In today’s episode of The Talkhouse Music Podcast, Janet Weiss and Meredith Graves discuss agency and the emotional cost of making music.

Janet Weiss (Quasi, Sleater-Kinney) Talks with Meredith Graves (Perfect Pussy) for The Talkhouse Music Podcast (Part 1)

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Born At Midnite is the Montreal-based duo of Amery Sandford and David Carriere (TOPS, Marci). Their record Eternal BAM Nation is out now on Arbutus Records. 
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Born At Midnite

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Mood Board: Born At Midnite’s Eternal BAM Nation

Everything is coming together in Julie Doiron&#8216;s world, from embracing her electric past, to embarking on a new and energetic phase of her solo career with some of the most upbeat and inspiring songs of her recording career. Her latest record, I Thought of You, is out now.

Julie Doiron

Ava Mirzadegan is a singer-songwriter based in Philly. Her latest record, For the Light, is out now on Vital Recordings. 
(Photo Credit: Michael Ward-Rosenbaum)

Ava Mirzadegan

Ava Mirzadegan and Julie Doiron Are Willing to Talk About the Heavy Stuff

Vorhex Angel features both members of JEFF The Brotherhood and longtime collaborator Kunal Prakash. Not much has been revealed about Vorhex Angel in terms of intentions or influences. They have no social media presence. Sonically, they cover a range: There’s the damaged, and then there is the even more damaged. In one way or another, all of the music takes cues from a large trove of Japanese noise rock—Les Rallizes Dénudés, High Rise, White Heaven—and uses those influences as a jumping off point for improvisation. Is Vorhex Angel a jam band? Maybe if you swap out the Allman Brothers for Acid Mothers Temple. What we do know: These are lifers fully off the leash, unburdened by the structures of industry, making music as free as a seraphic being floating above a stack of amps in a dive bar.
Their latest record, Drain, is out now on Soul Selects.

Vorhex Angel

Primitive Ring consists of Bert Hoover (Hooveriii, Groop), Jon Modaff (Hooveriii, Groop, Frankie and the Witch Fingers), and Charles Moothart (Fuzz, GØGGS). The three LA based musicians found each other in a collective state of high functioning de evolution, and collectively agreed to bend the knee to the primal instincts of melody and rhythm.
(Photo Credit: Sheva Kafai)

Primitive Ring

Vorhex Angel and Primitive Ring Chat About Drain

Horse Lords is a band founded in Baltimore in 2010, consisting of Owen Gardner (guitar), Max Eilbacher (bass), Sam Haberman (drums), Andrew Bernstein (alto saxophone/percussion). Their latest record, Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!, is out now on RVNG Intl.
(Photo Credit: Kasia Zacharko)

Horse Lords

Mood Board: Horse Lords’ Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!

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Anthony Frith is a writer and director with a love for absurd pop-culture anomalies. His work has taken him to Boston, where he studied the art of churning out novelty songs with cult musician Matt Farley in Lessons From A Middle Class Artist; to Burbank, where he made his feature debut directing a trashy dinosaur movie for the legendary studio the Asylum in <a href="https://www.mockbustermovie.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mockbuster</a>, which is in theaters from July 10 through Giant Pictures. You can usually find Anthony deep in the rabbit holes of internet folklore, always on the hunt for strange stories from the fringes of pop culture.

Anthony Frith

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Janet Weiss&nbsp;lives in Portland, Oregon, where she plays drums in&nbsp;Quasi&nbsp;and&nbsp;Sleater-Kinney. She loves dogs and horses, and enjoys producing good records. You can follow her on Twitter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jazzzhand">here</a>. &nbsp; Meredith Graves will read you if you&#8217;re a book, take your picture if you&#8217;re a mountain and hem your dress if you&#8217;re getting married or going to the prom. Her secret dream is to be a florist. She sings in <a href="prrfectpussy.bandcamp.com]" target="_blank">Perfect Pussy</a>&nbsp;and is on <a href="http://instagram.com/meredithxgraves" target="_blank">Instagram</a>. &nbsp;

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The Album Leaf has been making its mark as a soft-spoken innovator steadily and surely since 1999. It&#8217;s clear mastermind Jimmy LaValle is unafraid of thinking outside the box, both as an individual artist and within the larger scope of modern music.
(Photo Credit: Devin Oktar Yalkin)