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Ep. #958: Nels Cline

Post author By vish
Post date March 11, 2025

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Nels Cline returns to discuss his new album and band, Nels Cline: Consentrik Quartet, empathetic collaboration and op art, composition and improvisation in music and also in films like 1953’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, a James Brandon Lewis observation about what experienced players bring to in-the-moment music-making, the role of stage wear, having your name in your band’s name, not loving guitar solos, Wilco news, what’s next for his own work, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #692: Wilco

Post author By vish
Post date June 7, 2022

Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy discusses their new album Cruel Country, curating music festivals, indifference, criticism, and communication, when certain people die, country, Wilco, and music genres, fashionability and temporality, How to Write One Song and abstraction, the United States of America and local communities, the forthcoming Yankee Hotel Foxtrot box set, tour dates, other future plans, and more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

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