Kreative Kontrol

My son, who is 13, and I have both been rather excited about the new album by Clipse coming out and when it finally did on July 11, Let God Sort ‘Em Out lived up to the hype. We’ve been listening to …

Roger Clark Miller is here to discuss Curiosity for Solo Electric Guitar Ensemble, life in Vermont, our warm feelings about the Steve Albini memorial we first met at, the tinnitus that initially led …

Andrew Falkous from mclusky is here to discuss the world is still here and so are we, distinctions between Britons, Canadians, and Americans and how a Vancouver show altered his perception of Canada,…

Cassia Hardy returns to discuss her new album In Relation, a mustard headache cure, a provocative new voicemail song that accuses her of shoplifting, craftsmanship, tech oligarchy, and repair culture…

Tanya Talaga is here to discuss her award-winning book and its complementary documentary film, The Knowing, Scarborough pride, being discouraged to learn about her Indigenous heritage as a child, her…

Elle Barbara is here to discuss Word On The Street by Elle Barbara’s Black Space, Montreal construction, putting on a performance this past May in which she got married to herself, exploring terms li…

Michael Cloud Duguay is here to discuss Wobbly Yonder, playing the 2023 Hillside Festival in Guelph with Steven Lambke and Wax Mannequin, working on new music with Mathias Kom in Newfoundland, headin…

“Bundy” Ken Brown, Glenn Kotche, and Jim O’Rourke discuss Tim Barnes, who was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s in recent years, Barnes’ work as an utterly original drummer and percussionist (O’…

Meg Remy from U.S. Girls makes her sixth appearance on this show to discuss Scratch It, her twin boys’ interest in sports, the influence that John Carey’s book Eyewitness To History had on her latest…

Gaz Liddiard from Tropical Fuck Storm is here to discuss Fairyland Codex, running into kangaroos and routinely having one of the world’s most poisonous snakes show up in your house, the Gutenberg pri…

Grammy Award-winning producer, engineer, and musician John Congleton is here to discuss his Animal Rites recording studio, the aftermath of the California wildfires and its air quality impact, Americ…

Steve Sladkowski discusses PUP and Who Will Look After the Dogs?, sports and loud, boastful sportscasting's Canadian connection, Metallica’s Some Kind of Monster, The Beatles’ Get Back, and dysfuncti…

Asher Case and Isaac Lowenstein from Lifeguard are here to discuss Ripped and Torn, doing a podcast on the very day you graduate from high school in Chicago or while you’re stuck in New York City, si…

Bells Larsen is here to discuss Blurring Time, performing duets with his old alto voice and his new baritone, cancelling an American tour in the wake of government policies that persecute and harass …

Jake Xerxes Fussell discusses When I’m Called and Arthur Russell’s “Close My Eyes,” misperceptions about his relationship to folk music history, his late mentor Art Rosenbaum, why he couldn’t rebel a…

Scott McCaughey discusses Oar On, Penelope! by the Minus 5, the vast collection of records in his Dungeon of Horror, the recently departed folk artist Michael Hurley, how suffering a stroke in 2017 h…

Alan Sparhawk discusses his stunning new album, With Trampled by Turtles, being home between tours, collaborating with Circuit des Yeux, how the internet affects the risks that audiences and musician…

During my recent conversation with Andy Shauf about the new Foxwarren album, 2, he mentioned that one of his primary production influences for this record was Liquid Swords by GZA. And so now, I pres…

Chris A. Cummings, Thom Gill, and Joseph Shabason discuss Way Through by Cici Arthur, Toronto life and the city’s best pizza, making music without drums, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Gregg Turkington, and F…

Andy Shauf returns to discuss Foxwarren’s excellent album 2, making his recording studio as efficient as his father’s accounting practice, Foxwarren’s origins, trying to make a live-off-the-floor rec…