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Ep. #908: ASKO

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Marek Tyler discusses his work as ASKO and self-titled debut album, first concerts and early, formative drumming influences like Stewart Copeland, Larry Mullen Jr., Brendan Canty, and Mac McNeilly, pretending you know how to play instruments to start bands, music media and pointing people to significant but marginalized artists, entering the rock music realm as a person of colour, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and following familial protocols, bringing ASKO to life on-stage, other future plans, and much more.     

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Ep. #883: Steven Hyden

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Steven Hyden discusses his excellent new book, There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born in the U.S.A.’ and the End of the Heartland, the state of music and cultural criticism, how film critics have long had more cachet than music critics, the various and confusing ambiguities in the work and life of an American like Bruce Springsteen, how the Boss rejected his most successful album and got lost in the 1990s just as Nirvana were rejecting their own most successful album, why Springsteen’s narrative voice became more inward, why he and America were never the same after Born in the U.S.A., a fascinating alternate history of Bruce events, Steven’s tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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