Kreative Kontrol

Ezra Furman discusses her wondrous new album, All of Us Flames, and the trilogy it concludes, opposition and galvanization in life and art, reflecting upon her life as a Jewish, trans woman, her relationship with her audience, Ally Sheedy, The Breakfast Club, and a Nick Lowe song, touring, 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...

Bill Nace discusses his stirring new album Through a Room, his musical life in places like Jersey, Philadelphia, and western Massachusetts, playing on his own and in collaboration, working on various things during a pandemic, playing a donut pipe, punk and jazz, his label Open Mouth Records, trippy album art by Daniel Higgs, Kim Gordon and a new Body/Head release, touring, other future plans, and much more...

Alexis Fleisig and Scott McCloud of Soulside on the band’s first album in 33 years, A Brief Moment in the Sun, growing up in Washington D.C. and their role in the Dischord Records community, sharing a split-single with a 17 year-old Dave Grohl, Soulside and Fugazi, why Girls Against Boys emerged after Soulside split, how singer/lyricist Bobby Sullivan makes the political personal, touring, other future plans, and much more...

Natalie Mering discusses her work as Weyes Blood and her lovely new album, And In the Darkness, Hearts Aglow, sports, God, Narcissus, consumer capitalism, the internet, religion, blame, parenting, siblings, the Kids in the Hall, comedy, selfishness, her sound, 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...

Emmalia Bortolo-Vettor and Sarafina Bortolon-Vettor discuss the haunting new Bonnie Trash album, Malocchio, the state of Guelph music venues and ideas about improving musicians’ lives, the supernatural stories within their family history that inform their new album, the voice of their late grandmother, Nonna Maria, goth, post-punk, and horror film scores, JAWS, future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad's Donuts...

Christine Fellows discusses her beautiful new album Stuff We All Get and its complementary stop-motion animation films, her husband John K. Samson’s love of weaving and new name, their new Vivat Virtute imprint, hard drives and other technological ups and downs, pet politics and feeding spiders, future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts...

Douglas Andrew McCombs discusses his lovely and fascinating first solo album, VMAK<KOMBZ<<<DUGLAS<<<6NDR7<<<, recording new music with Tortoise, his whole life in Illinois and how he got into Devo via Saturday Night Live and punk through Devo, learning to play music just by doing it, a handy phone recording app, David Pajo, John Hughes, and The Breakfast Club, his new band Black Duck, future plans, and much more...

Rich Aucoin discusses how his four-album series, Synthetic - A Synth Odyssey, will feature the most synthesizers in recorded history, the fun, ambitious Halifax mindset, good parts of social media and the twitter debacle, the millions of instruments he can play really well, touring across North America by bicycle, future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S...

Mac McCaughan discusses Superchunk and their wonderful 2022 album Wild Loneliness, writing and recording songs during a pandemic, acoustic guitars and lovely singing, here’s where Owen Pallett’s strings come in, how we listen and contemplating humanity, working with Amy Poehler and Amber Tamblyn, Halloween, how he writes songs, future plans for Superchunk and Merge Records, and much more...

Isla Craig discusses her beautiful new album Echo’s Reach and what inspired its sound and songs, a question she asked Patti Smith on behalf of young musicians, pandemic life in Toronto, the Weyes Blood interview from this show, getting elemental in a ravine, future plans, and much more. Supported by you on Patreon, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG...