Articles by Stephen Carlick

David Byrne's 'Contemporary Color' with St. Vincent, Nelly Furtado, tUnE-yArDs, Dev Hynes

Air Canada Centre, Toronto ON, June 22

PUBLISHED Jun 23, 2015

In an interstitial video between sets at David Byrne's Contemporary Color, a number of people involved in "colour guard" try to define what...

Hudson Mohawke Reintroduces Himself on 'Lantern'

PUBLISHED Jun 16, 2015

For Glaswegian neon-electronic producer Hudson Mohawke, today (June 16) is release day for his second full-length, Lantern, his first since...

Stroppy

Marc Bell

PUBLISHED Jun 16, 2015

Canadian comix artist Marc Bell (full disclosure: Bell was a former Exclaim! contributor in the '90s) is best known for his short, surreal...

Hudson Mohawke

Lantern

PUBLISHED Jun 12, 2015

In the six years since Glaswegian producer Hudson Mohawke released his debut full-length, Butter, Mohawke's music has gone from a glitch-y,...

Jamie xx

In Colour

PUBLISHED May 29, 2015

While his band the xx have always been an exercise in restraint, Jamie xx's compositions have expressed a little more exuberance and, yes,...

Jamie xx

Dancing On His Own

PUBLISHED May 27, 2015

Whether alone or on tour with his critically acclaimed band the xx, Jamie xx is in his own world. "On tour, most of the time, Jamie is jus...

Mikal Cronin

Stories We Tell

PUBLISHED May 11, 2015

In a lot of ways, gifted garage rock songwriter Mikal Cronin's MCIII feels like the culmination of the last decade of his life.   "About te...

Jamie xx on the Making of 'In Colour' and The xx's Next Steps

PUBLISHED May 6, 2015

On June 2, Jamie xx will finally release his long-awaited debut full-length, In Colour, for Young Turks, and while his solo works have gene...