September Issue 2017
Partner
Loving Leisure Life
PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2017
In one of the tenderly hilarious audio skits that punctuate Partner's debut, In Search of Lost Time, band member Josée Caron's dad, a PEI s...
Tori Amos
Strange Little Girl
PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2017
Thirty years ago, there was a chance – albeit, a small one – that Tori Amos would build a career out of becoming, in her words, a "vapid bi...
The National
Come Together
PUBLISHED Sep 5, 2017
Coming out for an enthusiastically demanded encore, Matt Berninger takes a swig from a massive wine bottle and passes it into the crowd, sh...
Ted Leo
The Exclaim! Questionnaire
PUBLISHED Sep 5, 2017
The past seven years haven't been easy for Ted Leo. Since releasing The Brutalist Bricks in 2010, the singer and guitarist suffered a serie...
Drake, Big Sean Beatsmith FrancisGotHeat Is Toronto's Next Big Producer
PUBLISHED Aug 29, 2017
"After that first beat I made — I mean, it's horrible, but I've listened to it hundreds of times — I thought, 'This is what I want to do fo...
Princess Nokia
Pride Parade
PUBLISHED Aug 29, 2017
If her single "G.O.A.T." is any indication, Princess Nokia's upcoming album 1992 Deluxe promises to be assertive, bold and braggadocious. D...
Liars
Nature Calls
PUBLISHED Aug 24, 2017
Since Liars first emerged from New York City's musical renaissance of the early '00s, they have, perhaps more than any of their peers, rein...
Grizzly Bear
Maximizing Minimalism
PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2017
After releasing fourth LP Shields back in 2012, it seemed likely that avant-rock quartet Grizzly Bear might never release new music again....
