Kreative Kontrol

Julia Steiner discusses her band Ratboys and their eclectic, emotionally charged new album, The Window, living in places like Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky, her mother’s influential Beatles and Sher...

22 Aug 20231h 9min

Hannah Georgas discusses her deeply personal and revealing new album, I’d Be Lying if I Said I Didn’t Care, leaving Toronto behind, tennis and acupuncture, asserting herself and really, really communi...

15 Aug 202359min

Fenne Lily discusses her wonderful new album Big Picture, running and sleeping, writing as a coping mechanism, why self-reflection alone won’t cut it, how literature and comedy influence her songwriti...

8 Aug 20231h 17min

Ray Padgett discusses his remarkable new book, Pledging My Time – Conversations with Bob Dylan Band Members, his music journalism origin story, loving “Weird Al” Yankovic and MAD Magazine, first getti...

1 Aug 20231h 22min

Nico Paulo discusses her new, critically acclaimed self-titled album, living her life in Portugal, Toronto, and St. John’s, window shutter signals, learning other people’s music, how love can mean so ...

27 Jul 20231h 15min

[TW: suicide, psychological abuse] Nina Nastasia discusses her latest wondrous solo album, Riderless Horse, living in Calgary, Alberta for a while, the longest walk in the world for a dog, the difficu...

25 Jul 20231h 17min

Leith Ross discusses their new album, To Learn, leaving Ontario for the prairies, music in their parents’ home, believing in boredom, what social media is good for, irl community connections, dehumani...

20 Jul 20231h 5min

In a conversation recorded before the SAG-AFTRA strike motion, Martin Herlihy, John Higgins, and Ben Marshall from please don’t destroy discuss their 2023 North American tour and Just for Laughs stops...

18 Jul 202349min