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“Weird Al” Yankovic returns to discuss his new single “Polkamania!,” life in Los Angeles, the tenth anniversary of Mandatory Fun, why the relative popularity of vinyl hasn’t altered his stance to not make any more full-length albums, the surprising popularity of and critical acclaim for the 2022 biopic, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story and his bond with actor Daniel Radcliffe, what keeps him busy beyond music, his love for sketch comedy and prospective projects, touring again, other future plans, and much more.  

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Jay Arner and Jessica Delisle discuss their band Energy Slime and self-titled full-length debut, Planet Perfect, the sentimental attachment they have for their impractical apartment, a huge announcement by Jay about a major change in his life, the significance of this realization and how it has impacted Jessica, relying on humour to ward off existential despair and make fun art, the Pet Shop Boys and horses, the moon and ZZ Top, the “Bongo Dance” and giving up your podcast, a profoundly funny new music video, tour ideas, other future plans, and much more.

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Mike Haliechuk from Fucked Up discusses the band’s new album, Another Day, its place in the band’s apparent “Day” album series, which may or may not have begun with 2023’s One Day, the 24-hour live stream of a studio session the band will participate in starting at 1:00 PM ET on August 6, 2024, which you can watch on Fucked Up’s YouTube channel, playing at MergeFest and the band’s future with Merge Records, working midnight shifts, forthcoming records by Fucked Up, tour, other future plans, and much more.

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Steve Albini makes a delicious cup of kopi luwak

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Amanda MacKaye and Jeff Barsky discuss their band Bed Maker and self-titled debut, the good and weird things about living where they do, how DIY culture has impacted the value of craftsmanship, actual community and internet information sharing, poetry and animal cruelty, imposter syndrome and great singers like Johnny Rotten, Amy Taylor, and Steve Albini, future plans, and much more!

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Ryan Kattner discusses the new Man Man album, Carrot on Strings, his recent move from California to New York and the many places he has lived, his love of film and his interactions with and roles he’s had in the movie business, the 2024 NBA Finals and players he finds appealing, wanting to write a stadium anthem, our love for Stephen Malkmus and Pavement, future and hope for future film and music projects, tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Rick White, Mike Belitsky, and Travis Good discuss their new album, Rick White and the Sadies, Ontario heat waves, a parrot gender reveal, how Rick and the Sadies began working together, wonderful drummers like Mark Gaudet and Gary Young, inadvertently naming new songs the same names as other people’s songs, how the late Dallas Good appears in people’s dreams, visions, and in other ways, contemplating playing live shows but also, a post-recording update to report that Rick White and the Sadies are playing at the Great Hall in Toronto on September 6, 2024, other future plans, and much more.    

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Cory Hanson and Robbie Cody discuss the new Wand album, Vertigo, the California heat, the Kendrick Lamar / Drake feud, buying a large amount of recording gear using crypto and other financial planning advice, Bob Dylan’s 2024 tour behind the 2012 album Tempest, the history of Wand, cinema, film noir, and physical media, making a Wand record in a very different, improvisational manner, admirable production work by the likes of Bill Schnee and Jim O’Rourke, directing an emotional vocal take, abiding by the doomsday clock, touring with Red Hot Chili Peppers, other future plans, and much more. 

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Janel Leppin and Anthony Pirog discuss their new Janel and Anthony double-record, New Moon in The Evil Age, Leppin’s Ensemble Volcanic Ash: To March Is To Love, and Pirog’s The Hunger Artist, growing up and moving around a lot, living in small houses in a forest, being both grunge and rockabilly kids and meeting in high school, how they respectively began pursuing cello and guitar and the road from classical and composition-based music to improvisation, singing and songwriting, the state of music and protesting to preserve it, other future plans, and much more!

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Chris Corsano discusses his new album, The Key (Became The Important Thing [& Then Just Faded Away]), his life in New Jersey and what we can learn about it from The Sopranos, dementia, psychedelia, and how a mind can be altered, imagination, illness, and art-making, the now infamous episode of this show that Chris was on with his band Rangda just prior to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, our shared admiration for the double bassist William Parker, a relaxation trick, the projects we each have going with Mike Watt, other future plans, and much more.   

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Laura Jeffery, Josh Salter, Andre Charles Thériault, and Cole Woods from Laughing discuss their debut album, Because It’s True, our previous interactions and how this band formed around a democratic principle of four singers and songwriters who can swap instruments where necessary, their love of power pop and bands like Big Star, the Replacements, and Pavement, writing clever, biting songs about love and being outside, making their album with Faith Healer’s Renny Wilson, promoting Montreal businesses like Pizza Bouquet and Star Bar, what’s next for Laughing and the members’ respective pursuits, other future plans, and much more!

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