Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud

• The best in Canadian music in 2025

  CBC Music’s Natalie Harmsen, culture writer Riley Yesno, and Walrus writer Erin Macleod reflect on the big albums, trends, and challenges that defined Canadian music in 2025.

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• How Frank Gehry's love of art showed up in the buildings he created, and S2 of For The Culture

  Remembering Frank Gehry – one of the most famous architects of the last half-century, who had an improbable path to global stardom. Elamin Abdelmahmoud sits down with architect and designer Lukasz Kos and architecture critc Alex Bozikovic to talk about how Frank's love of the arts gave rise to buildings that were works of art on their own – and what his lessons will be, for architects coming up today.With the release of season two of the award-winning CBC series ‘For The Culture with Amanda Parris,’ Elamin is joined by culture critic Matt Amha to discuss the show’s episode on the growing Black tourist economy, and how its impacting the local tourism industries in Ghana and Jamaica.

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• Club Chalamet and can fandom actually go too far, and iHeartRadio stands up to AI

  Club Chalamet is a Timothée Chalamet fan club started by Simone Cromer. Elamin is joined by pop culture writers Kayleigh Donaldson and CT Jones to dig into the business behind Club Chalamet, what it reveals about the current state of fandom, and whether the parasocial obsession with Timothée Chalamet has gone too far.Plus, with iHeartMedia announcing its "Guaranteed Human" pledge, Elamin is joined by music industry insider Michelle Santosuosso to get reaction to the initiative and what it could mean for the future of human and AI music on commercial radio.

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• 50 Cent's new Diddy doc is wiiild, and what to make of Canada's revolving door of Heritage Ministers

  With the Netflix release of the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs docu-series ‘The Reckoning,’ executive produced by 50 Cent - Elamin is joined by entertainment reporter Taryn Finley and New York culture critic Jay Smooth to discuss the series and its approach to the Diddy scandal. Plus, Canada has a new Heritage Minister – the seventh in fewer than 10 years. The Globe and Mail’s deputy arts and film editor Barry Hertz calls it a revolving door and says it’s bad for Canadian culture workers. He explains why.

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• Friday Wrap on: Sentimental Value, Hamnet, Jay Kelly

  Three new movies illuminate what it means to be an absent father: Joachim Trier's movie 'Sentimental Value,' Chloé Zhao’s film 'Hamnet,' and Noah Baumbach’s movie 'Jay Kelly.' The Friday group chat gathers to talk about a new kind of Dad movie.

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