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Ep. #865: Myriam Gendron

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Myriam Gendron discusses her moving new album Mayday, some of the places in the world she lived in before moving to Montreal, a good job at a bookstore, playing in metal bands, a charming close encounter with Leonard Cohen, why she is generally disinterested in the personalities behind the art she loves, losing her mother and being a mother and some of the lyrical themes on the bilingual Mayday, collaborating with Bill Nace, Marisa Anderson, and Jim White among other people, why we love flowers, transmission and keeping our parents with us, how her boyfriend helps her be online, touring, writing more music, other future plans, and much more.

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Related episodes/links:

Ep. #849: Jim White and Guy Picciotto
Ep. #847: Rosali
Ep. #775: Will Oldham & Lori Damiano
Ep. #768: Guy Picciotto & Xylouris White
Ep. #731: Bill Nace
Ep. #718: Marisa Anderson
Ep. #562: Bill Callahan
Ep. #541: Jim White and Marisa Anderson

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Ep. #837: Aparna Nancherla

Post author By vish
Post date February 13, 2024

Aparna Nancherla discusses her return to standup and public life after taking time away to write a book of personal essays called Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Imposter Syndrome, when interviewers don’t engage with the things you make, being the child of immigrants and first generation anxiety, keeping up South Asian appearances, familial mental health stigmas and acceptance, an unforgettable joke, performing at JFL Vancouver on February 16 and 17, and much more.

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Ep. #825: Dave Hill
Ep. #785: Hari Kondabolu
Ep. #754: Baron Vaughn
Ep. #493: Cartel Madras
Ep. #432: Jo Firestone
Ep. #422: Sara Hennessey
Ep. #292: Nick Flanagan
Ep. #280: Hasan Minhaj

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Ep. #827: Woods

Post author By vish
Post date December 8, 2023

Jarvis Taveniere from Woods discusses the sound and lyrical themes on their new album, Perennial, our shared love and interactions with the late David Berman, the work that Woods did with Berman in their band, Purple Mountains, a brief Wikipedia-like history of Woods and recalling former members like Kevin Morby, from digital to analog, the Woodsist universe, working on new music, touring, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #821: Kurt Vile
Ep. #779: Kevin Morby
Ep. #515: Matthew “Doc” Dunn
Ep. #492: I Remember Me and David Berman
Ep. #481: David Berman
Ep. #165: Bob Nastanovich of Silver Jews