Interview

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  Leon Bridges Comes Home, Again: "It Felt Like My Music Was Falling on Deaf Ears"

  PUBLISHED Oct 4, 2024

  If you close your eyes and listen to 'Leon,' the fourth studio album from singer-songwriter Leon Bridges, you can see Fort Worth, TX...

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  Stephen Malkmus and the Hard Quartet Discuss How They "Met on the Mean Streets"

  PUBLISHED Oct 3, 2024

  The Hard Quartet might be a new supergroup with a stellar self-titled debut album, but its members have been good friends for over 30 years...

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  Comedy "Doesn't Age Well," but Jason Reitman Celebrates the Culture Shift 'SNL' Inspired

  PUBLISHED Oct 2, 2024

  "I feel like storytelling is a mix of trying to do something new and innovative, and also play[ing] with nostalgia," writer and director...

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  Mustafa's Prophetic Poetry Holds a Mirror Up to the Pain and Beauty Around Him

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2024

  In Max Porter's novel 'Grief Is the Thing with Feathers' a father sits his two sons down to tell them their mother has died. As they sit at...

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  Torquil Campbell Reflects on 20 Years of 'Set Yourself on Fire' and "How Obsessed We Were with Sex"

  PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2024

  On September 14, 2004 a Montreal indie rock collective released a bombastic, ambitious, era-defining orchestral opus, full of open-hearted...

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  Leif Vollebekk's Subconscious 'Revelation': “For the First Time Ever, I Got Exactly What I Wanted”

  PUBLISHED Sep 25, 2024

  When Exclaim! speaks with Leif Vollebekk, it's a couple of months before the release of his fifth studio album Revelation, and the Montreal...

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  The Tragically Hip's "Warts and All" Documentary Shows That Canadians Can "Create Great Art Here at Home"

  PUBLISHED Sep 19, 2024

  When interviewing comedian Will Arnett for the career-spanning docuseries 'The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal,' director Mike Downie...

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  Megan Park Wants to Create a New Generation of Classic Coming-of-Age Films

  PUBLISHED Sep 18, 2024

  "When I look back at the movies of my childhood, there was some heavy shit in there," actor, director and writer Megan Park recalls. "Think...