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Ep. #1122: Squirrel Flower

Ella Williams from Squirrel Flower is here to discuss Say a Prayer to the Gods of Getting Going, not having a real home, living in many different cities, and the joys of transience, when relationships are complicated by the city of Cleveland, which can be depicted in song or on the comedic TV show 30 Rock, playing a show where Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested, when ghosts steal your CDs, finding musical inspiration in the book Women Who Run with the Wolves and in the work of Joni Mitchell, highways and marginalization, volume and balance, frenetic motion and stark stillness, writing new songs, playing shows soon, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1114: Stuck

Greg Obis from Stuck is here to discuss their new album Optimizer, following Bob Weston in operating Chicago Mastering Service, his background in audio engineering and an internship he had at Electrical Audio, how Michael Azerrad’s Our Band Could Be Your Life helped him re-assess punk rock, explaining what mixing and mastering is via a cooking analogy, where Stuck comes from, recording Optimizer at Electrical Audio and making use of a 16-string guitar model that Steve Albini had had built for Lee Ranaldo, the Miku Stomp guitar pedal and sound design, pondering big changes and political possibilities, a nod to Big Black, internet frustrations, admiring Liz Pelly, and joining Subvert, shows Stuck played in Edmonton in Calgary this past May (one of which I saw), future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1097: American Football

Steve Holmes and Steve Lamos from American Football are here to discuss American Football (LP4), the joys of marking final papers by the college students you teach, the story behind the alluring, unsettling drum part in “Man Overboard” and an appreciation for James Bond soundtrack songs, why Lamos left and returned to American Football in recent years, the factual aspects of LP4’s lyrical themes and thoughts on Mike Kinsella’s direct, unadorned vocals, whether my theory that the album flows like a theatrical production has legs, a shoutout to English degrees, working with producer Sonny DiPerri in California and a surprising but very welcome surfing lesson, playing many shows, other future plans, and much more!

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