​Emily Haines Talks Transforming 'Choir of the Mind' for the Stage

Published Oct 04, 2017

Listening to Choir of the Mind, the first Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton record in ten years, it's not at all obvious how she will perform...

​Chelsea Wolfe Uses Noise to Drown the Din of Daily Life on 'Hiss Spun'

Published Sep 28, 2017

Noise is relative. Some musicians fuss over eliminating crackles and hisses from their work. Chelsea Wolfe built an album from them.   The...

Chelsea Wolfe's 'Hiss Spun,' Her Heaviest Album Yet, Was Inspired by '90s Rock and Industrial, Not Metal

Published Sep 21, 2017

Chelsea Wolfe's fifth studio album Hiss Spun could easily be called her heaviest recording to date. With contributions from Troy Van Leeuwen...

Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton Choir of the Mind

Published Sep 13, 2017

"People drift away….people drift away…" sings Emily Haines in "Planets," the dreamy opening track to Choir of the Mind, her first solo recor...

Emily Haines Explains How Johnny Marr Helped Her Through Broken Social Scene's Post-Attack Manchester Gig

Published Aug 14, 2017

On May 23 of this year, Broken Social Scene played a show in Manchester, UK, a mere 24 hours after a terror attack struck an Ariana Grande c...

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (1984-2014)

Published May 03, 2017

So much has happened since 1998, when Mute Records released The Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds — which for many years was honestly the...

Timber Timbre Sincerely, Future Pollution

Published Apr 07, 2017

It's not a total shock to find Timber Timbre's Taylor Kirk writing a dystopian record.   It's a bit surprising that it sounds like he's ha...

"I Would Never Be So Literal": Timber Timbre's 'Sincerely, Future Pollution' Is a Dystopian Concept Album but Not Like You Think

Published Apr 04, 2017

Taylor Kirk, founder and leader of Montreal trio Timber Timbre, calls his newest release an omen from a dystopian future civilization, but i...

An Essential Guide to Blondie

Published Mar 16, 2017

Blondie are a new wave group from when that was actually new; a punk group with clear vocals and pop hits; a rock'n'roll group whose best-kn...

​An Essential Guide to Marilyn Manson

Published Feb 15, 2017

You might think Marilyn Manson would be done with trying to shock people.   As the leader of the industrial-glam-rock band of the same nam...

A Perfect Union of Contrary Things By Sarah Jensen with Maynard James Keenan

Published Nov 18, 2016

Who is Maynard James Keenan? A master of misinformation, of mystery, a guy who would go on tour behind a curtain, or covered in blue paint,...

An Essential Guide to Depeche Mode

Published Nov 15, 2016

They are the world's biggest electronic rock'n'roll band. Pioneers of British new wave, Depeche Mode didn't just break through in the '80s,...

An Essential Guide to Dolly Parton

Published Sep 06, 2016

Dolly Parton is such a pop culture icon you could almost be forgiven for forgetting she's first and foremost a singer-songwriter — not to me...

Basia Bulat Good Advice

Published Feb 10, 2016

File under: soul music. On her fourth studio album, Canadian singer-songwriter Basia Bulat's heart bursts open and out pours spirited, feel-...

Basia Bulat Preps for Carnegie Hall Show with Philip Glass

Published Feb 04, 2016

Basia Bulat will play alongside Philip Glass at Carnegie Hall this month, a gig she says is "like a strange dream." The Canadian singer...

Basia Bulat The Long Goodbye

Published Feb 03, 2016

There are days you realize love is not enough, is not forever. There are days you pack up your things and change cities. There, you write so...

Florence Welch (of the Machine) The Exclaim! Questionnaire

Published Jul 02, 2015

Florence Welch has been on top of the charts ever since her band Florence + the Machine burst onto the scene in 2009 with the breakthrough a...

METZ Already Hit the Studio to Work on New Post-'II' Material

Published Apr 30, 2015

Toronto's METZ aren't releasing their second album, II, until May 5 but may have already begun working on a third. The punk trio were in a T...

METZ Come On, Feel the Noise

Published Apr 22, 2015

If you were to examine METZ on an atomic level, they would be all electron — excitable and agitated, yet very much in control. The Tor...

Death From Above 1979 Friends Fatale

Published Sep 05, 2014

Sebastien Grainger: "It was kind of out of the blue. I mean, we'd never explicitly talked about a new record. It's just one day there were d...