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Ep. #1018: Advance Base

Owen Ashworth from Advance Base is here to discuss his latest album, Horrible Occurrences, life in Illinois, his parents’ San Francisco high school rivalry with Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Fogerty brothers, his friendship with Dan Wriggins from Friendship and starting Orindal Records, why he ended Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, what draws him to narrative songwriting about transience and disappearances, and making conceptual records, how Pavement’s Rebecca Clay Cole connected us, future music and writing plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1015: Alan Licht

Alan Licht is here to discuss his recent releases, including Havens, New York City politics, plugging in and then improvising on an acoustic guitar, fond memories of the Hoboken, New Jersey venue Maxwell’s and seeing memorable shows by Ween and Eric’s Trip, meeting and playing with his old friend Tim Barnes, interpreting a Stooges song, revisiting Love Child, upcoming tour dates, other future plans, and more.

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Ep. #989: Bundy K. Brown, Glenn Kotche, and Jim O’Rourke on Tim Barnes
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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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