Articles by Sarah Greene

​Where I Play

Kate Maki and Frederick Squire

PUBLISHED Jul 12, 2016

For five years, songwriters Kate Maki and Frederick Squire (Shotgun & Jaybird, Daniel, Fred & Julie) have been living in Greater Sudbury's...

An Essential Guide to Neko Case

PUBLISHED Jul 5, 2016

Neko Case is no stranger to juggling multiple projects. She started her music career in the '90s drumming for various punk bands, amongst t...

The Felice Brothers

Life in the Dark

PUBLISHED Jun 24, 2016

The Felice Brothers seem to be critical un-darlings, or maybe just around these parts (they fare better across the pond). Ten albums in, th...

k.d. lang Explains the "Exhilarating and Excruciating" Birth of case/lang/veirs

PUBLISHED Jun 16, 2016

Call it the Traveling Wilburys for a new millennium: Neko Case, k.d. lang and Laura Veirs have collaborated on an album, simply titled case...

case/lang/veirs

case/lang/veirs

PUBLISHED Jun 15, 2016

It was k.d. lang who had the crazy (wonderful) idea: Neko Case, Laura Veirs and she should make a record together. It took the songwriting...

​Whitehorse

The Exclaim! Questionnaire

PUBLISHED Jun 9, 2016

Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland met just before Doucet produced McClelland's 2004 album Stranded In Suburbia, married in 2006 and became...

Frederick Squire

Spooky Action at a Distance

PUBLISHED May 27, 2016

Frederick Squire's music has always been a bit spooky, at times channelling old folk music — for which you really ought to hear a needle dr...

Beth Orton

Kidsticks

PUBLISHED May 26, 2016

Beth Orton is the best. After studying guitar under the late great Bert Jansch and making the stunning alt-folk record Sugaring Season (201...