Articles by Stephen Carlick

Quidi Video

The Republic, St. John's NL, April 22

PUBLISHED Apr 23, 2015

Quidi Video started their Lawnya Vawnya-opening set with a squall of noise before their singers deployed harmonized croons, Sam Primmer sin...

Jonny and the Cowabungas

The Republic, St. John's NL, April 22

PUBLISHED Apr 23, 2015

"So does everybody feel as good as we look tonight?" asked Jonny and the Cowabungas' frontman late into their blistering Lawnya Vawyna set....

Vulva Culture

The Republic, St. John's NL, April 22

PUBLISHED Apr 23, 2015

There's something methodical, precise about Vulva Culture. While some of the young, boisterous crowd that had congregated for Jonny and the...

Shlohmo

Dark Red

PUBLISHED Apr 6, 2015

In the five years since he started releasing music as Shlohmo, Henry Laufer has seen the haunting, spacious electronic/hip-hop hybrid he he...

An Essential Guide to Death Cab for Cutie

PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2015

"Whatever album somebody's entry point to this particular band was, it's going to most likely define the sound that they want us to have,"...

Lower Dens

Escape From Evil

PUBLISHED Mar 27, 2015

After Lower Dens' brilliant, ruminative 2012 breakout Nootropics, Lower Dens mastermind Jana Hunter was tired; life on the road playing the...

Sufjan Stevens

Carrie & Lowell

PUBLISHED Mar 27, 2015

When Sufjan Stevens released Seven Swans in 2004, it was unfairly met with apathy by a Fifty States Project-starved listenership waiting fo...

Dinner

Central Presbyterian Church, Austin TX, March 21

PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2015

"My dear friends, Austin, I'm here tonight to play you some music. Before I do, I want to make a little warm-up with you."   And with that,...