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Ep. #975: Deerhoof

Post author By vish
Post date May 8, 2025

John Dieterich, Satomi Matsuzaki, Ed Rodríguez, and Greg Saunier from Deerhoof discuss Noble and Godlike in Ruin, the band’s history and recurring lyrical themes about animals and magic, seeing Dokken and Krokus, the evolution of DIY music culture, the state of immigration, dehumanization, and capitalism, the Anishinaabe concept of “all of our relations,” working with Saul Williams, celebrating 31 years of Deerhoof on tour, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #932: Tim Heidecker

Post author By vish
Post date December 11, 2024

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Tim Heidecker returns to discuss his lovely album, Slipping Away, effective ways to discuss your work these days, mid-life, narrative voices on his album, and its themes of hope, dread, empathy, family, and unease, American politics and elite paternalism, his song “Bottom of the 8th” and metaphors about protecting your kids from uncertain endings, why it can be “cool” to be “normal,” the video for “Well’s Running Dry,” his January tour with special guests like Neil Hamburger and Kyle Mooney, Office Hours Live news, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #876: Ibibio Sound Machine

Post author By vish
Post date June 11, 2024

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Eno Williams and Max Grunhard discuss the brilliant new Ibibio Sound Machine album, Pull the Rope, living in London and loving Ninja Tune Records, aspirational truths and the clarinet, how music is a language, Eno’s exposure to highlife and jùjú music and why openly loving Fela Kuti could be precarious, empathy, inclusion, and improvisation, intergenerational culture clashes, working with Ross Orton, upcoming tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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