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Apr 30, 2020

Huntsmen just released what is the best concept album of 2020, and we still have 8 months to go. "Mandala of Fear" is a sprawling, 80-minute set of metal that melds a variety of sounds, styles and techniques into something fresh and undeniable.

I had a great chat with Kirill and Ray about making the album, among other...


Apr 29, 2020

Yes Factory returns to Car Con Carne! It was a full house of Yes Factory members: Brennan Reiter, Ian Zander, Kelen Price-Snowden, Hannah Hovland, Emily Suzanne and Sarah Fischer all joined in the chat. We caught up with the band's fabric-based contributions to fighting COVID-19 to the status of new Yes Factory music....


Apr 28, 2020

At my late and tender age, I'm *finally* learning how to play the guitar. To explain the benefits of learning an instrument, I went right to someone who knows the topic inside and out: Fender's Director of Product for Digital Learning, Mary Keenan!

Among other things, we talked about the development of, and learning...


Apr 27, 2020

David McMillin of Fort Frances returns to Car Con Carne for a fun, informal chat about playing guitar, Ozark, his Lithuanian fanbase and creating while in quarantine. The podcast ends up with a live performance of a fantastic, Chicago-centric new song called "From Lake Michigan, With Love."

 

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Apr 26, 2020

Chicago venue owners Katie Tuten (Hideout), Chris Bauman (Patio Theater, Avondale Music Hall), Robert Gomez (SubT, Beat Kitchen) and Cole Brice (Cole’s Bar) join me to talk about CIVL (Chicago Independent Venue League) and its efforts to keep Chicago venues alive and enable them to successfully emerge from the...