Hello, folks, this is Joe. Over the last two weeks, we've lost two former guests of the show,

D.H. Palligro of Dead Kennedys and Mimi Parker of Lowe, both of whom were massive sources of

inspiration and light to me and countless others. We'll return to new episodes next week

with a conversation with Deaf Leopards Rick Allen.

Here's my conversation with Mimi Parker, originally released in June 2017.

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Oh! This is Joe Wong.

Welcome to the Trap Set, where each week we explore the lives of drummers.

I want to play something for you.

You could always count on your friends to get you how that's right.

You're hearing Plastic Cup by Lowe, featuring my guest, Mimi Parker on drums and vocals.

Formed in 1993 in Duluth, Minnesota, Lowe's succinct and evocative songwriting quickly won them

a devoted fan base.

Over the course of 11 albums, the band has proven incredibly durable and influential. Mimi employs a deliberately limited sonic palette, sometimes just a single drum and symbol,

to create sprawling rhythmic landscapes.

Her spacious groove and expertise in shading and nuance

provide the band with the foundation of profound heaviness.

Paralleled to their careers as musicians, Mimi and her husband, low guitarist and singer Ellen Sparhawk,

are the parents of two children who accompany them on tour. I spoke to Mimi in downtown Los Angeles before a recent show. and more.

This must be the cup, the king held every night.

And now my conversation with Mimi Parker. And I think my earliest memory, it's really kind of a crazy tragic one, but it was so extreme.

I had this cat named Tiger, and she had kittens.

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