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Ep. #1053: Mint Mile

Tim Midyett from Mint Mile returns to discuss andwhichstray, what recent Silkworm reunion shows have been like, the throughlines between songs he wrote in that band about mortality, connection, and community and his most recent Mint Mile material, how fortune enabled him to make one more record with his late friend Steve Albini, who engineered andwhichstray in France during the second last recording session of his life, how he relates to records he has made with people who are gone, finally listening to and recording a song that the late Jason Molina wrote for Silkworm after drummer Michael Dahlquist was killed in a car accident twenty years ago, bands like Pavement who play live but don’t make new records and whether he thinks Silkworm might write new songs, Aerosmith and Die Kruezen, upcoming Silkworm shows, other future plans, and much more!

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Ep. #1044: Steve Albini (2008)
Ep. #1035: Ed Kuepper and Jim White
Ep. #994: mclusky
Ep. #952: Silkworm
Ep. #933: Alex Ross Perry, Scott Kannberg, and Robert Greene on ‘Pavements’
Ep. #924: Lance Bangs and Bob Nastanovich on ‘Pavements’
Ep. #910: The Hard Quartet
Ep. #869: Steve Albini
Ep. #840: Mint Mile
Ep. #514: Steve Albini and Silkworm’s Andy Cohen and Tim Midyett
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Ep. #1042: Liam Kazar

Liam Kazar is here to discuss his lovely new album Pilot Light, parts of Canada, living in Brooklyn but missing Chicago, being in Jeff Tweedy’s solo band and working on his recent triple album, Twilight Override, performing on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert so soon after its impending cancellation announcement, constantly touring with Jeff, Waxahatchee, Sam Evian, Kevin Morby, and on his own, multi-instrumentalists who are stymied by the drums, growing up close to the Tweedys and his father’s musical and writing pursuits, the Windy City and minimalism, board games, chess, and chance, lyrical juxtaposition, mourning what could’ve been, tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1026: Tortoise
Ep. #869: Steve Albini
Ep. #826: Steve Albini and Fred Armisen
Ep. #779: Kevin Morby
Ep. #692: Wilco
Ep. #586: Spencer Tweedy
Ep. #450: Jeff Tweedy

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Ep. #1041: Ryan Davis

Ryan Davis is here to discuss the new Roadhouse Band double-album, New Threats From the Soul, Indiana/Kentucky cultural and college sport rivalries, his parents’ musical interests and what led him, as a boy, to write songs for Michael Jackson and mail them to him to sing, pondering songs as puzzle pieces on his albums, Will Oldham and musical multiverses, his penchant to reference pop culture in his writing and choices he makes, the humour vs. novelty conundrum, storytelling and personal revelation, dynamic musical arrangements, interning at Drag City and befriending the late David Berman, unexpected adulation, touring, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #960: Kim Thayil
Ep. #944: Bonnie “Prince” Billy
Ep. #865: Myriam Gendron
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