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Ep. #956: The Tubs

Post author By vish
Post date March 4, 2025

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Owen Williams from the Tubs discusses their excellent album, Cotton Crown, DADGAD guitar tuning and affinities for artists like Big Star, Richard Thompson, and SZA, how the humour in his music can be overlooked for its sentimentality, his unique musical upbringing and penchant for misbehaviour as a young teen, processing his mother’s suicide, his prose writing background, starting Perfect Angel Press, and updates about two of his novels, what Gob Nation is all about and spitting on people, Sonic Youth and Superchunk allusions, touring, working on a new album, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #916: Mercury Rev

Post author By vish
Post date October 22, 2024

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Grasshopper from Mercury Rev is here to discuss their new album, Born Horses, his time in Buffalo, NY, its vibrant live music scene, and shopping for music-related items in Canada, collaborations and interactions with members of The Band, exploring poetry recitation, celebrating animals, their freedom, and human duality, writing about mental health, his film studies background and making cinematic music, upcoming work by Mercury Rev, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #812: Michael Azerrad on ‘The Amplified Come As You Are – The Story of Nirvana’

Post author By vish
Post date October 24, 2023

Michael Azerrad discusses his wonderful new book, The Amplified Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana, interviewing Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, and Krist Novoselic for the original Come As You Are book and his subsequent friendship with the band, the truth and rock mythology, self-consciousness and indifference about perception, Kurt’s clinical conditions, how he seemed so relatable, shame, collage, and other recurring motifs in Nirvana’s work, jamming with Nirvana, citing certain podcasts, possible prequels, other future plans, and much more.

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