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Sean Cannon

Sean Cannon is a Peabody Award-winning podcast producer and journalist. His work has also been published by Esquire, Vice, NPR, and others.

David Berman (David Berman/Drag City Records)

Sitting in front of David Berman’s old apartment in the middle of the night

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The Hold Steady (D James Goodwin)

Their last “easy” record: The Hold Steady’s “Stay Positive” and what came after

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Dave Davies of the Kinks (Getty/Frazer Harrison)

“He stabbed a fork into my hand”: Dave Davies on The Kinks’ brotherly love

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Ethan Hawke in "Born to Be Blue" (IFC Films)

Ethan Hawke on coping with failure, success and insecurity: “Sometimes I feel that my whole life has been a war with my nervous system”

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(Starz)

“I can fix Ash now”: Bruce Campbell reveals how his cult hero matures — with “dentures and a man girdle” — for “Ash vs. Evil Dead”

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(Alex De Mora)

The punk gospel of Algiers: “It boils down to some sort of liberation music, some sort of emancipation”

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President Barack Obama participates in a podcast with Marc Maron in Los Angeles, Calif., June 19, 2015. (White House/Pete Souza)

Obama shines on “WTF”: Maron’s intimate podcast could be a game-changer for American politics

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(Reuters/Kevork Djansezian)

5 reasons why Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show” will make you forget all about “The Colbert Report”

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Mark and Jay Duplass (AP/Victoria Will)

Mark and Jay Duplass on balancing work and kids after finally scoring a hit: “We’ve been invited to the buffet that we’ve been trying to get at for years”

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Sam Simon (AP/Tonya Wise/Fox/Salon)

“The Simpsons” wouldn’t have been “The Simpsons” without Sam Simon

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Kanye West, Paul McCartney (AP/Evan Agostini/Thibault Camus)

Kanye’s “dad rap” era: Why Paul McCartney could be guiding Yeezy to his musical middle age

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