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Welcome to the Trapset, 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 now.

And now my conversation with Mimi Parker.

I'm 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.

And I remember going out there one morning. And Tiger had eaten all of her kittens and there were just legs and tails left.

And I know I was only about two, and a half and that was it and I think that's scarred my

yeah did it I don't know I don't know we lived on a farm I have so many crazy animal stories

that I don't know which one is the worst. They're all bad?

Well, they're all, sure, you know, they're not all bad, but when you live on a farm

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