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Ep. #1098: Zoh Amba

Zoh Amba is here to discuss their astonishing new album Eyes Full, making their podcast debut and a recent hang with folk bitch trio, how they got into guitar, songwriting, and rock music, recurring lyrics about God, eyes, searching, and observational behaviour, why “Southern Soil” is such a key song for them in their Tennessee trajectory, the story behind their collaboration with Jim White and Guy Picciotto on Jim’s recent album Inner Day, Jim’s joyful presence and great sense of fun, learning more about their Eyes Full collaborators or “musical babies” as they call them, getting an email from Iggy Pop requesting their presence in his band, writing new songs, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1053: Mint Mile

Post author By vish
Post date January 2, 2026

Tim Midyett from Mint Mile returns to discuss andwhichstray, what recent Silkworm reunion shows have been like, the throughlines between songs he wrote in that band about mortality, connection, and community and his most recent Mint Mile material, how fortune enabled him to make one more record with his late friend Steve Albini, who engineered andwhichstray in France during the second last recording session of his life, how he relates to records he has made with people who are gone, finally listening to and recording a song that the late Jason Molina wrote for Silkworm after drummer Michael Dahlquist was killed in a car accident twenty years ago, bands like Pavement who play live but don’t make new records and whether he thinks Silkworm might write new songs, Aerosmith and Die Kruezen, upcoming Silkworm shows, other future plans, and much more!

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Ep. #1044: Steve Albini (2008)
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Ep. #1046: Jim White and Guy Picciotto

Post author By vish
Post date December 4, 2025

Jim White and Guy Picciotto return to discuss Jim’s new album Inner Day, the beginning of New York City’s Zohran Mamdani era, Jim’s recent shows with Ed Kuepper, Jim’s decision to write lyrics and sing them, his relationship with words and their power, Jim briefly singing on a Hard Quartet song, my favourite song of the year, “I Don’t Do / Grand Central” and how this collaboration with Zoh Amba came to pass, dancing with your musical instrument, their new trio with Colleen Burke, contributing music to a Jem Cohen film, new ideas, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1035: Ed Kuepper and Jim White
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