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A long chat about Krautrock with zensounds' Stephan Kunze
part 2: a conversation between me and zensounds' Stephan Kunze
Mar 31
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Alec Hanley Bemis
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Stephan Kunze
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A conversation with David Grubbs (Gastr Del Sol, CUNY professor, Squirrel Bait)
includes several gateway playlists to contemporary, post-genre instrumental music
Mar 17, 2025
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Alec Hanley Bemis
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A musician who tended this year's Rockefeller Center tree shares his fairytale of New York
Matt McGinley's journey from pop-punk to podcasts to accidental spruce farmer. Also: a perennial holiday mixtape and the death of Shane MacGowan.
Dec 20, 2023
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Alec Hanley Bemis
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background sounds, part two — plus a chat about "Music Life"
an "ambient" conversation with Mia Doi Todd
Mar 7, 2023
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Alec Hanley Bemis
music for heart & breath & floating & falling & dreaming
ALSO: an interview with Richard Reed Parry from Arcade Fire, Bell Orchestre, et. al.
Sep 30, 2022
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Alec Hanley Bemis
Mishka, Mark & Me
a concise playlist & an expansive conversation about Mark Lanegan
Mar 18, 2022
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Alec Hanley Bemis
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Zineage Kicks: Jaboni Youth
An interview about my teenage zine with The Guardian's Laura Snapes for her blog
Feb 13, 2012
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Alec Hanley Bemis
An interview with Stars of the Lid's Brian McBride
A chat with the drone musician and USC debate coach
Apr 10, 2008
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Alec Hanley Bemis
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Awesome Music
A conversation about classical music between Alex Ross, Ronen Givony, and Owen Pallett
Oct 19, 2007
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Alec Hanley Bemis
Stone, Warm, Sober
From laughing gas to nonalcoholic beer: Robert Stone in the ’60s and today
Jan 17, 2007
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Alec Hanley Bemis
Chapter and Verse
Rick Moody, Jonathan Lethem and John Darnielle on the crossbreeding of literature and pop
Feb 28, 2006
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Alec Hanley Bemis
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