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Ep. #981: The Minus 5

Post author By vish
Post date May 29, 2025

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. #886: Chris Corsano

Post author By vish
Post date July 16, 2024

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Chris Corsano discusses his new album, The Key (Became The Important Thing [& Then Just Faded Away]), his life in New Jersey and what we can learn about it from The Sopranos, dementia, psychedelia, and how a mind can be altered, imagination, illness, and art-making, the now infamous episode of this show that Chris was on with his band Rangda just prior to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, our shared admiration for the double bassist William Parker, a relaxation trick, the projects we each have going with Mike Watt, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #862: Jon Mckiel

Post author By vish
Post date May 2, 2024

Jon Mckiel discusses his excellent and beguiling new album, Hex, Canadian cities he’s lived in and his connections with Jay Crocker and Chad VanGaalen, drop C tuning, the hip-hop flavours of the otherwise indie-folk album Hex and whom it may be inspiring to rap, hexes, conspiracies, capitalism, and The Curse, movie scores and the musical touchstone that is the Arnold Schwarzenegger film, Predator, feeling burdened, videotaping MuchMusic programming as kids, that time his album 2020 album Bobby Joe Hope went viral, future plans, and much more.

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