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Ep. #1046: Jim White and Guy Picciotto

Jim White and Guy Picciotto return to discuss Jim’s new album Inner Day, the beginning of New York City’s Zohran Mamdani era, Jim’s recent shows with Ed Kuepper, Jim’s decision to write lyrics and sing them, his relationship with words and their power, Jim briefly singing on a Hard Quartet song, my favourite song of the year, “I Don’t Do / Grand Central” and how this collaboration with Zoh Amba came to pass, dancing with your musical instrument, their new trio with Colleen Burke, contributing music to a Jem Cohen film, new ideas, other future plans, and much more.

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Related episodes/links:

Ep. #1035: Ed Kuepper and Jim White
Ep. #1004: Liz Pelly
Ep. #944: Bonnie “Prince” Billy
Ep. #922: The Saints ’73-’78
Ep. #910: The Hard Quartet
Ep. #900: Fugazi and Jem Cohen
Ep. #849: Jim White and Guy Picciotto
Ep. #745: The Casual Dots
Ep. #562: Bill Callahan

(Jim White, Guy Picciotto, and Colleen Burke)
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Ep. #1000: Ty Segall

Ty Segall is here (at last!) to discuss Possession, the vibe lights in his recording studio, how the late Steve Albini gave him great advice about studio design and construction and the time they recorded themselves smashing a toilet, starting songs off on the drums and reflecting upon click tracks, demoitis, and studio trickery, connections between his three recent records, his singing voice and writing songs with filmmaker Matt Yoka, the Guns ‘n’ Roses song “Paradise City” and Drag City album bios, working on a soccer stadium riff, future plans, and much more. This episode is dedicated to Steve Albini.

EVERY OTHER COMPLETE KREATIVE KONTROL EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. This one is fine, but please subscribe now on Patreon so you never miss full episodes. Thanks!

Thanks to Blackbyrd Myoozik, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S., Pride Centre of Edmonton, and Letters Charity. Follow vish online.

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Ep. #999: Cory Hanson
Ep. #888: Wand
Ep. #869: Steve Albini
Ep. #842: Daniel Romano’s Outfit

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Bonnie “Prince” Billy (2019) – Teaser

In my most recent Kreative Kontrol newsletter, I mentioned that I’d done a long-form interview with Will Oldham about his 2019 album, I Made a Place, but it was only used for a print piece, not for this podcast because, at the time, he was feeling ambivalent about being on pods. Sometime in the last couple of years, I asked Will if I could share this phoner widely, and he said yes, so here it is finally, virtually unedited.

The conversation lasted about an hour and took place on Monday, September 29, 2019 at 11:00 AM ET, and you’ll hear us discussing topics like, me attempting to call him using the telephone app on my Macbook, as I often did at the time, but for some reason my computer perplexingly launched a program I’d never used before called Zoom, the return of Bonnie “Prince” Billy music after a long absence, the albums of songs he made written by the likes of the Everly Brothers, Merle Haggard, Susanna, and Mekons, wariness about oversaturated streaming culture, recording a Ramones song with David Berman (who’d died on August 7, just weeks before this conversation) and thoughts on DCB, Will’s love of Jake Xerxes Fussell, the Oldham family’s lengthy history with and a then-recent pilgrimage to Hawaii, and much more.

The wonderful new Bonnie “Prince” Billy album, The Purple Bird, is out now!

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Related episodes/links:

Ep. #944: Bonnie “Prince” Billy
Bonnie “Prince” Billy (2006) – Teaser
Bonnie “Prince” Billy (February 2011)