June Issue 2016
Tegan and Sara
Transformers
PUBLISHED Jun 10, 2016
For 36 years, Tegan and Sara Quin have shared a face and a voice. They are two wholes but also two halves — a seemingly impossible math rid...
Game Within A Game Time
PUBLISHED Jun 10, 2016
The late, great Garry Shandling didn't invent meta humour, but he did perfect its two primary forms. In his '80s sitcom It's Garry Shandlin...
Gold Panda
Big On Japan
PUBLISHED Jun 9, 2016
It started with a misspoken farewell from a Japanese taxi driver: "Good luck and do your best." Spoken to Gold Panda as he was exiting a ca...
Whitehorse
The Exclaim! Questionnaire
PUBLISHED Jun 9, 2016
Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland met just before Doucet produced McClelland's 2004 album Stranded In Suburbia, married in 2006 and became...
Holy Fuck
Where I Play
PUBLISHED Jun 9, 2016
Brian Borcherdt's basement studio in the west end of Toronto is just a ten-minute walk away from Graham Walsh's similar recording setup. Bu...
Andy Shauf
Story Time
PUBLISHED Jun 7, 2016
"I think I started to do narrative songwriting mostly because I things that were actually happening to me were a little bit limiting," Andy...
ANOHNI
A New Hope
PUBLISHED Jun 7, 2016
"Rebel is a beautiful word, but I don't know if I really deserve that word at this point." Her voice is a prism — reflective and colourfu...
Jessy Lanza
Pop Like No One's Watching
PUBLISHED Jun 6, 2016
"Not to get too clichéd, but I think I'm always anticipating that things can change in my life at any given time. I'm always kind of obsess...
