Kreative Kontrol

After almost 20 years of conversations, my final talk with Steve Albini took place on April 23, 2024. Steve died suddenly on May 7. This chat was about the new Shellac album, To All Trains, and Steve told me about every song, though I hadn't yet heard the album. Preparing this episode was sad and surreal; it felt like Steve was still here. The interview itself appears at roughly the 45:00 mark, after my own remembrance and tribute. I love you Steve and will miss you forever. Thank you for everything.Support vish on Patreon! Thanks to 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.Related episodes/links:Ep. #826: Steve Albini and Fred ArmisenEp. #741: Steve AlbiniEp. #656: Steve AlbiniEp. #589: Steve AlbiniEp. #514: Steve Albini and Silkworm’s Andy Cohen and Tim MidyettEp. #453: Steve AlbiniEp. #275: Incredible Love – Alan Vega & Suicide RememberedEp. #224: Ian MacKaye & Steve Albini (Part II)Ep. #223: Ian MacKaye & Steve Albini (Part I)Ep. #120: Steve AlbiniEp. #24: Steve AlbiniMy first Steve Albini interview (2006)

EVERY OTHER KREATIVE KONTROL EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO $6 PATREON SUPPORTERS. Enjoy this excerpt and please subscribe now via this link to hear this full episode. Thanks!Kathleen Hanna discusses her new memoir Rebel Girl – My Life as a Feminist Punk, why she wrote this book and what that experience was like, what she learned about her own workaholism and setting boundaries, trauma and therapy, how punk orthodoxy led to a painful exile, the actual material conditions of being known as an “activist icon,” prescience and hindsight, how the writing in Rebel Girl relates to the depiction of her in the 2013 documentary, The Punk Singer, forgiveness, friendship, and self-awareness, a shout out to her husband Adam Horovitz for being a generously supportive family man, and much more.Support vish on Patreon! Thanks to 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.Related episodes/links:Ep. #849: Jim White and Guy PicciottoEp. #839: Mary TimonyEp. #838: ANGRY BLACKMENEp. #785: Hari KondaboluEp. #770: Adam Horovitz from Beastie BoysEp. #745: The Casual DotsEp. #673: Sonic YouthEp. #632: Meg RemyEp. #615: Mdou MoctarEp. #224: Ian MacKaye & Steve Albini (Part II)

EVERY OTHER KREATIVE KONTROL EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO $6 PATREON SUPPORTERS. This one is fine, but please subscribe now on Patreon so you never miss full episodes. Thanks!Robin Wattie, Tasy Hudson, and Matheiu Ball from BIG|BRAVE discuss their wonderful new album A Chaos of Flowers, their lives in Montreal and in Alberta, how the band formed, squirrels, rabbits, and making BIG|BRAVE new fans, one dad at a time, musical origin stories, sidechains and ducking, working closely with producer Seth Manchester, heavy metal and Levon Helm, poetry research, making a new album, tour, other future plans, and much more.    Support vish on Patreon! Thanks to Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.Related episodes/links:Ep. #866: Jim White and Marisa AndersonEp. #860: Six Organs of AdmittanceEp. #858: Cadence WeaponEp. #809: Faith HealerEp. #723: Jessica MossEp. #718: Marisa Anderson

EVERY OTHER KREATIVE KONTROL EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO $6 PATREON SUPPORTERS. Enjoy this excerpt and please subscribe now via this link to hear this full episode. Thanks!Jim White and Marisa Anderson discuss their lovely new album Swallowtail, why they recorded it in Australia, the distinction between ideas, possibilities, and arrangements in an improvised music practice, melodic drumming and rhythmic guitar, the Velvet Underground, peregrination and the natural world, the artwork of Anna White, cats and the Bitterroot Valley, things I think I see that might not be real, touring more than ever, future plans, and much more.Support vish on Patreon! Thanks to Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.Related episodes/links:Ep. #865: Myriam GendronEp. #849: Jim White and Guy PicciottoEp. #768: Guy Picciotto & Xylouris WhiteEp. #718: Marisa AndersonEp. #633: Marisa Anderson & William TylerEp. #541: Jim White and Marisa AndersonEp. #400: Guy Picciotto & Xylouris WhiteEp. #293: Marisa Anderson

EVERY OTHER KREATIVE KONTROL EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO $6 PATREON SUPPORTERS. This one is fine, but please subscribe now on Patreon so you never miss full episodes. Thanks!Myriam Gendron discusses her moving new album Mayday, some of the places in the world she lived in before moving to Montreal, a good job at a bookstore, playing in metal bands, a charming close encounter with Leonard Cohen, why she is generally disinterested in the personalities behind the art she loves, losing her mother and being a mother and some of the lyrical themes on the bilingual Mayday, collaborating with Bill Nace, Marisa Anderson, and Jim White among other people, why we love flowers, transmission and keeping our parents with us, how her boyfriend helps her be online, touring, writing more music, other future plans, and much more. Support vish on Patreon! Thanks to Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.Related episodes/links:Ep. #849: Jim White and Guy PicciottoEp. #847: RosaliEp. #775: Will Oldham & Lori DamianoEp. #768: Guy Picciotto & Xylouris WhiteEp. #731: Bill NaceEp. #718: Marisa AndersonEp. #562: Bill CallahanEp. #541: Jim White and Marisa Anderson

EVERY OTHER KREATIVE KONTROL EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO $6 PATREON SUPPORTERS. Enjoy this excerpt and please subscribe now via this link to hear this full episode. Thanks!Mary Lattimore and Walt McClements discuss their wonderful new album, Rain on the Road, a secret Sonic Youth show they both attended in North Carolina before they knew each other, their work and connection with Weyes Blood, their interest in synthesizing acoustic and otherwise distinctive instruments to conjure new sounds, how they got into harp and accordion respectively and music lessons along the way, Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged performance, elemental influences and The Far Side by Gary Larson, avoiding bears to get to a show, touring, other future plans, and much more.    Support vish on Patreon! Thanks to 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.Related episodes/links:Ep. #821: Kurt VileEp. #748: Meg BairdEp. #738: SuperchunkEp. #733: Weyes BloodEp. #673: Sonic YouthEp. #631: Steve GunnEp. #577: Thurston Moore

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I'm going to experiment with a hybrid subscription model for Kreative Kontrol. Every other episode will be free as usual, while the others will be for Patreon subscribers at the $6 a month level. Those will be full, ad-free episodes. The general public will receive clips/teasers of these episodes on their podcast players with a link to subscribe to hear the whole episode. I’ve chosen every other episode as a model because it’s consistent and fair. I don’t want to attribute more value to one episode over another because it might draw larger audiences to the show. Just, every other episode will be subscriber only, so half the episodes will be accessible to the general public. The $4 tier will still consist of ad-free versions of the episodes that are otherwise accessible beyond Patreon. To access the subscription-only episodes though, everyone will have to join the $6 tier. The $6 tier will also still include any bonus content that is offered to listeners. Any tier that’s $10 and higher will include all of those perks plus entry into our monthly random prize pack draws. As usual, Patreon subscriptions are flexible so that you can raise, lower, or cancel your support at any time.I know paywalls are no fun, but I think this hybrid is a nice way of experimenting with a subscriber model while still doing the work of supporting my guests and their work and my listeners who want to engage with the show both as Patreon supporters and as casual listeners.So, thanks for listening and supporting me on Patreon!  

Jon Mckiel discusses his excellent and beguiling new album, Hex, Canadian cities he’s lived in and his connections with Jay Crocker and Chad VanGaalen, drop C tuning, the hip-hop flavours of the otherwise indie-folk album Hex and whom it may be inspiring to rap, hexes, conspiracies, capitalism, and The Curse, movie scores and the musical touchstone that is the Arnold Schwarzenegger film, Predator, feeling burdened, videotaping MuchMusic programming as kids, that time his album 2020 album Bobby Joe Hope went viral, future plans, and much more. Support vish on Patreon! Thanks to Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online.Related episodes/links:Ep. #850: You’ve Changed Records is 15!Ep. #842: Daniel Romano’s OutfitEp. #706: JOYFULTALKEp. #602: Chad VanGaalenEp. #306: Jon MckielEp. #145: Cousins