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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. #954: Peter Ames Carlin on R.E.M.
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Ep. #889: Rick White and The Sadies
Ep. #803: The Replacements’ ‘Tim: Let it Bleed Edition’ with Bob Mehr, Jason Jones & Ed Stasium
Ep. #692: Wilco
Ep. #586: Spencer Tweedy
Ep. #425: Michael Hurley

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Ep. #828: ‘Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine’ with Mark Davidson & Parker Fishel

Post author By vish
Post date December 12, 2023

Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel discuss their work on the essential new book, Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine, its fascinating essays and notable contributors and their access to almost any of Dylan’s manuscripts and lyric notebooks at the Bob Dylan Center that they asked for, clamouring for mythical material by Dylan, Charlie Parker, and Fugazi, why it feels like Dylan is telling us he’s retiring, the latest on the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #826: Steve Albini and Fred Armisen
Ep. #821: Kurt Vile
Ep. #793: Ray Padgett
Ep. #761: Jokermen
Ep. #749: Daniel Lanois
Ep. #686: Bob Dylan Center’s Mark Davidson & Parker Fishel
Ep. #648: Lee Ranaldo
Ep. #634: Richard Thompson
Ep. #522: Destroyer
Ep. #450: Jeff Tweedy
Ep. #395: Robert Hilburn
Ep. #223: Ian MacKaye & Steve Albini (Part I)
Ep. #222: Peter Guralnick
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Bob Dylan and His Band Took Toronto to Unexpected and Rewarding Places Massey Hall, October 26
Last Night in Toronto (by Vish Khanna)
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Ep. #804: Tommy Stinson

Post author By vish
Post date September 25, 2023

Tommy Stinson discusses the wonderful new box set, Tim: Let it Bleed Edition by his old band, the Replacements, touring Canada in October with Tommy Stinson’s Cowboys in the Campfire and the stories behind the songs on their new album, Wronger, John Doe and Bob Dylan, the state of American life and writing new songs about it, loving Canada, other future plans, and much more.

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