Josh Cole, Craig Dunsmuir, and Colin Fisher from Dun-Dun Band are here to discuss the September 27 Toronto release party for their new LP, Pita Parka, Pt. II : Nim Egduf , where they live and how they met, the best pizza slice in Toronto, the Holy Oak Family Singers, Not the Wind, Not the Flag, Sandro Perri, and other musical pursuits, a growing interest in physical media, Colin and I unknowingly crossing paths and sharing stages in our post-hardcore bands some 25 years ago, a mutual love for Ow...
Sep 23, 2025•1 hr 28 min
Abby Govindan is here to discuss her Pushing 30 stand-up show at Just For Laughs Toronto on September 22, visiting her family in her beloved Houston, Texas hometown, her excitement as a New Yorker with high hopes for mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, being outspoken, translating one’s affluence into empathy and fighting for those who are less fortunate than you are, the end of centrism, Malcolm X and the Black Panthers, how first generation immigrant alienation can lead to anxiety, stress, and d...
Sep 20, 2025•28 min
Alan Licht is here to discuss his recent releases, including Havens , New York City politics, plugging in and then improvising on an acoustic guitar, fond memories of the Hoboken, New Jersey venue Maxwell’s and seeing memorable shows by Ween and Eric’s Trip, meeting and playing with his old friend Tim Barnes, interpreting a Stooges song, revisiting Love Child, upcoming tour dates, other future plans, and more. EVERY OTHER COMPLETE KREATIVE KONTROL EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO PATREON SUPPORTERS...
Sep 18, 2025•1 hr 23 min
Michael Gira from Swans is here to discuss their exhilarating new album Birthing , an erotic dream he had about Roy Cohn, Richard Nixon, and the current president of the United States, which inspired a new song, dishonesty and the relative truth, what he reveals about himself in his music and how his aesthetic might relate to those of Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison, including contributions by his wife and children on his records, why Swans might take on a new form, debuting new songs on the road, ot...
Sep 16, 2025•26 min
Carson McHone is here to discuss her brilliant new album, Pentimento , news about Daniel Romano’s Outfit recording and touring activity, artistic foundations, layers, and repentance, the journal full of messages to her from her mother, which were entered since Carson was born, pondering history and the personal passage of time, celebrating creativity, motherhood, and children, assembling a band of esteemed musicians and taking some risks, theatrical and film work, touring, other future plans, an...
Sep 13, 2025•1 hr 12 min
Jens Lekman is here to discuss his new album and novel, Songs for Other People’s Weddings , life in Sweden, insights about being a musician and also part of an arts community that works on weddings, distinctions between authentic and cheesy music, Frank Sinatra’s album Watertown , working with author David Levithan and conversations they had about love and relationships, staging this album for a tour, an update about new music he’s working on, other future plans, and much more. EVERY OTHER COMPL...
Sep 11, 2025•29 min
Saul Williams is here to discuss Saul Williams meets Carlos Niño & Friends at TreePeople , performing and improvising while suffering from jet lag, geopolitics and the crumbling American Empire, technology’s impact on socio-political awareness, capitulation, civil unrest, and anti-capitalism, working with Deerhoof and outspokenness in censorious times, his working relationship with Carlos Niño, knowledge sharing and how artists use their platforms, the reception to the film Sinners , touring...
Sep 09, 2025•1 hr 45 min
Kathleen Edwards is here to discuss Billionaire , becoming a snowbird by getting married and moving to Florida from Canada, how relocation and travel and running a coffee shop can foster curiosity and appreciation for the human condition, accepting yourself and pondering other people’s behaviour and pain, embracing growth and confidence that stems from lived experience, reflecting upon relationships and loss, another new album, touring, other future plans, and much more! EVERY OTHER COMPLETE KRE...
Sep 06, 2025•30 min
Mac McCaughan and Laura King from Superchunk are here to discuss their new album, Songs in the Key of Yikes , North Carolina living and many Ludwig drums, writing dark-hued songs packaged in sunny, energetic arrangements, Jon Wurster retiring from Superchunk and how the band have met the challenge of filling his role, Laura’s musical background and why drummers have been in the news so much in 2025, why Mac wanted so many women from the Merge community to sing on this record, whether Superchunk ...
Sep 04, 2025•1 hr 19 min
Marc Ribot is here to discuss his new album Map of a Blue City , his late, dear friend and beloved music producer, Hal Willner, and demoitis, how producer Ben Greenberg helped him finish an album 30 years in the making, the best way to catch bluefish and also fish you really shouldn’t eat, his relationship with his own singing voice and recent lyrical themes centred around loss, god, German Romanticism, and the Holocaust, reciting work by his late friend Allen Ginsberg, new music with Hurry Red ...
Sep 02, 2025•23 min
Chris DeVille is here to discuss his excellent new book, Such Great Heights – The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion , his history as a music fan, musician, and music journalist at Stereogum, the impact that mass media once had on him as a source for music and music news, why his book has a particular focus on the outsized influence that Pitchfork has had on 21st century pop culture, indie rock, mainstream pop, and poptimism, what is and isn’t covered in his book and a Substac...
Aug 28, 2025•1 hr 17 min
Howlin' Pelle Almqvist from the Hives is here to discuss The Hives Forever Forever The Hives , living in Sweden, whether or not the band’s substantive, outspoken lyrics get enough attention, the eerily cyclical nature of western civilization, reflecting upon being in a band for 30 odd years, another artistic outlet he has but has never really talked about before, recording fidelity and punk rock, the Bon Scott era of AC/DC, working with Beastie Boys’ Mike D who produced this album, future plans ...
Aug 26, 2025•18 min
Brian Fauteux is here to discuss his book, Music in Orbit: Satellite Radio in the Streaming Space Age , his lifelong interest in underground music, culture, and media, how the advent of satellite radio in the early part of this century modelled the way subscription culture functions now, the huge role Howard Stern, Bob Dylan, and Eminem played in all of this, and much more. Part of the South East Community Leagues Association ’s speaker series, this episode was recorded live before an outdoor au...
Aug 21, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Liz Pelly is here to discuss her book Mood Machine – The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist , loving New York City and high hopes for mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, rationality and current reality, becoming a music fan, musician, and investigative journalist, questioning authority, corporations, and oligarchs, why Spotify has become so prominent and why some of its practices warranted further examination, how randomly viral TikTok songs lead to large Spotify pay days, ghost...
Aug 19, 2025•25 min
Marissa Nadler is here to discuss New Radiations , leaving the Boston area to live in the American South, the small number of non-male music producers and why she produced her latest record herself, loving Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska , dealing with the doubt, why she’s associated with metal, singing songs of solitude and independent departure, her novelist brother Stuart Nadler, characters in Bob Dylan songs, referencing cinema and making short films, a new side project, other future plans, and...
Aug 12, 2025•1 hr 20 min
Peter Ames Carlin returns to discuss his new book Tonight in Jungleland – The Making of Born to Run , the fireside chat he had at Bruce Springsteen’s home, how Springsteen was pegged to be dropped by Columbia Records if this record failed, the desperation of the artists creating this music and how that was reflected in the protagonists and narratives in these songs, the Boss’s impulsive and indecisive nature, the forthcoming biopic, Springsteen – Deliver Me From Nowhere , the Bob Dylan biopic, A...
Aug 05, 2025•1 hr 31 min
Thanya Iyer is here to discuss TIDE/TIED , her recent Canadian tour and what exactly is a jazz festival these days, Montreal music inspirations, her South Indian heritage and studying music from a young age, how synthesizers and pedals impact improvisation, dealing with chronic pain and becoming a music therapist, thematic lyrics about water and breathing, writing new songs, playing Sappyfest , other future plans, and much more. EVERY OTHER COMPLETE KREATIVE KONTROL EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO...
Jul 30, 2025•1 hr 15 min
Ty Segall is here (at last!) to discuss Possession , the vibe lights in his recording studio, how the late Steve Albini gave him great advice about studio design and construction and the time they recorded themselves smashing a toilet, starting songs off on the drums and reflecting upon click tracks, demoitis, and studio trickery, connections between his three recent records, his singing voice and writing songs with filmmaker Matt Yoka, the Guns ‘n’ Roses song “Paradise City” and Drag City album...
Jul 29, 2025•1 hr 9 min
Between August 1 and 3, 2025 in Sackville, New Brunswick, Sappyfest celebrates its twentieth anniversary as one of the world’s best programmed and most fun music and arts festivals. Back in the summer of 2011 just ahead of the sixth annual Sappyfest, I met Julie Doiron and three of her children at Grapefruit Moon for an interview over breakfast. Aside from her inspirational work in the band Eric’s Trip and her award-winning solo trajectory, Julie founded Sappy Records and co-organized early iter...
Jul 27, 2025•13 min
Cory Hanson returns to discuss “I Love People,” becoming a father and how that has altered his relationship with sleep, creativity, and time, his personal interactions with the late Lou Reed and the song he wrote about him, whether he truly loves people, his interest in folk heroes and villains like the Joker, soldiers, and one of the Eagles, a potential Western Cum trilogy, risk-taking in contemporary art and the Kendrick Lamar/Drake feud and Clipse disses, deleting twitter, playing a Wand show...
Jul 24, 2025•1 hr 47 min
Nina Nastasia is here to discuss Songs for a World of Trouble , how she wound up living in Seattle and why she prefers coastal states, why her new album is currently only available on Bandcamp and not on streaming services, the strangeness of the current cultural economy, the lovely book of artwork, poems, stories, and lyrics that complements this record, making her first album without Steve Albini, inspiration from Will Oldham, touring with Mogwai, playing shows with Jolie Laide, other future p...
Jul 22, 2025•24 min
Bria Salmena is here to discuss Big Dog , ambivalence about moving out of Canada and my perspective on Los Angeles, the cool Toronto high school she attended and her interest in photography and art, the significance of great teachers like Jim Henderson, how co-producer Meg Remy of U.S. Girls helped her enhance her work as a vocalist, what inspired the deeply personal and clever lyrics on this album and their transitional themes, playing summer musical festivals like Hillside, new music, other fu...
Jul 17, 2025•1 hr 8 min
Adèle Trottier-Rivard and Nicolas Basque are here to discuss Bibi Club and their latest album, Feu de garde , a camping trip and returning to Guelph’s Hillside Festival, how six of their fellow 2025 Polaris Music Prize nominees are from Quebec but may not know each other, Montreal missed connections, their bilingual lyrics and upbeat sound, addressing anxiety with music to help themselves and others, Stereolab and the Stone Bonnet Choir, finishing a new album, other future plans, and much more. ...
Jul 15, 2025•24 min
My son, who is 13, and I have both been rather excited about the new album by Clipse coming out and when it finally did on July 11, Let God Sort ‘Em Out lived up to the hype. We’ve been listening to it and analyzing it so much, we decided to do a pod about it, so, please enjoy listening to a dad and his son talking about a rap record they like and some of the stories behind Let God Sort ‘Em Out . Featuring music produced by Levon Khanna. EVERY OTHER COMPLETE KREATIVE KONTROL EPISODE IS ONLY ACCE...
Jul 13, 2025•55 min
Roger Clark Miller is here to discuss Curiosity for Solo Electric Guitar Ensemble , life in Vermont, our warm feelings about the Steve Albini memorial we first met at, the tinnitus that initially led Mission of Burma to disband and their current status, studying music as a child, formative influences like Béla Bartók and the Beatles, seeing early shows by the Doors, the Stooges, and MC5, digital delays, surrealism, tripping, and documenting dreams, upcoming releases, tour, other future plans, an...
Jul 10, 2025•1 hr 20 min
Andrew Falkous from mclusky is here to discuss the world is still here and so are we , distinctions between Britons, Canadians, and Americans and how a Vancouver show altered his perception of Canada, Brexit, Donald Trump, Ricky Gervais, Alan Partridge, and Bill Burr, artistic journeys, spite, logic, and how language can be fun and manipulative, why mclusky returned, trying to blow the Jesus Lizard off the stage, mourning his friend and frequent collaborator Steve Albini, mclusky’s penchant for ...
Jul 08, 2025•30 min
Cassia Hardy returns to discuss her new album In Relation , a mustard headache cure, a provocative new voicemail song that accuses her of shoplifting, craftsmanship, tech oligarchy, and repair culture, the ways that this new album is and isn’t accessible to the general public and its complementary book, pondering the Prairies from an Indigenous perspective, saluting Steve Albini and Fiver’s Simone Schmidt, hoping Bluesky is fun, playing shows, other future plans, and much more. EVERY OTHER COMPL...
Jul 03, 2025•1 hr 12 min
Tanya Talaga is here to discuss her award-winning book and its complementary documentary film , The Knowing , Scarborough pride, being discouraged to learn about her Indigenous heritage as a child, her lifelong interest in storytelling, writing for the student newspaper at the University of Toronto, establishing her Makwa Creative production company and the importance of diversification for modern media workers, what justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls looks like, why gov...
Jul 01, 2025•1 hr 2 min
Elle Barbara is here to discuss Word On The Street by Elle Barbara’s Black Space, Montreal construction, putting on a performance this past May in which she got married to herself, exploring terms like autogynegamy and sologamy, how this album examines and critiques food, consumerism, and classism, street art and conspiracies regarding capitalism, alienation and Scientology, working with producer Renny Wilson and the story behind the Black Space band, what’s next, and much more. EVERY OTHER COMP...
Jun 26, 2025•1 hr 5 min
Michael Cloud Duguay is here to discuss Wobbly Yonder , playing the 2023 Hillside Festival in Guelph with Steven Lambke and Wax Mannequin, working on new music with Mathias Kom in Newfoundland, heading north when it gets cold, a traumatic, life-altering music festival experience, dealing with addiction and anxiety, Peterborough’s vibe and the Sliver Hearts, Quinton Barnes and other exciting artists on Watch That Ends the Night , David Cloud Berman, future plans, and much more. EVERY OTHER COMPLE...
Jun 24, 2025•34 min
