Sloancast Rob Butcher and Ken Gildner
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Two superfans take deep dives into the career and catalogue of the Canadian rock band Sloan.
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Ep. 54: Chris Trowbridge
We welcome producer, record collector and legendary liner-note-writer Chris Trowbridge (aka Chico T. Sanchez) as we discuss the Halifax music scene of the early 90s and dive deep into the sentiment around the creation of One Chord to Another. Plus, we get the inside angle on his creation of OCTA's famous sleeve blurb.
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Ep. 53: 12 (feat. Julian Muia)
Sloan's 12th studio album — 2018's aptly titled "12" — is an exercise in collaboration and Sloanocracy. After half a dozen years of ripening, we're joined by musician and power pop connoisseur Julian Muia to take a retrospective look at the album and discuss it's place within the GBOAT pantheon.
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Ep. 52: The Closers
As a bookend to our "Openers" episode, we individually rank and discuss each of the closing tracks to Sloan's 13 studio albums and reveal the Sloancast community rankings as well. If it feels nearly impossible to rank these tracks, it's because it is.
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Ep. 51: The Openers
What makes a great opening track? In this episode, we dig into the openers to each of the band's 13 studio album releases to date. Rob and Ken deliver their own rankings, and we also reveal the Sloancast community's ranking of these seminal tracks.
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Ep. 50: Elaine Hsu
In celebration of our 50th episode, we invited superfan, artist and early Sloan internet celebrity Elaine Hsu to tell us her story. Join us as we chat about about the early Sloan fan internet community, the Psychotically Obsessed Sloan Fan Page, the viral phenomenon that was/is "Simpsloans"/"Sloansons", as well as her encounters with the band over the years.
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Ep. 49: Drum Challenge
Think you know Sloan? How's your musical acumen? How attentive of a listener are you? Rob and recurring guest Aaron Pinto try to guess 20 Sloan songs based alone off of an isolated clip of their drum tracks. Play along (no cheating!) and let us know how many you got right!
Customer Reviews
Yes!!!!!
Where has this been in my life? Huge HC fan and giant Sloan fan. So glad you guys do this podcast!!!
Had to Have This... Now I Have It
Loving this podcast! This thing is properly fulfilling my fanboy needs.
Slooooooan!
I’m fairly new to my Sloan obsession and this podcast is a perfect compliment to that. Rob and Ken are super knowledgeable but don’t come across like arrogant know-it-alls, which can sometimes happen with podcasts (especially music ones). These guys are just huge fans of this incredible band and want to share their love and talk to some people (some in or involved in the band, some just fans almost as big as they are) along the way. This is a great listen and I can’t wait to be all the way caught up.
PS. Much like another favorite, “You Don’t Know Mojack”, these dudes make me wish I was Canadian.
Greg Polard / Where It Went Podcast