Interview
Kelly Lee Owens Finds Epiphanies on the Dance Floor and Normal Life: "Awe Is in the Everyday"
PUBLISHED Oct 8, 2024
"It feels like the beginning of a new phase for me, like I'm starting a 2.0," begins Welsh DJ/producer Kelly Lee Owens. Having previously...
Leon Bridges Comes Home, Again: "It Felt Like My Music Was Falling on Deaf Ears"
PUBLISHED Oct 4, 2024
If you close your eyes and listen to 'Leon,' the fourth studio album from singer-songwriter Leon Bridges, you can see Fort Worth, TX...
Stephen Malkmus and the Hard Quartet Discuss How They "Met on the Mean Streets"
PUBLISHED Oct 3, 2024
The Hard Quartet might be a new supergroup with a stellar self-titled debut album, but its members have been good friends for over 30 years...
Comedy "Doesn't Age Well," but Jason Reitman Celebrates the Culture Shift 'SNL' Inspired
PUBLISHED Oct 2, 2024
"I feel like storytelling is a mix of trying to do something new and innovative, and also play[ing] with nostalgia," writer and director...
Mustafa's Prophetic Poetry Holds a Mirror Up to the Pain and Beauty Around Him
PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2024
In Max Porter's novel 'Grief Is the Thing with Feathers' a father sits his two sons down to tell them their mother has died. As they sit at...
Torquil Campbell Reflects on 20 Years of 'Set Yourself on Fire' and "How Obsessed We Were with Sex"
PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2024
On September 14, 2004 a Montreal indie rock collective released a bombastic, ambitious, era-defining orchestral opus, full of open-hearted...
Leif Vollebekk's Subconscious 'Revelation': "For the First Time Ever, I Got Exactly What I Wanted"
PUBLISHED Sep 25, 2024
When Exclaim! speaks with Leif Vollebekk, it's a couple of months before the release of his fifth studio album Revelation, and the Montreal...
The Tragically Hip's "Warts and All" Documentary Shows That Canadians Can "Create Great Art Here at Home"
PUBLISHED Sep 19, 2024
When interviewing comedian Will Arnett for the career-spanning docuseries 'The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal,' director Mike Downie...