Kreative Kontrol – Details, episodes & analysis

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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 allusion and recent encounter with Mark Ibold, how Quivers wound up on Merge and Sam’s affection for Calgary’s Chad VanGaalen, surviving cancer as a child and hanging out with Ringo Starr from the Liverpool-based band, the Beatles, covering grief, joy, telephones, technology, and more in his songs, the Wiggles and music inclusivity, when Quivers played Guelph and I wasn’t there, current and future tour dates in North America and beyond, other future plans, and much more. 

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Related episodes/links:

Ep. #910: The Hard Quartet

Ep. #738: Superchunk

Ep. #722: The Beths

Ep. #678: Mark Ibold

Ep. #677: Pavement

Ep. #602: Chad VanGaalen

Ep. #373: Pavement’s Bob Nastanovich and Steve West

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WE ARE WINTER’S BLUE AND RADIANT CHILDREN’S Mat Ball (BIG|BRAVE), Jonathan Downs (Vervain, Rhubarb), Efrim Manuel Menuck (godspeed you! black emperor, ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT), and Patch One (Vervain, Pond 1000, Greef) discuss their new album, No More Apocalypse Father, starting a band with people you’ve never met before, an affinity for winter, parents, children, and patriarchy, when Michael Jackson dangled his baby Blanket over a balcony and how the concept of a family can be exploited, singing lullabies in a baritone and having empathy, spectating atrocities from afar, denying reality and having hope, what’s next for WAWBARC, other future plans, and much more.

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Related episodes/links:

Ep. #867: BIG|BRAVE

Ep. #781: ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT

Ep. #667: Efrim Manuel Menuck

Ep. #637: ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT

Ep. #62: Efrim Menuck of Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra + Godspeed You! Black Emperor

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The Jesus Lizard Week ’24 continues with David Wm. Sims discussing the band’s new album RACK, recent music festival experiences, the significance of the Jesus Lizard’s close friendships, his own golden era in the band, how and why they chose to write and record RACK the way they did, what may become of the songs that were captured but didn’t make the album, his penchant for coming up with fresh bass parts by playing along to music made by people like War and Wu-Tang Clan, why he is contemplating moving out of the United States of America, upcoming tour dates, other future plans, and much more. 

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Related episodes/links:

Ep. #902: David Yow from The Jesus Lizard

Ep. #844: Pissed Jeans

Ep. #170: Andy Gill of Gang of Four

Ep. #92: The Jesus Lizard Week with David Wm. Sims

Ep. #91: The Jesus Lizard Week with Duane Denison

Ep. #90: The Jesus Lizard Week with Mac McNeilly

Ep. #89: The Jesus Lizard Week with David Yow

Ep. #9: David Yow

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Geordie Gordon discusses his excellent, reflective new solo album, Tambourine, writing about his teenage years playing music and contemplating his sexuality, loving sad songs, his role in U.S. Girls and seeing an important show by the Hidden Cameras, growing up in the closet in a university town, pondering his next record, playing shows, other future plans, and much more.

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Related episodes:

Ep. #617: Islands

Ep. #297: Long Night with The Magic, Jhanelle Dennis, & Mitch Fillion

Ep. #231: Evan Gordon

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Maximilian Turnbull discusses the new Badge Époque Ensemble album, Air, Light & Harmony, and this past spring’s Radiant Music by Symphony Orchestra, touring and speaking with toddler twins and also Bill Callahan, composing and also composting music, sampling your own work and conceptual complexity, working with his friend Michael Rault, future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #757: U.S. Girls

Ep. #632: Meg Remy

Ep. #582: Badge Époque Ensemble

Ep. #532: U.S. Girls

Ep. #510: Ice Cream

Ep. #407: U.S. Girls

Ep. #363: Darlene Shrugg

Ep. #279: U.S. Girls

Ep. #207: Slim Twig

Ep. #148: Slim Twig

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Marc Masters discusses his fascinating new book, High Bias –The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape, why we fixate on music formats, the democratization of sound, why cassettes are still revered and collected around the world, tapers, the Grateful Dead, and Sonic Youth, how tapes foretold modern notions of on-demand music portability, what might be next for sound carriers and makers, book tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Michael Azerrad discusses his wonderful new book, The Amplified Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana, interviewing Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, and Krist Novoselic for the original Come As You Are book and his subsequent friendship with the band, the truth and rock mythology, self-consciousness and indifference about perception, Kurt’s clinical conditions, how he seemed so relatable, shame, collage, and other recurring motifs in Nirvana’s work, jamming with Nirvana, citing certain podcasts, possible prequels, other future plans, and much more.

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Joseph Shabason discusses his fascinating new concept album, Welcome to Hell, which rescores the classic, 1996 skateboarding video of the same name, his own skating history and how jazz, punk, and free improvisation relate to the sport, reclaiming public spaces, the amazing look and sound of skate videos and legends like Ed Templeton, bail sections, skate parks, tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Markus Floats discusses the lovely Fourth Album, working in Montreal, shifting from solitary to collaborative work with Egyptian Cotton Arkestra, fixed and fluid art, a koan by Fred Moten, problems and solutions, tarot cards and astrology, darkness and hope, playing shows, other future plans, and much more.

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Jessica Jalbert and Rene Wilson discuss their band Faith Healer and brilliant new album, The Hand That Fits the Glove, strange Edmonton birds, why it’s been six years since they last released an album, working with many other people, intentionality and confidence, dogs and a specific dog, going viral, huge life news, other future plans, and much more.

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