Picciotto and Don Zientara, songs that are personal and political, James Brown, Bobby Moore, and Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, updates about their respective other...

Don Pyle discusses his beautiful new book of photography, Shot in a Mirror , missing his dear friend and collaborator Dallas Good , the status of Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet and the new music they made for the Kids in the Hall , photography and posterity, how technology has altered art-making, documenting punk and LGBTQ+ cultures during nascent and perilous periods, future plans, and more. Sup...

In a chat recorded 20 months ago but unreleased until now, Charlie Steen discusses his wonderful band shame and their 2021 album Drunk Tank Pink , the monarchy, pandemic life in London, and strange living arrangements, staving off loneliness by watching ensemble shows like The Sopranos , future (now present) plans, and much more. shame’s 2023 world tour brings them to Edmonton’s Winterruption Fest...

Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg author, scholar, writer, advocate, and musician, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson discusses the 2022 bestseller, Rehearsals for Living , which she co-wrote with Robyn Maynard , Indigenous and Black people’s shared lived experiences and perspectives, parenting and pedagogy, all of the coups, loving Dr. Clarence J. Munford , abolition, hope, future plans, and much more. Supported...

Steve Albini discusses Poverty Alleviation Charities ’ annual Letters to Santa program and the 24 Hour Marathon variety show taking place on December 19, what’s new at Electrical Audio , pandemic touring with Shellac and their forthcoming new album, American politics, twitter, winning a second WSOP bracelet, his friend Dave Grohl, the band Dry Cleaning , and much more. Supported by you on  Pa...

Florence Shaw and Lewis Maynard discuss their band Dry Cleaning and brilliant 2022 LP, Stumpwork , the ozone layer hole above New Zealand, being a busy bassist, becoming the unlikely lead lyricist and singer in a band, how grief galvanized the band, family dynamics and a tortoise named Gary, good advice from Duran Duran, endless touring , new songs, other future plans, and much more. Supported by...

Isla Craig discusses her beautiful new album Echo’s Reach and what inspired its sound and songs, a question she asked Patti Smith on behalf of young musicians, pandemic life in Toronto, the Weyes Blood interview from this show, getting elemental in a ravine, future plans, and much more. Supported by you on  Patreon ,  Pizza Trokadero ,  the Bookshelf ,  Planet Bean Coffee , and...

Mac McCaughan discusses Superchunk and their wonderful 2022 album Wild Loneliness , writing and recording songs during a pandemic, acoustic guitars and lovely singing, here’s where Owen Pallett ’s strings come in, how we listen and contemplating humanity, working with Amy Poehler and Amber Tamblyn, Halloween, how he writes songs, future plans for Superchunk and Merge Records , and much more. Suppo...

Rich Aucoin discusses how his four-album series, Synthetic - A Synth Odyssey , will feature the most synthesizers in recorded history, the fun, ambitious Halifax mindset, good parts of social media and the twitter debacle, the millions of instruments he can play really well, touring across North America by bicycle, future plans, and much more. Supported by you on  Patreon ,  Pizza Trokad...

Douglas Andrew McCombs discusses his lovely and fascinating first solo album, VMAK<KOMBZ<<<DUGLAS<<<6NDR7<<< , recording new music with Tortoise , his whole life in Illinois and how he got into Devo via Saturday Night Live and punk through Devo, learning to play music just by doing it, a handy phone recording app, David Pajo, John Hughes, and The Breakfast Club, his n...

Christine Fellows discusses her beautiful new album Stuff We All Get and its complementary stop-motion animation films, her husband John K. Samson’s love of weaving and new name, their new Vivat Virtute imprint, hard drives and other technological ups and downs, pet politics and feeding spiders, future plans, and much more. Supported by you on  Patreon ,  Blackbyrd Myoozik ,  Pizza...

Emmalia Bortolo-Vettor and Sarafina Bortolon-Vettor discuss the haunting new Bonnie Trash album, Malocchio , the state of Guelph music venues and ideas about improving musicians’ lives, the supernatural stories within their family history that inform their new album, the voice of their late grandmother, Nonna Maria, goth, post-punk, and horror film scores, JAWS , future plans, and much more. Suppo...

Natalie Mering discusses her work as Weyes Blood and her lovely new album, And In the Darkness, Hearts Aglow , sports, God, Narcissus, consumer capitalism, the internet, religion, blame, parenting, siblings, the Kids in the Hall, comedy, selfishness, her sound, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon , Blackbyrd Myoozik , Pizza Trokadero , the Bookshelf , Planet Bean Coffee , and Grandad's Donu...

Alexis Fleisig  and  Scott McCloud  of  Soulside  on the band’s first album in 33 years,  A Brief Moment in the Sun , growing up in Washington D.C. and their role in the  Dischord Records  community, sharing a split-single with a 17 year-old Dave Grohl, Soulside and Fugazi, why  Girls Against Boys  emerged after Soulside split, how singer/lyricist...

Bill Nace discusses his stirring new album Through a Room , his musical life in places like Jersey, Philadelphia, and western Massachusetts, playing on his own and in collaboration, working on various things during a pandemic, playing a donut pipe, punk and jazz, his label Open Mouth Records , trippy album art by Daniel Higgs, Kim Gordon and a new Body/Head release, touring, other future plans, an...

Ezra Furman discusses her wondrous new album, All of Us Flames , and the trilogy it concludes, opposition and galvanization in life and art, reflecting upon her life as a Jewish, trans woman, her relationship with her audience, Ally Sheedy, The Breakfast Club , and a Nick Lowe song, touring, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon , Blackbyrd Myoozik , Pizza Trokadero , the...

Alec MacKaye on his band Hammered Hulls , their unique sound, and their new album Careening , the early days of Dischord Records and his bands the Faith and Untouchables , why he resumed writing songs and performing, recording with his brother Ian MacKaye and Don Zientara , multilayered lyrics, future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon , Pizza Trokadero , the Bookshelf , Planet Bean...

Jeremy Greenspan discusses the new Junior Boys album, Waiting Game , getting over the virus and life in Hamilton, Ontario, other collaborations, how electronic musicians jam, making a record and a studio with Bob Weston ’s help, loudness in mixing, mastering, and the world, eavesdropping for lyrics, touring, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon , Blackbyrd Myoozik , Pizza...

Lance Sampson discusses the excellent new Aquakultre album, Don’t Trip , Halifax hurricane living, a concept record about love and family, vintage soul and R&B, being less visible, supporting the George Dixon Centre , 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 Blac...