CADENCE WEAPON
AS HEARD ON ...
THE BEACHES
YOUR FAVORITE ENEMIES
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CADENCE WEAPON
AS HEARD ON ...
For the full interview , listen to the Sept . 13 , 2017 episode
CM : For a long time , it seems that there was little industry infrastructure to support rap artists in Canada . Has that changed ?
Cadence Weapon : I feel like it ’ s still not there . Like when I go on tour in the States , when I turn on the radio , there is a station that is dedicated to rap and R & B in pretty much every major city and the demographics aren ’ t that different than a place like Toronto . So what ’ s the excuse ? Why can I not easily listen to this music on the radio ? And not to say that radio is the be-all and end-all , but it also dictates culture and it changes things in your society …
When I go to L . A ., all you hear is PARTYNEXTDOOR on the radio , all you hear is Drake , all you hear are artists from Toronto . So why is that success not reflected more on a day-to-day basis all across Canada ? I don ’ t get it . I wish there was a station like that in every city across Canada and we had the option , because you don ’ t know how much more our scenes could grow with that kind of public acceptance . It means a lot . For the CBC , why can ’ t they make a show that is only that music ? I ’ m ready right now , I ’ ll host that show ! I can fill up an hour or more of Canadian-only rap and R & B and dancehall and make it dope , and it doesn ’ t need to be tokenism . It ’ s very doable , so what ’ s the excuse ?
Kylie Miller of
THE BEACHES
For the full interview , listen to the Sept . 20 , 2017 episode
CM : How did that come to be that you worked with Metric ’ s Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw as producers ? Have they ever co-produced something together outside of Metric ?
Kylie Miller : No , this is the first record they ’ ve ever produced ! Emily , in the past , has shown an interest in developing and working with a band to expand her role as a musician and writer into the world of producing . She actually produced her own solo album that is coming out this year , too . So she has been experimenting with that a lot . We actually have a mutual friend who ended up introducing us and we had a really great time with them . We ended up doing a session together just to see if we liked working together and what the vibe was , if we had something good between us . The song absolutely kicked ass and we were blown away because they just totally understood what we were trying to do and didn ’ t try to overcomplicate it , which so many people end up doing , especially in the production side of things . They just kept it really simple and we were really , really happy with that experience of working them and ended up asking them if they would produce the record and they were super onboard and really into it .
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Jeff Beaulieu of
YOUR FAVORITE ENEMIES
For the full interview , listen to the Aug . 30 , 2017 episode
CM : When going back through the archives for the new box set , A Journey Beyond Ourselves , as well as the storybook , A Story About Between Illness and Migration , did it shed new light on past experiences and material ?
Jeff Beaulieu : Of course , it brings back really amazing moments , as well as the darkest ones . I think we ’ re just very proud to expose what we became , I think , not only as a band , but also as people , because there are times when you ’ re reaching out to your craziest dreams , but there are things that are keeping you back from it , and when your bandmates are fighting for you . It ’ s just great to revisit those things with today ’ s perspective . Because when you ’ re in the midst of all that , you don ’ t really know what ’ s going on , and the extent of that , and it ’ s hard to really have a perspective on it . … We have to share our experience and we always have that generosity where being close to our fans , as we ’ ve always been , we wanted to just expose a bit of what ’ s the real [ story ] behind all of that . With social media and all of this , it ’ s hard to get what ’ s real and what ’ s not real , I think . So as humble as we could get , that ’ s what this book is about .
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