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Ep. #958: Nels Cline

Post author By vish
Post date March 11, 2025

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Nels Cline returns to discuss his new album and band, Nels Cline: Consentrik Quartet, empathetic collaboration and op art, composition and improvisation in music and also in films like 1953’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, a James Brandon Lewis observation about what experienced players bring to in-the-moment music-making, the role of stage wear, having your name in your band’s name, not loving guitar solos, Wilco news, what’s next for his own work, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #857: Michael Feuerstack

Post author By vish
Post date April 16, 2024

Michael Feuerstack discusses his thoughtful and infectious new album Eternity Mongers, its social, philosophical, and interpersonal lyrical themes, a discussion about the phrase “It is what it is,” and Michael’s new song, “What Isn’t What it Is,” creating an artistic space to convey thoughts and ideas and Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, making an album in a Nova Scotia shack with producer Charles Austin and bringing a talented horn section and guest vocalists into the mix, upcoming tour dates and work with Land of Talk, Bell Orchestre, and the Luyas, celebrating Snailhouse, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #692: Wilco

Post author By vish
Post date June 7, 2022

Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy discusses their new album Cruel Country, curating music festivals, indifference, criticism, and communication, when certain people die, country, Wilco, and music genres, fashionability and temporality, How to Write One Song and abstraction, the United States of America and local communities, the forthcoming Yankee Hotel Foxtrot box set, tour dates, other future plans, and more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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