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Ep. #908: ASKO

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Marek Tyler discusses his work as ASKO and self-titled debut album, first concerts and early, formative drumming influences like Stewart Copeland, Larry Mullen Jr., Brendan Canty, and Mac McNeilly, pretending you know how to play instruments to start bands, music media and pointing people to significant but marginalized artists, entering the rock music realm as a person of colour, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and following familial protocols, bringing ASKO to life on-stage, other future plans, and much more.     

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Ep. #907: Sunset Rubdown

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Spencer Krug discusses Always Happy to Explode, which is the first Sunset Rubdown album in 15 years, the various islands he’s called home and why he appreciates the solitude of island living, how touring can impact musicians and create interpersonal obstacles, why his bands tend to take long breaks, why his latest songs might relay so much empathy and contemplation about the impact that working has on life, things to listen to while running, fantastical storytelling and rewatching legacy TV shows, going back on tour, a Wolf Parade update, other future plans, and much more.  

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Ep. #906: Joel Plaskett

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Joel Plaskett returns to discuss his dreamy, solitary new album, One Real Reveal, the unique retail space he and friends set up in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, consisting of his studio, a record store, a coffee shop, and a bookstore, singularity and multitudes, poetry, journeys, and dreams, his classic solo debut, In Need of Medical Attention, romance and travelling, middle age, technology, and atomization, why we need tension and letting go, getting into Nick Cave and paying homage to favourite artists, how his long tour for One Real Reveal will be staged, other future plans, and much more.

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