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Ep. #1081: The New Pornographers

Post author By vish
Post date March 31, 2026

A.C. Newman returns to discuss The Former Site Of by the New Pornographers, life in New York State, playing more mandolin in his home recording studio, R.E.M. snobbery, not knowing about a nearby Dry Cleaning show, and understanding fans who come and go, songs about grieving and newfound flower expertise and songs people misunderstand, spirituality and social media, how the song “Calligraphy” references the 2025 arrest of the band’s former drummer on serious criminal charges, accepting loss, touring line-ups and upcoming shows, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1067: The Paranoid Style

Post author By vish
Post date February 12, 2026

Elizabeth Nelson returns to discuss the Paranoid Style and their new album, Known Associates, life near Washington D.C., a recap of our recent discussion about the Replacements’ Let It Be reissue, a brief overview of American paranoia, her penchant for wordy lyrics and how that impacts her as a singer, some of her favourite sincerely humorous songwriters, Scott Joplin’s “The Entertainer” and Bob Dylan’s “Love and Theft,” her love of musicals and nodding to other people’s songs, why I think she might dig Carolyn Mark, playing rare shows, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep: #993: Cassia Hardy

Post author By vish
Post date July 3, 2025

Cassia Hardy returns to discuss her new album In Relation, a mustard headache cure, a provocative new voicemail song that accuses her of shoplifting, craftsmanship, tech oligarchy, and repair culture, the ways that this new album is and isn’t accessible to the general public and its complementary book, pondering the Prairies from an Indigenous perspective, saluting Steve Albini and Fiver’s Simone Schmidt, hoping Bluesky is fun, playing shows, other future plans, and much more.

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