Articles by Matthew Blenkarn

Ice Cream

Fed Up

PUBLISHED Nov 12, 2019

Toronto's Ice Cream seem like a band out of time. On 2016's Love, Ice Cream, Carlyn Bezic and Amanda Crist cloaked dry, depersonalized song...

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Ghosteen

PUBLISHED Oct 7, 2019

The past decade has brought both prosperity and tragedy for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. With a few notable exceptions, many of the same mu...

Angel Olsen

All Mirrors

PUBLISHED Oct 2, 2019

To say that Angel Olsen's latest is a great leap forward is no slight on her previous work. The Asheville, NC singer-songwriter established...

Lower Dens

The Competition

PUBLISHED Sep 3, 2019

A lot can change in four years — just ask Lower Dens. Since releasing their acclaimed third album Escape From Evil in 2015, the Baltimore d...

Weyes Blood

Titanic Rising

PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2019

Natalie Mering is no mere throwback artist. The singer-songwriter's third album under her Weyes Blood moniker, Front Row Seat to Earth, dre...

Weyes Blood Loses and Finds Faith Amid Crisis on New Album 'Titanic Rising'

PUBLISHED Mar 30, 2019

Even now, just weeks ahead the release of Titanic Rising (out April 5), her fourth album under the name Weyes Blood, Natalie Mering still r...

Royal Trux

White Stuff

PUBLISHED Feb 28, 2019

The reunion circuit suits Royal Trux. In the '80s and '90s, Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema gleefully tore apart the fundamentals of gara...

John Maus / Vigliensoni

Opera House, Toronto ON, February 1

PUBLISHED Feb 2, 2019

Two doctors took the stage at Toronto's Opera House last night, but the results were anything but clinical. While Gabriel Vigliensoni and J...