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Ep. #75: Michael Feuerstack

Michael Feuerstack is a well-respected, sophisticated and possibly underrated singer, songwriter, and musician who is based in Montreal. For many years he played in a Ottawa band called Wooden Stars and also nurtured his own project, Snailhouse. Last year he released an LP called Tambourine Death Bed, his first record under his own name, and he’s due to release a new, collaborative effort as Michael Feuerstack & Associates on April 19 called Singer Songer (Forward/Headless Owl). He’s scheduled to play Kazoo! Fest in Guelph (April 9-13) with more tour dates to follow. Here, Mike and I discuss doing this episode in my living room, weird weather, true facts, purple seagulls, tasty coffee, celebratory enthusiasm, the musical shift between Snailhouse and Michael Feuerstack, home recording, my lack of preparation for this interview, Mike’s relationship with the press and his interest in how he’s perceived, antagonism vs. cynicism, Mike’s hardcore punk past in Moncton in the band the Underdogs with Rick White of Eric’s Trip, my son’s blue puck, Mike’s musical origins and early collaborations with White and Julie Doiron, how Wooden Stars began, what punk rock means, and why the gruelling lifestyle of lowly rock bands makes it tricky to keep them together, the intermingling of earnestness and irreverence, how Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen are really funny, and the connection between music and comedy, how working as ‘Michael Feuerstack’ might be a confluence of every kind of music he’s ever made, my desire to get everyone to say they’ll “Yahoo! it” instead of “Google it,” some details about his forthcoming album Singer Songer, which includes vocals by the likes of Mathias Kom, Devon Sproule, Bry Webb, Leif Vollebekk, John K. Samson, Jessie Stein, Jim Bryson, Angela Desveaux, and Little Scream, the song “Leave Me Alone,” and more.

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Donald Glover & The Burning Hell on the MVIMS! 06/01/2011

‘ello guv’ner,

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

Firstly, actor/comedian/writer/rapper Donald Glover and I have a chat at 7:15 AM EST.

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Donald Glover

Then later, Mathias Kom of the Burning Hell is back on the show at 8:05 AM EST.

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Mathias Kom

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

thanks a lot,
vk

Upcoming Guests:

Donald Glover
Mathias Kom (The Burning Hell)
Joe Lally
Joel Plaskett
Neil Strauss
Daniel Romano
Patton Oswalt
Snailhouse
Mitch Fillion (Southern Souls.ca)