Articles by Stephen Carlick

Bon Iver

22, A Million

PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2016

Where does an artist go after winning a Grammy and simultaneously becoming the go-to punchline poster boy for sleepy, folk-leaning "intelle...

M.I.A.

A.I.M.

PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2016

For a moment there, critics might have had you convinced that M.I.A. lost the plot. Pop music doesn't leave much room for nuance, so while...

Angel Olsen

My Woman

PUBLISHED Aug 31, 2016

After "almost quitting music" following the alienating success of her 2014 breakout Burn Your Fire for No Witness, singer-songwriter Angel...

​Angel Olsen

Great Expectations

PUBLISHED Aug 30, 2016

Less than a minute into her self-directed video for "Intern," singer-songwriter Angel Olsen turns away from the recorder an interviewer is...

Five Things You May Not Know About Blood Orange's Still-Resonating 'Freetown Sound'

PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2016

While there are new cover stars for Exclaim!'s September's issue, it feels like the dense, sprawling Freetown Sound — the recent opus from...

Angel Olsen on the Success That "Made Me Want to Quit," Led to 'My Woman'

PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2016

On September 2, Asheville, NC-based songwriter Angel Olsen will release My Woman, the anticipated Jagjaguwar follow-up to her 2014 breakout...

Sausage Party

Directed by Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon

PUBLISHED Aug 11, 2016

Sausage Party begins as it means to go on. As supermarket Shopwell's is set to open every morning, the food — from the ears of corn to the...

Charlotte Cardin Talks Life After Reality TV and Trusting Her Instincts on New 'Big Boy EP'

PUBLISHED Jul 22, 2016

After placing in the top four of French Canadian TV talent show La Voix in 2013, Montreal singer Charlotte Cardin could easily have gone th...