Articles by Lisa Vanderwyk

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  Seas

  "A Soft Whisper" on Exclaim! TV

  PUBLISHED Oct 15, 2015

  Chris "Hippy" Hughes, Erik Hughes and Peter Krpan have played together for more than a decade as Canadian post-hardcore mainstays Moneen; n...

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  Mantles

  All Odds End

  PUBLISHED Oct 14, 2015

  All Odds End drifts in breezily with swirling guitar, touching on themes like ambitious (and abandoned) pursuits, futile romances, running...

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  JOYFULTALK

  "Pommel Horse" on Exclaim! TV

  PUBLISHED Oct 9, 2015

  Jay Crocker is the mastermind behind such experiments as No More Shapes, the Polaris Music Prize-nominated Ghostkeeper and now, a new proje...

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  Rah Rah

  "Be Your Man" on Exclaim! TV

  PUBLISHED Oct 7, 2015

  This year, Prairie rock ensemble Rah Rah released their energetic and emotional Vessels, an album they'll soon support with an internationa...

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  The Milk Carton Kids

  "Poison Tree" on Exclaim! TV

  PUBLISHED Oct 6, 2015

  Our exclusive session with the Milk Carton Kids at The Great Hall in Toronto yielded heartfelt renditions of "Secrets of the Stars," "Shoot...

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  Born Ruffians

  "We Made It" on Exclaim! TV

  PUBLISHED Oct 5, 2015

  Singer-songwriter Luke Lalonde began his solo endeavour in 2012 with the release of Rhythymnal, but he has been a mainstay of Canadian indi...

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  Modern Merchant

  "Twin Channel" (video)

  PUBLISHED Sep 30, 2015

  Brooklyn-via-Connecticut unit Modern Merchant released their latest album Virtues earlier this year, and to keep the momentum going, Exclai...

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  Eagles of Death Metal

  Zipper Down

  PUBLISHED Sep 30, 2015

  They kept us waiting a fashionable seven years, but Josh Homme and Jesse Hughes have arrived, leather-clad, hot-fleshed and ready to rock'n...