Old Man Luedecke Easy Money

Published Jun 20, 2019

No longer a young man with a banjo trying to pass as old, Old Man (Chris) Luedecke is back with another collection of songs on subjects he f...

Doug Paisley Recorded Many Versions of 'Starter Home'

Published Nov 05, 2018

"I thought it was kind of a joke song or a novelty song," Doug Paisley tells Exclaim! of "Starter Home," the title track from his fourth alb...

Doug Paisley Starter Home

Published Oct 31, 2018

Like the Weather Station's Loyalty, Doug Paisley's Starter Home was recorded after an entire album's worth of music was set aside in order t...

Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography By Andrea Warner

Published Sep 20, 2018

"Keep Calm and Decolonize" may as well be the motto for Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography, an intimate and conversational history...

Robbie Fulks and Linda Gail Lewis Wild! Wild! Wild!

Published Aug 10, 2018

Before there was bragging in hip-hop, there was boasting in rock'n'roll, and Wild! Wild! Wild!, Robbie Fulks and Linda Gail Lewis's collabor...

Olivia Chaney Shelter

Published Jun 21, 2018

There are only three musicians on British songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Olivia Chaney's second solo album, Shelter: producer Thomas B...

Neko Case's Powerful New Album 'Hell-On' Was Baptized by Fire, Literally

Published May 29, 2018

It sounds like metaphorical fodder for one of her darker songs, yet Neko Case's house really did burn down last fall after she'd written the...

Neko Case Hell-On

Published May 29, 2018

Neko Case was in Sweden, putting the finishing touches on her glistening, anthemic tenth album with co-producer Björn Yttling (of Peter Björ...

How Taking Chances, Joan Didion and Death Brought Jennifer Castle's 'Angels of Death' to Life

Published May 24, 2018

Jennifer Castle was already grappling with ideas about grief, writing and legacy on the songs that would become her new album Angels of Deat...

Jennifer Castle Angels of Death

Published May 16, 2018

Jennifer Castle recorded the first half of Angels of Death — her fifth album and followup to her Polaris Music Prize-shortlisted Pink City —...

Jeremy Dutcher Reclaims a Hidden Past on 'Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa'

Published May 09, 2018

Jeremy Dutcher is a composer, anthropological researcher, pianist, activist, classically trained operatic tenor and time traveller. If that...

Laura Veirs Took a Year to Unpack Her Process and Surprised Herself on 'The Lookout'

Published Apr 23, 2018

Over the course of ten albums and nearly two decades, Portland OR-based Laura Veirs has quietly and independently become one of the most wel...

Waxahatchee / Hurray for the Riff Raff / Bedouine Opera House, Toronto ON, April 19

Published Apr 20, 2018

The "We Are All In This Together" backdrop illuminated behind the stage was presumably meant to empower the crowd, or perhaps it was a refer...

Jeremy Dutcher's Innovative 'Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa' Is Really About the Future

Published Apr 16, 2018

On his innovative debut album, Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa, Jeremy Dutcher combines his classical music background — he's a trained operatic...

Laura Veirs The Lookout

Published Apr 11, 2018

The Lookout is Laura Veirs' tenth album, and first to follow her 2016 collaboration with Neko Case and k.d. lang, case/lang/veirs. It finds...

Jeremy Dutcher Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa

Published Apr 06, 2018

They say you have your whole lifetime to make your debut album, but Toronto-based composer and classically trained operatic tenor Jeremy Dut...

It Took Haley Heynderickx Three Tries to Make Her Debut Album

Published Mar 08, 2018

Haley Heynderickx likens being interviewed to being cornered by a bunch of people with flashlights; she's still getting used to having to ex...

Haley Heynderickx I Need to Start a Garden

Published Mar 02, 2018

It took Portland, OR songwriter Haley Heynderickx three attempts to record her debut album, I Need To Start A Garden: the first, on a freezi...

H.C. McEntire Lionheart

Published Jan 31, 2018

H.C. McEntire's solo debut, Lionheart, is a rousing and soothing album of contemporary gospel country-rock, a genre reimagined and sung out...

Andy Shauf / Jennifer Castle Massey Hall, Toronto ON, November 23

Published Nov 24, 2017

For Andy Shauf and his band (a sprawling 10-piece last night, November 23) Massey Hall marked a safe and triumphant return home from practic...