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Ep. #974: Niko Stratis

Niko Stratis discusses her wonderful new memoir-in-essays, The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman, moving to Toronto by driving across Canada with a cat, Bruce Springsteen and fluid masculinity in rock, the ingenious, inspiring writings of Hanif Abdurraqib, living up to what we think our parents’ expectations of us are and honing a work ethic, love and addiction, Jon-Rae Fletcher and Kurt Cobain, physical torment and transness, Courtney Barnett and the Burning Hell, Richard Laviolette and the Community Theatre project, upcoming reading events, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #943: André Ethier

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André Ethier is back to discuss his new album, Cold Spaghetti.., personal fitness routines and preferences, musical theatre and cultural adaptation in songwriting, art galleries, museums, and colonialism, compensation, labour, and attribution, caterpillars as a muse, Sandro Perri as a muse, revisiting indie-rock recordings made as a teen, contemplating new songs, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #931: Franz Nicolay

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Franz Nicolay from the Hold Steady is here to discuss his new book, Band People: Life and Work in Popular Music, once living in Toronto and how couples in the creative arts and humanities support each other, balancing passion and pragmatism in the music business, how musicians tend to communicate and miscommunicate, getting credit and valuing cultural labour, whether musicians can truly jam remotely, what’s next for his writing and music work, other future plans, and much more.

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