Kreative Kontrol

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Claire Devlin and Eli Davidovici from Bellbird are here for a springtime talk about their new album The Call, the McGill University music program, why so many musicians from British Columbia wind up in Montreal, their respective early interests in top 40 pop radio, mainstream and classic rock, and eventually jazz and free music, how improvisation can feel like freedom but also be quite frightening, the cultural hub that was Resonance Café, playing improvisation games, delving into the political nature of songs like “Blowing on Embers” and “Soft Animal” and dedicating the former to a free Palestine, relating to birds, playing a show at Suoni Per Il Popolo on June 28, 2026, working on new songs, other future plans, and much more.

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Aidan McConnell, Ben Rositsan, Josh Sparks, and Steven Noronha from Potions are here to discuss the potions95 EP and their new album, Beebo, Make a Wish, being Toronto musicians, the Edmonton/Calgary rivalry, the good, the bad, and the fortuitous aspects of studying music at the University of Toronto, the Liverpool, England rock combo the Beatles and a band Potions is associated with called Ben Mike and the Beatles, the way Potions improvise music and lyrics and what even is a song really, recording 30 different albums for the world to hear one that draws from 30 different tapes, being open to the universe and also being indecisive, fun with language, summer touring including a Sappyfest stop, other future plans, and much more.

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Nicholas Krgovich and Joseph Shabason are here to discuss the wonderful new Shabason & Krgovich record, Four Days in June, scary but also somehow fortuitous car trouble, their working and social history, how Dan Bejar and John Collins from Destroyer connected them, everyone loving Nick’s record On Sunset, writing observational lyrics about other people’s lives and how it’s harder to make friends in your forties, the nice people like Kyle whom I’ve met while walking my dog Indiana Bones, exhibiting gratitude for the life you live, the remarkable band and other collaborators who contributed to this album, being a mostly inside/occasional outside person, what’s next for this collaboration, other future plans, and much more.

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Hamilton Leithauser returns to discuss growing up in D.C. and being influenced by bands on Dischord Records, working as recording engineer Don Zientara’s assistant at his Inner Ear studio while Fugazi was recording Red Medicine, recalling how Roy Orbison helped him find his singing voice, getting into home recording, having restraint and foresight as a one-man studio band, pondering the tenth anniversary of I Had a Dream That You Were Mine while avoiding nostalgic pats on the back, digging into songs like “The Bride’s Dad” and This Side of the Island’s “What Do I Think,” embracing midlife, how voices like Bob Dylan’s seem imbued with American history, getting into soundtrack and film scoring work, opening for the Strokes, other future plans, and much more.

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