May Issue 2015

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  Young Fathers

  Pop Politics

  PUBLISHED May 11, 2015

  Young Fathers may appear to be courting controversy by naming their sophomore album White Men Are Black Men Too. But Alloysious Massaquoi i...

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  Mikal Cronin

  Stories We Tell

  PUBLISHED May 11, 2015

  In a lot of ways, gifted garage rock songwriter Mikal Cronin's MCIII feels like the culmination of the last decade of his life.   "About te...

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  Godspeed You! Black Emperor

  There's Only Hope

  PUBLISHED May 5, 2015

  Within a collective dispatch in 2012, Godspeed You! Black Emperor made mention of a possible band mandate: "No singer, no leader, no interv...

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  Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld

  The Nature of Time

  PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2015

  Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld haven't had a whole lot of free time together over the years. The circular-breathing sax man and sublime vi...

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  Waxahatchee

  No Hurry

  PUBLISHED Apr 28, 2015

  Katie Crutchfield is about the furthest you can get from an overnight success. Sure, the 26-year-old's latest Waxahatchee album has catapul...

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  Andreya Triana

  Big Time

  PUBLISHED Apr 28, 2015

  "I wanted a really strong metaphor of what it is to move forward and do your own thing and I thought a giant does that," says Andreya Trian...

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  Kid In the Hall Scott Thompson

  The Exclaim! Questionnaire

  PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2015

  A proud son of Brampton, ON, Scott Thompson is an Emmy-nominated actor, writer and comedian who appears on the NBC crime show, Hannibal, an...

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  METZ

  Come On, Feel the Noise

  PUBLISHED Apr 22, 2015

  If you were to examine METZ on an atomic level, they would be all electron — excitable and agitated, yet very much in control. The To...