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Adam Sturgeon and Daniel Monkman from OMBIIGIZI discuss their new album Shame, life in Ontario and Manitoba and some of the better Canadian provinces to live in, the biting tone, exploration of improvisation, and math rock influences that seeped into their latest songs, why being on a supportive record label is important, how figures like Marek Tyler have been positive leaders to Indigenous musicians in Canada, notions of tokenism and post-commodity, what’s next for this band and their individual pursuits, and much more.

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Ep. #547: WHOOP-Szo

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At my invitation, Steve Albini appeared on Kreative Kontrol at least once a year since its inception in 2013. We started a tradition where we spoke just ahead of annual, poverty alleviation Letters to Santa live events, such as the gala they’re holding on November 23, 2024, at the Brookfield Zoo Chicago: Discovery Center, featuring Jeff Tweedy, Fred Armisen, and Kim Deal among others. 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. Here’s the second radio interview we ever did. It took place in the early summer of 2007 and was ostensibly about the then new Shellac album, Excellent Italian Greyhound, and touched upon local radio fame, Martina Navratilova, people who film concerts instead of participating in them, Canada, SCTV, John Peel, and more.

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My first Steve Albini interview (2006)

Ep. #869: Steve Albini

Ep. #826: Steve Albini and Fred Armisen

Ep. #806: The Breeders

Ep. #692: Wilco

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Filmmaker Lance Bangs and Pavement’s Bob Nastanovich discuss the new film Pavements, how they met in the early 1990s when Lance began filming shows by the likes of Pavement, the Replacements, and Nirvana, his mentor Jem Cohen, the story behind Lance’s 2002 Pavement DVD/documentary Slow Century, what Kurt Cobain said to Bob at the Reading Festival that Nirvana invited Pavement to play, what David Berman yelled at the Lollapalooza audience that infamously flung mud and rocks at Pavement, why Bob thinks adding Rebecca Clay Cole as a member is the most interesting thing about recent Pavement tours, unusual depictions of Pavement and their crew and why releasing Alex Ross Perry’s Range Life biopic was reconsidered by all involved, how Pavement’s members really feel about the project, what’s next for Pavement, Bob, and Lance, other future plans, and much more.  

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

Ep. #165: Bob Nastanovich of Silver Jews

Ep. #74: Stephen Malkmus

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Dorothea Paas on the sound and substance of Think of Mist, spending more time in Rochester, NY, listening to and making notes about records by Sade and Hiroshi Yoshimura, writing things down and listening to lectures, the sense of self and losing one’s ego, sublimation and sexuality, serious personas and having a sense of humour, tour dates, writing new songs, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #877: Gastr del Sol

Ep. #814: Badge Époque Ensemble / Symphony Orchestra

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Ep. #192: Marker Starling

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I’m holding a Patreon membership drive November 14 to 21, 2024 with a goal of reaching 600 paid subscribers, with as many new subs at the $6 and higher monthly tiers as possible!

During this seven-day membership drive, I have some particularly unique gifts that I’ll be drawing for, among all existing and new $10 and above subs at the end of this campaign. Special and one-of-a-kind pieces of art, music, and merch were contributed by Lou Barlow, Rick White, Lori Damiano, John Samson Fellows, Chad VanGaalen, and Electrical Audio!

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Ed Kuepper and Mudhoney’s Mark Arm from The Saints ’73-’78 discuss the new (I’m) Stranded box set, how they’d never ever met in person (at the time we recorded this), why Mark was asked to sing in the Saints and what the band has meant to him, how the Saints got started and their early interest in Elvis, Beatles, and the Rolling Stones, why AC/DC and their success in Australia didn’t much motivate the Saints, how Mark first heard the Saints and whether or not they’re unheralded, why Ed and Mark’s music strikes a good balance between aggression and humour, what’s special about this box set, an Ed and Jim White collaboration, what’s next for the Saints and Mudhoney, tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #323: Nick Cave and Warren Ellis

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Kristin Thomson and Jenny Toomey from Tsunami are here to discuss their band’s new 5LP box set, Loud Is As, living in upstate New York with the AC on in October and also living in Philadelphia but being from Canada, loving hockey but not liking sports, how they first met via punk and Positive Force, the band Geek, touring with Superchunk, and starting Simple Machines Records, Dischord and the D.C. music community, nostalgia vs. longing, the contents of their Numero Group box set, touring again, other future plans, and much more.  

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Ep. #900: Fugazi and Jem Cohen

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Oliver Ackermann from A Place to Bury Strangers is back to discuss their uniquely packaged new album Synthesizer, the latest audio inventions in production at Death by Audio, why the Synthesizer album cover includes a circuit board that anyone can use to create their own synthesizer, the pros and cons of the Biden Administration’s CHIPS Act for a small batch electronics manufacturer, the new album’s abrasive sound and lyrical themes exploring interpersonal dynamics, alienation, and relentlessness, how we connect art to the artists who create it, tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Shellac's "Watch Song" by The Messthetics, James Brandon Lewis, Land of Talk, & Vish Khanna

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Oren Ambarchi discusses his trio with Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin and their latest album, Ghosted II, living in Berlin and Winnipeg, Drag City Chicago pizza advice, when he lived in New York for stints as a young man until he was broke from buying records and seeing shows by Cecil Taylor and Miles Davis, why Stephanie Stone woke John Zorn up to meet Oren and be friends with him ever since, his work with Jim O’Rourke and Alvin Lucier, forthcoming projects and shows, other future plans, and much more. 

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Ep. #898: Jon Benjamin – Jazz Daredevil

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Ep. #673: Sonic Youth

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Phil Elverum is here to discuss the new Mount Eerie album, Night Palace, moving back to Washington State after a period living in New York, immersion in your community with family and friends, home ownership and having a sense of place, wealth accumulation and land back, singing and talking to animals, dating songs like journal entries, elaborate album packaging, parents and Palace Brothers, meditation and loving Eric’s Trip and Rick White’s artwork, a complementary book, future plans, and much more.   

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Eric's Trip - A Love Supreme

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Heather O’Neill returns to discuss her latest novel, The Capital of Dreams, a fairy tale about a young girl fleeing a genocidal invasion in a fictional European region, armed only with a pivotal piece of outspoken literature penned by her infamous mother while accompanied by a talking, opinionated goose, how the book’s socio-cultural and political themes echo WWII, but also resonate with current events, and the erasure of citizens and their culture, how Heather’s difficult upbringing and complicated relationship with motherhood and parenting are reflected in this work, why tea and teacups work as a metaphor, cultural capital and the black market, an extensive Canadian tour, new projects, other future plans, and much more.   

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