Articles by Nicole Villeneuve
Laura Stevenson and the Cans
Sit Resist
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
As a teenager, show-going Long Island teenager Laura Stevenson befriended Jeff Rosenstock and his circle of NYC punk pals and started playi...
White Lung Talk 'Sorry,' Stream New Album on Exclaim.ca
PUBLISHED May 29, 2012
At the end of 2010, Vancouver's White Lung topped Exclaim!'s year-end punk list with their full-length debut It's the Evil, a relentless, u...
White Lung Do Their Homework
PUBLISHED May 23, 2012
White Lung had one goal when it came time to make their sophomore album: no filler. Their debut, 2010's It's The Evil, was itself a quick...
The Menzingers
On the Impossible Past
PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2012
Pennsylvania's the Menzingers have been operating on a cycle of great expectations and fulfilling them since before breakthrough album Cham...
Sonic Avenues Stand Alone
PUBLISHED Jan 30, 2012
Sonic Avenues may call Montreal home, but they don't exactly sound the part, something vocalist/guitarist Max Desharnais admits they hear a...
Sonic Avenues
Television Youth
PUBLISHED Jan 29, 2012
Sonic Avenues charge through their sophomore full-length so relentlessly that the energy's palpable. Coming off their well-received self-ti...
Actual Water
The Paisley Orchard
PUBLISHED Jan 24, 2012
Toronto, ON's Actual Water have been making a strange collage of sounds for a few years, and on their newly re-released The Paisley Orchard...
Cold Warps
Endless Bummer
PUBLISHED Jan 17, 2012
After spending years in bands playing the much more serious underground punk circuit, Halifax, NS's Cold Warps found pop. The four-piece (w...
