April Issue 2015
Strange Days
The Evolutionary Needs Of Now-Gen Gaming
PUBLISHED Apr 13, 2015
I'm playing an 18-year-old girl named Maxine Caulfield — Catcher in the Rye reference intended — having a vivid nightmare in ph...
Teenanger
Keep Things Moving
PUBLISHED Mar 31, 2015
With their third studio album, Singles Don't $ell, noisy Toronto punk act Teenanger reached their biggest audience yet, gaining fans far be...
Tobias Jesso Jr.
Piano Man
PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2015
For an old-fashioned guy, Tobias Jesso Jr. sure knows how to get people on the internet talking. Since posting his demos online in the summ...
Modest Mouse
Building Something Out Of Nothing
PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2015
"I've always just tried to make really weird music that also has pop appeal, as opposed to pop music where you just throw some weird elemen...
Action Bronson
The Exclaim! Questionnaire
PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2015
Action Bronson is rap's Mr. Wonderful. Since independently emerging on the hip-hop scene in 2011, after making the drastic decision to leav...
Lightning Bolt
Strike Again
PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2015
It's a story blown out of proportion throughout history — a once legendary underground band enters a real recording studio, switches...
Cancer Bats
Mourning Glory
PUBLISHED Mar 20, 2015
"Too many friends died this year," screams Cancer Bats frontman Liam Cormier at the end of "Arsenic in the Year of the Snake," a track that...
Courtney Barnett
Quiet Contemplation
PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2015
Courtney Barnett has been mislabelled a slacker. The Australian musician has made a name for herself over the past few years for her intuit...
