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Ep. #996: Bibi Club

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Post date July 15, 2025

Adèle Trottier-Rivard and Nicolas Basque are here to discuss Bibi Club and their latest album, Feu de garde, a camping trip and returning to Guelph’s Hillside Festival, how six of their fellow 2025 Polaris Music Prize nominees are from Quebec but may not know each other, Montreal missed connections, their bilingual lyrics and upbeat sound, addressing anxiety with music to help themselves and others, a Calvin Johnson collaboration, Stereolab and the Stone Bonnet Choir, finishing a new album, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #983: Bells Larsen

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Post date June 3, 2025

Bells Larsen is here to discuss Blurring Time, performing duets with his old alto voice and his new baritone, cancelling an American tour in the wake of government policies that persecute and harass people with non-conforming gender identities, the widespread attention his statement on the matter received, addressing transphobia in public and his general interest in discourse, dichotomies and multiplicity, Montreal’s bagels and Liverpool’s Beatles, the male voices of Elliott Smith and Sufjan Stevens, significant numbers, working on a children’s book with his father Andrew Larsen, writing new songs, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #876: Ibibio Sound Machine

Post author By vish
Post date June 11, 2024

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Eno Williams and Max Grunhard discuss the brilliant new Ibibio Sound Machine album, Pull the Rope, living in London and loving Ninja Tune Records, aspirational truths and the clarinet, how music is a language, Eno’s exposure to highlife and jùjú music and why openly loving Fela Kuti could be precarious, empathy, inclusion, and improvisation, intergenerational culture clashes, working with Ross Orton, upcoming tour dates, other future plans, and much more.

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