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Ep. #261: Hooded Fang

Post author By vish
Post date June 9, 2016

Hooded Fang is an excellent and adventurous rock ‘n’ roll band from Toronto. Over the past decade, the band has toured the world and released a number of daring records that chart a unique, ever-changing sound steeped in underground rock idioms and exciting ideas. Their latest album is called Venus on Edge, it’s out now via Daps Records, and has compelled Hooded Fang to travel to different cities, including Guelph recently, where Daniel Lee, April Aliermo, and Lane Halley joined me in the CFRU studios to discuss watching me tech this episode, whether or not it’s really all that fun to do it yourself, women in music, the meaning behind Venus on Edge, a sex show, many meanings, what love’s got to do with it, existential crises, more tension, boredom and fun and side projects, Lazy Lane, playing with yourself, Itchy Lane, guitars on fire, playing guitar in BART, through composition, Phèdre and Lee Paradise, April knows Daniel or so the marketers would have us believe, sassy music videos, children are excuses, working with kids, the rise of Toronto’s consciousness, marginalized people speaking for themselves, Toronto is in Canada, progressive kids, times I’ve experienced racism, Tariq Hussain, Samir Khan, co-opting oppressive motifs, Kanye West and the Yeezus and Watch the Throne tours, hot and sauerkraut, mixed people and The Future of Hate™, what will happen to the racists, Maureen Tucker and Ralph Molina, talking about everything, post-Rob Ford, including Lane, Toronto’s all-ages punk scene, trying to do good but also tokenism, doing not talking, it can take time to get things done, VCR, pronoun awareness, Jonah Falco, including Lane, the Lawnya Vawnya Long Night talk show and its programming, baby formula tastes like science, writing what you talk, nice looking condos, needing things to write songs about, making people feel things, a pre-Sled Island show and Sappyfest, Lane’s family in PEI, google.com, Where the Streets Have Been Renamed, Daps Records, the song “A Final Hello,” and that was the end of this talking.

Related links: hoodedfang.com dapsrecords.com vishkhanna.com

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Tags April Aliermo, Bart, Daniel Lee, Daps Records, Hooded Fang, Kanye West, Lane Halley, punk, racism, sexism, Toronto, Venus on Edge

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Ep. #223: Ian MacKaye & Steve Albini (Part I)

Post author By vish
Post date November 12, 2015
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Ian MacKaye was once in bands like Minor Threat and Embrace and is currently in the bands Fugazi and the Evens. He also co-founded and continues to oversee the excellent label Dischord Records, which is based in his hometown of Washington D.C. Steve Albini has been in bands like Big Black and Rapeman and is currently in the vital and wondrous rock trio, Shellac of North America. He’s a very well-respected recording engineer who owns and operates the Electrical Audio facility in the city of Chicago, Illinois, where he has lived for a good long time. In this first of a two-part moderated conversation between Ian and Steve, we discuss how they first met via either the late John Loder or Corey Rusk, Steve’s harshly written published review of the Rites of Spring record, Big Black playing D.C., machines and heartbeats, the formalization of punk, the influence of Minor Threat, punk violence, the Butthole Surfers, one-upmanship, explaining Pailhead and how Ian came to work with Al Jourgensen, the significance of John Loder, his company Southern Records, and its role in distributing underground music, Ministry, Revolting Cocks, Wax Trax! Records, Strike Under, punk to electronic music, Paul “Ion” Barker, the Blackouts, Bill Rieflin, drumming, Chicago’s drug scene, Minor Threat’s ferocity and execution, the time Pailhead employed an Ian MacKaye impersonator at shows, Adrian Sherwood almost working with Big Black, the story behind the In on the Kill Taker sessions, staying in London and missing John Loder, why Fugazi recorded in Chicago, how the greatest session ever yielded the saddest demo tapes, Fugazi let its guard down, Steve’s magical rapport with bands, Fugazi goes hard, how Steve bonded with Fugazi during their session together, stifling your fandom as an engineer, treating people you record with respect and trusting their vision, Ian teaches Steve how to double vocals, Ian’s phrasing, single vocals are just fine, trumpets, Ian as a prolific producer, the first Teen Idles recording session with a mean engineer, how Terrie from the Ex obtained his first guitar, Skip Groff and Don Zientara, Inner Ear Studio, Round Raoul Records, resisting technological trends when running a studio, how the In on the Kill Taker sessions with Steve ended up circulating publicly, Fugazi tried to bury it, how records leak, the song “Great Cop,” and that was the end of part one.

Related links: dischord.com electricalaudio.com vishkhanna.com

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Ep. #176: Rob Lind of The Sonics

Post author By vish
Post date March 31, 2015

Rob Lind is a well-regarded saxophone player currently based in the state of North Carolina. In the 1960s, Lind co-founded the Tacoma, Washington-based band the Sonics, and rock ‘n’ roll was never the same again. Their first two albums, 1965’s Here are the Sonics and 1967’s Boom are considered classics that represent the birth of garage rock. While other groups of the time might have let a few grains of grit infiltrate their pop songs, the Sonics infused originals and covers with a particular kind of menace and charge that anticipated punk, metal, and any other kind of music with danger in it. 50 years since their first album, the Sonics are back with a fiery new record called This is the Sonics, which is out now via their own Revox Records, and they’ll be touring the U.S. in April and May with a Toronto stop at Lee’s Palace on April 26. Here, Rob and I discuss living in Charlotte North Carolina with its sweet air, serving as a Navy attack pilot during the Vietnam War, flying for commercial airlines and missing his time as a pilot, what might be happening with all of this mysterious and horrific airplane accidents of late, these planes aren’t coming down because of climate change, when and why the Sonics stopped playing together in late 1967, how the Sonics were a pretty popular band in the Pacific Northwest, when singles like “The Witch” and “Psycho” began to take off, opening for bigger bands at the local coliseum in Tacoma as teenagers, why younger bands really made records in the late 60s, the story of “The Witch,” officially not making it to number one on the charts but actually being number one, where the sound of the Sonics came from, getting people rockin’, the Kinks, the Wailers, having no idea that the Sonics might have been influential on louder bands or the garage rock scene, befriending Bob Seger, making Sonics music, the excellence and reverence of the Hives, why someone might pursue the saxophone in a rock band, jamming with Gerry Roslie at 15 years old and never looking back, Clarence Clemons, why the Sonics came back in 2007, working with Jim Diamond on This is the Sonics, making a record instead of going to bingo, riff-based rock ‘n’ roll with no messages, what’s up with Revox Records, you can’t mess with the Sonics, the song “I Got Your Number,” loving women, and then we end up leaving here.

Related links: thesonicsboom.com vishkhanna.com