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Ep. #937: Mouth Congress

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Paul Bellini and Scott Thompson return to discuss Valley of Song, the new album by Mouth Congress, recent Kids in the Hall shows featuring banned material, the fate of Amazon Prime’s Kids in the Hall series, Bubby and the Mouth Congress band, Sandinista! by the Clash and making a double-LP, singing influences like Johnny Cash and Buck 65, sexuality, urban myths, and gerbiling, the Gabors vs. the Kardashians, Scott addressing the school shooting he survived in Brampton, Ontario, reflecting upon family, what’s next for Mouth Congress and Kids in the Hall, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #744: Don Pyle
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Ep. #936: Maddee Ritter

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Maddee Ritter is here to discuss their debut album, Songs of Love & Death, a possible move to the United States and the best ways to know a city, growing up in a music-loving Toronto household, finding their own influences like Ella Fitzgerald and Feist, writing songs about lost love and grieving a friend, and how the sensations for each are very similar, the dynamic sound of this new album, new music, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #931: Franz Nicolay

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Franz Nicolay from the Hold Steady is here to discuss his new book, Band People: Life and Work in Popular Music, once living in Toronto and how couples in the creative arts and humanities support each other, balancing passion and pragmatism in the music business, how musicians tend to communicate and miscommunicate, getting credit and valuing cultural labour, whether musicians can truly jam remotely, what’s next for his writing and music work, other future plans, and much more.

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