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This Old Dog: Mac DeMarco On Growing Up And Getting Personal

NPR

By Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi

Published March 11, 2018 at 8:00 PM EDT

Mac DeMarco talks with NPR about how his relationship with his father influenced the music on his last album, <em>This Old Dog</em>. — Mac DeMarco talks with NPR about how his relationship with his father influenced the music on his last album, This Old Dog.

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Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi

Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi is a producer at Planet Money. He's reported on how a well-intentioned chemistry professor unwittingly helped unleash a global market for synthetic drugs, and how comedians police joke theft.

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