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Ep. #901: John Early

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Post date September 5, 2024

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John Early is here to discuss his brilliant comedy special and album, Now More Than Ever, life in Los Angeles and how Toronto works as a city in a province in Canada, the talented Lemon Squares band, his remarkable skills as a singer and taking up guitar with a little help from the Beatles, how his talents were honed singing hymns in church, anarchy and normalcy, his working relationship with Kate Berlant, getting into Neil Young and why one of his songs is a surprising centrepiece in his new special, how the HBO version and record differ and complement each other, what are we all really doing on the internet, his comedy and music heroines, Vicky with a V, Bernie Sanders, and American politics, hitting the road for a tour with all new comedy and new songs, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #883: Steven Hyden

Post author By vish
Post date July 4, 2024

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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. #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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