Kreative Kontrol

Jackie Kashian discusses her hilarious new special, Stay-Kashian, stand-up online vs. stand-up irl, comedy criticism, telling nice jokes that age well, pets, future plans and more! Supported by you o…

Mike Haliechuk and Josh Zucker of Fucked Up on the tenth anniversary and making of David Comes to Life, love, heartbreak, hope, dread, pranks, David’s Town, tour, Do All Words Can Do, future plans an…

This episode of Long Night with Vish Khanna was recorded before a live studio audience at St. Anne’s Anglican Church in Toronto, Ontario during Long Winter on Friday November 26, 2021. The theme was …

Andy Shauf on his latest album Wilds, pandemic tour bus troubles, why he quit drinking, running and wellness, loving your demos, new record updates, other future plans, and more! Photo by Colin Medle…

Julie Doiron discusses her wonderful new album, I Thought of You, living in Atlantic Canada, swimming and being a lifeguard, pondering relationships and parenthood, collaborating with Daniel and Ian …

Max Savage of Parquet Courts discusses their new album, Sympathy for Life, his big brother Andrew, seeing shows as a kid and playing the drums, Talking Heads, the Clash, and Pavement, civil unrest in…

Haviah Mighty discusses her excellent new mixtape, Stock Exchange, the disclosures she recently made about her own health, modern medicine and nutrition, future plans, and more! Supported by you on P…

Lee Ranaldo on his minimal, solo guitar record, In Virus Times, Sonic Youth’s prolific output, Bob Dylan and Clinton Heylin, Alan Licht’s assistance, the pandemic and U.S. politics, illustrating and …

Alan Licht discusses his remarkable new book, Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995–2020, why he got into outsider art, music, and guitar, Sonic Youth and Will Oldham, mus…

John Linnell discusses the new They Might Be Giants album and book, BOOK, the band’s dark whimsy, late night talk shows, photos and typewriters, If Day, The Larry Sanders Show and Scott Thompson, fut…

Charlotte Cornfield discusses her lovely, reflective new album Highs in the Minuses, moving back home to Toronto, skateboarding, reflecting upon our youth, her musical household, alt-rock radio, temp…

Peter Jesperson, Jason Jones, and Bob Mehr discuss the Replacements and their work on the fortieth anniversary, 100-track deluxe edition of the band's debut album, Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Tr…

Haley Fohr on the gorgeous and emotive new Circuit des Yeux album, -io, overcoming PTSD, young people seeing Janet Jackson and AC/DC live, Steve Albini keeping Electrical Audio safe, future plans, an…

Warren Ellis on his artful new memoir, Nina Simone’s Gum, that time Nick Cave crashed our interview and stayed, muses, mementos, memory, and care, the new B-Sides & Rarities volume by the Bad Seeds, …

André Ethier and Sandro Perri discuss their new album Further Up Island, cows and music, Bone Machine by Tom Waits, recording technology, Bob Dylan, Will Oldham, musical trilogies, promotional interv…

Shad on loving and interviewing Norm Macdonald, the inversion of socio-political discourse, how the rise and fall of Kanye and Kim reflect contemporary society, his brilliant new album TAO, future pl…

Tom McGreevy and Evan Lewis discuss Ducks Ltd. and their history together, their new album Modern Fiction, phone demos and unplugged electric guitars, U.S. Open tennis, Graham Greene, Grand Finals, N…

DijahSB discusses their 2021 Polaris Music Prize-nominated release, Head Above the Waters, what we can all learn from the economic disparity that the pandemic highlighted, vulnerability in hip-hop, u…

Efrim Menuck (godspeed you! black emperor) and Ariel Engle (La Force, Broken Social Scene, AroarA) of ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT discuss their band and new self-titled album, pandemic life and speculative …

Sofa’s Scott Clarkson, Ian Ilavsky, Keith Marchand, and Brad Todd discuss the new retrospective collection, Source Crossfire, being the first ever Constellation Records band, post-hardcore and povert…