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Ep. #924: Lance Bangs and Bob Nastanovich on ‘Pavements’

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Filmmaker Lance Bangs and Pavement’s Bob Nastanovich discuss the new film Pavements, how they met in the early 1990s when Lance began filming shows by the likes of Pavement, the Replacements, and Nirvana, his mentor Jem Cohen, the story behind Lance’s 2002 Pavement DVD/documentary Slow Century, what Kurt Cobain said to Bob at the Reading Festival that Nirvana invited Pavement to play, what David Berman yelled at the Lollapalooza audience that infamously flung mud and rocks at Pavement, why Bob thinks adding Rebecca Clay Cole as a member is the most interesting thing about recent Pavement tours, unusual depictions of Pavement and their crew and why releasing Alex Ross Perry’s Range Life biopic was reconsidered by all involved, how Pavement’s members really feel about the project, what’s next for Pavement, Bob, and Lance, other future plans, and much more.   

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Ep. #913: Quivers

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Sam Nicholson from the Australian indie-rock band Quivers is here to discuss their brilliant Merge Records debut, Oyster Cuts, life in Tasmania and down under, an inadvertent Pavement allusion and recent encounter with Mark Ibold, how Quivers wound up on Merge and Sam’s affection for Calgary’s Chad VanGaalen, surviving cancer as a child and hanging out with Ringo Starr from the Liverpool-based band, the Beatles, covering grief, joy, telephones, technology, and more in his songs, the Wiggles and music inclusivity, when Quivers played Guelph and I wasn’t there, current and future tour dates in North America and beyond, other future plans, 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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