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Ep. #29: Sohrab Habibion of Obits

Post author By vish
Post date September 3, 2013

Sohrab Habibion is a multi-talented musician, graphic artist, recording engineer, and generally great person who currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. For close to a decade, he played in the Washington D.C.-based band Edsel before they broke up in the late nineties. He now sings and plays guitar in Obits, one of America’s best surf-y, garage rock bands, whose gritty, powerful, third album, Bed & Bugs is available everywhere on Sept. 10 via Sub Pop Records. The band, which also features bassist Greg Simpson, drummer Alexis Fleisig, and vocalist/guitarist Rick Froberg, is touring the U.S. and Canada beginning Sept. 21, including stops at Montreal’s Il Motore on Oct. 3, Toronto’s Horseshoe Tavern on Oct. 4, and the Biltmore Cabaret in Vancouver on Nov. 14. Here Habibion provides a full-on LP preview, complete with Vine-sized song excerpts and track-by-track anecdotes.

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Tags Bed & Bugs, Obits, Sohrab Habibion, Sub Pop

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Ep. #28: Mark Arm of Mudhoney

Post author By vish
Post date August 29, 2013

Mark Arm is a singer and guitarist based in Seattle, Washington. 25 years ago he co-founded Mudhoney, one of America’s best and most influential underground rock bands. They were profiled in a great documentary called I’m Now: The Story of Mudhoney, which was released at the end of 2012, and now they’re the main subject of a biography called Mudhoney: The Sound and The Fury of Seattle by author Keith Cameron. The book covers the entire history of the band right up to their ninth album, the rollicking, well-received Vanishing Point, which came out earlier this year via Sub Pop records. Mudhoney’s latest tour brings them to Montreal’s Il Motore on Sept. 1 and Toronto’s Lee’s Palace on Sept. 2, so Mark and I got on the horn to discuss Mudhoney’s anniversary, playing a show on top of Seattle’s Space Needle, nothing to do with Nirvana, surfing with Pearl Jam, why stools should have three legs, playing a show at Third Man Records next month, which will eventually result in a live Mudhoney album, Conan O’Brien, and more.

Related links: mudhoneyonline.com subpop.com vishkhanna.com

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Tags Conan O'Brien, Mark Arm, Mudhoney, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Seattle, Sub Pop, Third Man Records

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Ep. #27: Greil Marcus

Post author By vish
Post date August 27, 2013

Greil Marcus is one of the most revered writers and cultural historians in the world. Since the late 60s, the California-based Marcus has demonstrated an uncanny ability to examine the broader social implications of musical movements, often re-contextualizing them in a profoundly illuminating way. He was the first reviews editor at Rolling Stone magazine, his writing has appeared in other notable publications like The Village Voice and The Believer, and he’s authored classic books like Mystery Train, Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century, Invisible Republic (or, as it was later re-named, The Old, Weird America), and many more. Marcus is also regarded as the most astute authority on the work of Bob Dylan and, with the August 27 release of Dylan’s The Bootleg Series Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait (1969-1971), with which Marcus is inextricably connected, it seems like a good time to get his take on it. Here Marcus discusses his infamous 1970 review of the original Self Portrait, how critics generally received Dylan prior to this release, his take on the The Great White Wonder bootleg, why this new collection is a must-listen, the subject of his forthcoming book, and how the two conversations he actually had with Bob Dylan (the first in 1963, the last in 1997) actually went.