Articles by Liisa Ladouceur

Florence Welch (of the Machine)

The Exclaim! Questionnaire

PUBLISHED Jul 2, 2015

Florence Welch has been on top of the charts ever since her band Florence + the Machine burst onto the scene in 2009 with the breakthrough...

METZ Already Hit the Studio to Work on New Post-'II' Material

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2015

Toronto's METZ aren't releasing their second album, II, until May 5 but may have already begun working on a third. The punk trio were in a...

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...

Death From Above 1979

Friends Fatale

PUBLISHED Sep 5, 2014

Sebastien Grainger: "It was kind of out of the blue. I mean, we'd never explicitly talked about a new record. It's just one day there were...

Tanya Tagaq

Anger Management

PUBLISHED Jul 2, 2014

"Otherworldly." There is just the one word on my notepad, scratched down while watching Tanya Tagaq perform, before I decided there was not...

Tori Amos

Unrepentant Geraldines

PUBLISHED May 9, 2014

"50 is the new black." So says Tori Amos on "16 Shades of Blue," but it's difficult to imagine the singer cares at all about what's hot or...