Kreative Kontrol

Baron Vaughn discusses his upcoming show at Just for Laughs Vancouver, his Comedy Central show The New Negroes with Baron Vaughn and Open Mike Eagle, his theatrical studies, wordplay, and getting int…

Andy Shauf discusses his compelling new album Norm, thoughts about a perceived Andy Shauf multiverse, narrative inspiration from George Saunders and Nicholas Olson, employing synthesizers for various…

Ira Kaplan discusses the lovely new Yo La Tengo album, This Stupid World, health, wellness, and the movies, writing and recording the new album in an unusual way, longevity and external expectations,…

Noah23 discusses his brilliant new album, Ikosi Tria, numerology, synchronicity, temporality, pharmacology, sanity, reality, hilarity, hip-hop superiority, future plans and much more. Supported by yo…

Kid Koala discusses his elaborate new album and board game, Creatures of the Late Afternoon, music interactivity, self-recording, self-sampling, and self-pressing his records, what scratching does to…

To celebrate the release of Bob Dylan’s Fragments – Time Out Of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series Vol. 17, Daniel Lanois reflects upon producing Time Out of Mind and also 1989’s Oh Mercy,…

Meg Baird discusses her wonderful new album Furling, New Jersey and Philadelphia, radio and music discovery, piano and cello, field hockey and basketball, guitar and drums, Neil Young and Charlie Sau…

Sandy Miranda, Jonah Falco, Mike Haliechuk, and Damian Abraham discuss the excellent new Fucked Up album, One Day, creative stipulations, 24 hours, grieving, positivity, trauma, punk, Who’s Emma, gen…

H.C. McEntire discusses her wondrous and thought-provoking new album, Every Acre, North Carolina life and growing up a jock, getting into college radio, guitar, and poetry, contemplating naming histo…

Christina Billotte, Kathi Wilcox, and Steve Dore discuss their unique history and work together as the Casual Dots, living far apart but making it work, two-guitar interplay, recording their new albu…

Don Pyle discusses his beautiful new book of photography, Shot in a Mirror, missing his dear friend and collaborator Dallas Good, the status of Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet and the new music they …

In a chat recorded 20 months ago but unreleased until now, Charlie Steen discusses his wonderful band shame and their 2021 album Drunk Tank Pink, the monarchy, pandemic life in London, and strange li…

Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg author, scholar, writer, advocate, and musician, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson discusses the 2022 bestseller, Rehearsals for Living, which she co-wrote with Robyn Maynard, Indi…

Steve Albini discusses Poverty Alleviation Charities’ annual Letters to Santa program and the 24 Hour Marathon variety show taking place on December 19, what’s new at Electrical Audio, pandemic touri…

Florence Shaw and Lewis Maynard discuss their band Dry Cleaning and brilliant 2022 LP, Stumpwork, the ozone layer hole above New Zealand, being a busy bassist, becoming the unlikely lead lyricist and…

Isla Craig discusses her beautiful new album Echo’s Reach and what inspired its sound and songs, a question she asked Patti Smith on behalf of young musicians, pandemic life in Toronto, the Weyes Blo…

Mac McCaughan discusses Superchunk and their wonderful 2022 album Wild Loneliness, writing and recording songs during a pandemic, acoustic guitars and lovely singing, here’s where Owen Pallett’s stri…

Rich Aucoin discusses how his four-album series, Synthetic - A Synth Odyssey, will feature the most synthesizers in recorded history, the fun, ambitious Halifax mindset, good parts of social media an…

Douglas Andrew McCombs discusses his lovely and fascinating first solo album, VMAK<KOMBZ<<<DUGLAS<<<6NDR7<<<, recording new music with Tortoise, his whole life in Illinois and how he got into Devo vi…

Christine Fellows discusses her beautiful new album Stuff We All Get and its complementary stop-motion animation films, her husband John K. Samson’s love of weaving and new name, their new Vivat Virt…