Kreative Kontrol

Teeny Lieberson returns to discuss Lou Tides and Autostatic!, living in America as a Canadian, why she chose a person’s name other than her own for her solo work, making “beautiful and scary” music, …

David Longstreth is here to discuss David Longstreth’s Song of the Earth, Performed by Dirty Projectors and s t a r g a z e, life in Los Angeles in a tumultuous ecological era, working with s t a r g…

During my recent conversation with Niko Stratis about her new book, The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman, she described her affection for Jason Lytle’s band Grandaddy, and I mentioned I’d interviewed Ja…

John Dieterich, Satomi Matsuzaki, Ed Rodríguez, and Greg Saunier from Deerhoof discuss Noble and Godlike in Ruin, the band’s history and recurring lyrical themes about animals and magic, seeing Dokke…

Niko Stratis discusses her wonderful new memoir-in-essays, The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman, moving to Toronto by driving across Canada with a cat, Bruce Springsteen and fluid masculinity in rock, t…

Comedian Nikki Glaser and I spoke on the phone at 3:30 PM ET on Wednesday, July 6, 2016, not long before she was set to appear at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal. At the time, the prospects …

Nina Nastasia, Clinton St. John, Jeff MacLeod, and Morgan Greenwood from Jolie Laide discuss their new album, Creatures, Nina’s championship Kuriky skills and remembering Steve Albini, a spooky synth…

Haley Fohr returns to discuss Halo on the Inside by Circuit des Yeux, stylish, warm hats and accessories, the end of a long-term relationship and how women and men are treated differently when they c…

Toronto’s METZ were recently asked to reunite for a performance on Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney, and so I dug into my archives for my first conversation with the band’s Alex Edkins. My digging …

Ian Blurton and Rob Taylor discuss the return of Change of Heart and In the Wreckage, their first album since 1997, Rob’s 1992 departure and its impact on Ian who carried on, the savvy lawyer who ove…

William Tyler returns to discuss his alluring new album, Time Indefinite, moving home to Nashville from Los Angeles during a pandemic, our perspectives on a paradigm shift and political contentions a…

On the afternoon of Thursday, September 17, 2009, I interviewed Nick Cave in (what I recall was) the Park Hyatt's restaurant located in the Yorkville area of Toronto, Ontario. The occasion was to dis…

Yves Jarvis returns to discuss his astounding new album, All Cylinders, artistic growth and personal maturity, musical colours and poetic symbolism, dynamic inspirations like Paul McCartney, Prince, …

Erik Denno and brothers James Wall and John Wall discuss their work together in Kerosene 454 and the Solid Brass reissue of their second album, Came By To Kill Me, the band’s history, the roads that …

I recently shared a new conversation with the band Regulator Watts, so it now seems fitting to share an older talk I had with their distant cousin, Reggie Watts, the gifted comedian, musician, and ac…

Melanie St. Pierre-Bednis, Neil Bednis, and Fraser McClean from Casper Skulls discuss their new album Kit-Cat, the TV show character Frasier Crane, the significance of alt-rock radio and MuchMusic on…

Alex Dunham and Areif Sless-Kitain from Regulator Watts discuss The Mercury LP, Alex building a new house in Minnesota, Areif’s stint drumming in Bluetip and his love of Hoover, why Hoover broke up a…

On Tuesday August 21, 2012, at 3:30 pm ET, I spoke with Josh Tillman, who’d left a popular band called Fleet Foxes to venture out on his own. He called himself Father John Misty and earlier that spri…

Marlaena Moore discusses Because You Love Everything, leaving Edmonton for Montreal, being tall among the smaller, playing bass in a garage rock band, why imposter syndrome can be a form of narcissis…

Daryl Hall is here discuss to his latest album D, historic home preservation and restoration, working with the Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart, classic rock radio and how legacy artists stay vital, why he s…