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Ep. #1019: Friendship

Dan Wriggins from Friendship is here to discuss their latest album, Caveman Wakes Up, being and having a roommate, his interest in creative writing and poetry, and being from the same state as noted author Stephen King, seeing Bob Dylan live with his father, his own musical influences and academic pursuits, temporality, fashion, and subcultural explosions, gassing up his bandmates and how Friendship works, exploring minutiae with an abstract, surreal bent, the future of Friendship, a rough Edmonton story featuring Advance Base, and much more.

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Ep. #1014: Swans

Michael Gira from Swans is here to discuss their exhilarating new album Birthing, an erotic dream he had about Roy Cohn, Richard Nixon, and the current president of the United States, which inspired a new song, dishonesty and the relative truth, what he reveals about himself in his music and how his aesthetic might relate to those of Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison, including contributions by his wife and children on his records, why Swans might take on a new form, debuting new songs on the road, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1006: The Hives

Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist from the Hives is here to discuss The Hives Forever Forever The Hives, living in Sweden, whether or not the band’s substantive, outspoken lyrics get enough attention, the eerily cyclical nature of western civilization, reflecting upon being in a band for 30 odd years, another artistic outlet he has but has never really talked about before, recording fidelity and punk rock, the Bon Scott era of AC/DC, working with Beastie Boys’ Mike D who produced this album, future plans for the Hives, and much more.

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(Dean Bradshaw)