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Brendan Canty, Joe Lally, Ian MacKaye, and Guy Picciotto from Fugazi and filmmaker Jem Cohen discuss their 1999 documentary, Instrument, how it was captured using film technologies of the time, how live and interview footage was used to reflect the band’s inventive music-making, insights about memorable moments from the film, its remarkable soundtrack, Jem’s focus on audience portraiture and commentary, the basketball hoop, what may become of the longer edit of Instrument and film footage we haven’t yet seen, Fugazi’s most iconic song, and much more.     

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Sarah Houle, Shane Ghostkeeper and JOYFULTALK’s Jay Crocker discuss their work together on the new Ghostkeeper album, C​î​payak Joy, their history as friends and collaborators, Shane’s fascinating and initially discouraging foray into music-making after devoting his youth to playing hockey, Jay’s focus on passion and creativity over musical proficiency, what prompted Sarah to explore synthesized drums over the louder, real thing, how hip-hop, R&B, and electronic music influenced C​î​payak Joy, its lyrical themes and music videos, a planned companion release, other future plans, and much more.

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Ryan Kattner discusses the new Man Man album, Carrot on Strings, his recent move from California to New York and the many places he has lived, his love of film and his interactions with and roles he’s had in the movie business, the 2024 NBA Finals and players he finds appealing, wanting to write a stadium anthem, our love for Stephen Malkmus and Pavement, future and hope for future film and music projects, tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Sam Morril discusses his upcoming stand-up dates including a JFL Toronto stop on September 21, being a terrible driver and growing up in a blended family in Manhattan, how our parents measure our success, getting into comedy and admiring John Mulaney, attention spans and Oppenheimer vs. Barbie, telling David Letterman why he offers some specials to fans for free, corporate delays and greed, his 2020 pandemic-induced Up on the Roof special, what he knows and thinks about Canada, an update about his next special, tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Nick Thorburn discusses his band Islands and their new, sunny/dark album, And That's Why Dolphins Lost Their Legs, making a musical trilogy, creative people striking and speaking out about cultural exploitation, pivoting in the modern age, John Lennon and Robert Smith, how to remain optimistic, always living near large bodies of water, making beats for people like Fat Tony, touring again, other future plans, and much more.

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In his first interview in nearly a decade, Buck 65 explains his self-imposed exile from hip-hop and why he’s back, incredible recent albums like 2022’s King of Drums and 2023’s Super Dope and making beats in secret, giving up space for other artists, attracting the attention of a New York Yankees scout as a kid and making a triumphant return to baseball as a middle-aged man, working with Controller 7 and asking Vincent Gallo for permission to create Billy, rapping his ass off, releasing more records, his Substack, other future plans, and much more.

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Allison Russell discusses her celebratory, thoughtful new album The Returner, the heady success of her 2021 debut, Outside Child, an update about her forthcoming memoir and its structure, Back to the Future and other trilogies, the power of the Rainbow Coalition, the right-ward shift of politics and fighting fascism with facts, loving The Sound of Music, inspiring work by Roberta Flack, Mavis Staples, Minnie Riperton, and Prince, her friendship with Brandi Carlile and their recent collabs with Joni Mitchell, reading us a poem she wrote about Joni, upcoming tour dates, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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The great Richard Laviolette died on September 5, 2023. I remember and celebrate Richard as a friend, a colleague in my community, and as a collaborator. Featuring radio interviews my wife and I conducted with Richard in 2006 and 2011, and a song I recorded with Richard and friends in 2018. For more information, read Richard's wonderfully written death notice, a record review I wrote in 2006, a 2017 article I wrote about him in a local Guelph newspaper, and listen to his lone appearance on Kreative Kontrol. We love you so much, Ricky. Photo taken by Colin Medley, Hillside Festival, Guelph, ON, July, 2023. 

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Sean Michaels discusses his compelling, contemporary novel, Do you remember being born?, the time we shared a helicopter ride in the Yukon, the late poet Marianne Moore’s life and how it inspired this book, his exploration and use of ChatGPT and A.I. to tell this story, what Nick Cave and Marc Maron might have wrong about such technology, collaboration, his book tour, 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 Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Jarrett Evan Samson talks about his band Tough Age and their new album, Waiting Here, leaving Ontario for western Canada, how the climate is changing, GBV, R.E.M., and Flying Nun, loving comics and the cinema vs. superhero movies debate, a brief history of Tough Age and its different configurations, continuity and a Jesse Locke update, working with new labels, future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Julia Steiner discusses her band Ratboys and their eclectic, emotionally charged new album, The Window, living in places like Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky, her mother’s influential Beatles and Sheryl Crow CDs, a Bob Dylan detour, loving Wilco, Chad VanGaalen, and Sufjan Stevens, exploring grief and grieving on The Window, upcoming tour dates, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Hannah Georgas discusses her deeply personal and revealing new album, I’d Be Lying if I Said I Didn’t Care, leaving Toronto behind, tennis and acupuncture, asserting herself and really, really communicating, producing this album herself, the Canadian music industry and authenticity, upcoming tour dates, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Fenne Lily discusses her wonderful new album Big Picture, running and sleeping, writing as a coping mechanism, why self-reflection alone won’t cut it, how literature and comedy influence her songwriting, letting listeners in, subtle bits of homage, profound bumper stickers, temporal temperature, future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Rick White, Mike Belitsky, and Travis Good discuss their new album, Rick White and the Sadies, Ontario heat waves, a parrot gender reveal, how Rick and the Sadies began working together, wonderful drummers like Mark Gaudet and Gary Young, inadvertently naming new songs the same names as other people’s songs, how the late Dallas Good appears in people’s dreams, visions, and in other ways, contemplating playing live shows but also, a post-recording update to report that Rick White and the Sadies are playing at the Great Hall in Toronto on September 6, 2024, other future plans, and much more.    

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Ray Padgett discusses his remarkable new book, Pledging My Time – Conversations with Bob Dylan Band Members, his music journalism origin story, loving “Weird Al” Yankovic and MAD Magazine, first getting into Dylan and then the obsession with all things Dylan, why seeing one show is never enough and his excellent live Dylan newsletter, whether Dylan might be retiring, talking to people who rarely or have never discussed working with Dylan, learning more about the man through others, 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 vish online.

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Nico Paulo discusses her new, critically acclaimed self-titled album, living her life in Portugal, Toronto, and St. John’s, window shutter signals, learning other people’s music, how love can mean so many things even in the same languages, the water, new songs, upcoming tour dates, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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[TW: suicide, psychological abuse] Nina Nastasia discusses her latest wondrous solo album, Riderless Horse, living in Calgary, Alberta for a while, the longest walk in the world for a dog, the difficult life she lived with her late partner Kennan Gudjonsson, and the songs she wrote about it, inviting Electrical Audio’s Steve Albini and Greg Norman to upstate New York to make Riderless Horse, upcoming tour dates, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Leith Ross discusses their new album, To Learn, leaving Ontario for the prairies, music in their parents’ home, believing in boredom, what social media is good for, irl community connections, dehumanization, fantastical nostalgia, touring and playing the Hillside Festival, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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In a conversation recorded before the SAG-AFTRA strike motion, Martin Herlihy, John Higgins, and Ben Marshall from please don’t destroy discuss their 2023 North American tour and Just for Laughs stops in Montreal, Canada and important Canadians like Norm Macdonald and Jamal Murray, their work as writers and short filmmakers on Saturday Night Live, comedic film editing and doing a live show, the forthcoming pdd movie, which features Conan O’Brien, 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 Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Jean Néant discusses their new Joni Void album, Every Day Is the Song, moving to Montreal from France to study film, remix experiences with Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead, primitive and modern recording technology and how their sound affects sounds, authenticity and mediated culture, distortion, Tom Waits, and the Beatles, bots on twitter, new Joni Void music, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Simone Schmidt and Ian Russell discuss their band One Hundred Dollars and the recent Blue Fog Recordings reissue of their classic debut album, Forest of Tears, listening speeds, our long relationship, recording with Rick White, the 2007ish Toronto music scene, vinyl records and music consumption, the mysterious band LSDoubleDCup, representation and the evolution of awareness, Ian’s solo record In Light, new Fiver music and shows, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, plus Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Following the devastating news of his shocking death on June 30, 2023, I remember Rick Froberg, who is someone I’ve admired most of my life and became friends with over the past 20 years. Featuring my recollections about his artwork, songwriting, and bands like Pitchfork, Drive Like Jehu, Hot Snakes, and Obits, and archival interviews I conducted with Rick about such things in 2005, 2009, and twice in 2011. Rick was truly unique, warm, and supportive, and I love him. Thank you, Rick. Photo by: O.

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Ep. #29: Sohrab Habibion of Obits (September 3, 2013)

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Douglas McCombs and Charles Rumback discuss their band Black Duck and new self-titled debut album, jazz, punk, and freedom, the Slint/Tortoise connection, why producers like J Dilla are really influential for drummers, improvisation and composition, Bill MacKay’s guitar playing, working with John Hughes III, Cheap Trick and Superchunk, Seven Bridges, Black Duck shows, a Tortoise album update, 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 Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Hari Kondabolu discusses his brilliant new comedy special Vacation Baby, being a dad, Indian parents, Indian food, and yogurt, delving into cultural and familial backgrounds without mocking them, making art that changes things, perspectives on the impact of his film, The Problem with Apu, becoming friends with Hank Azaria and thinking about The Simpsons, the sharpness of his stand-up, (Extended) Vacation Baby, touring again, 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 Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Cory Hanson and Robbie Cody discuss the new Wand album, Vertigo, the California heat, the Kendrick Lamar / Drake feud, buying a large amount of recording gear using crypto and other financial planning advice, Bob Dylan’s 2024 tour behind the 2012 album Tempest, the history of Wand, cinema, film noir, and physical media, making a Wand record in a very different, improvisational manner, admirable production work by the likes of Bill Schnee and Jim O’Rourke, directing an emotional vocal take, abiding by the doomsday clock, touring with Red Hot Chili Peppers, other future plans, and much more. 

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Priyanka discusses her journey from being television personality Mark “Suki” Suknanan to winning the first season of Canada’s Drag Race in 2020, professional fans, male hygiene tips, immigration and her Indo-Guyanese background, racism, homophobia, transphobia, drag hatred, and gay liberation, keys to successful relationships, making new music and being Canada’s Queen of All Media, touring and the Hillside Festival, 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 Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Cory Hanson discusses his excellent new guitar rock record, Western Cum, film’s influence on his narrative songwriting of late, exploring American rock music forms, bands from the Sunset Strip era, walking in Van Halen’s footsteps, social media and the merch guy story that went viral, being a guitar person and being Michael Jordan, hard stops and fade outs, touring, 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 Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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John Wright from Nomeansno discusses his new band Dead Bob and their debut album, Life Like, living in a remote cabin in the woods, his time working with the robot rockers in Compressorhead, the forthcoming Nomeansno book, the state of Nomeansno reissues on Alternative Tenatacles, one-off t-shirts, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Ariel Engle and Efrim Manuel Menuck discuss their band ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT and their stunning new album, Darling the Dawn, gardening, touring, the night, sleep and insomnia, the birds, labour, capitalism, and “poor eternals,” folklore, hope, roses, new collaborators, playing live, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Jason P. Woodbury discusses his project JPW and its debut album, Something Happening / Always Happening, growing up and finding music in Arizona, his entry into music journalism and contributing to Aquarium Drunkard, the time I was on his Transmissions podcast, interviewing people with the spirit of awe and enthusiasm, the desert mindset, future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Kevin Morby discusses his new album More Photographs (A Continuum), the continuing resonance of “This is a Photograph,” tragic Tennessee figures like Big Star’s Chris Bell, the collapse of Ja Morant and the Memphis Grizzlies, youth, aging, and dying, loving physical photos, songwriting concepts, tour dates, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Joe Casey discusses the new Protomartyr album, Formal Growth in the Desert, selling his childhood home and losing his mother and other family members, music-making viability in a pandemic, having his home repeatedly burglarized and deeper societal issues, misinformation and disinformation, the Detroit Tigers and funny lyrics in dark arrangements, the Wu-Tang Clan, tour dates, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Ky discusses their stirring debut album, Power is the Pharmacy, remembering Joni Sadler, leaving Ottawa for Montreal, co-founding the Error 403 studio and being a recording engineer, academic pursuits and searching for a feeling, classical music, challenging theatricality, and loving pop music, The Artist’s Way, fretting over teeth, tour dates, 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 Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Daniel Monkman discusses the new Zoon album, Bekka Ma'iingan, climate change and The Nature of Things, the hardships of touring and why Europe gets it right, grieving and mental health, collaborating with Owen Pallett and Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo, what “two-spirit” means and their recent non-binary status, forthcoming works by Ombiigizi and Zoon, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Will Oldham and Lori Damiano discuss their beautiful and funny new children’s book, Shorty’s Ark, gardening and horses, what children’s books are like, zoos and this Live Sea Otter Cam, wild illustrations, the circuitous origin of the song “Shorty’s Ark,” giraffes who wear boots, naming the animals while we can, future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Janel Leppin and Anthony Pirog discuss their new Janel and Anthony double-record, New Moon in The Evil Age, Leppin’s Ensemble Volcanic Ash: To March Is To Love, and Pirog’s The Hunger Artist, growing up and moving around a lot, living in small houses in a forest, being both grunge and rockabilly kids and meeting in high school, how they respectively began pursuing cello and guitar and the road from classical and composition-based music to improvisation, singing and songwriting, the state of music and protesting to preserve it, other future plans, and much more!

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L CON discusses her lovely, revealing new album, The Isolator, the Guelph geese, creative instincts, existential anxiety, and embracing vulnerability, secret rules, exploring her Swiss-Canadian heritage and the alphorn, piano and parts work, climbing Swiss alps, 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 vish online.

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William Tyler discusses his band, the Impossible Truth, and their new live double-album, Secret Stratosphere, Tennessee politics and America in a socio-political stalemate, things that mass and social media have done and do to us, truth, communication, musicians and mental health, future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Friendly Rich discusses his poignant and pointed new album, Man Out of Time, beard perceptions, working remotely with fewer but still very impressive musical collaborators, imposter syndrome and being in the room with heroes, French and English, the end of men, pondering the pandemic, 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 vish online. 

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Harrison discusses the making of and inspiration behind his new album, Birds, Bees, The Clouds & The Trees, life in Toronto, gaming and escapism, different ways to be a professional musician, the birds and the bees, the great outdoors, multilayered album artwork, special guests, future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Adam Horovitz reflects upon his time being Ad-Rock in Beastie Boys, the 2023 NBA playoffs, a toaster oven, Beastie Boys Book and Beastie Boys Story and Beastie Boys Audiobook, satire and comedy, embracing new technologies and making things up as you go, memorable late night talk show and Saturday Night Live appearances, encountering Bob Dylan, making new music and the status of Hot Sauce Committee Part One, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Jana Horn discusses her lovely new album, The Window is the Dream, growing up in Texas, why she expresses herself via music and literature, different education systems, her religious faith and admiration for “Weird Al” Yankovic and Leonard Cohen, writing a book, defending a thesis, tour dates, other future plans, and 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 vish online.

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Guy Picciotto, Giorgos Xylouris, and Jim White discuss the beautiful new Xylouris White album, The Forest in Me, making music together and apart, collaborating with filmmaker Rebecca E. Marshall, the band’s curious way of recording music and fascinating temporality, a thunderstorm in Crete, tour dates, 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 Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Wax Mannequin discusses his brilliant new album, The Red Brain, Hamilton and the Awesome Mom live show series, collaborating with Corwin Fox, lessons learned on the cross-Canada tour he and I once did with the Burning Hell, the pocket system and remembering people’s names, the human mind, science-fiction and the future, how transcending genres leads to timeless art, playing shows soon, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Black Eyes discuss the twentieth anniversary reissue of their self-titled debut on Dischord Records and their first three shows in decades, Washington D.C. life in a post-Fugazi, post-hardcore era, musical wildness and recording with Ian MacKaye, how you often have to fight for your right to party, the sweetness of friendships and reunions, playing music again, 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 Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Hayden discusses his lovely new album, Are We Good, hair checks and fake IDs, opening bands and why New Zealand feels like a second home, the power of Feist, the Tom Hanks timeline, slapping the bass, nostalgia, reflection, and invention in songwriting, collaborating with the National’s Matt Berninger and Aaron Dessner, the annual Dream Serenade benefit, playing Massey Hall, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Chris Corsano discusses his new album, The Key (Became The Important Thing [& Then Just Faded Away]), his life in New Jersey and what we can learn about it from The Sopranos, dementia, psychedelia, and how a mind can be altered, imagination, illness, and art-making, the now infamous episode of this show that Chris was on with his band Rangda just prior to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, our shared admiration for the double bassist William Parker, a relaxation trick, the projects we each have going with Mike Watt, other future plans, and much more.   

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Mark Arm discusses the excellent new Mudhoney album, Plastic Eternity, Sub Pop life and people collecting vinyl records and cassette tapes, cults, social media, and the things that people want to believe, Pere Ubu’s Tom Herman and Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour, little dogs, Mudhoney’s remote working conditions, new and unreleased songs, touring, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Carl Newman discusses the New Pornographers and their new album, Continue as a Guest, kitties and Neko Case, Woodstock, Big Pink, and Levon Helm, playing on a cruise ship with Neko and Jeff Tweedy, topical songwriting and pondering the pandemic, isolation, existentialism, fraying humanity, and strengthening relationships, collaborative songwriting and new songs, other future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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Chandler Levack discusses her beautiful, funny directorial debut, I Like Movies, Toronto life and her family history, being a film critic and a filmmaker, teenage angst and anticipation, narrative autobiography, I Like Movies’ remarkable cast and acclaim, misogyny in popular culture, regionalism and Canadian storytelling, support from Sarah Polley, exciting 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 vish online.

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