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Ep. #1052: Sleepytime Trio

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Post date December 30, 2025
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Dave NeSmith and Drew Ringo from Sleepytime Trio are here to discuss Memory Minus Plus Minus, their current music community involvement, the Guelph house show they played and the ice cream tricycle Drew rode around on that day, the significance of bands like Hoover, Shotmaker, Fugazi, Slint, and Drive Like Jehu, making hip-hop music and getting into shoegaze, why kids can’t be blamed for the technology at their disposal, the odds of Sleepytime Trio recording new songs, upcoming shows, other future plans, and much more!

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Ep. #1051: Friendly Rich

Friendly Rich returns to discuss his latest album, The Birds of Marsville, his Brampton, Ontario pride, completing his PhD in music education and becoming a doctor, what having a giant beard might mean, playing the artistic and comedic long game, learning more about Marsville, the eighteenth-century researcher C. Smalloochi, and the orchestrion’s capabilities as a musical instrument, getting into birds, birders, and birding, Canadian arts grants, challenging the players on this album, Gordon Heavyfoot, future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1048: Mark Molnar

Mark Molnar is here to discuss his new album EXO, being made to take classical music lessons at three years old over pursuing sports, key figures in his life who exposed him to music, musicians, and ways to approach your musical instrument, the death of arts funding and risk aversion in the cultural sector, his engagement with my music journalism and a breakfast interview I once did with Nomeansno, the state of contemporary classical music and whether he and other Constellation Records artists might fit within it, his own label Black Bough Records, other future plans, and much more.

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