Titus Andronicus A Productive Cough

Published Feb 27, 2018

Patrick Stickles' name is unlikely to grace a list of America's most accessible songwriters. The Titus Andronicus frontman specializes in in...

Tune-Yards The Exclaim! Questionnaire

Published Jan 17, 2018

Popularity hasn't desensitized Tune-Yards frontwoman Merrill Garbus. Four years on from the commercially successful and socially conscious N...

Tune-Yards I can feel you creep into my private life

Published Jan 15, 2018

It was hard to be optimistic when Tune-Yards released "Look at Your Hands" last October. The single traded the Oakland duo's signature rhyth...

Shopping The Official Body

Published Jan 15, 2018

True to their name, UK post-punk group Shopping has a fixation with economy. Between guitarist Rachel Aggs's clean, precise leads and Andrew...

A. Savage Thawing Dawn

Published Oct 10, 2017

"Talented with words," Andrew Savage sings at one point on his debut solo album, "but am I more than pretty verse …?"   That's the questio...

Protomartyr Relatives in Descent

Published Sep 22, 2017

Protomartyr aren't going to revolutionize guitar music. That's a big ask for any rock band in 2017, where many acts are hyper-literate, fier...

Un Blonde Good Will Come to You

Published Sep 20, 2017

Jean-Sebastien Audet never seems to stay in one place for long. Since the Calgary pop prodigy moved to Montreal, his output as Un Blonde has...

Cold Specks Fool's Paradise

Published Sep 20, 2017

It seems a bit obvious to point out the major changes on Cold Specks' third album. You can't step in the same river twice, after all, and ar...

Zola Jesus Okovi

Published Sep 06, 2017

Nika Roza Danilova's work as Zola Jesus has always been precarious. The Merrill, Wisconsin native fits theatrical, sometimes abrasive synthe...

Faith Healer Try ;-)

Published Sep 06, 2017

Psychedelia has always been about the mind. Like their forbearers, Edmonton psych-pop duo Faith Healer are concerned with the cerebral, but...

Moon King Hamtramck '16

Published Aug 02, 2017

Cities have profound effects on their resident musicians. Beyond offering supportive communities and subject matter, they imbue artists with...

Doldrums Esc

Published Jun 28, 2017

Listening to a Doldrums album can be an overwhelming experience. Both 2013's Lesser Evil and 2015's The Air Conditioned Nightmare felt metic...

Kirin J. Callinan Bravado

Published Jun 07, 2017

Waiting four years to release a sophomore album is always a dicey proposition, and for Australian provocateur Kirin J. Callinan, the risk ha...

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Massey Hall, Toronto ON, May 31

Published Jun 01, 2017

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds took the stage in Toronto last night (May 31) with their work cut out for them. Promoting both a greatest hits p...

Colin Stetson Great Hall, Toronto ON, May 15

Published May 16, 2017

Colin Stetson isn't a singer, but you could recognize his voice from anywhere. Passed through a dog collar microphone, his hoarse wail is as...

Rheostatics Brave New Waves Session

Published May 05, 2017

The Rheostatics were darlings on CBC Radio's late-night programs throughout the late '80s and '90s. The Etobicoke art-rockers peddled a dork...

Moon Duo Occult Architecture Vol. 2

Published May 03, 2017

Moon Duo yield vastly different results with the same basic setup on their second Occult Architecture album. Released in the dead of winter,...

Guided by Voices August By Cake

Published Apr 05, 2017

Through the 1990s and early 2000s, Robert Pollard was one of indie rock's slyest songwriters. As the leader of Dayton, OH's Guided By Voices...

Various Artists Pentagon Black Compilation No. 2

Published Mar 29, 2017

You needn't look far to find Pentagon Black's mission statement; on the Montreal label's first compilation, co-founder and Famines singer/gu...

Wire Silver/Lead

Published Mar 29, 2017

Post-punk mainstays Wire were never likely to rest on their laurels. In the late '70s, they refused to play songs from their triptych of cla...