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METZ (2010, 2012) – Teaser

Toronto’s METZ were recently asked to reunite for a performance on Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney, and so I dug into my archives for my first conversation with the band’s Alex Edkins. My digging led me to our second conversation as well, so I’ve combined them here for you and other METZ fans. Alex and I had met a number of times at METZ shows before our first interview, which was a phoner that took place on Tuesday December 14, 2010, at 2:00 PM ET. Our next interview, again via telephone, took place on Tuesday June 12, 2012, at 1:00 PM ET, and we discussed the band’s big news: they’d finished their debut album, and were about to start working with Sub Pop Records.

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Ep. #854: METZ
Ep. #850: You’ve Changed Records is 15!
Ep. #719: Iain Reid
Ep. #687: Weird Nightmare
Ep. #570: METZ
Ep. #351: METZ
Ep. #201: LIDS
Ep. #184: METZ

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Ep. #925: Steve Albini (2007)

At my invitation, Steve Albini appeared on Kreative Kontrol at least once a year since its inception in 2013. We started a tradition where we spoke just ahead of annual, poverty alleviation Letters to Santa live events, such as the gala they’re holding on November 23, 2024, at the Brookfield Zoo Chicago: Discovery Center, featuring Jeff Tweedy, Fred Armisen, and Kim Deal among others. To maintain the tradition and spirit of the talks we had, I plan to feature archival interviews I conducted with Steve over the years, presenting them here ahead of Letters to Santa events for as long as possible. Here’s the second radio interview we ever did. It took place in the early summer of 2007 and was ostensibly about the then new Shellac album, Excellent Italian Greyhound, and touched upon local radio fame, Martina Navratilova, people who film concerts instead of participating in them, Canada, SCTV, John Peel, and more.

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Related episodes/links:

My first Steve Albini interview (2006)
Ep. #869: Steve Albini
Ep. #826: Steve Albini and Fred Armisen
Ep. #806: The Breeders
Ep. #692: Wilco

Steve Albini, Shellac, August 21, 1999, Starfish Room, Vancouver, BC (vish khanna)
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Ep. #896: The Folk Implosion

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Lou Barlow and John Davis from the Folk Implosion discuss their first album in 25 years, Walk Thru Me, the significance of college and community radio, punk rock humour and intellectualism exhibited by Gerard Cosloy and Steve Albini, John’s early collaborative relationship with Will Oldham and why he didn’t appear on his first album, how Lou and John first met, how the Folk Implosion’s name is an homage to/dig at the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, working on the soundtrack for the controversial 1995 film, KIDS, why the Folk Implosion ended and why it’s back, touring, making new music, other future plans, and much more.       

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Ep. #834: J Mascis
Ep. #775: Will Oldham & Lori Damiano
Ep. #677: Pavement
Ep. #675: Jon Spencer
Ep. #614: Lou Barlow
Ep. #224: Ian MacKaye & Steve Albini (Part II)
Ep. #109: Jello Biafra
Ep. #36: Lou Barlow
Ep. #15: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion + catl.