Kreative Kontrol

Daryl Hall is here discuss to his latest album D , historic home preservation and restoration, working with the Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart, classic rock radio and how legacy artists stay vital, why he started the inventive, award-winning web series Live from Daryl’s House and its current status, working with Robert Fripp on 1980’s Sacred Songs and his interest in outsider music, what he makes of con...

On April 12, 2007, I had two phone calls with Patti Smith for a print piece about both her then-new album, Twelve , which features her interpretations of songs by other artists, and her life and work. We were originally only meant to speak once but, after a publicist cut us off after 25 minutes, Patti told me she found my questions thoughtful, asked for my phone number, and promised to call me lat...

Dan Bejar discusses the new Destroyer album Dan’s Boogie , why he feels better about this album than his last one, expressing opinions to collaborator John Collins without saying a word, whether or not he thinks Jim Morrison is still alive and well in Syracuse, New York, collaborating with Fiver’s Simone Schmidt and why they’re one of the best singers working today, his interest in Italian cr...

Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock discuss their new book Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story Of Alternative Rock’s Wildest Festival , living among bears, whether Guitar World journalists are required to shred, why their book Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion and Michael Azerrad’s Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground,...

Back in September, 2010, I had the tremendous opportunity to interview Van Dyke Parks on two occasions. The second time was live before an audience at Pop Montreal. The first time was over the phone for the Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show! , which I co-hosted with my wife Michelle. Here for you now, as it aired on September 29, 2010, is my radio interview with Van Dyke Parks.  To hear this...

Eliza Niemi is back to discuss her wonderful new solo album Progress Bakery , her creative life post-Mauno, why she’s been focusing more on cello and the creative and collaborative opportunities it’s providing her, working closely with Dorothea Paas and Louie Short, dealing with a frightening illness alone while completing a residency in New Mexico, Dogman, fireflies, and other creatures and theme...

EVERY OTHER COMPLETE 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! Kim Thayil from Soundgarden , 3rd Secret , and Nudedragons is here to discuss how the roots of Sub Pop and Seattle’s sound are in Illinois, growing up as Indian guys in a rather white underground rock wor...

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! Ben Disaster is here to discuss Real Sickies and their new album Under a Plastic Bag , his weekly CJSR radio show, This is Pop , festive DIY kitchen parties on the east coast of Canada 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! 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...