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Ep. #925: Steve Albini (2007)

Post author By vish
Post date November 20, 2024

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
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Ep. #806: The Breeders
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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

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Ep. #905: Duane Denison from The Jesus Lizard

Post author By vish
Post date September 12, 2024

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The Jesus Lizard Week ’24 concludes with Duane Denison discussing the Jesus Lizard’s new album RACK, why Nashville has been so enticing for musicians looking for a home, working as a guitar teacher and providing remote lessons to students, why he thought to employ quality control measures in writing new songs in the Jesus Lizard, whether or not the band ever contemplated making RACK with previous collaborators like the late Steve Albini, some of the guitar players and musical heroes he pays homage to on the new album, his golden era for the Jesus Lizard, touring again, writing new songs, other future plans, and much more.

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