Kreative Kontrol

Vish Khanna on music, culture, and more

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Ep. #882: Islands

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Nick Thorburn discusses the new Islands album, What Occurs, whether or not it concludes a trilogy, why he chose to make an album on Vancouver Island for the first time and also its unique, live-off-the-floor recording style with Adam Halferty and Evan and Geordie Gordon, a bad basketball injury and air guitar, paraphrasing John Lennon and/or Pusha T, conceptual lyrics and David Geffen’s Jackson Pollock, whether or not Islands has reached its end, the pros and cons of running a Patreon crowdfunding initiative, uncertain future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #864: Mary Lattimore and Walt McClements

Post author By vish
Post date May 7, 2024

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Mary Lattimore and Walt McClements discuss their wonderful new album, Rain on the Road, a secret Sonic Youth show they both attended in North Carolina before they knew each other, their work and connection with Weyes Blood, their interest in synthesizing acoustic and otherwise distinctive instruments to conjure new sounds, how they got into harp and accordion respectively and music lessons along the way, Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged performance, elemental influences and The Far Side by Gary Larson, avoiding bears to get to a show, touring, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #821: Kurt Vile
Ep. #748: Meg Baird
Ep. #738: Superchunk
Ep. #733: Weyes Blood
Ep. #673: Sonic Youth
Ep. #631: Steve Gunn
Ep. #577: Thurston Moore

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Ep. #851: Mark Mothersbaugh

Post author By vish
Post date April 2, 2024

Mark Mothersbaugh from DEVO discusses his new hardcover art book, APOTROPAIC BEATNIK GRAFFITI, how limited eyesight helped make him a visionary, a 2020 hospital admission for COVID-19 that changed his life forever, mail art and thousands of art cards, how visual art led to the pursuit of music and DEVO’s formation, very old and very recent personal interactions with three Beatles, loving the Rolling Stones and avoiding LSD, the essay Ian Svenonius wrote for this book, the current state of devolution, what’s next for him and DEVO, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #736: Douglas Andrew McCombs
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Ep. #550: Ian Svenonius & Rich Morel of Too Much
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