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Joyner Lucas: On his new album Not Now I'm Busy
Joyner Lucas is a rapper who has millions of streams and two Grammy nominations. He tackles big subjects in his music, from self-harm and addiction t…
2 years ago
Alana Yorke: Her near-death experience and new album
After a near-death scuba diving accident that left her with PTSD, the Nova Scotia singer-songwriter Alana Yorke released the biggest album of her car…
2 years ago
Laurie Anderson: AI and art, O Superman, and her prolific career
The artist, musician and filmmaker Laurie Anderson has been prolific for decades. With a career that’s been called uncategorizable, she’s worked in p…
2 years ago
Kaia Kater: Strange Medicine and the Black origins of the banjo
The Canadian folk singer Kaia Kater is back with a new album, “Strange Medicine.” She sits down with Tom to talk about the record, why she fell out o…
2 years ago
Tom Selleck: His “accidental” acting career, Magnum, P.I., and his new memoir
Tom Selleck has been on Hollywood’s A-list since bursting onto screens in the TV show “Magnum, P.I.” in the early ‘80s. By the end of that decade, he…
2 years ago
Matthew Macfadyen: Playing desperate people and the success of Succession
Matthew Macfadyen (Succession, Pride & Prejudice) stars in the miniseries “Stonehouse,” which tells the story of the disgraced British MP John Stoneh…
2 years ago
Kathleen Hanna: Bikini Kill, the feminism of riot grrrl, and her new memoir
Kathleen Hanna is a punk icon, a pioneer of the riot grrrl movement, and one of the most influential feminists of the ‘90s. As the frontwoman of Biki…
2 years ago
Quick Q: Don McKay on receiving the Griffin Poetry Prize’s Lifetime Recognition Award
The Newfoundland-based writer Don McKay has been publishing poems about the natural world since the ‘80s. This year, he was honoured with the Lifetim…
2 years ago
Remembering Alice Munro
Alice Munro, a Canadian author who was revered worldwide as master of the short story and who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, has died at the age…
2 years ago
Serj Tankian: System of a Down, raising awareness of the Armenian genocide, and his new memoir
System of a Down’s Serj Tankian grew up hearing stories about his family members who died during the Armenian genocide, many years before he was born…
2 years ago