What Is This Music?!

Jace Lasek is known for his music with Montreal's The Besnard Lakes and Light Conductor as well as his role as co-owner of the Breakglass Studio. In addition to his own music he's mixed Wolf Parade's ...

25 Apr 20211h 2min

DJ Tamika Bernard was born in Guyana, raised in New York City, and  currently lives in Toronto. She joins me to talk about cross-cultural connections, growing up amid hip-hop culture in Queens and Bro...

18 Apr 202152min

Babs Vermeulen is a DJ and musician in Toronto; Sticky Henderson is a musician in Kingston, Ontario. We reconnect to talk about their first meeting in a small-town choir, our shared history with the T...

11 Apr 202153min

Amanda Burt is a producer with Banger Films, whose latest production is the series This Is Pop, chronicling some highlights of pop music history. She joins me to talk about this genre, why it's parado...

28 Mar 202155min

Mariana Timony is a music journalist, senior editor at the Bandcamp Daily, and author of the Weird Girls Post newsletter. She joins me to talk about the joys and pains of being part of a music scene, ...

21 Mar 202153min

Murray Lightburn is best known as the singer and leader of longtime Montreal rock stalwarts The Dears, and is also a solo performer, producer and composer. He joins me to talk about his favourite musi...

14 Mar 202153min

What do Rush, Korean boy band sensation BTS, and the Anthology of American Folk Music have in common? They all inspire obsessive devotion from their fans—including Taylor Savvy, Berlin-based Canadian ...

28 Feb 202143min

Julie Blake works in publishing at the Erased Tapes record label in London, licensing music to films and other projects. She joins me to talk about her background as an up-and-coming teen rocker and C...

21 Feb 20211h