Kreative Kontrol

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...

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! Thanks to Bob Nastanovich, Rebecca Clay Cole from Pavement is here to discuss her Elephant 6 Recording Co. community, Pavement’s influence on it, and the recent and painful losses they’ve...

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! Alex Ross Perry , Scott Kannberg , and Robert Greene are here to discuss their film Pavements , whether or not it's a comedy, documentary subjects who reflect pluralities, how the band reacted to aspects of the in...

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,...

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! Franz Nicolay from the Hold Steady is here to discuss his new book, Band People: Life and Work in Popular Music , once living in Toronto and how couples in the creative arts and humanities support each other, bala...

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! Nancy Urich and Seth A. Smith are here to discuss their band Dog Day and new album, A T-Shirt with Writing on It , their filmmaking pursuits and origin stories, the differences and simila...

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! Thanks to listener and Patreon subscriber Brian Mock , Bill Stevenson from Descendents / ALL / The Blasting Room studios is here to discuss his road from Hermosa Beach to Fort Collins, smart ways to tour America’s...

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...

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! Adam Sturgeon and Daniel Monkman from OMBIIGIZI discuss their new album Shame , life in Ontario and Manitoba and some of the better Canadian provinces to live in, the biting tone, explora...

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...

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! Dorothea Paas on the sound and substance of Think of Mist , spending more time in Rochester, NY, listening to and making notes about records by Sade and Hiroshi Yoshimura, writing things...

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...

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! Oliver Ackermann from A Place to Bury Strangers is back to discuss their uniquely packaged new album Synthesizer , the latest audio inventions in production at Death by Audio , why the Synthesizer album cover incl...

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! Oren Ambarchi discusses his trio with Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin and their latest album, Ghosted II , living in Berlin and Winnipeg, Drag City Chicago pizza advice, when he lived...

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! Phil Elverum is here to discuss the new Mount Eerie album, Night Palace , moving back to Washington State after a period living in New York, immersion in your community with family and friends, home ownership 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! Heather O’Neill returns to discuss her latest novel, The Capital of Dreams , a fairy tale about a young girl fleeing a genocidal invasion in a fictional European region, armed only with a...

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! Grasshopper from Mercury Rev is here to discuss their new album, Born Horses , his time in Buffalo, NY, its vibrant live music scene, and shopping for music-related items in Canada, collaborations and interactions...

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 Kasher from Cursive is here to discuss their new album, Devourer , its lyrical themes and why imperialism was on his mind, why the “you” in Cursive songs is often actually addressing...

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! Steve Holmes from American Football is back to discuss American Football (25th Anniversary Edition) and American Football   (Covers) , Chicago pizza, a brief history of American Football, why M...

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! Sam Nicholson from the Australian indie-rock band Quivers is here to discuss their brilliant Merge Records debut, Oyster Cuts , life in Tasmania and down under, an inadvertent Pavement al...