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Ep. #1115: Dinner is Ruined

Dale Morningstar from the Dinner is Ruined is here to discuss the band’s first new album in 21 years, Like A Tree,Heroic, the first time I saw Dinner is Ruined in 1996 opening an intimate Toronto show for Beck, leaving Toronto for Hamilton, encountering inspiring trees and people, the story behind the making of Gord Downie’s Coke Machine Glow, startling Dave Clark/Don Kerr connections, writing songs about Downie and Dale’s Bobby Orr interactions, recording Downie’s son Lou’s band, the story of the final, yet-to-be-released but fully completely finished album by Gord Downie and the Dinner is Ruined, why exactly it hasn’t been released yet, horse words and Jim Morrison and the Doors, trying to reach and work with Neil Young, a Dinner is Ruined archival project, upcoming shows, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1088: Cadence Weapon / Rollie Pemberton

Rollie Pemberton, a.k.a. Cadence Weapon returns to discuss his new album Forager and his new book of socio-cultural criticism essays, Ways of Listening: Building a Deeper Relationship with Music in the Streaming Era, the parallels between his writing on his album and his book, his renewed interest in crate digging for records and thrifting for great clothes, resisting passive cultural consumption during the age of the algorithm, the Juno Awards, Drake, and Canada’s confidence conundrum, being both the “Black Ian Curtis” and the “Black Bryan Ferry,” working with producer Junia-T and live musicians to rediscover his love of hip-hop and rapping, special Forager market events, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1048: Mark Molnar

Mark Molnar is here to discuss his new album EXO, being made to take classical music lessons at three years old over pursuing sports, key figures in his life who exposed him to music, musicians, and ways to approach your musical instrument, the death of arts funding and risk aversion in the cultural sector, his engagement with my music journalism and a breakfast interview I once did with Nomeansno, the state of contemporary classical music and whether he and other Constellation Records artists might fit within it, his own label Black Bough Records, other future plans, and much more.

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