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Ep. #914: American Football

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Steve Holmes from American Football is back to discuss American Football (25th Anniversary Edition) and American Football (Covers), Chicago pizza, a brief history of American Football, why Mike Kinsella is overdue for his flowers, having fans like the 1975 and Phoebe Bridgers, the fascinating story of the now iconic American Football house in Illinois that adorns their album art and the fact that the band now owns that house, updates on new music by American Football, and much more.

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Ep. #885: Laughing

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Laura Jeffery, Josh Salter, Andre Charles Thériault, and Cole Woods from Laughing discuss their debut album, Because It’s True, our previous interactions and how this band formed around a democratic principle of four singers and songwriters who can swap instruments where necessary, their love of power pop and bands like Big Star, the Replacements, and Pavement, writing clever, biting songs about love and being outside, making their album with Faith Healer’s Renny Wilson, promoting Montreal businesses like Pizza Bouquet and Star Bar, what’s next for Laughing and the members’ respective pursuits, other future plans, and much more!

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Ep. #859: Raymond Biesinger

Raymond Biesinger discusses his best-selling book, 305 Lost Buildings of Canada, and trajectory as an illustrator, when Cadence Weapon introduced us outside of a Sadies show in Edmonton, why he didn’t actually feel like attending that show, his time in the Famines and why he retired from music making, his Edmonton social circles, why his work highlights marginalized lives and his use of historical adaptation, how his collaboration with Alex Bozikovic and their book came about, people who steal his work, an idea for his next book, other future plans, and much more.

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