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Ep. #991: Elle Barbara

Post author By vish
Post date June 26, 2025

Elle Barbara is here to discuss Word On The Street by Elle Barbara’s Black Space, Montreal construction, putting on a performance this past May in which she got married to herself, exploring terms like autogynegamy and sologamy, how this album examines and critiques food, consumerism, and classism, street art and conspiracies regarding capitalism, alienation and Scientology, working with producer Renny Wilson and the story behind the Black Space band, what’s next, and much more.

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Ep. #987: Tropical Fuck Storm

Post author By vish
Post date June 17, 2025

Gaz Liddiard from Tropical Fuck Storm is here to discuss Fairyland Codex, running into kangaroos and routinely having one of the world’s most poisonous snakes show up in your house, the Gutenberg printing press, the internet, and extremist ideologies, Kurt Cobain and cultural conformity vs. galvanization and shared experiences, his musical trajectory from Australia to London, a long tour including a Calgary stop for Sled Island, writing new music, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #812: Michael Azerrad on ‘The Amplified Come As You Are – The Story of Nirvana’

Post author By vish
Post date October 24, 2023

Michael Azerrad discusses his wonderful new book, The Amplified Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana, interviewing Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, and Krist Novoselic for the original Come As You Are book and his subsequent friendship with the band, the truth and rock mythology, self-consciousness and indifference about perception, Kurt’s clinical conditions, how he seemed so relatable, shame, collage, and other recurring motifs in Nirvana’s work, jamming with Nirvana, citing certain podcasts, possible prequels, other future plans, and much more.

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