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Ep. #882: Islands

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Nick Thorburn discusses the new Islands album, What Occurs, whether or not it concludes a trilogy, why he chose to make an album on Vancouver Island for the first time and also its unique, live-off-the-floor recording style with Adam Halferty and Evan and Geordie Gordon, a bad basketball injury and air guitar, paraphrasing John Lennon and/or Pusha T, conceptual lyrics and David Geffen’s Jackson Pollock, whether or not Islands has reached its end, the pros and cons of running a Patreon crowdfunding initiative, uncertain future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #862: Jon Mckiel

Post author By vish
Post date May 2, 2024

Jon Mckiel discusses his excellent and beguiling new album, Hex, Canadian cities he’s lived in and his connections with Jay Crocker and Chad VanGaalen, drop C tuning, the hip-hop flavours of the otherwise indie-folk album Hex and whom it may be inspiring to rap, hexes, conspiracies, capitalism, and The Curse, movie scores and the musical touchstone that is the Arnold Schwarzenegger film, Predator, feeling burdened, videotaping MuchMusic programming as kids, that time his album 2020 album Bobby Joe Hope went viral, future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #847: Rosali

Post author By vish
Post date March 19, 2024

Rosali discusses her beautiful new album Bite Down, Michigan, Philadelphia, and school trips to Canada, the important details, living in North Carolina with a dog and commuting to Nebraska, her band Long Hots’ Third Man Records single, befriending the David Nance Group and the Mowed Sound’s live-off-the-floor approach on Bite Down, our shared admiration for H.C. McEntire, her parents’ rock band, appreciating the Grateful Dead, escaping pigeonholes, touring, other future plans, and much more.

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