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Ep. #1004: Liz Pelly

Liz Pelly is here to discuss her book Mood Machine – The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, loving New York City and high hopes for mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, rationality and current reality, becoming a music fan, musician, and investigative journalist, questioning authority, corporations, and oligarchs, why Spotify has become so prominent and why some of its practices warranted further examination, how randomly viral TikTok songs lead to large Spotify pay days, ghost artists and generative AI, what’s next for her, and much more. See Liz speak at Mutek Forum in Montreal between August 20 and 22, 2025.

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Ep. #976: Dirty Projectors

Post author By vish
Post date May 13, 2025

David Longstreth is here to discuss David Longstreth’s Song of the Earth, Performed by Dirty Projectors and s t a r g a z e, life in Los Angeles in a tumultuous ecological era, working with s t a r g a z e and the influence of Gustav Mahler, the revenge of the Earth, orcas, and using gardens as a metaphor, despair and the Beatles, why Phil Elverum from Mount Eerie might be the poet laureate of nature, working with Steve Lacy, loving Stephen Malkmus and Pavement, production ideas, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #967: Casper Skulls

Post author By vish
Post date April 10, 2025

Melanie St. Pierre-Bednis, Neil Bednis, and Fraser McClean from Casper Skulls discuss their new album Kit-Cat, the TV show character Frasier Crane, the significance of alt-rock radio and MuchMusic on young minds, Robert Frost poems and being goth, the Bunnies in Berlin record made at the Romano brothers’ studio in Welland, moving from stark post-punk to heartfelt indie-rock, loving bands like Sonic Youth and Silver Jews, inspirations like “Rowdy” Roddy Piper, a Richard Hell biography, and There Will Be Blood, upcoming shows, writing new songs, other future plans, and much more!

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