Parhaat Michael Laird Podcastit (2024)

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Ep. 88 - Mr. Gnomvember 1:15:40

2d ago1:15:40

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This episode is a special milestone for us, as we finally got the chance to interview a band we've admired and eagerly awaited new music from - Mr. Gnome! After a 4-year hiatus since their last album and 8 years away from the stage, they’re back with an incredible new album and tour. A huge thank you to Sam and Nicole for joining us, and welcome ba…

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Lynne Tillman on American History, Human Absurdity, and why Trump should have become a Comedian 1:09:23

6d ago1:09:23

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A woman speaks to us from her room in a residential home, of some description. She reflects on her life, her family, her pets, on time—the past, present and the future—on Manson Family Alumnus Leslie Van Houyten, on History, on Death, on the Occult, on what it means to be “sensitive”…and so much more besides. All the while she is distracted, bother…

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Ep. 87 - Deliciously Artistic (with Team Awesome!) 1:13:46

10d ago1:13:46

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Team Awesome is the only team we ever want to be on. Also, the word of the day is "Spatchcock". Be sure to follow Team Awesome to see when their next single "Love Affair" will be released (right after the Tiki Boat diss-track). Thanks, friends! SONGS PERFORMED: Freedom Cry Waiting Love Affair We are excited to announce that Circle K has become the …

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Ep. 86 - Wearing Out The Church (With Corry Michaels!) 1:13:39

17d ago1:13:39

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This is definitely one of the deeper episodes we've had here on LG the Pod. Corry Michaels opens his heart and speaks his mind, and after 5 years of knowing him, he never ceases to amaze us. Follow Corry on Instagram to see what he's up to and check out his kickass music videos on YouTube! Linktree here. SONGS PERFORMED: Hopeless Romantic (Red, Yel…

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Ayşegül Savaş on Love, Rootlessness, and “The Age of Poetry” 56:12

20d ago56:12

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This week’s guest is Aysegul Savas, whose mesmerising third novel, The Anthropologists is about a great many things. It’s about what it means to leave one’s home. It’s about attempting to lay down roots elsewhere. It’s about the mystery, banality, and all-consuming nature of love. It’s about the dynamics of friendship, and how those are stress-test…

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Ep. 85 - Syncing & Falling with Phoenix Vibes 55:09

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It's fall, y'all, our fave time of the year! This week, as we gear up for LG Live 2024 at crobar this Saturday, we chat with one of the artists performing, Phoenix Vibes (PXVBS). Our meet-cute with PXVBS involved a long night after a Curse of the Kia Boys, and we've been running into him ever since! PXVBS has an incredibly business-saavy approach t…

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On the State of the (Book)World, with Lauren Groff and Neel Mukherjee (live in Edinburgh) 1:01:11

1M ago1:01:11

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For this special episode, recorded live at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Adam Biles was joined by novelists Lauren Groff and Neel Mukherjee for a wide-ranging discussion that takes the temperature (and the pulse!) of the book industry, from bookshops, to publishers, to prizes, to festivals... Enjoy! Buy The Shakespeare and Company Book…

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Ep. 84 - Being the Weird Duck (with The Chewy Center!) 59:57

1M ago59:57

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In our 84th episode, we reunite with The Chewy Center after our LoCLE Grown From Home episode back in 2020. These guys have been a huge part of the music scene for many years, but their newest album "Janet Flight" has really become their proudest and most uniquely "them" project yet. The coolest thing about The Chewy Center is that they have never …

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Ep. 83 - Rellick For the Herd 1:17:13

1M ago1:17:13

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Friends, we bring you another beautiful episode on another beautiful Sunday, this week with a new band that is making a splash in Cleveland, Rellick! This 'Cinematic Rock' band is all about the storytelling and stage presence (eyes open or closed, still TBD), and lead singer Mike Rellick tells us about how his learnings from being an Opera singer h…

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Rachel Kushner on Creation Lake (Booker Prize SHORTLIST 2024) 55:28

2M ago55:28

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Rachel Kushner’s fourth novel Creation Lake is a spy novel stacked with ideas. As our fast-thinking, gun-packing protagonist wends her way down to the south of France, charged—by forces unknown—with infiltrating and sowing chaos at a commune of eco-warriors, her mission leads her into exhilarating reflections on activism, on charisma, on neandertha…

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Ep. 82 - A Steely Dan Setback (with Lake Philly) 1:11:54

2M ago1:11:54

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With the release of their debut album just this past weekend, we welcomed Lake Philly into the studio to talk about the dedication and hard work they've put in over the past year to carve out their own niche in the local music scene. Lead vocalist and guitarist AJ shares insights into the deceptively complex songwriting process, why "Good Things La…

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Ferdia Lennon on Glorious Exploits 42:04

2M ago42:04

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Our guest in the writer’s studio this week is Ferdia Lennon, whose debut novel Glorious Exploits depicts the ancient world in a way readers will never have experienced it before. Set in Syracuse in 412 BC, after the catastrophic attempt by Athens to invade the city, Lampo and Gelon, two out-of-work potters, have the harebrained idea of staging a pr…

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Ep. 81 - Horn Beef Sandwich (with Thicarus!) 1:11:05

2M ago1:11:05

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We Got Thic™️ in this episode with a 'band of hired guns' - Thicarus! This episode was fueled by the love of perfectly worn-in jeans, adult slide whistles, and honey mustard. Just like when you see Thicarus at a show, you never know what's going to happen next in this interview. This band is comprised of all full-time musicians who are living the l…

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Roxy Dunn on As Young As This 37:35

2M ago37:35

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Our guest this week is Roxy Dunn, whose debut novel As Young As This is a meticulous examination of the lives and loves of young women today. Told, strikingly, in the second person, it is structured by the the succession of first boys, then men in the protagonist Margot’s life, and populated by dysfunctional friends and a wisecracking, but deeply c…

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Ep. 80 - Sounding Purple (with Illest Villains) 57:34

2M ago57:34

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In this episode, we dive deep with Enzo and Eric of Illest Villains, a rap duo whose musical journey has been nothing short of legendary. From recording their earliest tracks under a blanket to performing on stage in San Francisco, these guys have really found a way through the past few years by leaning into their unique style and reaching out to s…

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Poetry: Ishion Hutchinson reads from and discusses School of Instructions 47:31

2M ago47:31

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School of Instructions, the latest work by Ishion Hutchinson, draws from the time he spent in the archive of the Imperial War Museum, to foreground the experience—brutal, significant, but long overlooked—of West Indian volunteers in the First World War. This book length poem is a sensorial voyage into the convoys, garrisons and trenches of the Midd…

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Ep. 79 - The Fullest Circle (With Nate Saggio!) 1:03:26

2M ago1:03:26

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This week, we brought Nate Saggio out of his studio and into ours for a special episode of his own, following his feature on Chayla Hope's episode last year! While recording and producing others music at 78th Street Studios is his bread and butter, Nate also plays and creates his own music as well! We got to hear more about what he calls his "passi…

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Michael Donkor on Grow Where They Fall 1:00:38

3M ago1:00:38

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This week’s guest is Michael Donkor whose new novel Grow Where They Fall is a meticulous and tender exploration of two formative moments in the life of one Kwame Akromah, twenty years apart. Kwame is Black, Gay, British of Ghanian descent, a dedicated teacher, a dependable friend—character traits and conditions of life that weave around each other …

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Ep. 78 - Australian Computers with JET STAR 1:03:37

3M ago1:03:37

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From Madstarr last week to JET STAR this week, we are truly talking to some artists that are out of this world. This interview has us in a bit of a tizzy, JET STAR inspires us with her story of rising from her literal death bed and performing her first gig the day after her predicted death date. She has a beautiful outlook on life - that everyone i…

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Writing Against Normality, with Samanta Schweblin 1:02:53

3M ago1:02:53

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The seven stories in Samanta Schweblin’s Seven Empty Houses are not just about houses—how they contain us, how they constrain us—but are also about the families compressed in them, the objects stored in them, the neighbours that circle them…and the trauma that has soaked into their walls over years past, and that is now seeping slowly out, poisonin…

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Ep. 77 - Name Change and Lucky Days with Madstarr! 1:12:01

3M ago1:12:01

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This week, we sat down with alternative hip-hop artist Madstarr for what may be a bit of an unhinged episode. Covering an array of random topics - from day jobs, to finding the beauty in adulthood when it feels so good to cancel plans. We unpack some of the cringiest times in the late 2000's, from Myspace to that one Tyler, The Creator music video …

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Parenting in the age of AI, with Helen Phillips 52:34

3M ago52:34

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So much has been written about the imminent transformation that Artificial Intelligence will bring to our world. But it is often hard to get much of a sense of what that will mean on a personal level—for our work, for our leisure and, perhaps most importantly of all, for our families. What improvements will result? What new tensions will arise? Wha…

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Ep. 76 - Provocative Yet Refined (With Tropidelic!) 58:53

3M ago58:53

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With Everwild happening this weekend, we thought it was the perfect time to catch up with the Cleveland band that started it all, Tropidelic. They reflect on the time when it was a simple pool party to the amazing event it is today, attracting thousands of people to Legend Valley in August each year. Joining us at Rock and Roll City Studios opened …

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Creating Life from Art, with Catherine Lacey 58:12

3M ago58:12

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We recently welcomed Catherine Lacey to the bookshop to discuss her vertiginous latest novel Biography of X. Ostensibly the quest of a journalist, C.M. Lucca, to discover more about the life of her late wife—an artist who went by many names, but who she knew only as X—it quickly becomes clear that, in Biography of X, it’s not just one life being ca…

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Ep. 75 - Post Saga Wine Night! 1:03:12

3M ago1:03:12

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This episode is a special treat, recorded at the stunning Pop Shell Studios on Superior in preparation for the Post Saga Wine Night on April 27th. To hype up the release of their first EP in years, "Paradise Island", we sat down with our incredibly talented friend (and pseudo LG sound engineer), Danna O'Connor of Post Saga. She, with the help of Po…

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Paul Murray on The Bee Sting 1:05:31

3M ago1:05:31

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Set in small-town, post-crash Ireland, The Bee Sting follows the Barnes family—Dickie, Imelda, Cass and PJ—as the fabric of their lives first frays at the edges, then begins to unravel completely. The Barnes’ are endearing, and complex, and funny, and infuriating… In short, one of the most realistic and memorable portrayals of a family you’ll find …

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