Kreative Kontrol

Ep. #11: Maestro Fresh Wes + Diamond Rings

Post author By vish
Post date July 3, 2013

Canada’s king of hip-hop (sorry Drake), Maestro Fresh Wes and I have a chat about the 25th anniversary of his colossal hit single, “Let Your Backbone Slide ,” how to keep Canadian audiences engaged with rap music, and his great, star-studded new album, Orchestrated Noise. And budding Canadian dance-pop star Diamond Rings and I discuss what’s up with his new band, the art of remixing original songs, summer festival season, and the future. Which is where he might be from.

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Tags Diamond Rings, Hillside Festival, Le Festival d'été de Québec, Maestro Fresh Wes

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Ep. #10: Sled Island & Calgary’s flood + Houndmouth + Derek Christoff on James Gandolfini + Mike Belitsky of the Sadies

Post author By vish
Post date June 27, 2013

Weird tone to this one. Drew Marshall of the Sled Island music festival gives a firsthand account of the flooding that has devastated Calgary and forced Sled Island to cancel its plans, Matt Myers of the U.S. band Houndmouth (who play Montreal on June 27 and Toronto on June 28) talks about the fake ‘folk revival’ going on right now, Derek Christoff, a.k.a. D-Sisive, remembers the late, great James Gandolfini who got him through his father’s death, and, because his Boston Bruins lost the Stanley Cup to the Chicago Blackhawks, I make a random call to Mike Belitsky of the Sadies.

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Tags Boston Bruins, Calgary, Chicago Blackhawks, D-Sisive, Derek Christoff, flood, Houndmouth, James Gandolfini, Mike Beltisky, murderecords, Sled Island, Stanley Cup, The Sadies

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Ep. #9: David Yow

Post author By vish
Post date June 25, 2013

Today you can hear my conversation with David Yow about his new solo LP, Tonight You Look Like a Spider. David is an amazing man who used to sing in bands like Scratch Acid, the Jesus Lizard, and Qui among others. These are some of the best things I’ve ever seen and a lot of that has to do with David. His new solo album is strange and bizarre. We talked about it and lots and lots of other stuff too (is that the Jesus Lizard’s “Mistletoe” in an Amex commercial???) and you can hear a new song at the end of our talk.

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Tags #TonightYouLookLikeASpider, David Yow, Joyful Noise, Qui, Scratch Acid, The Jesus Lizard