Ep475: Lords and Lady Kevin + Trevor Dunn
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
A chaotic dive into the world of Kevin Rutmanis, Gina Skwoz, and Trevor Dunn as they discuss the new Lords & Lady Kevin + Trevor Dunn LP "Last Days at Hot Slit", their experimental music-making process, the liberating unpredictability of their collaborations, the Cows "Peacetika" vinyl reissue and more.
Topics Include:
- Kevin, Gina & Trevor log in
- Discussion about virtual backgrounds and Kevin's creative experiments.
- Nostalgia about childhood posters, including Kiss and Farrah Fawcett.
- The importance of album releases aligning with other projects.
- Reflections on "Last Days at Hot Slit" album
- Kevin, Gina & Trevor sending tracks back and forth
- Collaboration during the pandemic sparks their experimental projects.
- How Jim Goodwin, aka Pseudo Beast, became their mixer.
- Alphabetical track sequencing
- Gina's return to music and transition to drumming.
- Tribute to Dave Livingston in their musical process.
- Use of spirituals and blues lyrics in the album.
- Challenges of performing complex studio-created tracks live.
- Trevor's saxophone debut
- Kevin's experiments with unconventional sound recording techniques.
- Inspiration for titles, including Andrea Dworkin and old films.
- Discussion of upcoming vinyl releases and special editions.
- "Peacetika" reissue, Cows albums and their provocative themes.
- "Sick New World" festival cancellation
- Exhaustion with large festivals versus intimacy of smaller shows.
- Nostalgia for early 90s Cows tours and wild experiences.
- Contributions to "Burn Us Clean" box set.
- Multiple purchase links and other Bandcamp releases.
- Interview wrap up
Get "Last Days at Hot Slit" vinyl here
Get the Cows "Peacetika" vinyl reissue here
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| 0:25.1 | unlimited dot com and now on with the show welcome to the vinyl guide the |
| 0:31.3 | podcast for record collectors and music nerds here's your host the biggest |
| 0:35.4 | record nerd of them all Nate Goyyer. Ah, well, hey, everyone. |
| 0:39.7 | Happy Turkey Day or a turkey sandwich day, depending on when you listen to this. It's Nate here. |
| 0:46.3 | I'm sharing episode 475 with Kevin Routmanus, Gina Squas, and Trevor Dunn with the new project, |
| 0:56.3 | Lords and Lady Kevin, and Trevor Dunn with the new project, Lords and Lady Kevin and Trevor Dunn. |
| 0:59.2 | They got a new LP, last days at Hot Slit. |
| 1:05.2 | And we just had this conversation last night, and I wanted to get it in your hands for a couple reasons. |
| 1:11.4 | Number one, I know on this holiday, a lot of people are doing extra drive time, so maybe we can help fill some of those hours out for you and keep your company on the road. But also, we've got a couple of |
| 1:18.7 | vinyl releases coming up, some announcements that are quite timely. Last Days at Hot Slit, |
| 1:25.5 | again, this is Kevin, Kevin Gina and Trevor's project. |
| 1:29.6 | They've got an LP that's going to be available on December 6th. |
| 1:33.7 | But probably more timely, there's a reissue of cows Pistica that's coming out on amphetamine reptile. |
| 1:40.3 | And those are available at shocksop.com on December 1st, Sunday, December 1st, 12 noon central time, |
| 1:50.1 | shocksop.com. And traditionally, these sort of releases last less than half an hour when they go |
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