Jeff Miller is here to discuss his captivating debut novel, Temporary Palaces, living all over Canada and seeing an Edmonton Oilers hockey game in their championship heyday, our unexpected comedy connections, being inspired by bands like Shotmaker, Kepler, and Fugazi among others, hardcore punk rock lore and mythology, how Ottawa's punk community inspired him to participate generally and start writing zines, what his novel is about and what exactly inspired it, pondering your subcultural youth in adulthood, upcoming live book events, other future plans, and much more.

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Spencer Krug returns to discuss his excellent new album, Same Fangs, local pigs under duress and songs inspired by animals, sharing early and in-progress versions of his new songs with his Patreon subscribers, philosophical notions of what songs actually are, parasocial interaction and the increased intimacy between creators and fans via crowdfunding sites, the ups and downs of Sunset Rubdown and its uncertain current status, feeling a profound sense of sadness and hopelessness about the suffering of others and how that can affect your relationship with your family, the trick of acquiring geopolitical knowledge, information, and news and knowing what to do with it to affect positive change, the reality and the internet, his Wolf Parade colleague Dan Boeckner’s political outspokenness as a prolific poster, his reaction to the Wolf Parade song “I’ll Believe in Anything” featuring in a key scene from the show Heated Rivalry and the ensuing popularity of both, updates about new Wolf Parade music, forthcoming solo show dates and performance configurations, other future plans, and much more.

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Alex Edkins returns to discuss the new Weird Nightmare album Hoopla, leaving Toronto to live in his childhood hometown of Ottawa, how touring and work travel can be difficult for a husband and a father, why the Buzzcocks and the Replacements inspired this latest batch of songs, the time a broken up METZ played Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney at the host’s request and interacting with him and Conan O’Brien, his thoughts on the end of METZ, recording with killer rhythm section Loel Campbell and Roddy Kuester and with producers Jim Eno and Seth Manchester, why he wrote such sentimental, nostalgic songs about his youth, upcoming shows, other future plans, and much more.

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Tucker Elkins and Aaron Graham from Ray Bull are here to discuss their new album, Please Stop Laughing, loving New York, being reunited with your old furniture and coffee mugs after your roommate moves out, art school, high art, academia, and folk art, their efforts to create viral segments to draw people to their music, having eclectic musical interests and learning how to play music on some of the loudest instruments around, loving Rufus Wainwright and his whole musical family, exploring various musical directions without having an identity crisis, working with producer Al Carlson and how two people can reflect Ray Bull’s sound live, shows, other future plans, and much more.

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Eric Bachmann returns to discuss the wonderful new Crooked Fingers album, Swet Deth, his recent heart attack and an update on his health, the eerie nature of the lyrical themes and his son’s cover art for Swet Deth, working with featured guests like Sharon Van Etten and The National’s Matt Berninger, sentimentality and self-loathing, why this new album was almost two separate but similar records, the surprising story behind the sweet yet pointed song, “Spray Tan Speed Queen (In a German Car),” his current outlook on the future of Archers of Loaf, other future plans, and much more.

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Raymond Biesinger returns to discuss 9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off – An Informal Self-Defence Guide for Independent Creatives, what inspired him to write this book, his personal experiences with intellectual property and wage theft, distinctions between patented inventions and homage and emulation in artistic realms, the role A.I. plays in creative plagiarism, the scourge of uncredited work, memes, and my conflicts about compiling funny tweets and posts by other people, artistic intention vs. perception, his plans for future books and projects, and much more.

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The first of two interviews I conducted with the late Vic Chesnutt took place over the telephone on Tuesday, September 4, 2007, at 3:00 PM ET. The occasion was the impending release of the majestic North Star Deserter, which was his first album on Constellation Records. It was co-produced by Jem Cohen and features contributions from Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band, along with Guy Picciotto (Fugazi), Chad Jones & Nadia Moss (Frankie Sparo), Eric Craven & Genevieve Heistek (Hangedup), Bruce Cawdron (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Esmerine) and T. Griffin (The Quavers).

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Rollie Pemberton, a.k.a. Cadence Weapon returns to discuss his new album Forager and his new book of socio-cultural criticism essays, Ways of Listening: Building a Deeper Relationship with Music in the Streaming Era, the parallels between his writing on his album and his book, his renewed interest in crate digging for records and thrifting for great clothes, resisting passive cultural consumption during the age of the algorithm, the Juno Awards, Drake, and Canada’s confidence conundrum, being both the “Black Ian Curtis” and the “Black Bryan Ferry,” working with producer Junia-T and live musicians to rediscover his love of hip-hop and rapping, special Forager market events, other future plans, and much more.

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David Fuller, Niko Kapetan, Bailey Minzenberger, and Korgan Robb from Friko are here to discuss their new album, Something Worth Waiting For, the state of Illinois and dystopian literature, bonding in a high school music theory class, loving noise-infused pop bands like Pavement, the Breeders, and, from Liverpool, England, the Beatles, inspiration from local bands like Smut and the Felix Culpa, the story of Friko, articulating Niko’s songwriting talents as though he is not on this call with us, why numbers seem to be invoked so often on this album, why they worked with producer John Congleton and what makes him such a great “coach,” tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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Mike Belitsky and Travis Good from the Sadies and Dave ‘Billy Ray’ Koster are here to discuss Live at 6 O’Clock by Gord Downie, The Sadies, and the Conquering Sun, Billy’s long and all-encompassing tenure in the working lives of Downie and the Tragically Hip as a technical director and confidante, how the Sadies and Downie connected and why he was so fond of playing with them, a look back at Downie’s first solo album Coke Machine Glow and him asking Travis to play on it, Downie’s deep love for artists like Fucked Up and Daniel Romano, insights about this collaboration and what the late Gord Downie and Dallas Good may have felt about it, when Downie planned to run the stage light show himself, poignant reasons for picking songs about ghosts and sadness for this live record primarily consisting of songs by other artists, further insights into how the Tragically Hip viewed Downie’s work outside of the band, Downie’s penchant for incorporating conversations and experiences he shared with Billy into his lyrics, the story behind “Introduce Yerself,” whether we may hear more unreleased music by Downie and the potential for Sadie to make a new album, upcoming tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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