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Ep. #977: Lou Tides

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Post date May 15, 2025

Teeny Lieberson returns to discuss Lou Tides and Autostatic!, living in America as a Canadian, why she chose a person’s name other than her own for her solo work, making “beautiful and scary” music, how celebrating antiheroes in pop culture is working out for all of us, employing different voices as a singer when dealing with difficult lyrical themes, sobriety, shame, and psychedelia, working with Sharon Van Etten and Sleater-Kinney, ghostly visual imagery, writing and touring, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #907: Sunset Rubdown

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Post date September 19, 2024

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Spencer Krug discusses Always Happy to Explode, which is the first Sunset Rubdown album in 15 years, the various islands he’s called home and why he appreciates the solitude of island living, how touring can impact musicians and create interpersonal obstacles, why his bands tend to take long breaks, why his latest songs might relay so much empathy and contemplation about the impact that working has on life, things to listen to while running, fantastical storytelling and rewatching legacy TV shows, going back on tour, a Wolf Parade update, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #886: Chris Corsano

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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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