Articles by Stephen Carlick

Madonna

Air Canada Centre, Toronto ON, October 5

PUBLISHED Oct 6, 2015

For a seven or eight-song span last night (October 5), pop icon Madonna had the crowd firmly in the palm of her hand.   It began, about hal...

Wavves' Nathan Williams Reveals Plans for Collab LP with Rapper Antwon, Goes Deep on Intense Fan Connection

PUBLISHED Oct 5, 2015

Having released a collaborative album with Cloud Nothings this year, Nathan Williams has already put out another. Late last week, he delive...

Autre Ne Veut

Age of Transparency

PUBLISHED Sep 30, 2015

Not three seconds into Age of Transparency, as Autre Ne Veut's Arthur Ashin cuts his opening "baaaaa(-be? -by?)" and pulls it back with a v...

Wavves

V

PUBLISHED Sep 30, 2015

By 2013's Afraid of Heights, Wavves' Nathan Williams had established himself as one of his generation's finest songwriters, writing hook af...

Empress Of

Portrait of the Artist

PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2015

Not 15 minutes into my phone call with Lorely Rodriguez, the mastermind behind electro-pop project Empress Of, a stranger passing her front...

Disclosure Discuss the Piano Origins of 'Caracal,' Address "Hater" Purists

PUBLISHED Sep 25, 2015

It might be hard to imagine, but Disclosure didn't start the songs on their new album Caracal with samples or synth beats; they sat down at...

Disclosure

Caracal

PUBLISHED Sep 25, 2015

On their follow-up to 2013's massive Settle, the brothers Lawrence (Guy, 24, and Howard, 21) double down on guests and slow down the tempo;...

Disclosure

Sibling Revelry

PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2015

When UK duo Disclosure broke in 2013, their house music-indebted debut full-length seemed perfectly timed to both align with the zeitgeist...