Articles by Matthew Blenkarn

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  The Men

  Drift

  PUBLISHED Feb 28, 2018

  The more the Men change, the more they stay the same. Over the course of a decade, the Brooklyn quartet have gone from rowdy noise rockers...

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  Titus Andronicus

  A Productive Cough

  PUBLISHED Feb 27, 2018

  Patrick Stickles' name is unlikely to grace a list of America's most accessible songwriters. The Titus Andronicus frontman specializes in i...

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  Tune-Yards

  The Exclaim! Questionnaire

  PUBLISHED Jan 20, 2018

  Popularity hasn't desensitized Tune-Yards frontwoman Merrill Garbus. Four years on from the commercially successful and socially conscious...

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  Shopping

  The Official Body

  PUBLISHED Jan 15, 2018

  True to their name, UK post-punk group Shopping has a fixation with economy. Between guitarist Rachel Aggs's clean, precise leads and Andre...

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  Tune-Yards

  I can feel you creep into my private life

  PUBLISHED Jan 15, 2018

  It was hard to be optimistic when Tune-Yards released "Look at Your Hands" last October. The single traded the Oakland duo's signature rhyt...

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  A. Savage

  Thawing Dawn

  PUBLISHED Oct 10, 2017

  "Talented with words," Andrew Savage sings at one point on his debut solo album, "but am I more than pretty verse …?"   That's the question...

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  Protomartyr

  Relatives in Descent

  PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2017

  Protomartyr aren't going to revolutionize guitar music. That's a big ask for any rock band in 2017, where many acts are hyper-literate, fie...

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  Cold Specks

  Fool's Paradise

  PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2017

  It seems a bit obvious to point out the major changes on Cold Specks' third album. You can't step in the same river twice, after all, and a...