March Issue 2016

David Bowie

Fantastic Voyage

PUBLISHED Mar 9, 2016

David Bowie's presence in popular culture was such that we're still processing both his passing and his elegant swan song, Blackstar. Thous...

Anderson .Paak

Wave Rider

PUBLISHED Feb 24, 2016

For most of his life, Oxnard, CA native Anderson .Paak — the son of a soon-to-be incarcerated father and a Korean immigrant mother, who cam...

Gen 6ix: Gaming's Greatest Generation

PUBLISHED Feb 24, 2016

Videogames stopped being just for kids on September 24, 2001. That was the day that Fumito Ueda's Ico came out for Sony's year-and-a-half-o...

Where I Play

Jim Bryson's Fixed Hinge

PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2016

Jim Bryson's excellent, long-awaited fifth album is called Somewhere We Will Find Our Place. It concerns the middle years of life; its inhe...

DIIV

Redemption Song

PUBLISHED Feb 5, 2016

Zachary Cole Smith never intended to take almost four years to release DIIV's second album, so when it came time to deliver Is the Is Are,...

Junior Boys

Homecoming

PUBLISHED Feb 5, 2016

For Junior Boys, Big Black Coat represents many things: it's a return to making music as a duo after a five-year layover; it's a self-profe...

Pusha T

The Exclaim! Questionnaire

PUBLISHED Feb 4, 2016

If there were ever any doubts as to whether Pusha T had relinquished the throne of his cocaine castle, the Virginia Beach, VA native swiftl...

Chairlift

Spread Their Wings

PUBLISHED Feb 4, 2016

Halfway through its 40-minute runtime, you'll find the seed from which Brooklyn avant-pop duo Chairlift's third album, Moth, grew. While al...