Soft Focus

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    Mick Collins

    Mick does the rhythm of a car plant to explain the Detroit sound

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    Steve Albini

    This week Ian heads to Chicago to talk with the city's most famous analog recording engineer about pretension, Pop Tarts, and the persistent decline of American taste.

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    Jello Biafra

    The Fred Schneider of punk takes issue with our advertisers.

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    Adam Horovitz

    Ad-Rock has mixed feelings about calling the Beastie Boys the Beatles of Rap.

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    Jennifer Herrema

    Ian talks sports with the Royal Trux’s better half and raining queen of 90s trash rock.

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    Ted Leo

    New York’s favorite punk turned pop-star turned talk radio fixture is hiding out from America.

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    Stephen Malkmus

    Ian asks Stephen Malkmus the eternal question: Did Pavement shred? Or did they rock? Stephen Malkmus submits to Ian's tender interrogation in this edition of Soft Focus.

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    Calvin Johnson

    Ian talks with Calvin Johnson about E.F.Schumacher, Charlie Brown, and where he got all those sweaters.

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    Bobby Gillespie

    Ian chats with Bobby Gillespie about psychic dessication and stuff.

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    Terry Hall

    Terry Hall shares what it’s like to be better than Bono.

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    Penny Rimbaud

    Crass's founding drummer shares his thoughts on this concentration camp we call reality

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    Shaun Ryder

    Shaun Ryder investigates the mystery of American sobriety. In this edition of Soft Focus UK, Ian heads back to Manchester to talk with Shaun Ryder of the Happy Mondays and Black Grape.

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