Wednesday, April 28, 2021: Kardinal Offishall, Charlotte Cardin and more

Today on Q, with host Tom Power:

• Canadian rapper and producer Kardinal Offishall reflects on his breakout 2001 album, Quest for Fire: Firestarter, Vol. 1, and explains how he's keeping our homegrown talent north of the border now that he's a senior executive at Universal Music Canada.

• Music journalist Dorian Lynskey talks about the disappearance of pop bands and why they may not be resonating with younger fans today.

  • Read Lynskey's article "Why bands are disappearing: 'Young people aren't excited by them'" in The Guardian.

• Toronto's poet laureate A. F. Moritz reads his poem, Thoughts in Time of Plague, which documents life in the city in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Canadian singer-songwriter Charlotte Cardin discusses her debut full-length album, Phoenix, and shares why she spent the last few years self-reflecting.

• Author and poet Morgan Parker reads a poem from her award-winning collection Magical Negro.

WATCH | Kardinal Offishall's full interview with Tom Power:

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