Kreative Kontrol

David Cross on his great new special, I’m From the Future, why he loves New York, being trapped in Toronto during the pandemic, satire and hope, his friend Bob Odenkirk and Better Call Saul, the trem…

Fresh Pepper’s Andre Ethier and Joseph Shabason on their self-titled debut, working in restaurants, competing with children as adults, changing Destroyer and Dan Bejar’s life, party mix and other sna…

Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy discusses their new album Cruel Country, curating music festivals, indifference, criticism, and communication, when certain people die, country, Wilco, and music genres, fashionab…

The Kids in the Hall’s Dave Foley and Kevin McDonald discuss the wonderful new season of their sketch series, why they’re back, how they’re working together, how the pandemic impacted the production …

Roy Wood Jr. on stand-up and the American South, post 9/11 comedy, Jon Stewart and The Daily Show’s pervasive cultural impact, cable news and Roy Wood Sr., baseball and the dozens, Just for Laughs Va…

Dana Gould on his comedy life, being a sober comic and controlling yourself, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Steve Martin, and Albert Brooks, his SNL audition and working on The Ben Stiller Show, writi…

Atsuko Okatsuka discusses Canada’s greatest historical figures, presenting her new set, hi, at Just for Laughs Vancouver and what it’s about, leaving Japan for Los Angeles and why Paddington is an im…

Alex Edkins discusses his solo project Weird Nightmare and their self-titled debut LP for Sub Pop, what distinguishes it from his work in METZ, collaborating with Wintersleep’s Loel Campbell, Bully’s…

Bob Dylan Center curators Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel discuss their exciting jobs, Bob Dylan’s vast archive of music, manuscripts, films, and more, my own attendance at the star-studded and inspi…

Kevin Morby discusses his excellent, reflective new album, This is a Photograph, the lure and historical significance of Memphis, Tennessee, documentation and lost artefacts, Martin Luther King Jr., …

Jason Williamson discusses the history of Sleaford Mods, being English, encountering the Sex Pistols and admiring John Lydon, sobriety and becoming a musician late in life, the best MCs in Wu-Tang Cl…

Cormac Culkeen and Dave Grenon discuss their work together in Joyful Joyful and their new self-titled debut album, drones, noise, and beautiful possibilities in sound, queerness and being excommunica…

Steven Lambke returns to discuss his spirited new album Volcano Volcano, spiders and a Volkswagen Rabbit, creative freedom and fear, colonialism and Canada, upcoming You’ve Changed Records releases, …

Carlyn Bezic discusses Jane Inc. and their new album, Faster Than I Can Take, recovering from COVID-19 and missing being around people, making music drawn from organic and synthesized tones, wanting …

Adam Sturgeon of Status/Non-Status and Daniel Monkman of Zoon discuss their band OMBIIGIZI, their powerful debut LP, Sewn Back Together, working with Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew in the Tragicall…

Adrian Teacher of Apollo Ghosts talks home studios and the new double LP Pink Tiger, exercising when you’re not a jock, Wayne Gretzky, different currencies, being a school teacher, Fleetwood Mac, los…

Mark Ibold of Pavement and Sonic Youth discusses Pavement’s Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal and Sonic Youth’s In/Out/In, only listening to the radio, discovering music and bass as a kid, his fam…

Bob Nastanovich and Steve West of Pavement, and reissue overseer Jesper Eklow (also of Endless Boogie) discuss the revelatory new expanded edition of Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal, its origina…

Maylee Todd on her meditative, ambient debut for Stones Throw Records, Maloo, being roommates with both a ball python and her friend Eric Andre, exploring the discontinued sequencer, the Tenori-on, f…

Jon Spencer talks about the rise of the HITmakers and their outspoken, noisy, and reflective new album, Spencer Gets It Lit, recalling the sound of Pussy Galore, the end of the Jon Spencer Blues Expl…