- 1 hour 3 minutesEp. #1103: Jon Spencer
Jon Spencer returns to discuss his new album Songs of Personal Loss and Protest, making the trek to play shows in Canadian cities like Edmonton, the uncertain status of Jon Spencer and the HITmakers, how his new trio featuring Kendall Wind and Macky Bowman came to be and whether or not this band will have a name, the comprehensive Jon Spencer fan site, Pop Catastrophe, what it’s like playing in a band with/relating to much younger musicians, their tremendous musical knowledge and skills, writing these new songs collaboratively, digging into this fraught socio-political moment in time while also mourning the loss of loved ones, working with Deke Dickerson, American cultural erasure, marginalization, and Little Richard, exhibiting empathy for evil people, the artistic burden of doing promotional work that show promoters used to do, upcoming tour dates, other future plans, and much more.
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11 June 2026, 6:00 am - 30 minutes 37 secondsEp. #1102: Cola
Evan Cartwright, Tim Darcy, and Ben Stidworthy from Cola are here to discuss their new album Cost of Living Adjustment, the first Ought interview ever, why Ought ended when it did, group dynamic stressors and Buddhism, the way Cola work together, cool beats and whether or not Ben could be a music producer, delving particularly deeply into the songs “Hedgesitting” and “Much of a Muchness,” the band’s subtle acronym name, sports metaphors, capitalist critiques, and escapism, tour dates and new songs, other future plans, and much more.
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9 June 2026, 6:00 am - 56 minutes 47 secondsEp. #1101: Gina Gershon
Gina Gershon is here to discuss her new memoir, AlphaPussy: How I Survived the Valley and Learned to Love My Boobs, creating the perfect breakfast cereal, how this new book came to fruition, similarities shared between cats and men, why some younger artists see a toughness in her they feel they can’t harness themselves, writing a reflective book about being an independent, somewhat unparented child while caring for and then grieving for her mother, boxing with Bob Dylan and their enduring friendship, the gratitude she receives from fans inspired by her strong characters in Bound and Showgirls and rekindling her conflicted relationship with the latter in its thirtieth anniversary year, what’s next for her, and much more.
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6 June 2026, 6:00 am - 1 hour 28 minutesEp. #1100: The Creem
Mike Stroud and Nick Thorburn from the Creem are here to discuss their new album A Taste of Cherry, why Los Angeles may in fact be hell, standard items available at most Connecticut shopping complexes, their social and working history, Mike’s gifts as a producer of instrumentals and how that inspired Nick to write clever lyrics and vocal melodies very quickly, expressing joy and humour in your art during very dark times, when Evan Gordon from Islands met and spoke with Paul McCartney, when Mike spoke with Paul McCartney and Jeff Lynne, Nick’s new comic book Pear Shape, the influence that comic artist Richard McGuire has had on Nick’s own comic pursuits, a new record by Mike’s band Kunzite, why this band is called the Creem, playing shows, other future plans, and much more.
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4 June 2026, 6:00 am - 30 minutes 42 secondsEp. #1099: Glissandro 70
Craig Dunsmuir and Sandro Perri return to discuss Glissandro 70 and their new album G70 2: Bones Of Dundasa, getting emotionally attached to your neighbours who are cows, a table reading of this album’s promotional one-sheet, embracing your own creations after periods of self-doubt and reflection, Andy Magoffin’s playful humour and underrated songwriting genius in the Two-Minute Miracles, the key role Dunsmuir’s vintage Roland HandSonic drum pad plays in Glissandro 70, incorporating humour and embracing rhythmic flop, key influences such as Fela Kútì, Boredoms, godspeed you! black emperor, and Sun Araw among others, the guiding spirit of Arthur Russell and working with his collaborator Peter Zummo, performing at Standard Time in Toronto on June 4 as part of the Tone Festival, news about new music and releases in their own pursuits, what could be next for Glissandro 70, other future plans, and much more.
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2 June 2026, 6:00 am - 1 hour 18 minutesEp. #1098: Zoh Amba
Zoh Amba is here to discuss their astonishing new album Eyes Full, making their podcast debut and a recent hang with folk bitch trio, how they got into guitar, songwriting, and rock music, recurring lyrics about God, eyes, searching, and observational behaviour, why “Southern Soil” is such a key song for them in their Tennessee trajectory, the story behind their collaboration with Jim White and Guy Picciotto on Jim’s recent album Inner Day, Jim’s joyful presence and great sense of fun, learning more about their Eyes Full collaborators or “musical babies” as they call them, getting an email from Iggy Pop requesting their presence in his band, writing new songs, other future plans, and much more.
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28 May 2026, 6:15 am - 31 minutes 28 secondsEp. #1097: American Football
Steve Holmes and Steve Lamos from American Football are here to discuss American Football (LP4), the joys of marking final papers by the college students you teach, the story behind the alluring, unsettling drum part in “Man Overboard” and an appreciation for James Bond soundtrack songs, why Lamos left and returned to American Football in recent years, the factual aspects of LP4’s lyrical themes and thoughts on Mike Kinsella’s direct, unadorned vocals, whether my theory that the album flows like a theatrical production has legs, a shoutout to English degrees, working with producer Sonny DiPerri in California and a surprising but very welcome surfing lesson, playing many shows, other future plans, and much more!
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26 May 2026, 6:00 am - 1 hour 11 minutesEp. #1096: Marisa Anderson
Marisa Anderson returns to discuss her compelling new album, The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music Vol. 1, the joys of touring, responding to a Patreon subscriber’s inquiry about her new band Ruminants, exploring the Bob Dylan Center and immersing herself in the private record collection of the late, famed cultural collector/curator, Harry Smith, how she landed on recording her own three-album set focussing on music from places that the United States of America has been in conflict with since 1970, including Southeast Asia, the USSR and the Arabic and Islamic regions of the world, why “UnAmerican” is such a loaded, multi-faceted term, upcoming shows, other future plans, and much more.
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21 May 2026, 6:00 am - 30 minutesEp. #1095: Holy Fuck
Brian Borcherdt, Matt Schulz, and Graham Walsh from Holy Fuck are here to discuss their new album Event Beat, moving back to Toronto and leaving New York City for Ohio, receiving noise complaints from studio neighbours because of the band Slayer, the growing trend of musicians not having access to isolated practice spaces, whether a hiatus ever placed the band’s future in doubt, making music for fun but also for other people to party to, the impact of having their songs placed in films and tv shows, writing thoughtful lyrics for textured singing, a tribute to compact discs, playing many shows, other future plans, and much more.
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19 May 2026, 6:00 am - 1 hour 50 secondsEp. #1094: Jeff Miller
Jeff Miller is here to discuss his captivating debut novel, Temporary Palaces, living all over Canada and seeing an Edmonton Oilers hockey game in their championship heyday, our unexpected comedy connections, being inspired by bands like Shotmaker, Kepler, and Fugazi among others, hardcore punk rock lore and mythology, how Ottawa's punk community inspired him to participate generally and start writing zines, what his novel is about and what exactly inspired it, pondering your subcultural youth in adulthood, upcoming live book events, other future plans, and much more.
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14 May 2026, 6:00 am - 30 minutes 11 secondsEp. #1093: Spencer Krug
Spencer Krug returns to discuss his excellent new album, Same Fangs, local pigs under duress and songs inspired by animals, sharing early and in-progress versions of his new songs with his Patreon subscribers, philosophical notions of what songs actually are, parasocial interaction and the increased intimacy between creators and fans via crowdfunding sites, the ups and downs of Sunset Rubdown and its uncertain current status, feeling a profound sense of sadness and hopelessness about the suffering of others and how that can affect your relationship with your family, the trick of acquiring geopolitical knowledge, information, and news and knowing what to do with it to affect positive change, the reality and the internet, his Wolf Parade colleague Dan Boeckner’s political outspokenness as a prolific poster, his reaction to the Wolf Parade song “I’ll Believe in Anything” featuring in a key scene from the show Heated Rivalry and the ensuing popularity of both, updates about new Wolf Parade music, forthcoming solo show dates and performance configurations, other future plans, and much more.
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