The Art of Longevity

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The Art of Longevity Season 13, Episode 7: Jesca Hoop

July 03, 2026

Jesca Hoop describes her new record as "a vote of confidence...an investment in myself as an artist and authority over my vocation and life's path." Asked to unpack that, she goes straight to the unsettling fear beneath creating anew each time in the album cycle: starting a new chapter with "no songs, perhaps no solution for a release," just a blank slate with a big question mark in the middle. In the end, "It was just the decision that the candle was worth the w...

The Art of Longevity Season 13, Episode 6: Kurt Vile

June 13, 2026

I caught up with Kurt for the Art of Longevity at his home in the leafy, trail-threaded neighbourhood of Mount Airy ("there's like one coffee shop, one grocery store kind of thing"), where, if you're a local dad with a creative streak and a guilty conscience, you too might one day hand him something strange and wonderful. Philadelphia's Been Good To Me is Kurt’s tenth album, and it arrives draped in the city's 250th anniversary of independence, although Kurt woul...

The Art of Longevity Season 13, Episode 5: Broken Social Scene

May 29, 2026

There’s a point in every long music career where survival becomes more interesting than success. Not survival in the purely commercial sense. Not chart positions, algorithmic reach or streaming milestones. But survival of identity. Survival of friendship. Survival of purpose. The good stuff that can easily get buried away in the cut & thrust of a fickle business like music. That’s where Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene finds himself now, nearly 25 years after the collective first emerged...