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Ep. #36: Lou Barlow

Lou Barlow is one of the most influential and inspiring figures in American underground rock music. A co-founder of the ever-vital Dinosaur Jr., Barlow went on to front the raw and powerful Sebadoh and its various offshoots, as well as the Folk Implosion, all of which led many to view him as a pioneer of no-frills, lo-fi recording and gritty, emotive, honest, punk rock songwriting. After some solo work, collaborating with others, and reuniting with Dinosaur Jr., Barlow began working with Jason Loewenstein and Bob D’Amico again and, if they ever really left, Sebadoh is now back with Defend Yourself, an excellent album out on Joyful Noise and their first in 14 years. The band’s upcoming tour includes November stops at Montreal’s Il Motore on Nov. 5, London’s Call the Office on Nov. 6, Hamilton’s Casbah on Nov. 7, and Toronto’s Horseshoe Tavern on Nov. 8. During our chat, Lou and I talked about seeing the Replacements and Iggy and the Stooges at Riot Fest recently, zombie bands, whether or not he’s actually a “pioneer,” the evolution of underground music, the joys of social media, the end of marriage, songwriting as a mnemonic device, Defend Yourself, why bands should do almost everything themselves, and more.

Related links: sebadoh.com joyfulnoiserecordings.com vishkhanna.com

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Ep. #35: Thurston Moore

Thurston Moore is one of America’s most influential and notable musicians, best known for playing guitar, writing songs, and singing in New York City’s Sonic Youth. Since that band formed in 1981, Moore has taken on countless other musical projects, collaborated with many, many artists in different contexts, and started his own label, Ecstatic Peace! Well before Sonic Youth went on hiatus in 2011, Moore began working with a new group of players and eventually formed a band with them called Chelsea Light Moving, who released their self-titled debut LP earlier this year on Matador Records. Chelsea Light Moving’s current tour brings them to Hamilton’s Supercrawl on Sept. 14, Toronto’s Horseshoe Tavern on Sept. 15, and Montreal’s Cabaret Mile End on Sept. 16. Moore was in the midst of a 10-hour drive when we talked about the Station to Station public art project, Levi’s jeans, his early band the Coachmen, playing with Yoko Ono and eating dinner with Philip Glass, teaching himself how to operate a guitar, the attraction of subversion, confusion and nostalgia in youth culture, the shock of short hair in the 70s, Iggy Pop, Girls and the new bohemianism, living in London and its culinary renaissance, the formation of Sonic Youth compared to starting Chelsea Light Moving, poetry and writing, his thoughts on Lee Ranaldo and the Dust and Body/Head, his future work and collaborations, David Berman’s poetry, the Nihilist Spasm Band, Perfect Youth: The Birth of Canadian Punk, the song “Alighted,” and more.

Related links: chelsealightmoving.com matadorrecords.com vishkhanna.com

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Ep. #34: Joseph Boyden, Sarah Elton, Thomas King

Joseph Boyden, Sarah Elton, and Thomas King are three of Canada’s most acclaimed authors. Boyden splits his time between Ontario and New Orleans and his first novel, 2005’s Three Day Road, about a pair of Cree soldiers fighting in World War I, received a number of awards and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction. His second novel, 2008’s Through Black Spruce, was ostensibly a sequel to Three Day Road, following the next familial generation depicted in Boyden’s first book. Through Black Spruce won the prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize and was named the Canadian Booksellers Association Fiction Book of the Year. On Sept, 10, Boyden’s third novel, The Orenda, will be published by Hamish Hamilton, a division of Penguin.

Sarah Elton is the best selling author of Locovore: From Farmers’ Fields to Rooftop Gardens–How Canadians are Changing the Way We Eat, which won gold at the Canadian Culinary Book Awards. She is the food columnist for CBC Radio’s Here and Now and has written for The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, and Maclean’s among other publications. Elton’s latest book is Consumed: Food for a Finite Planet and it chronicles her examination of people from all over the world who, in anticipation of the increasing strain on our planet by growing populations and climate change, are creating sustainable alternatives to industrial farming by getting to know the food we consume on a personal level.

Thomas King is a Guelph resident and one of Canada’s most respected intellectuals. He has spent the past five decades working as an activist and administrator and teaching at the University of Lethbridge, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Guelph. King was the first Aboriginal person to deliver the prestigious Massey Lectures and has won several awards, including the National Aboriginal Achievement Award and the Order of Canada. He created the CBC Radio One series, The Dead Dog Cafe Comedy Hour and is the bestselling author of five acclaimed novels, a couple of short story collections, some non-fiction work, and children’s books. His latest book is The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America.

All three of these people are appearing at the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival between Sept. 13 and 15 so it seemed like a good time to catch up with each of them.

Related links: edenmillswritersfestival.ca hamishhamilton.ca sarahelton.ca randomhouse.ca

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