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Ep. #997: Bria Salmena

Bria Salmena is here to discuss Big Dog, ambivalence about moving out of Canada and my perspective on Los Angeles, the cool Toronto high school she attended and her interest in photography and art, the significance of great teachers like Jim Henderson, how co-producer Meg Remy of U.S. Girls helped her enhance her work as a vocalist, what inspired the deeply personal and clever lyrics on this album and their transitional themes, playing summer musical festivals like Hillside, new music, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #988: U.S. Girls
Ep. #965: Marlaena Moore
Ep. #964: Daryl Hall
Ep. #961: Eliza Niemi
Ep. #923: Dorothea Paas
Ep. #673: Sonic Youth
Ep. #211: Julie Fader & Graham Walsh of Etiquette

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Ep. #983: Bells Larsen

Bells Larsen is here to discuss Blurring Time, performing duets with his old alto voice and his new baritone, cancelling an American tour in the wake of government policies that persecute and harass people with non-conforming gender identities, the widespread attention his statement on the matter received, addressing transphobia in public and his general interest in discourse, dichotomies and multiplicity, Montreal’s bagels and Liverpool’s Beatles, the male voices of Elliott Smith and Sufjan Stevens, significant numbers, working on a children’s book with his father Andrew Larsen, writing new songs, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #974: Niko Stratis
Ep. #893: Energy Slime
Ep. #808: Land of Talk
Ep. #604: Rhea Butcher

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Ep. #981: The Minus 5

Scott McCaughey discusses Oar On, Penelope! by the Minus 5, the vast collection of records in his Dungeon of Horror, the recently departed folk artist Michael Hurley, how suffering a stroke in 2017 has impacted him as a musician and songwriter with a penchant for music production perfectionism, songs about the sky, Neko Case’s memoir and Peter Ames Carlin’s recent book about R.E.M. and Scott’s thoughts about resurgent interest in his old band and the odds of them reconvening, new songs and touring, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #954: Peter Ames Carlin on R.E.M.
Ep. #928: Verböten
Ep. #889: Rick White and The Sadies
Ep. #803: The Replacements’ ‘Tim: Let it Bleed Edition’ with Bob Mehr, Jason Jones & Ed Stasium
Ep. #692: Wilco
Ep. #586: Spencer Tweedy
Ep. #425: Michael Hurley