Kreative Kontrol
Vish Khanna / Entertainment One (eOne)
Thoughtful, funny, heartfelt interviews and in-depth documentaries about musicians, authors, comedians, and other cultural creators.
- 1 hour 20 minutesEp. #1051: Friendly Rich
Friendly Rich returns to discuss his latest album, The Birds of Marsville, his Brampton, Ontario pride, completing his PhD in music education and becoming a doctor, what having a giant beard might mean, playing the artistic and comedic long game, learning more about Marsville, the eighteenth-century researcher C. Smalloochi, and the orchestrion’s capabilities as a musical instrument, getting into birds, birders, and birding, Canadian arts grants, challenging the players on this album, Gordon Heavyfoot, future plans, and much more.
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Ep. #367: Lido Pimienta, Sara Hennessey, Friendly Rich, and James Keast on Long Night
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23 December 2025, 7:00 am - 1 hour 21 minutesEp. #1050: Jimmie Kilpatrick
Jimmie Kilpatrick returns to discuss his excellent album Jimmie, the heartening experience of living in Manitoba, Canada these days and concentrating on his community, why he retired his Shotgun Jimmie name, bringing his sound sculpture work into his indie-rock aesthetic, collaborating with Ladyhawk’s Ryan Peters and messing around with tape loops, making subversive pop music, numerous lyrical references to analog and communication technology and falling asleep, keeping a little too busy, touring with the Burning Hell and alluding to Joni Mitchell, pondering work with John Samson Fellows, other future plans, and much more.
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Ep. #944: Bonnie “Prince” Billy
Ep. #911: Richard Laviolette’s ‘All Wild Things Are Shy’
Ep. #850: You’ve Changed Records is 15!
Ep. #502: Shotgun Jimmie! Thrush Hermit!
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18 December 2025, 7:00 am - 29 minutes 21 secondsEp. #1049: Rebecca Foon and Aliayta Foon-Dancoes
Rebecca Foon and Aliayta Foon-Dancoes are here to discuss their debut album, Reverie, studying at Princeton, their family dynamic and their respective early forays in classical music, how much formal music education can inform improvisation and punk rock, Rebecca’s work on the Lost River Music Festival and the Pathway to Paris initiative, how their feelings about the ecological inspiration behind Reverie are more melancholy since collective climate change mitigation targets have not been met, a conversation about the novel The Alchemist with Patti Smith and Jesse Paris Smith, what’s next, and much more.
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Ep. #18: Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld
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16 December 2025, 7:00 am - 14 minutes 39 secondsNomeansno (2011)
On a recent Kreative Kontrol episode, Mark Molnar mentioned his fondness for a radio interview I once conducted with Tom Holliston, John Wright, and Rob Wright from Canada’s greatest band, Nomeansno. And so, here’s that interview, which occurred over breakfast at the By the Way Café in Toronto, Ontario on April 5, 2011. It’s one of my most cherished work life experiences, so thank you again to Nomeansno, whose entire catalogue is now available on streaming services, and Alternative Tentacles is reissuing their catalogue in physical forms too.
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Ep. #707: Ian Blurton’s Future Now
Ep. #476: Ford Pier live at CFRU!
Ep. #227: John Wright & Frank Barnes of Compressorhead
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13 December 2025, 6:25 pm - 1 hour 25 minutesEp. #1048: Mark Molnar
Mark Molnar is here to discuss his new album EXO, being made to take classical music lessons at three years old over pursuing sports, key figures in his life who exposed him to music, musicians, and ways to approach your musical instrument, the death of arts funding and risk aversion in the cultural sector, his engagement with my music journalism and a breakfast interview I once did with Nomeansno, the state of contemporary classical music and whether he and other Constellation Records artists might fit within it, his own label Black Bough Records, other future plans, and much more.
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Ep. #1044: Steve Albini (2008)
Ep. #944: Bonnie “Prince” Billy
Ep. #900: Fugazi and Jem Cohen
Ep. #31: Jesse Stewart and Hamid Drake
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11 December 2025, 7:00 am - 31 minutes 46 secondsEp. #1047: Lonnie Holley
Lonnie Holley is here to discuss his 2025 album Tonky, his view of and appreciation for Canada, the role the country played for African-American slaves and the evolution of terms ascribed to Black people in America, growing up in juke joints, whiskey houses, and slave camps in Alabama in the 1950s, his interest in salvaging objects to make art, his observations about historical cycles, his song “Protest With Love” and viewing presidencies as temporary viruses, what’s next, and much more.
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Ep. #864: Mary Lattimore and Walt McClements
Ep. #390: Beverly Glenn-Copeland
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9 December 2025, 7:00 am - 11 minutes 20 secondsBuck 65 on Bike For Three! (2009)
Sometime this past November, a Patreon subscriber named Brian asked me if I might have any older interviews with Buck 65 in my archives. So, I took a look and sure enough, I do, including a 2009 talk about his Bike For Three! collaboration with Joëlle Phuong Minh Lê. Then, on December 4, 2025, Mr. 65 released a Deluxe Edition of More Heart Than Brains, which was the debut record by Bike For Three! and was originally released on May 26, 2009. Then I thought, “Huh, sharing this old interview is rather timely,” and so that’s what I’m doing. From what I can tell, this interview with Rich Terfry was recorded in May 2009. Enjoy!
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Ep. #272: Gord Downie [Archival; May 2010]
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8 December 2025, 9:48 pm - 1 hour 10 minutesEp. #1046: Jim White and Guy Picciotto
Jim White and Guy Picciotto return to discuss Jim’s new album Inner Day, the beginning of New York City’s Zohran Mamdani era, Jim’s recent shows with Ed Kuepper, Jim’s decision to write lyrics and sing them, his relationship with words and their power, Jim briefly singing on a Hard Quartet song, my favourite song of the year, “I Don’t Do / Grand Central” and how this collaboration with Zoh Amba came to pass, dancing with your musical instrument, their new trio with Colleen Burke, contributing music to a Jem Cohen film, new ideas, other future plans, and much more.
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Ep. #1035: Ed Kuepper and Jim White
Ep. #944: Bonnie “Prince” Billy
Ep. #900: Fugazi and Jem Cohen
Ep. #849: Jim White and Guy Picciotto
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4 December 2025, 7:00 am - 32 minutes 37 secondsEp. #1045: The Beths
Elizabeth Stokes and Jonathan Pearce from the Beths are back to discuss their new album, Straight Line Was a Lie, NBA basketball, cricket, and baseball, overcoming writer’s block by reading a book by Stephen King, Liz’s health challenges and her current state of mind, how Jonathan and his bandmates have supported and worked with her in recent years, a helpful typewriter, accepting that people change, Sonic Youth’s “Teenage Riot” and writing a rather dynamic Beths record, Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Ark, cover songs, current tour dates, new songs, other future plans, and much more.
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All Things Konsidered: JID, Sloan, Julianna Riolino, Live shows
Ep. #954: Peter Ames Carlin on R.E.M.
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2 December 2025, 7:00 am - 53 minutes 14 secondsEp. #1044: Steve Albini (2008)
On Saturday, November 29, 2025, the annual Letters to Santa Holiday Gala is taking place at the Chop Shop in Chicago. This year’s event is headlined by Fred Armisen and Jeff Tweedy and if you can’t make it to Chicago, you can learn how to livestream it and donate money to this remarkable and life-affirming and live-saving poverty alleviation initiative at letterscharity.org.
People who are familiar with the history of Kreative Kontrol know that the late Steve Albini and I would often have talks just ahead of each year’s Letters to Santa event, to catch up on stuff, ponder the year that was, and spread the word about Letters to Santa.
While Steve and I can’t have such conversations anymore, to maintain the tradition and spirit of the talks we had, I plan to feature archival interviews I conducted with Steve over the years, presenting them here ahead of Letters to Santa events for as long as possible.
If my records are correct, here now is the third radio interview that I asked Steve to participate in. It took place in the early fall of 2008 just ahead of Shellac playing what I’m rather certain were their first and only ever shows in Toronto and Montreal. Discussion topics included the friendly but somewhat tense diplomatic relationship between Canada and the United States of America, and how the Republican Party was letting “the oldest man in the world” run for president to further their ruinous policies and strengthen their vision for a police state. Again, this talk is from 2008.
Enjoy this blast from the past, support Letters Charity, and always and forever, thank you Steve Albini.
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My first Steve Albini interview (2006)
Ep. #826: Steve Albini and Fred Armisen
Ep. #669: Dallas Good Remembered
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27 November 2025, 7:00 am - 59 minutes 28 secondsEp. #1043: Hélène Barbier
Hélène Barbier is here to discuss her excellent new record Panorama, difficulties an untrained musician might have playing music publicly in France compared to Montreal, being drawn to the low notes, imposter syndrome and loving low-key rock stars, being something of a homebody, dealing with a health diagnosis with some measure of humour, avoiding pigeonholing yourself in the press, writing songs in French or English depending on the rhythmic feel of the words, the Celluloid Lunch record label, being a dog person, upcoming shows, other future plans, and much more.
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