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Kreative Kontrol

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Thoughtful, funny, heartfelt interviews and in-depth documentaries about musicians, authors, comedians, and other cultural creators. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/kreative-kontrol. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Ep. #942: Nap Eyes

Kreative Kontrol ·

2025/01/21

EVERY OTHER KREATIVE KONTROL EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. Enjoy this excerpt and please subscribe now via this link to hear this full episode. Thanks!Nigel Chapman and Josh Salter from Nap Eyes stop by for a talk about their new album, The Neon Gate, working remotely and living in a house together, producer Rene Wilson and the synthesized, electronic drum sounds on this record, people swapping instruments and a tremendous guitar part that recalls Nels Cline,

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1:20:13

Ep. #941: Songhoy Blues

Kreative Kontrol ·

2025/01/16

EVERY OTHERKREATIVE KONTROLEPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. This one is fine, butplease subscribe now on Patreonso you never miss full episodes. Thanks!Garba Touré and Oumar Touré from Songhoy Blues discuss their new album, Héritage, our previous encounters when they played shows in Guelph, Ontario, fleeing a civil war and Sharia law in Timbuktu and how safe they feel playing music in Mali, the sound and themes of their new album, stories about each and every song,

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Ep. #940: Madi Diaz

Kreative Kontrol ·

2025/01/14

EVERY OTHER KREATIVE KONTROL EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. Enjoy this excerpt and please subscribe now via this link to hear this full episode. Thanks!Madi Diaz is here to discuss the one-year anniversary of her Grammy-nominated album, Weird Faith, our Office Hours Live connection, humour, spirituality, love and other things that ground her, how her album and planning this interview cheered me up recently, the surprising resonance of her song “God Person,” her

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1:21:12

Ep. #939: Contrived

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2025/01/09

EVERY OTHERKREATIVE KONTROLEPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. This one is fine, butplease subscribe now on Patreonso you never miss full episodes. Thanks!Loel Campbell and Michael “Turk” MacNeil from Contrived are here to discuss Addicted to Sadness, the band’s first album since 2008, growing up in Stellarton, Nova Scotia and bonding over music, the Dependent Music community, how Brian Borcherdt often shared new music discoveries with friends, key producers like Charles

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Ep. #938: Daryl Johns

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2025/01/07

EVERY OTHER KREATIVE KONTROL EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. Enjoy this excerpt and please subscribe now via this link to hear this full episode. Thanks!Daryl Johns is here to discuss his new self-titled album, how an elevated bed is a marker of adulthood, missing Jersey, why Sting cannot possibly be the same guy who was in the Police, how musical technique ebbs and flows in popular music, how he’s been bringing his studio sound to the stage, genre signifiers like

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Ep. #937: Mouth Congress

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2024/12/31

EVERY OTHER KREATIVE KONTROL EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. Enjoy this excerpt and please subscribe now via this link to hear this full episode. Thanks!Paul Bellini and Scott Thompson return to discuss Valley of Song, the new album by Mouth Congress, recent Kids in the Hall shows featuring banned material, the fate of Amazon Prime’s Kids in the Hall series, Bubby and the Mouth Congress band, Sandinista! by the Clash and making a double-LP, singing influences like

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1:17:27

Ep. #936: Maddee Ritter

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2024/12/26

EVERY OTHERKREATIVE KONTROLEPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. This one is fine, butplease subscribe now on Patreonso you never miss full episodes. Thanks!Maddee Ritter is here to discuss their debut album, Songs of Love & Death, a possible move to the United States and the best ways to know a city, growing up in a music-loving Toronto household, finding their own influences like Ella Fitzgerald and Feist, writing songs about lost love and grieving a friend, and how

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Ep. #935: Elijah Wald on 'A Complete Unknown'

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2024/12/23

EVERY OTHER KREATIVE KONTROL EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. Enjoy this excerpt and please subscribe now via this link to hear this full episode. Thanks!Elijah Wald is here to discuss the new Bob Dylan film, A Complete Unknown, which is based on his 2015 book, Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties, Dylan tweeting praise for his book, being from Dylan’s world, why the Newport Folk Festival became a generational nexus point

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Ep. #934: Rebecca Clay Cole

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2024/12/19

EVERY OTHERKREATIVE KONTROLEPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. This one is fine, butplease subscribe now on Patreonso you never miss full episodes. Thanks!Thanks to Bob Nastanovich, Rebecca Clay Cole from Pavement is here to discuss her Elephant 6 Recording Co. community, Pavement’s influence on it, and the recent and painful losses they’ve endured, the rise of Neutral Milk Hotel, how she got into playing music and embraces "sideman" roles, the beginning and end of her

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Ep. #933: Alex Ross Perry, Scott Kannberg, and Robert...

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2024/12/17

EVERY OTHER KREATIVE KONTROL EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. Enjoy this excerpt and please subscribe now via this link to hear this full episode. Thanks!Alex Ross Perry, Scott Kannberg, and Robert Greene are here to discuss their film Pavements, whether or not it's a comedy, documentary subjects who reflect pluralities, how the band reacted to aspects of the in-progress film they saw, who was responsible for giving the film its final narrative structure, deceptive

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Ep. #932: Tim Heidecker

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2024/12/11

EVERY OTHERKREATIVE KONTROLEPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. This one is fine, butplease subscribe now on Patreonso you never miss full episodes. Thanks!Tim Heidecker returns to discuss his lovely album, Slipping Away, effective ways to discuss your work these days, mid-life, narrative voices on his album, and its themes of hope, dread, empathy, family, and unease, American politics and elite paternalism, his song “Bottom of the 8th” and metaphors about protecting your

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Ep. #931: Franz Nicolay

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2024/12/09

EVERY OTHER KREATIVE KONTROL EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. Enjoy this excerpt and please subscribe now via this link to hear this full episode. Thanks!Franz Nicolay from the Hold Steady is here to discuss his new book, Band People: Life and Work in Popular Music, once living in Toronto and how couples in the creative arts and humanities support each other, balancing passion and pragmatism in the music business, how musicians tend to communicate and miscommunicate,

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Ep. #930: Dog Day

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2024/12/05

EVERY OTHERKREATIVE KONTROLEPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. This one is fine, butplease subscribe now on Patreonso you never miss full episodes. Thanks!Nancy Urich and Seth A. Smith are here to discuss their band Dog Day and new album, A T-Shirt with Writing on It, their filmmaking pursuits and origin stories, the differences and similarities between the strained material conditions that musicians and people in the film industry share in streaming times, why their

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Ep. #929: Bill Stevenson from Descendents, ALL

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2024/12/03

EVERY OTHER KREATIVE KONTROL EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. Enjoy this excerpt and please subscribe now via this link to hear this full episode. Thanks!Thanks to listener and Patreon subscriber Brian Mock, Bill Stevenson from Descendents/ALL/The Blasting Room studios is here to discuss his road from Hermosa Beach to Fort Collins, smart ways to tour America’s quadrants, how he met Keith Morris as a kid because of fishing and his father’s influential, tireless work

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1:25:12

Ep. #928: Verböten

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2024/11/28

EVERY OTHERKREATIVE KONTROLEPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. This one is fine, butplease subscribe now on Patreonso you never miss full episodes. Thanks!Jason Narducy is here with remarkable stories about the magical return of his childhood band Verböten, their new album, and opening for Frank Black at the Metro in Chicago on January 25 and 26, 2025, being in the KISS Army, playing R.E.M. songs with Michael Shannon in Athens, Georgia, with actual members of R.E.M.,

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Ep. #927: Papa M

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2024/11/26

EVERY OTHER KREATIVE KONTROL EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. Enjoy this excerpt and please subscribe now via this link to hear this full episode. Thanks!David Pajo returns to discuss Papa M's Ballads of Harry Houdini and provide insights about each song, reflecting upon the profound memorial gathering for Steve Albini that we attended this past July and also Steve’s talents and knowledge-sharing generosity, embracing improvisation and never touching a computer to

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Ep. #926: OMBIIGIZI

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2024/11/21

EVERY OTHERKREATIVE KONTROLEPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. This one is fine, butplease subscribe now on Patreonso you never miss full episodes. Thanks!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

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Ep. #925: Steve Albini (2007)

Kreative Kontrol ·

2024/11/20

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

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Ep. #924: Lance Bangs and Bob Nastanovich on ‘Pavements’

Kreative Kontrol ·

2024/11/19

EVERY OTHER KREATIVE KONTROL EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. Enjoy this excerpt and please subscribe now via this link to hear this full episode. Thanks!FilmmakerLance BangsandPavement’sBob Nastanovichdiscuss the new filmPavements, 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/documentarySlow Century, what Kurt Cobain said to Bob

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1:21:01

Ep. #923: Dorothea Paas

Kreative Kontrol ·

2024/11/14

EVERY OTHERKREATIVE KONTROLEPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. This one is fine, butplease subscribe now on Patreonso you never miss full episodes. Thanks!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

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