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METZ (2010, 2012) – Teaser

Toronto’s METZ were recently asked to reunite for a performance on Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney, and so I dug into my archives for my first conversation with the band’s Alex Edkins. My digging led me to our second conversation as well, so I’ve combined them here for you and other METZ fans. Alex and I had met a number of times at METZ shows before our first interview, which was a phoner that took place on Tuesday December 14, 2010, at 2:00 PM ET. Our next interview, again via telephone, took place on Tuesday June 12, 2012, at 1:00 PM ET, and we discussed the band’s big news: they’d finished their debut album, and were about to start working with Sub Pop Records.

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Ep. #939: Contrived

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Loel Campbell and Michael “Turk” MacNeil from Contrived are here to discuss Addicted to Sadness, the band’s first album since 2008, growing up in Stellarton, Nova Scotia and bonding over music, the Dependent Music community, how Brian Borcherdt often shared new music discoveries with friends, key producers like Charles Austin and Andy Magoffin, when Wintersleep blew up and people moved to Montreal, Turk’s unique skills as a narrative lyricist, why Contrived is a going concern again, what’s next for the band, other future plans, and much more.  

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Ep. #884: Tim Kinsella

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Tim Kinsella discusses the elaborate new Joan of Arc box set, A Window & A Mirror, his Chicago upbringing and how he and his brother, Mike Kinsella from American Football, first got into playing music, their band Cap’n Jazz and its post-breakup mythological status, Tim’s relationship with music journalism and his public personas, punk rock and rebellious conservatism, times I saw the Promise Ring and Joan of Arc in southern Ontario in the mid-to-late 90s, why Joan of Arc might sound more normal these days, the band Tim Kinsella & Jenny Pulse and their next album, an upcoming reunion show by Cap’n Jazz and why Tim would love to write new songs with them, other future plans, and much more.

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