Interview

The Hold Steady's Craig Finn

The Exclaim! Questionnaire

PUBLISHED May 7, 2019

As the frontman of the Hold Steady, Craig Finn's character-driven tales of massive nights and bad decisions have anchored the band's blockb...

Holly Herndon Interweaves Human and Artificial Intelligence on New Album 'PROTO'

PUBLISHED May 6, 2019

If it's the end of the world as we know it, Holly Herndon feels fine. As the culture races into the future, her new album PROTO — the lapto...

The National and Mike Mills Discuss Their Forthcoming "Small Miracle" Album and Film

PUBLISHED May 4, 2019

According to frontperson Matt Berninger, the National's forthcoming new album, I Am Easy to Find, almost didn't happen.   "We weren't origi...

TOBi's New Album 'Still' Channels Toronto, Yoruba Culture, Rebellion and, Yes, His Mother

PUBLISHED May 3, 2019

"I gotta remember who I came with, I gotta remember who held me down," says TOBi. The 26-year-old singer-songwriter and rapper, born in Nig...

Vampire Weekend "Open the World Back Up" on 'Father of the Bride'

PUBLISHED May 3, 2019

Over their first three albums, there were plenty of threads that tied the mythology of Vampire Weekend together: their Columbia University...

Big Thief's New Album 'U.F.O.F.' Confronts Birth, Death, Belief and Extra-Terrestrials

PUBLISHED May 1, 2019

Adrianne Lenker is speaking in an Exclaim! interview about her band Big Thief's new album, U.F.O.F. — short for "UFO Friend" — and talk has...

Full of Hell's New Album Will Be a Companion LP to 'Trumpeting Ecstasy'

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2019

When Full of Hell announced details for their forthcoming new album, Weeping Choir, some keen fans may have noticed the album art is the in...

Kedr Livanskiy's Sound, Self Are "Reborn" on New Album 'Your Need'

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2019

"When writing my last album, Ariadna, I was a lot more closed off, and I saw myself like a romantic hero who is always alone," explains Rus...