
For over 20 years, Noah Lennox (a.k.a. Panda Bear) has been known primarily for his work with experimental indie act Animal Collective, anch...
For over 20 years, Noah Lennox (a.k.a. Panda Bear) has been known primarily for his work with experimental indie act Animal Collective, anch...
Wilco haven't been considered a "country" band since their 1995 debut, and even then, it was a bit of a stretch. Despite Jeff Tweedy and co....
Many bands have been compared to Joy Division over the years, but Copenhagen's Iceage have been the closest to ever capturing their essence....
Japanese trio Boris have never been afraid to colour outside the lines of their gaseous sludge, drawing from shoegaze, drone, doom metal and...
Ray LaMontagne seems to take solace in the simple things. Speaking with Exclaim! in support of 2018's Part of the Light, the New England...
Danny Boyle was once asked to describe his movies in three words; he chose "visual, violent and nostalgic." It's a good encapsulation of...
Animal Collective member Panda Bear is being characteristically open, honest and dry as he sits and talks in an Exclaim! interview about his...
Animal Collective have rarely looked back while making music, together or separately, Since the band began their mainstream-ish ascent in th...
For the uninitiated, you'd be forgiven for thinking Ryley Walker was trolling when he announced, back in late September, a full covers album...
According to a theory first made popular on the internet by since-suspended Twitter user @Swank0cean, the number one song on your 14th birth...
For a long time (perhaps fairly), Jack White was considered a rock'n'roll purist: a Luddite who plays and records on archaic pieces of equip...
Sturgill Simpson is a lot of things to many people: a modern day country outlaw, a hard-hitting soul artist, a cosmic warrior, a father. ...
The Dave Matthews Band are at a strange point in their career and the zeitgeist as a whole. On one hand, their recent album — Come Tomor...
In the lead-up to the release of the Foo Fighters' ninth studio album, last year's ambitious and ostentatious magnum rock opus Concrete and...
On the surface, Greta Van Fleet — the Michigan-bred, four-piece rock band — look like the kind of thing David Fricke dreams about. They...
Ottawa's RBC Bluesfest has had a divisive relationship with hip-hop in recent years. Back in 2015, the inclusion of Kanye West sparked s...
Most bands don't make it to their 50th anniversary; band members retire, people pass away and fans move on. So, while everyone under the...
Ottawa, like a lot of Ontario cities, was expected to reach record-breaking highs this Canada Day long weekend. With the possibility of the...
For the 2018 edition of the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival, organizers invited a select number of artists from the Circumpolar North to play the fe...
Halfway through their Thursday night set, and seconds before Béla Fleck and the Flecktones — the bluegrass fusion jazz odyssey jam band — la...