Kreative Kontrol

Vish Khanna on music, culture, and more

Tag: truth

News Podcast

Ep. #874: Mdou Moctar

EVERY OTHER KREATIVE KONTROL EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO $6 PATREON SUPPORTERS. Enjoy this excerpt and please subscribe now via this link to hear this full episode. Thanks!

Mdou Moctar and Mikey Coltun discuss their band’s wondrous new album Funeral for Justice, singing new songs about worldwide problems and not just in Africa, landing on an album title that tonally suits the lyrics and sound of Funeral for Justice, jet lag and feeling sleepy, why doing interviews is so important to explain Mdou Moctar songs, trust and being a better band, why their music and vocals might incorporate repetition, Mikey’s new tape label Purplish Records and Marc Masters’ book about cassette history and culture, new Mdou Moctar music and philanthropic projects, touring the world, other future plans, and much more.

Support vish on Patreon! Thanks to Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

Related episodes/links:

Ep. #867: BIG|BRAVE
Ep. #813: Marc Masters
Ep. #755: Pierre Kwenders
Ep. #615: Mdou Moctar
Ep. #591: Matt Sweeney

Tags africa, afriquevictime, ahmoudoumadassane, ambulance, anger, callandresponse, cassettes, checkniang, collaboration, conscientious, death, eddievanhalen, Edmonton, emergency, energy, exile, french, funeralforjustice, growth, guitar, hamadalmoumineissoufou, help, highbias, hope, ilanathe creator, injustice, intaganatmohamed, intensity, iran, Iraq, jetlag, jimihendrix, journalism, justice, libya, love, lyrics, mahamadousouleymane, manhattan, marcmasters, matadorrecords, mdoumoctar, mexicocity, migration, mikeycoltun, mood, muslim, nelsonantonioespinal, newyorkcity, niger, passports, politics, prayer, purplishrecords, repetition, rissaagwanaghli, russian, sethmanchester, sleep, souleymandjallo, souleymaneibrahim, tapes, tchintabaraden, timessquare, tone, tour, travel, trust, truth, tuareg, ukraine, Vancouver, visas, vishlag, weddings

News Podcast

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.

Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

Related episodes:

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
Ep. #27: Greil Marcus

Related links:

Bob Dylan and His Band Took Toronto to Unexpected and Rewarding Places Massey Hall, October 26
Last Night in Toronto (by Vish Khanna)
In Review: ‘Fragments: Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997) – The Bootleg Series Vol. 17’ by Bob Dylan
In Review: Bob Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy Ways

Tags alanpasqua, alexross, amandapetrusich, archives, baseball, biograph, blonderedhead, bobdylan, bobdylancenter, bootlegs, bootlegseries, bringingitallbackhome, brooklyn, charlieparker, chelseahotel, Chicago, confidence, dignity, douglasbrinkley, edruscha, empireburlesque, endhits, fandom, fredarmisen, Fugazi, goodasibeentoyou, gospel, greatwhitewonder, gregorypardlo, gregtate, greilmarcus, highway61revisited, infidels, inonthekilltaker, intent, johnwesleyharding, joyharjo, larrysloman, leeranaldo, lucysante, manuscripts, markdavidson, martinscorsese, mermaidavenue, michaelchaiken, michaelondaatje, mikebloomfield, mixingupthemedicine, mystery, newportfolkfestival, nodirectionhome, notebooks, oklahoma, pancakes, pandemic, parkerfishel, philochs, process, raypadgett, redmedicine, roughandrowdyways, rubincarter, seanwilentz, Shellac, shotoflove, sonicyouth, springtimeinnewyork, stevealbini, tapers, tempest, theex, thereplacements, tim, timeoutofmind, tompiazza, truth, tulsa, tulsadrillers, victorjara, Wilco, woodyguthrie, woodyguthriecenter, worldgonewrong

News Podcast

Ep. #773: William Tyler

Post author By vish
Post date May 2, 2023

William Tyler discusses his band, The Impossible Truth, and their new live double-album, Secret Stratosphere, Tennessee politics and America in a socio-political stalemate, things that mass and social media have done and do to us, truth, communication, musicians and mental health, future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.

Tags alabama, amusingourselvestodeath, blueoystercult, brianeno, briankotzur, capitalism, cheers, civilrights, CNN, communication, davidberman, Democrats, donaldtrump, dougford, foxnews, goeswest, gratefuldead, guncontrol, huntsville, insurrection, intellectualism, jacklawrence, jackwhite, joebiden, johnfahey, justinjones, justinjpearson, kurtwagner, Lambchop, ledzeppelin, livealbum, logic, lukeschneider, marisaanderson, marshallmcluhan, medialiteracy, mentalhealth, mergerecords, moderncountry, msnbc, musicians, Nashville, neilpostman, nightcourt, pandemic, pinkfloyd, politics, reality, Republicans, robford, sandybull, satire, schoolshootings, science, secretstratosphere, selfishness, silverjews, socialmedia, socialsafetynet, stalemate, technology, television, terryreilly, theraconteurs, thesimpsons, thirdmanrecords, touring, truth, unitedstatesofamerica, williamtyler