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Ep. #37: Doug Tielli

Post author By vish
Post date September 19, 2013

Doug Tielli is one of the most captivating and talented musicians in Toronto’s underground music community. His work is both innocent and searching yet completely deliberate and confident in its uncertainty. A multi-instrumentalist who has enriched records by Owen Pallett, the Luyas, Constantines, Sandro Perri and many more, Tielli has been a key figure in his own lovely, off-kilter bands like the Reveries, Drumheller, and the Silt. Tielli’s latest album is called Keresley, it’s out now via Tin Angel records, and brings him to Silence Guelph on Sept. 20, Toronto’s Tranzac on Sept. 26, and Waterloo’s Jane Bond on Sept. 29. Here Doug and I discuss his day job, lost passports and unintentional extended trips, songs vs. dreams, whether or not he might be odd, his Tielli brothers Martin and John, his upbringing, his family, coming out of premature retirement, his music and more.

Related links: tinangelrecords.co.uk/doug/ vishkhanna.com

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Tags Doug Tielli, Drumheller, Keresley, The Reveries, The Silt, Tin Angel Records

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Ep. #36: Lou Barlow

Post author By vish
Post date September 17, 2013

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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Tags Bob D'Amico, Defend Yourself, Dinosaur Jr., Iggy and the Stooges, Jason Loewenstien, Joyful Noise, Lou Barlow, Riot Fest, Sebadoh, The Replacements

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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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Tags Body/Head, Chelsea Light Moving, David Berman, Ecstatic Peace!, James Street Supercrawl, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Matador Records, Perfect Youth, Philip Glass, Sonic Youth, Steve Shelley, Thurston Moore, Yoko Ono