Articles by Daniel Sylvester

Fly Pan Am

C'est ça

PUBLISHED Sep 18, 2019

On their first album in 15 years, Fly Pan Am return wiser and more established by coming off wilder and less structured. Once known as an o...

Fly Pan Am Are Inspired and Full of Ideas on New Album 'C'est ça'

PUBLISHED Sep 16, 2019

After a 13-year hiatus, Fly Pan Am have reformed — or, as they would put it, drifted back together. Speaking with Exclaim! ahead of the rel...

Robert Plant & the Sensational Space Shifters

CityFolk Festival, Ottawa ON, September 15

PUBLISHED Sep 16, 2019

Before Robert Plant took the stage to close off Ottawa's four-day CityFolk Festival, the former Led Zeppelin frontman asked security to mak...

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The Dead Don't Die

PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2019

Just as his deadpan zombie comedy, The Dead Don't Die, left critics baffled, Jim Jarmusch's soundtrack for the 2019 film contains a number...

Joan Shelley Had to Let Go for New Album 'Like the River Loves the Sea' to Flow Out

PUBLISHED Aug 29, 2019

Joan Shelley might seem like an easy artist to understand; she's a folkie from Louisville whom, for close to a decade, has crafted thoughtf...

Paranoid London

PL

PUBLISHED Aug 27, 2019

On their self-titled debut, Paranoid London expertly followed the blueprint laid out by Chicago house — craft personality-rich beats and fi...

Joan Shelley

Like the River Loves the Sea

PUBLISHED Aug 27, 2019

The secret to Joan Shelley's appeal is how she makes collaboration sound so intimate and singular. On her seventh solo LP, Like the River L...

The Futureheads

Powers

PUBLISHED Aug 27, 2019

Of all the dance-punk acts of the mid-'00s, it seemed as if the Futureheads ended up being the ones who just couldn't move forward; eight y...