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Ep. #1083: Rheostatics

Post author By vish
Post date April 7, 2026

Dave Bidini and Dave Clark from Rheostatics are here to discuss The Great Lakes Suite, politics and tensions between the U.S.A. and Canada, contemporary protest music, what prompted this album’s concept and improvisational approach, featured contributions by Alex Lifeson from Rush, Kevin Hearn, Hugh Marsh, Tanya Tagaq, Laurie Anderson, Chief Stacey LaForme, Anne Carson, Liz Howard, Kendel Carson, Maiah Wynne, and Gord Downie, why Alex Lifeson was so blown away by Tanya Tagaq’s performance on this record, insights about Gord Downie’s posthumous appearance here telling a poetic story, Martin Tielli’s current status in Rheostatics, Alex Lifeson’s current status in Rheostatics, the excitingly unique way they plan to stage live shows to represent this album, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #999: Cory Hanson

Cory Hanson returns to discuss “I Love People,” becoming a father and how that has altered his relationship with sleep, creativity, and time, his personal interactions with the late Lou Reed and the song he wrote about him, whether he truly loves people, his interest in folk heroes and villains like the Joker, soldiers, and one of the Eagles, a potential Western Cum trilogy, risk-taking in contemporary art and the Kendrick Lamar/Drake feud and Clipse disses, deleting twitter, playing a Wand show in Edmonton this fall, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #899: Ghostkeeper

Post author By vish
Post date August 29, 2024

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Sarah Houle, Shane Ghostkeeper and JOYFULTALK’s Jay Crocker discuss their work together on the new Ghostkeeper album, Cîpayak Joy, their history as friends and collaborators, Shane’s fascinating and initially discouraging foray into music-making after devoting his youth to playing hockey, Jay’s focus on passion and creativity over musical proficiency, what prompted Sarah to explore synthesized drums over the louder, real thing, how hip-hop, R&B, and electronic music influenced Cîpayak Joy, its lyrical themes and music videos, a planned companion release, other future plans, and much more.

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