World Cafe Playlist for 10/10/2025
Howard Bilerman joins host Raina Douris
The iconic album Funeral by Arcade Fire is just one of many recorded at Montreal’s iconic Hotel2Tango recording studio. For our latest Sense of Place series, we sit down with the studio’s co-owner and record producer Howard Bilerman to learn how he went from taping punk shows as a kid to recording with some of Montreal’s biggest acts.
Today’s Playlist
U2 “Stay (Faraway, So Close!)” Zooropa
Asexuals “Be What You Want” Be What You Want
Godspeed You! Black Emperor “We Drift Like Worried Fire” ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
Arcade Fire “Wake Up” Funeral
U.S. Girls “State House (It’s a Man’s World)” U.S. GIRLS on KRAAK
Leonard Cohen “You Want It Darker” You Want It Darker
Mac DeMarco “Chicago” Five Easy Hot Dogs
Jeff Buckley “Hallelujah” Grace
Courtney Barnett “So Long, Marianne” MTV Unplugged: Live in Melbourne
Bedouine “Bird Gone Wild” WC Recording
Bright Eyes “Four Winds” Cassadaga
Yard Act ”We Make Hits” Where’s My Utopia
The Pretenders “Love’s A Mystery” Break Up The Concrete
Hour Two
Dawes “One Of Us” We’re All Gonna Die
Hermanos Gutierrez “Elegantly Wasted (feat. Leon Bridges)” Single
Fiona Apple “Fast As You Can” When The Pawn…
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit “If We Were Vampires” The Nashville Sound
Lord Huron “Watch Me Go” The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1
Keane “Sea Fog” WC Recording
Richard Thompson “Beeswing” Recorded Live at the World Cafe
Ben Folds Five “Brick” Recorded Live at the World Cafe
Big Thief “Words” Double Infinity
The Waterboys “We Will Not Be Lovers” Fisherman’s Blues
Madi Diaz “Christine” Skin and Bone
Bettye Lavette “Streets Of Philadelphia” Song Of America
Bruce Springsteen “Streets Of Fire” Darkness On The Edge of Town
Daniel Donato “Sunshine in the Rain” Horizons