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Ep. #1131: The Tubs

Owen Williams from the Tubs returns to discuss Hard Life, university vs. college and miles vs. kilometres, ideal recording situations, why this new album contains three narrators who all might be him, intriguing instrumental ideas, great songwriting in Ramones and the Magnetic Fields, heaven and hell, suicide, and survivor’s guilt, raising a family, writing even newer songs, touring a lot, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1130: Chat Pile

Ray B. from Chat Pile is here to discuss their raging new album Who Loves the Sun, climate change denial and the links between socio-political apathy and fear, despondency about falling literacy rates and our addictive dependence on our telephones, missing cultural community hubs like video stores and libraries, how artificial intelligence is hunting down our humanity, pondering Pantera and John Fahey, hidden tracks on compact discs, an unexpected celebration of the band Boston, theatrical dynamics in Chat Pile and why the band employs pseudonyms, a Velvet Underground nod with multiple meanings, a folk future, what’s next for Chat Pile, and much more.

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