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Ep. #985: PUP

Post author By vish
Post date June 10, 2025
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Steve Sladkowski discusses PUP and Who Will Look After the Dogs?, sports and loud, boastful sportscasting’s Canadian connection, Metallica’s Some Kind of Monster, The Beatles’ Get Back, and dysfunctional band communication, working closely with producer John Congleton, Steve’s background in jazz and improvised guitar, PUP’s ambitious, sentimental six-date Mega-City Madness Tour of Toronto, conjuring Marc Ribot and Joel Plaskett for a new song, future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #900: Fugazi and Jem Cohen

Post author By vish
Post date September 3, 2024

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Brendan Canty, Joe Lally, Ian MacKaye, and Guy Picciotto from Fugazi and filmmaker Jem Cohen discuss their 1999 documentary, Instrument, how it was captured using various camera and film technologies of the time, how live and interview footage was used and not used to reflect the band’s inventive music-making, insights about key and memorable moments from the film, its remarkable soundtrack, Jem’s focus on audience portraiture and commentary, the basketball hoop, what may become of the longer edit of Instrument and film footage we haven’t yet seen, Fugazi’s most popular and iconic song, and much more.

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Ep. #892: Fucked Up

Post author By vish
Post date August 5, 2024

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Mike Haliechuk from Fucked Up discusses the band’s new album, Another Day, its place in the band’s apparent “Day” album series, which may or may not have begun with 2023’s One Day, the 24-hour live stream of a studio session the band will participate in starting at 1:00 PM ET on August 6, 2024, which you can watch on Fucked Up’s YouTube channel, playing at MergeFest and the band’s future with Merge Records, working midnight shifts, forthcoming records by Fucked Up, tour, other future plans, and much more.

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