Kreative Kontrol

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! 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 Blo...

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 . To hear this entire conversation , subscribe to Kreative Kontrol on Patreon at the $6 tier or higher (a reminder that an annual subscription...

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! 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 deat...

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! 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 f...

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! 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 perso...

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! 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 bu...

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! 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 industr...

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! 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 thei...

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! 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...

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! 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 ai...

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! 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 im...

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! 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 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! 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 an...

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! 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...

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 finall...

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! 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 Nirva...

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! 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 ha...

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...

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! 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 soun...

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...

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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! 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, Bub...