Kreative Kontrol

Vish Khanna on music, culture, and more

Tag: manhattan

News Podcast

Ep. #874: Mdou Moctar

EVERY OTHER KREATIVE KONTROL EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO $6 PATREON SUPPORTERS. Enjoy this excerpt and please subscribe now via this link to hear this full episode. Thanks!

Mdou Moctar and Mikey Coltun discuss their band’s wondrous new album Funeral for Justice, singing new songs about worldwide problems and not just in Africa, landing on an album title that tonally suits the lyrics and sound of Funeral for Justice, jet lag and feeling sleepy, why doing interviews is so important to explain Mdou Moctar songs, trust and being a better band, why their music and vocals might incorporate repetition, Mikey’s new tape label Purplish Records and Marc Masters’ book about cassette history and culture, new Mdou Moctar music and philanthropic projects, touring the world, other future plans, and much more.

Support vish on Patreon! Thanks to Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

Related episodes/links:

Ep. #867: BIG|BRAVE
Ep. #813: Marc Masters
Ep. #755: Pierre Kwenders
Ep. #615: Mdou Moctar
Ep. #591: Matt Sweeney

Tags africa, afriquevictime, ahmoudoumadassane, ambulance, anger, callandresponse, cassettes, checkniang, collaboration, conscientious, death, eddievanhalen, Edmonton, emergency, energy, exile, french, funeralforjustice, growth, guitar, hamadalmoumineissoufou, help, highbias, hope, ilanathe creator, injustice, intaganatmohamed, intensity, iran, Iraq, jetlag, jimihendrix, journalism, justice, libya, love, lyrics, mahamadousouleymane, manhattan, marcmasters, matadorrecords, mdoumoctar, mexicocity, migration, mikeycoltun, mood, muslim, nelsonantonioespinal, newyorkcity, niger, passports, politics, prayer, purplishrecords, repetition, rissaagwanaghli, russian, sethmanchester, sleep, souleymandjallo, souleymaneibrahim, tapes, tchintabaraden, timessquare, tone, tour, travel, trust, truth, tuareg, ukraine, Vancouver, visas, vishlag, weddings

News Podcast

Ep. #848: SAVAK

Post author By vish
Post date March 21, 2024

Sohrab Habibion and Michael Jaworski discuss the new SAVAK album, Flavors of Paradise, dancing seahorses, snow shovelling adventures, the late Rick Froberg’s role in influencing aspects of SAVAK and his constant presence in our lives, U.S. politics and the media, singing about years, defending your band name, gallows humour and punk-infused pop music, many project updates, tour news, other future plans, and much more.

Support vish on Patreon! Thanks to Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

Related episodes/links:

Ep. #840: Mint Mile
Rick Froberg Remembered
Ep. #383: Hot Snakes’ Rick Froberg
Ep. #259: Savak’s Sohrab Habibion
Ep. #224: Ian MacKaye & Steve Albini (Part II)
Ep. #223: Ian MacKaye & Steve Albini (Part I)
Ep. #217: Do You Compute – The Story of Drive Like Jehu
Ep. #177: Sohrab Habibion on Obits calling it quits
Ep. #29: Sohrab Habibion of Obits

Tags 1953, 1961, alexisfleisig, attribution, avrillavigne, backtothefuture, bedandbugs, benvandyke, binary, brendancanty, brooklyn, Canada, cia, coenbrothers, conoroberst, contractions, covid19, credit, cursive, dancing, demoitis, Devo, donaldtrump, drivelikejehu, Edsel, electricalaudio, elijanney, enchanmentunderthesea, enon, ernestjenningrecordco, flavorsofparadise, foreigncorrespondents, Fugazi, gallowshumour, gangoffour, gaza, geoffsanoff, heart, henrykissinger, herheadsonfire, holyfuck, hotsnakes, humour, hypochondria, ianmackaye, iran, israel, jamesbrandonlewis, jamescanty, jeffgensterblum, johnfkennedy, lawnyavawnya, lifeoftherecord, luxapt, manhattan, marjorietaylorgreene, martymcfly, mattgaetz, matthewbarnhart, matthunter, mattschulz, media, michaelhampton, michaeljaworski, michaeljfox, michaelpagliaro, michaelstipe, minorthreat, mohammadmosaddegh, murmur, music, nebraska, newradiantstormking, newyorkcity, Obits, omaha, palesetine, pandemic, peculiarworks, polarization, politicalscience, politics, reckoining, richardnixon, rickfroberg, saddlecreek, Savak, seahorses, shovelhead, shovelling, silentmajority, silverjews), smallbrownbike, snow, sohrabhabibion, sohrabtheentertainer, spying, stevealbini, SXSW, tedleo, tehran, thebellhouse, thecops, thekinks, themessthetics, thewho, timmidyett, tmj, vietcong, virginia, virginislands, washingtondc, women, wontgetfooledagain

News Podcast

Ep. #802: Sam Morril

Post author By vish
Post date September 19, 2023

Sam Morril discusses his upcoming stand-up dates including a JFL Toronto stop on September 21, being a terrible driver and growing up in a blended family in Manhattan, how our parents measure our success, getting into comedy and admiring John Mulaney, attention spans and Oppenheimer vs. Barbie, telling David Letterman why he offers some specials to fans for free, corporate delays and greed, his 2020 pandemic-induced Up on the Roof special, what he knows and thinks about Canada, an update about his next special, tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

Supported by you on Patreon, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

Tags adoption, airbnb, amyschumer, attentionspans, barbie, billburr, bodegacatwhiskey, bostonlegal, Canada, ceos, Chicago, chrisrock, college, comedians, comedy, comedyclubs, Conan, conanobrien, criterion, daveattell, davechappelle, davidletterman, driving, Edmonton, education, esteem, family, getback, greed, greggiraldo, gretagerwig, HBO, hotels, igotthis, jfl, jimjeffries, joederosa, johnmulaney, jokes, katieholmes, legallyadopted, levity, lordoftherings, manhattan, marknormand, marvalbert, moe hankazaria, Montreal, movies, netflix, news, newyorkcity, newyorktimes, noahbaumbach, oppenheimer, pace, pandemic, peterjackson, podcast, residuals, roadtest, ryangosling, sagaftra, sametimetomorrow, sammorrill, saturdaynightlive, singleparenting, standup, strikes, success, taxi, thebeatles, time, Toronto, torontoraptors, touring, uber, Vancouver, wemightbedrunk, wisconsin, YouTube