Kreative Kontrol

Alan Sparhawk discusses his stunning new album, With Trampled by Turtles, being home between tours, collaborating with Circuit des Yeux, how the internet affects the risks that audiences and musicians take, his daughter Hollis’ band Willem Dafoe Fanclub, mourning his late wife and musical collaborator Mimi Parker and w

During my recent conversation with Andy Shauf about the new Foxwarren album, 2, he mentioned that one of his primary production influences for this record was Liquid Swords by GZA. And so now, I present the first interview I ever conducted with GZA. This phoner took place on Monday, October 6, 2008, just before midnigh

Chris A. Cummings, Thom Gill, and Joseph Shabason discuss Way Through by Cici Arthur, Toronto life and the city’s best pizza, making music without drums, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Gregg Turkington, and Frank Sinatra’s Watertown, Chris’ child acting gig on SCTV, what Dorothea Paas and Owen Pallett brought to this record, so

Andy Shauf returns to discuss Foxwarren’s excellent album 2, making his recording studio as efficient as his father’s accounting practice, Foxwarren’s origins, trying to make a live-off-the-floor record together, whether people like Paul McCartney are annoying when trying to keep recording sessions on track, not drinki

Teeny Lieberson returns to discuss Lou Tides and Autostatic!, living in America as a Canadian, why she chose a person’s name other than her own for her solo work, making “beautiful and scary” music, how celebrating antiheroes in pop culture is working out for all of us, employing different voices as a singer when deali

David Longstreth is here to discuss David Longstreth’s Song of the Earth, Performed by Dirty Projectors and s t a r g a z e, life in Los Angeles in a tumultuous ecological era, working with s t a r g a z e and the influence of Gustav Mahler, the revenge of the Earth, orcas, and using gardens as a metaphor, despair and