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Ep. #920: A Place to Bury Strangers

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Oliver Ackermann from A Place to Bury Strangers is back to discuss their uniquely packaged new album Synthesizer, the latest audio inventions in production at Death by Audio, why the Synthesizer album cover includes a circuit board that anyone can use to create their own synthesizer, the pros and cons of the Biden Administration’s CHIPS Act for a small batch electronics manufacturer, the new album’s abrasive sound and lyrical themes exploring interpersonal dynamics, alienation, and relentlessness, how we connect art to the artists who create it, tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #883: Steven Hyden

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Steven Hyden discusses his excellent new book, There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born in the U.S.A.’ and the End of the Heartland, the state of music and cultural criticism, how film critics have long had more cachet than music critics, the various and confusing ambiguities in the work and life of an American like Bruce Springsteen, how the Boss rejected his most successful album and got lost in the 1990s just as Nirvana were rejecting their own most successful album, why Springsteen’s narrative voice became more inward, why he and America were never the same after Born in the U.S.A., a fascinating alternate history of Bruce events, Steven’s tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #881: Kass Richards

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Kass Richards discusses her powerful second album, New Love Meditation, becoming a mother during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Boston Celtics and their fanbase, needing to live near water, being encouraged to enter recording studios by Basia Bulat and Meg Remy and making New Love Meditation with Maximilian Turnbull, how Geordie Gordon can play every instrument, growing up near the busy Washington D.C. live music circuit, mindfulness and grieving, how going through labour can feel close to death, some tour dates, other future plans, and much more!

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