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JF: sorry to report that we need to keep our "bubble" kind of separate from the outside world. We don't let friends backstage anymore, and even the staff of the venues don't really come into the dressing rooms. We haven't been doing signings or giving stuff out at the end of the show. It's just trying to keep us less in the mix with covid.

I don't track bands careers that closely so what I might think of as lesser known might be the hottest band in the world. I discovered Mitski simply by wandering around Spotify and finding the title to one of her albums (Puberty 2) and a song (Me and My Husband) very curious. But she plays sold out shows at Radio City Music Hall-so who's lesser-known? But bands I like new and old, big or small-Radiator Hospital, Daisy the Great, Rev. Milton Brunson, Connie Converse, Compulsive Gamblers, Holly Golightly, Girlpool, Big Thief... but those were all folks I played a lot on my radio show.

For a band that has lived pretty quiet lives, there are a remarkable number of urban legends flying around there about this band. If it sounds like some far flung, unlikely BS, it probably is.

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JF: Well those two are bleak for sure, but for me those songs are coming from completely different directions in terms of writing-Quit the Circus is based on a friends experience and Best Regrets is completely personal-although kind of hypothetical-I've never met up with the person in question (thank god). Best Regrets is definitely about dread in a very ultimate way-and I do feel a level of dread as an older person that feels heavier because there isn't a lot of skipping past it. Not trying to be a drag, but sometimes things don't work out!

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Some of my favorite Screencast from "here come the abcs." A disk that gave me nightmares as a kid.

That’s The Power Of John Linnell.

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