 Beginning in 2013, a one-hour weekly spinoff series, "Q The Music", was added to the CBC Music schedule, airing a selection of interviews and performances by musicians previously broadcast on the daily program.On April 15, 2015, the show changed its name to the lower case "q".On April 8, 2009, Billy Bob Thornton and his musical group The Boxmasters made an appearance on "Q" that was widely criticized and received international attention after Thornton was persistently unintelligible and discourteous to Ghomeshi.