Articles by Stephen Carlick

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...

​LCD Soundsystem

Finding My Religion

PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2017

James Murphy is happy.   Seated on a large, comfortable couch in a Brooklyn hotel room, the LCD Soundsystem frontman is open, talkative and...

Richard Reed Parry Discusses the "Obnoxious and Noisy" Rollout of Arcade Fire's 'Everything Now'

PUBLISHED Aug 2, 2017

After a months-long promotional rollout that found Arcade Fire facetiously attempting to send up corporatization, capitalism and social eli...

Arcade Fire

Everything Now

PUBLISHED Jul 25, 2017

Arcade Fire have variously been hailed for their instrumentation, arrangements and lyrics over their decade-and-a-half existence, but at th...

Sheer Mag Are Finally Ready for the Big Time — Sort Of

PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2017

That punk music was, at least in part, a response to the self-aggrandizing and macho hedonism of '70s arena rock explains the satisfying te...

Ricky Gervais

Massey Hall, Toronto ON, July 14

PUBLISHED Jul 15, 2017

Ricky Gervais ended the first show of a three-night stint at Toronto's Massey Hall, in the middle of his "Humanity Tour," with an endearing...

Sheer Mag

Need to Feel Your Love

PUBLISHED Jul 13, 2017

Over a trio of four-song EPs released annually since 2014, Philadelphia's Sheer Mag established a unique sound that fused '70s stadium rock...