Articles by Stephen Carlick

Ranking the Year in Aughts Nostalgia, From LCD Soundsystem to the Shins

PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2017

This year, Lizzy Goodman chronicled the 2000s indie rock revival in her excellent book Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll i...

Exclaim!'s Top 11 EPs of the Year

Best of 2017

PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2017

As our annual rollout of genre-specific album lists for the Best of the Year — which so far has covered the Top 20 Pop & Rock Albums, Top 1...

Angel Olsen

Phases

PUBLISHED Nov 6, 2017

When you have a voice like Angel Olsen's, you can afford to strip away almost all of the instruments, and most of the production value, and...

Beck

Colors

PUBLISHED Oct 12, 2017

Beck has long been lauded as a shape-shifting musical chameleon, but even transcendent, genre-hopping geniuses hit a wall at some point — a...

Pink Thrown into Barricade at German Concert; Painful Harness Malfunction Caught on YouTube

PUBLISHED Oct 5, 2017

American pop singer Pink was injured and taken to hospital yesterday (July 15) following an onstage tech malfunction in Germany that saw he...

Beck Talks the "Lightness" of 'Colors,' Hails Kendrick Lamar and Pharrell Williams

PUBLISHED Oct 3, 2017

On October 13, Beck will finally release his long-awaited followup to 2014's Grammy-winning Morning Phase. Colors, as we referred to it in...

Beck Goes Through the Pop Prism on New Album 'Colors'

PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2017

Beck and Pharrell Williams had never worked together until, as Beck now recalls, "four or five years ago," around the same time that he'd b...

Partner

In Search of Lost Time

PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2017

Over the past few years, power-pop outfit Partner's shows quickly became lore amongst Canadian music fans: not only were co-frontwomen José...