March issue 2020
Elephant Stone's Rishi Dhir Started Over After a Fire, Inspiring Sci-Fi Tale 'Hollow'
PUBLISHED Feb 27, 2020
After a fire in 2017 destroyed almost everything his family owned, Elephant Stone's Rishi Dhir got to thinking: "When you lose everything,...
William Prince's 5 Favourite Places in Winnipeg
PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2020
William Prince is a Juno Award-winning singer-songwriter born and raised in Manitoba's Peguis First Nation. To celebrate the release of his...
Sarah Harmer's New Album Is Haunted by Ghosts, Including a Very Familiar One
PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2020
On a crisp winter morning in Campbellville, ON, it's bright and sunny inside the Trail Eatery, a cozy joint down the road from where Sarah...
Trixie Mattel
The Exclaim! Questionnaire
PUBLISHED Feb 12, 2020
Trixie Mattel is the drag persona of Brian Firkus, and a self-proclaimed "bleach blonde, over-tanned beach bunny with a really dark sense o...
Makaya McCraven Honours, and Remixes, Gil Scott-Heron with 'We're New Again'
PUBLISHED Feb 10, 2020
"It's a bit of a responsibility kind of thrown on my plate. To have to deal with the legacy of such an important and influential artist who...
Tame Impala's Kevin Parker Explains How a Kanye West Concert Put Him on the Path to Psych Rock Stardom
PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2020
There's a paradox at the heart of Tame Impala's enormous popularity. On one hand, Kevin Parker records his albums in solitude, playing al...
Caribou Finds His Voice After Life-Changing Surprises, with Some Help from Four Tet
PUBLISHED Feb 4, 2020
The last few years for Dan Snaith, better known to music fans by his recording moniker Caribou, were littered with momentous changes that c...
'Letterkenny' Uses the Power of Niche Comedy to Unite a Country (or Two)
PUBLISHED Feb 3, 2020
In 2018, Canadian TV got a morsel of international attention when, in a test of aptitude away from home, the hicks, skids, hockey players a...