Articles by Stephen Carlick

Joanna Newsom Explains 'Divers' Transition from "Art Project" to Album

PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2015

With the much-anticipated Divers now out on Drag City, Joanna Newsom has ended the five-year wait fans endured for new music following the...

Elliot Maginot

Theatre Rialto, Montreal QC, November 18

PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2015

I'll be completely honest: I'm not a fan of the kind of music Elliot Maginot makes. It's not "bad," per se — What does that even mean? — b...

Milk & Bone

Theatre Rialto, Montreal QC, November 18

PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2015

Milk & Bone played a riveting set of their pretty songs to the Rialto Theatre last night (November 18), triggering samples and playing keyb...

Kai

Piccolo Rialto, Montreal QC, November 18

PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2015

Toronto singer Kai has a shockingly pure, full voice. On the small stage of the Piccolo Rialto last night (November 18), the singer born Al...

Majical Cloudz

Silver Linings

PUBLISHED Oct 30, 2015

Asked whether it makes sense to say that Montreal duo Majical Cloudz's new album Are You Alone? sounds almost relieved, Devon Welsh's face...

Joanna Newsom

Divers

PUBLISHED Oct 20, 2015

On each of her LPs to date, California-bred singer, songwriter and harpist Joanna Newsom has expanded and, always subtly, redefined her sou...

Majical Cloudz

Are You Alone?

PUBLISHED Oct 15, 2015

If you've seen Majical Cloudz frontman Devon Welsh live, you know that he performs his stark, unapologetically and straightforwardly emotio...

Autre Ne Veut Discusses the "Theatre of Self" and Van Morrison's Influence

PUBLISHED Oct 8, 2015

This month Autre Ne Veut (a.k.a. Arthur Ashin) returned with third album Age of Transparency, the follow-up to 2013's Anxiety and, accordin...