Articles by Stephen Carlick
Angel Olsen
Phases
PUBLISHED Nov 6, 2017
When you have a voice like Angel Olsen's, you can afford to strip away almost all of the instruments, and most of the production value, and...
Beck
Colors
PUBLISHED Oct 12, 2017
Beck has long been lauded as a shape-shifting musical chameleon, but even transcendent, genre-hopping geniuses hit a wall at some point — a...
Pink Thrown into Barricade at German Concert; Painful Harness Malfunction Caught on YouTube
PUBLISHED Oct 5, 2017
American pop singer Pink was injured and taken to hospital yesterday (July 15) following an onstage tech malfunction in Germany that saw he...
Beck Talks the "Lightness" of 'Colors,' Hails Kendrick Lamar and Pharrell Williams
PUBLISHED Oct 3, 2017
On October 13, Beck will finally release his long-awaited followup to 2014's Grammy-winning Morning Phase. Colors, as we referred to it in...
Beck Goes Through the Pop Prism on New Album 'Colors'
PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2017
Beck and Pharrell Williams had never worked together until, as Beck now recalls, "four or five years ago," around the same time that he'd b...
Partner
In Search of Lost Time
PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2017
Over the past few years, power-pop outfit Partner's shows quickly became lore amongst Canadian music fans: not only were co-frontwomen José...
Five Things James Murphy Wants You to Know About LCD Soundsystem's 'American Dream'
PUBLISHED Aug 31, 2017
On September 1, LCD Soundsystem will finally drop their comeback album, American Dream. And though it's been over seven years since their l...
LCD Soundsystem
American Dream
PUBLISHED Aug 30, 2017
Over their first three albums, LCD Soundsystem established such a unique, recognizable sound that just 45 seconds into American Dream opene...