Peeling The Onion

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Peeling The Onion

Elvar Elvarsson

13 episodes

5 months ago

I had the jaw dropping - once in a lifetime honour to spend a day with The Messthetics - one of the most innovative bands currently active. Joe, Brendan and Anthony had been touring Europe and I had been in touch with Joe through bass lessons and also through this podcast and I invited them to have a proper layover. They come to thee main public radio building where they tan through a few tracks as well as sat down for a quick chat. That sessions and chat was absolutely amazing to say the lea...

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Peeling The Onion

The Messthetics interview May 30th 2024 - Peeling The Onion Ep. #12

5 months ago

58 minutes

Peeling The Onion

Buzz Osborne interview April 24th 2025 - Peeling The Onion Ep. #11

Man do I feel lucky to be able to share the same space as this god damn legend ! This is definitely my favourite of the two interviews I've done with Buzz so far. I was far less stressed and I feel like we vibed better. Melvins have released three awesome albums in three years - Tarantula Heart was released last April and this years they've released a collaborative album with Napalm Death: Savage Imperial Death March and a Melvins 1983 album Thunderball. Three stone cold classics in a year....

6 months ago

44 minutes

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Buzz Osborne interview August 26th 2024 - Peeling The Onion Ep. #10

Alright good people it's time for King Buzzo ! Buzz Osborne has to be one of my all time favourites. He's lead The Melvins for over 40 years now and released endless amount of classic, strange, fucked up music that often transcends genres and categorization. Actually in later years their output has increased and they show now sign of slowing down. This is the first interview of two that I've done with Buzz. He was in the middle of a US tour with Trevor Dunn doing their King Dunn tour...

6 months ago

37 minutes

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David Yow follow up interview April 23rd 2025 - Peeling The Onion Ep. #10

Hello beautiful people Elvar Elvarsson from Iceland here. I've been taking some time off the podcast since I'm working on a radio show for public radio in Iceland - so now I'm doing a few follow ups with the people I've already interviewed to get some points that I didn't get to the first time. This morning I talked to the very majestic David Yow, who has become one of my all time favourite people. You should know Yow from his tenure with The Jesus Lizard - who just fell into full swin...

6 months ago

36 minutes

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Blixa Bargeld in-person interview October 26th 2024 - Peeling The Onion Ep. #9

Hello good people and welcome to this very special episode of Peeling The Onion.I had the immense honour of sitting down with one of my favourite artist of all time, Blixa Bargeld. Blixa has been making cutting edge art for nearly 45 years (next April 1st will mark Neubauten’s first concert). He was a part of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds from the groups inception until 2003 and in recent years he has been teaming up with Italian artist Teho Teardo. The duo released their 3rd album, Christ...

11 months ago

33 minutes

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David Yow interview August 30th 2024 - Peeling The Onion Ep. #8

Hello good peopleThis is a very special episode of Peeling The Onion given the fact that our guest is non other than Mr David Yow.There are few that have taken the art of singing and performing (as well as writing music and lyrics) to as glorious heights as David Yow has. He came up in the Austin Texas punk scene of the late 70's/early 80's, first fronting the band Scratch Acid (1982–1987) and then forming The Jesus Lizard in 1987 with bassist David Wm. Sims and guitarist Duane Denison ...

1 year ago

1 hour 14 minutes

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Lou Barlow interview August 2nd 2024 - Peeling The Onion Ep. #7

Break out your baritone ukuleles - our guest on Peeling The Onion is no other than Mr. Lou Barlow !Lou has been recording music since he was 12 years old and has been a part of seminal bands like Sebadoh, Dinosaur Jr. and The Folk Implosion - who just released their first album in 25 years and are currently out on tour (tour dates at the bottom. Get your tickets here).Lou cut his teeth in the mid to late 80’s playing bass for Dinosaur Jr. His strumming bass style is one of the most distinctiv...

1 year ago

2 hours 26 minutes

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Steve Albini interview February 20th 2024 - Peeling The Onion Ep. #4

There was an unmeasurable loss suffered May 7th when Steve Albini died from a heart attack at his home in Chicago, on May 7, 2024, at the age of 61.It’s very hard to state Albini’s importance in music but also what a wide thinking individual he was - with ethos and values that he re-visited and which evolved along with him as a person.He was one of my all time favourite musicians but on top of that he was also probably my single favourite recording engineer, having recorded masterpieces like:...

1 year ago

1 hour 26 minutes

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Blixa Bargeld interview March 25th 2024 - Peeling The Onion Ep. #6

Alright good people - let’s get our bass springs ready and fire up our jet turbines - our guest on Peeling The Onion is no other than the almighty Blixa Bargeld ! Yes, this is not a drill. I sat down with Blixa for a 90 minute talk about the new Einstürzende Neubauten album, Rampen (AMP: Alien Pop Music), which is to be released April 5th, as well as his extremely prolific career. He of course did 20 years with Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds and has done many collaborations, including his w...

1 year ago

1 hour 32 minutes

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Chris Ballew interview March 11th 2024 - Peeling The Onion Ep. #5

Alright let's get in our little blue dune buggies and let’s get this party started - Chris Ballew is our guest on episode 5 of Peeling The Onion ! Chris is one of the most prolific artist out there - he’s played over 2000 shows throughout the years and released several dozen of albums of original material under multiple aliases. These days he’s releasing solo albums under his own name for the first time in his career, two a year - every January and July for the unforeseeable future. I’ve...

1 year ago

1 hour 21 minutes

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Joe Lally interview (Fugazi, The Messthetics, Coriky) February 6th 2024 - Peeling The Onion Ep. #3

Turn off your heat and have a bowl of rice - we have an in depth conversation with one of the all time great bass players of our lifetime. Joe Lally is one of four key ingredients of Fugazi, one of the most influential bands of all time. After Fugazi went on indefinite hiatus some 20 years ago Joe has been prolific and beside releasing three solo albums has collaborated with artist like John Frusciante and Josh Klinghoffer as well as founding Coriky with Ian Mackaye (Fugazi) and his wife Amy ...

1 year ago

1 hour 55 minutes

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Henry Rollins interview January 2nd 2024 - Peeling The Onion Ep. #2

Henry Rollins taught me a new word: luddite. Ah ha ! Peeling The Onion is back with non other than the mighty Henry Rollins.Oh my what an absolute treat. I spoke to Henry on January 2nd and what a great way to start the calendar year. Hopefully this will be the beginning of a yearly thing because what is better than starting the year speaking to a man who is as hard working and successful but as modest and humble as Henry is.Henry cut his teeth with Black Flag in the 80's. He went on to found...

1 year ago

1 hour 20 minutes

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Greg Norton interview November 20th 2023 - Peeling The Onion Ep. #1

Originally recorded for Rás 2 - Icelandic public radio. They probably own the rights to this so if you want to use the recording in any way you better check with them.Parts of the interview were aired March 3rd 2024 and March 10th 2024.Greg Norton of Hüsker Dü and now Ultrabomb is of course a living legend.Hüsker Dü is one of the most hard working and prolific bands in the history of music and it was great to get Greg's perspective of their career. He took a 14 year break from the music busin...

1 year ago

1 hour 18 minutes