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Jay Ferguson and Chris Murphy from Sloan return to discuss their album, Based on the Bestseller, how their own bandmates inspire them to write better songs, why Chris’ “Open Your Umbrellas” reminds me of Dick Van Dyke and how Jay’s “Capitol Cooler” has its own whimsical yet pointed motif, connecting music, books, and movies, trying to have a fun album rollout, a funny observation about Chris by Mike O’Neill, writing topical songs, being an active band that some associate with the distant past, whether Sloan would be as big as Geese if this was their first album, touring, other future plans, and much more.

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Carla and Lynette Gillis from Overnight are here to discuss their new album, Put Me In Your Light, being so close, they’ve followed each other around North America, loving fashion and heavy metal, whether or not the androgyny of hair metal was more subversive than we tend to think, escapism and separation anxiety, loss, grief, and therapy, the surprising resonance of their old band Plumtree’s song “Scott Pilgrim” well after it inspired a graphic novel and major film, working with the great producer Charles Austin, the comprehensive Gillis Music Archive on Bandcamp, a hometown release show in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, other future plans, and more.

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Ed Kuepper and Jim White return to discuss their remarkable debut album, After the Flood, their recent Australian tour, when Ed played a show with Dirty Three in 1994 and became enamoured with Jim’s playing, the massive role Ed’s bands played in Jim’s development as a young drummer, revisiting and recording some of Ed’s songs in the Saints, Laughing Clowns, and from his solo albums, the lively, live-off-the-floor sound of their first album, plans to make another one, North American shows in November 2025, other future plans, and much more.

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Sean Wilentz is here to discuss co-producing Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series Volume 18: Through The Open Window, 1956-1963, New Jersey and New York City, his family’s roots in the 1960s Greenwich Village folk community, his Bob Dylan fandom origins, why he was asked to helm this volume, write its liner notes, and what he learned about Dylan, the variety of Dylan’s voices and gifts as a music interpreter, the evolution of recording technology and live bootlegs, our experiences at the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, OK, the subtlety of Dylan’s political songs, this era of Dylan’s music and the recent film, A Complete Unknown, Dylan using social media, Sean’s next book, the Court of History podcast, and much more.

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Shad returns to discuss his new album Start Anew, the connections between its title and his 2005 debut, When This is Over, and a Hayden song, persona, the person, and ego death, yearning for challenges in life and creative work, conquering the fear of stories ending, anti-capitalism, technocracy, and the fact that the inventor of A.I. believes there’s a small chance it might kill all of us and people are ignoring him, the devaluation of music, addiction and smartphones, ending another musical chapter, touring, other future plans, and much more!

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Vincent Cacchione from Caged Animals is here to discuss the band’s new album Make Strange Friends, our encounter at Sappyfest this past summer, his move from Brooklyn to Canada and why he loves it here, working with Jon Mckiel, his work as a podcast producer, the unique radio play that ends the new album and features the esteemed writer, Larry “Ratso” Sloman, how his parents’ work in comedy, theatre, and education have shaped his own path, Sackville’s Drama Queenz and Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, loving John K. Samson, writing new songs, tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Tony Hobbs subscribes to Kreative Kontrol on Patreon at a monthly tier that offers people a chance to appear on this show and talk about things that might be relevant to its audience and wide-ranging interests. Tony’s here to discuss Lot Miracles, a limited-edition zine series he helped launch that is inspired by the music, art, and community surrounding the Grateful Dead, and features a new curator and charitable beneficiary (i.e. the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Planned Parenthood), for each edition. Lot Miracles Issue 3 was curated by @felixheads, benefits the Divided Sky Foundation in honour of Brian Eddleman, and can be pre-ordered until October 31, 2025.

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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson returns to discuss her new album Live Like the Sky, why people are so often air unaware, her book Theory of Water and how a world ending means a new one is beginning, the concept of generative refusal, lakes, oceans, skiing, running, and surfing, holding a tape recorder up to a car radio speaker to capture underground rock music in the 1980s and how those new wave and post-punk sounds inform this new record, learning to sing and making music that is fun even though the lyrics are heavy, touring, a new book, other future plans, and much more.

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Andrew Mazerolle from Muncho is here to discuss his new album Is This Something?, life on both the east and west coasts of Canada, Muncho Joe and Munchos, the fried potato snack, singing in church and getting into Christian ska as a kid, falling in love with the Beatles, why Maritimes bands have such an affinity for 1960s Brit-pop, why he enjoys the limitations of four-track recording and being a one-man operation, video rental stores and the internet, writing new songs, other future plans, and much more.

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Julianna Riolino returns to discuss her excellent new album, Echo in the Dust, hanging out in her childhood bedroom and reflecting upon life with our respective parents, being a particularly sensitive person and artist, existentialism, pondering the universe, and billionaires who wish to escape Earth, reflecting upon her time in and outside of Daniel Romano’s Outfit, theatricality on the new record that may stem from her youth as a drama kid, growth and heights, music production approaches, the Beatles and the Who, writing new songs, touring, other future plans, and much more.

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