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Ep. #1005: Brian Fauteux

Brian Fauteux is here to discuss his book, Music in Orbit: Satellite Radio in the Streaming Space Age, his lifelong interest in underground music, culture, and media, how the advent of satellite radio in the early part of this century modelled the way subscription culture functions now, the huge role Howard Stern, Bob Dylan, and Eminem played in all of this, and much more. Part of the South East Community Leagues Association’s speaker series, this episode was recorded live before an outdoor audience on June 22, 2025, at Edmonton’s Capilano Skate Park.

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Ep. #1004: Liz Pelly

Liz Pelly is here to discuss her book Mood Machine – The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, loving New York City and high hopes for mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, rationality and current reality, becoming a music fan, musician, and investigative journalist, questioning authority, corporations, and oligarchs, why Spotify has become so prominent and why some of its practices warranted further examination, how randomly viral TikTok songs lead to large Spotify pay days, ghost artists and generative AI, what’s next for her, and much more. See Liz speak at Mutek Forum in Montreal between August 20 and 22, 2025.

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Ep. #1003: Marissa Nadler

Marissa Nadler is here to discuss New Radiations, leaving the Boston area to live in the American South, the small number of non-male music producers and why she produced her latest record herself, loving Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, dealing with the doubt, why she’s associated with metal, singing songs of solitude and independent departure, her novelist brother Stuart Nadler, characters in Bob Dylan songs, referencing cinema and making short films, a new side project, other future plans, and much more.

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