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  • Ep. #936: Maddee Ritter
    Dec 26 2024

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    Maddee Ritter is here to discuss their debut album, Songs of Love & Death, a possible move to the United States and the best ways to know a city, growing up in a music-loving Toronto household, finding their own influences like Ella Fitzgerald and Feist, writing songs about lost love and grieving a friend, and how the sensations for each are very similar, the dynamic sound of this new album, new music, other future plans, and much more.


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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Ep. #935: Elijah Wald on 'A Complete Unknown'
    Dec 23 2024
    EVERY OTHER KREATIVE KONTROL EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. Enjoy this excerpt and please subscribe now via this link to hear this full episode. Thanks!Elijah Wald is here to discuss the new Bob Dylan film, A Complete Unknown, which is based on his 2015 book, Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties, Dylan tweeting praise for his book, being from Dylan’s world, why the Newport Folk Festival became a generational nexus point for music in the 1960s, his access to unreleased Newport audio and film footage by the likes of Murray Lerner, what he makes of A Complete Unknown’s depictions of real people and events, how it’s more brooding than the comical Dylan and Joan Baez really were, his new book about Jellyroll Morton, other future plans, and much more.Support vish on Patreon! Thanks to Blackbyrd Myoozik!Support Y.E.S.S., Pride Centre of Edmonton, and Letters to Santa. Follow vish online.Related episodes/links:Ep. #828: ‘Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine’ with Mark Davidson & Parker FishelEp. #821: Kurt VileEp. #793: Ray PadgettEp. #761: JokermenEp. #749: Daniel LanoisEp. #395: Robert HilburnEp. #27: Greil MarcusKreative ExKlusive #1: D.A. Pennebaker (March 2007)In Review: ‘Fragments: Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997) – The Bootleg Series Vol. 17’ by Bob DylanSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/kreative-kontrol. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    24 mins
  • Ep. #934: Rebecca Clay Cole
    Dec 19 2024
    EVERY OTHER KREATIVE KONTROL EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. This one is fine, but please subscribe now on Patreon so you never miss full episodes. Thanks!Thanks to Bob Nastanovich, Rebecca Clay Cole from Pavement is here to discuss her Elephant 6 Recording Co. community, Pavement’s influence on it, and the recent and painful losses they’ve endured, the rise of Neutral Milk Hotel, how she got into playing music and embraces "sideman" roles, the beginning and end of her supergroup Wild Flag and Stephen Malkmus’ quiet role in that, joining Pavement and her thoughts about the various aspects of the forthcoming film Pavements, which she is in, current projects like Clay Cole, future plans, and much more.Support vish on Patreon! Thanks to the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S., Pride Centre of Edmonton, and Letters to Santa. Follow vish online.Related episodes/links:Ep. #933: Alex Ross Perry, Scott Kannberg, and Robert Greene on ‘Pavements’Ep. #924: Lance Bangs and Bob Nastanovich on ‘Pavements’Ep. #910: The Hard QuartetEp. #839: Mary TimonyEp. #756: QuasiEp. #678: Mark IboldEp. #677: PavementEp. #392: Stephen MalkmusEp. #373: Pavement’s Bob Nastanovich and Steve WestEp. #165: Bob Nastanovich of Silver JewsEp. #74: Stephen MalkmusSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/kreative-kontrol. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    2 hrs and 3 mins
  • Ep. #933: Alex Ross Perry, Scott Kannberg, and Robert Greene on 'Pavements'
    Dec 17 2024
    EVERY OTHER KREATIVE KONTROL EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. Enjoy this excerpt and please subscribe now via this link to hear this full episode. Thanks!Alex Ross Perry, Scott Kannberg, and Robert Greene are here to discuss their film Pavements, whether or not it's a comedy, documentary subjects who reflect pluralities, how the band reacted to aspects of the in-progress film they saw, who was responsible for giving the film its final narrative structure, deceptive complexity and intellectual malarkey, why it’s good that Pavement maniacs are already seeing and contemplating this strange film, the forthcoming Pavements soundtrack and a significant Pavement announcement, other future plans, and much more.Support vish on Patreon!Support Y.E.S.S., Pride Centre of Edmonton, and Letters to Santa. Follow vish online.Related episodes/links:Ep. #924: Lance Bangs and Bob Nastanovich on ‘Pavements’Ep. #910: The Hard QuartetEp. #900: Fugazi and Jem CohenEp. #678: Mark IboldEp. #677: PavementEp. #481: David BermanEp. #392: Stephen MalkmusEp. #373: Pavement’s Bob Nastanovich and Steve WestEp. #165: Bob Nastanovich of Silver JewsEp. #74: Stephen MalkmusSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/kreative-kontrol. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    28 mins
  • Ep. #932: Tim Heidecker
    Dec 11 2024
    EVERY OTHER KREATIVE KONTROL EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. This one is fine, but please subscribe now on Patreon so you never miss full episodes. Thanks!Tim Heidecker returns to discuss his lovely album, Slipping Away, effective ways to discuss your work these days, mid-life, narrative voices on his album, and its themes of hope, dread, empathy, family, and unease, American politics and elite paternalism, his song “Bottom of the 8th” and metaphors about protecting your kids from uncertain endings, why it can be “cool” to be “normal,” the video for "Well's Running Dry," his January tour with special guests like Neil Hamburger and Kyle Mooney, Office Hours Live news, other future plans, and much more. Support vish on Patreon! Thanks to Blackbyrd Myoozik. Support Y.E.S.S., Pride Centre of Edmonton, and Letters to Santa. Follow vish online.Related episodes/links:Ep. #901: John EarlyEp. #870: The Lemon TwigsEp. #826: Steve Albini and Fred ArmisenEp. #820: Gregg TurkingtonEp. #587: Vic Berger IV & DJ DouggpoundEp. #566: Tim HeideckerEp. #501: Gregg Turkington and Eric NotarnicolaEp. #466: Gregg TurkingtonEp. #284: Vic Berger IVEp. #163: Tim Heidecker and Gregg TurkingtonEp. #51: Tim Heidecker Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/kreative-kontrol. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • Ep. #931: Franz Nicolay
    Dec 9 2024
    EVERY OTHER KREATIVE KONTROL EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. Enjoy this excerpt and please subscribe now via this link to hear this full episode. Thanks!Franz Nicolay from the Hold Steady is here to discuss his new book, Band People: Life and Work in Popular Music, once living in Toronto and how couples in the creative arts and humanities support each other, balancing passion and pragmatism in the music business, how musicians tend to communicate and miscommunicate, getting credit and valuing cultural labour, whether musicians can truly jam remotely, what’s next for his writing and music work, other future plans, and much more.Support vish on Patreon! Thanks to the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S., Pride Centre of Edmonton, and Letters to Santa. Follow vish online.Related episodes/links:Ep. #929: Bill Stevenson from Descendents, ALLEp. #928: VerbötenEp. #880: Guided By VoicesEp. #872: Mike Watt and Papa MEp. #866: Jim White and Marisa AndersonEp. #845: The Messthetics and James Brandon LewisEp. #756: QuasiEp. #616: tune-yardsEp. #579: Nels ClineEp. #25: Jon WursterSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/kreative-kontrol. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    22 mins
  • Ep. #930: Dog Day
    Dec 5 2024
    EVERY OTHER KREATIVE KONTROL EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. This one is fine, but please subscribe now on Patreon so you never miss full episodes. Thanks!Nancy Urich and Seth A. Smith are here to discuss their band Dog Day and new album, A T-Shirt with Writing on It, their filmmaking pursuits and origin stories, the differences and similarities between the strained material conditions that musicians and people in the film industry share in streaming times, why their previous band the Burdocks was a bit weird, the unique architecture of HomeSkull, which is their house and creative hub, how their young son Woody collaborates with them, “Weird Al” Yankovic and prepared accordion, what’s next for their film work and Dog Day, other future plans, and much more. Support vish on Patreon! Thanks to Blackbyrd Myoozik, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts.Support Y.E.S.S., Pride Centre of Edmonton, and Letters to Santa. Follow vish online.Related episodes/links:Ep. #894: “Weird Al” YankovicEp. #889: Rick White and The SadiesEp. #856: ROYEp. #725: SloanEp. #602: Chad VanGaalenEp. #534: Daniel RomanoEp. #414: Nap EyesSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/kreative-kontrol. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    1 hr and 25 mins
  • Ep. #929: Bill Stevenson from Descendents, ALL
    Dec 3 2024
    EVERY OTHER KREATIVE KONTROL EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. Enjoy this excerpt and please subscribe now via this link to hear this full episode. Thanks!Thanks to listener and Patreon subscriber Brian Mock, Bill Stevenson from Descendents/ALL/The Blasting Room studios is here to discuss his road from Hermosa Beach to Fort Collins, smart ways to tour America’s quadrants, how he met Keith Morris as a kid because of fishing and his father’s influential, tireless work ethic, why his kids asked him to teach them about making music, psychology and a health update, American politics and elitism, his thoughts on Filmage, the documentary about his life’s work, updates on the new Descendents album and tour dates, what’s next for ALL, other future plans, and much more. Support vish on Patreon! Thanks to Blackbyrd Myoozik, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S., Pride Centre of Edmonton, and Letters to Santa. Follow vish online.Related episodes/links:Ep. #872: Mike Watt and Papa MEp. #834: J MascisEp. #807: DFLEp. #720: OFF!Ep. #496: Iggy PopEp. #217: Do You Compute – The Story of Drive Like JehuEp. #206: Faith No More’s Billy GouldEp. #83: Keith Morris of OFF!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/kreative-kontrol. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    22 mins