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! WE ARE WINTER’S BLUE AND RADIANT CHILDREN ’S Mat Ball (BIG|BRAVE), Jonathan Downs ( Vervain , Rhubarb), Efrim Manuel Menuck (godspeed you! black emperor, ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT), and Patch One (Vervain, Pond 1000, Greef ) discuss their new album, No More Apocalypse Father , starting a band with people you’ve never...
Oct 08, 2024•26 min
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! All Wild Things Are Shy is Richard Laviolette ’s final album and was released posthumously one year after he sought MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) on September 5, 2023. To provide more insight about its creation and Richard’s state of mind in writing and recording these songs while struggling with Huntingt...
Oct 03, 2024•1 hr 37 min
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! Stephen Malkmus and Matt Sweeney discuss their band the Hard Quartet and its new, self-titled debut LP , living in places like Chicago and New York City, the memorial weekend event for Steve Albini that Matt and I attended in Illinois this past July and playing complicated games of dice, the friendship that Step...
Oct 01, 2024•21 min
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! Jonah Falco returns to discuss the brilliant new Jade Hairpins album, Get Me the Good Stuff , his work-related education and academic background, writing deeply reflective yet catchy songs about his aging parents and middle age, the development of his British dialect as a Canadian living on boats, where the “w...
Sep 26, 2024•1 hr 20 min
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! Marek Tyler discusses his work as ASKO and self-titled debut album, first concerts and early, formative drumming influences like Stewart Copeland, Larry Mullen Jr., Brendan Canty, and Mac McNeilly, pretending you know how to play instruments to start bands, music media and pointing people to significant but marg...
Sep 24, 2024•23 min
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! Spencer Krug discusses Always Happy to Explode , which is the first Sunset Rubdown album in 15 years, the various islands he’s called home and why he appreciates the solitude of island living, how touring can impact musicians and create interpersonal obstacles, why his bands tend to take long breaks, why his l...
Sep 19, 2024•1 hr 31 min
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! Joel Plaskett returns to discuss his dreamy, solitary new album, One Real Reveal , the retail space he and friends set up in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, consisting of his studio, a record store, a coffee shop, and a bookstore, singularity and multitudes, poetry, journeys, and dreams, his classic solo debut, In Need ...
Sep 17, 2024•19 min
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! The Jesus Lizard Week ’24 concludes with Duane Denison discussing the Jesus Lizard ’s new album RACK , why Nashville has been so enticing for musicians looking for a home, working as a guitar teacher and providing remote lessons to students, why he thought to employ quality control measures in writing new songs ...
Sep 12, 2024•20 min
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! The Jesus Lizard Week ’24 is still going with Mac McNeilly discussing the Jesus Lizard ’s new album RACK , building a home studio, navigating how political correctness and being decent to other people works, his interest in preserving vintage drums and teaching music students, why he left the Jesus Lizard when...
Sep 11, 2024•1 hr 26 min
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! The Jesus Lizard Week ’24 continues with David Wm. Sims discussing the band’s new album RACK , recent music festival experiences, the significance of the Jesus Lizard ’s close friendships, his own golden era in the band, how and why they chose to write and record RACK the way they did, what may become of the son...
Sep 10, 2024•22 min
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! The Jesus Lizard Week ’24 begins with David Yow discussing the Jesus Lizard 's new album RACK , loving Los Angeles but moving out of the United States of America, his writing practice these days and those few but notable people who’ve contributed to lyrics in the Jesus Lizard over the years, how the late Lhasa...
Sep 09, 2024•1 hr 5 min
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! John Early is here to discuss his brilliant comedy special and album, Now More Than Ever , life in Los Angeles and how Toronto works as a city in a province in Canada, the talented Lemon Squares band, his remarkable skills as a singer and taking up guitar with a little help from the Beatles, how his talents we...
Sep 05, 2024•1 hr 34 min
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! Brendan Canty , Joe Lally , Ian MacKaye , and Guy Picciotto from Fugazi and filmmaker Jem Cohen discuss their 1999 documentary, Instrument , how it was captured using film technologies of the time, how live and interview footage was used to reflect the band’s inventive music-making, insights about memorable mo...
Sep 03, 2024•2 hr 5 min
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! Sarah Houle , Shane Ghostkeeper and JOYFULTALK ’s Jay Crocker discuss their work together on the new Ghostkeeper album, Cîpayak Joy , their history as friends and collaborators, Shane’s fascinating and initially discouraging foray into music-making after devoting his youth to playing hockey, Jay’s focus on p...
Aug 29, 2024•1 hr 13 min
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! Jon Benjamin is here to discuss The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack of The (Unproduced) Film…The Jazz Daredevil , the H in his name, his Massachusetts roots, attending a Guelph Storm hockey game, the Edmonton Oilers and the Boston Celtics, working from home and how recording sessions for Archer and Bob’s Burg...
Aug 27, 2024•21 min
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! Tom Mullen discusses his Washed Up Emo podcast and archival enterprise, working for different labels and conceiving of the video chronicling the road Bob Dylan might have taken from Greenwich Village to Big Pink, getting Jeff Bridges to narrate it and also to join Facebook, a fascinating promo project about Je...
Aug 22, 2024•1 hr 15 min
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! Lou Barlow and John Davis from the Folk Implosion discuss their first album in 25 years, Walk Thru Me , the significance of college and community radio, punk rock humour and intellectualism exhibited by Gerard Cosloy and Steve Albini, John’s early collaborative relationship with Will Oldham and why he didn’t app...
Aug 20, 2024•18 min
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! Al Tuck and Aaron Comeau discuss their work together on Tuck’s latest records, Tuck’s recent triple-disc, Water, Blood & Whiskey , making records inside of transport truck trailers and school portables, the days when the people were small and few and finally recording a song that Al debuted some 20 odd yea...
Aug 15, 2024•1 hr 38 min
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! “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...
Aug 13, 2024•18 min
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! 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 Jessi...
Aug 08, 2024•1 hr 23 min
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! 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 w...
Aug 05, 2024•22 min
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! 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 li...
Aug 02, 2024•1 hr 35 min
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! 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 anthe...
Aug 01, 2024•18 min
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! 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,...
Jul 25, 2024•1 hr 18 min
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! 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 physi...
Jul 23, 2024•19 min
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! 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 me...
Jul 18, 2024•1 hr 20 min
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! 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 th...
Jul 16, 2024•20 min
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! 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 ...
Jul 11, 2024•1 hr 12 min
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! Tim Kinsella discusses the elaborate new Joan of Arc box set, A Window & A Mirror , his Chicago upbringing and how he and his brother, Mike Kinsella from American Football, first got into playing music, their band Cap’n Jazz and its post-breakup mythological status, Tim’s relationship with music journalism a...
Jul 09, 2024•20 min
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! Steven Hyden discusses his excellent new book, There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born in the U.S.A.’ and the End of the Heartland , the state of music and cultural criticism, how film critics have long had more cachet than music critics, the various and confusing ambiguities in the work and li...
Jul 04, 2024•20 min
