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Ep. #186: Socalled

Socalled is the moniker of a talented musical mastermind named Josh Dolgin who calls Montreal home. As someone who truly embraces the open-ended and multi-faceted aspects of hip-hop culture, Socalled’s music reflects virtually every kind of noise and genre touchstone that world has yielded to date. His fifth album is a joyous and star-studded but ultimately all Socalled affair called Peoplewatching, it’s out now via Dare to Care Records, and here, Josh and I discuss talking to Socalled, the musical The Season, Seattle pals, asserting himself on Peoplewatching, rapping and joking, hip-hop culture, Off the Hook Radio, conservatism in the production and reception of hip-hop, the weirdly right-wing-y materialistic part of hip-hop that has replaced much of its aspirational bent, rap heroes and being stuck in the 90s, Drake talk, dropping Chilly Gonzales’ name, hearing A Tribe Called Quest when you’re 16 years old, the people of Peoplewatching, Chinese-Indian fusion cooking, the sad story of Amar Singh Chamkila, Katie Moore, Oliver Jones, Fred Wesley is for the people, quoting Genghis Khan, a terrible philosophy, the song “Fire on Hutchison Street,” growing up in Chelsea, Quebec but going to school in Montreal and how Socalled became a musician, the weird assignment of re-fashioning the theme song for the show As It Happens and the CBC listener backlash, getting Moe Koffman’s widow’s blessing, no love in Toronto, never getting covered by Exclaim!, the awesome Socalled band, figuring out which song we want to play right now, the song “Never See You Again,” @peeplewatching on instagram, and then we’re dreamin.’

Related links: socalledmusic.com vishkhanna.com

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Shotgun Jimmie & Katie Moore on MVIMS – 03/16/2011

Bonjour,

This week the Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show! is pleased to welcome two guests to the program.

Firstly, Sackville’s Shotgun Jimmie returns for a chat at 7:15 AM EST.

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Shotgun Jimmie

Then later on, Montreal’s Katie Moore graces us with her phone presence at 8:05 AM EST.

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Katie Moore

To learn more about these people, listening live, or downloading/streaming this show later, please visit this link for Jimmie, this one for Katie, or perhaps even this link to hear this and/or other recent episodes.

thanks a lot,
vk

Upcoming Guests:

Katie Moore
Shotgun Jimmie
Kieran Grant (The Two Koreas)
Pat LePoidevin
John Darnielle (The Mountain Goats)
John Wright (NOmeansno)
Rick Froberg (Obits)
Daniel Romano
Neil Strauss
King Cobb Steelie
D-Sisive
Brad McInerney (Kazoo! fest)
Norm MacDonald
Patton Oswalt
Richard Laviolette
Marc Maron
Mitch Fillion (Southern Souls.ca)