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Ep. #952: Silkworm

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Andy Cohen and Tim Midyett from Silkworm discuss the new Developer reissue, our shared experience at a memorial for Steve Albini this past summer where Joel RL Phelps joined them for their first Silkworm set together in 30 years, monumental news about upcoming Silkworm shows, revisiting Developer’s lyrical themes and Albini’s sounds, rarities, including a Bob Dylan song performed with Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus, Midyett’s band Mint Mile making a new album with Albini a week before he died and what his loss means to Silkworm, forthcoming solo music, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #910: The Hard Quartet
Ep. #869: Steve Albini
Ep. #840: Mint Mile
Ep. #514: Steve Albini and Silkworm’s Andy Cohen and Tim Midyett
Ep. #369: Andrew Cohen & Light Coma
Ep. #70: Joel RL Phelps
Ep. #52: Tim Midyett of Bottomless Pit

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Ep. #925: Steve Albini (2007)

At my invitation, Steve Albini appeared on Kreative Kontrol at least once a year since its inception in 2013. We started a tradition where we spoke just ahead of annual, poverty alleviation Letters to Santa live events, such as the gala they’re holding on November 23, 2024, at the Brookfield Zoo Chicago: Discovery Center, featuring Jeff Tweedy, Fred Armisen, and Kim Deal among others. To maintain the tradition and spirit of the talks we had, I plan to feature archival interviews I conducted with Steve over the years, presenting them here ahead of Letters to Santa events for as long as possible. Here’s the second radio interview we ever did. It took place in the early summer of 2007 and was ostensibly about the then new Shellac album, Excellent Italian Greyhound, and touched upon local radio fame, Martina Navratilova, people who film concerts instead of participating in them, Canada, SCTV, John Peel, and more.

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My first Steve Albini interview (2006)
Ep. #869: Steve Albini
Ep. #826: Steve Albini and Fred Armisen
Ep. #806: The Breeders
Ep. #692: Wilco

Steve Albini, Shellac, August 21, 1999, Starfish Room, Vancouver, BC (vish khanna)
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Ep. #910: The Hard Quartet

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Stephen Malkmus and Matt Sweeney discuss their band the Hard Quartet and its new, self-titled debut LP, living in places like Chicago and New York City, the memorial weekend event for Steve Albini that Matt and I attended in Illinois this past July and playing complicated games of dice, the friendship that Stephen and Matt shared with the late David Berman and fresh perspectives on the time Berman, Stephen, and Bob Nastanovich infamously heckled Nirvana, how the Hard Quartet all became friends and eventually started this band where all the guitarists take turns playing bass, the stories behind some of the songs and sounds by the Hard Quartet, the Edmonton Oilers and Neil Young’s iconic father, the late hockey writer, Scott Young, Matt’s amazing video series Guitar Moves, what’s next for the Hard Quartet, other future plans, and much more.  

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Ep. #890: Man Man
Ep. #869: Steve Albini
Ep. #677: Pavement
Ep. #591: Matt Sweeney
Ep. #492: I Remember Me and David Berman
Ep. #481: David Berman
Ep. #392: Stephen Malkmus
Ep. #373: Pavement’s Bob Nastanovich and Steve West
Ep. #165: Bob Nastanovich of Silver Jews
Ep. #74: Stephen Malkmus
Ep. #38: Krist Novoselic