september issue 2017
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Tori Amos Strange Little Girl Published Sep 06, 2017Thirty years ago, there was a chance – albeit, a small one – that Tori Amos would build a career out of becoming, in her words, a "vapid bim...
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Partner Loving Leisure Life Published Sep 06, 2017In one of the tenderly hilarious audio skits that punctuate Partner's debut, In Search of Lost Time, band member Josée Caron's dad, a PEI sc...
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Ted Leo The Exclaim! Questionnaire Published Sep 05, 2017The past seven years haven't been easy for Ted Leo. Since releasing The Brutalist Bricks in 2010, the singer and guitarist suffered a series...
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The National Come Together Published Sep 05, 2017Coming out for an enthusiastically demanded encore, Matt Berninger takes a swig from a massive wine bottle and passes it into the crowd, sha...
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Princess Nokia Pride Parade Published Aug 29, 2017If her single "G.O.A.T." is any indication, Princess Nokia's upcoming album 1992 Deluxe promises to be assertive, bold and braggadocious. Du...
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Drake, Big Sean Beatsmith FrancisGotHeat Is Toronto's Next Big Producer Published Aug 29, 2017"After that first beat I made — I mean, it's horrible, but I've listened to it hundreds of times — I thought, 'This is what I want to do for...
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Liars Nature Calls Published Aug 24, 2017Since Liars first emerged from New York City's musical renaissance of the early '00s, they have, perhaps more than any of their peers, reinv...
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Grizzly Bear Maximizing Minimalism Published Aug 23, 2017After releasing fourth LP Shields back in 2012, it seemed likely that avant-rock quartet Grizzly Bear might never release new music again. N...
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LCD Soundsystem Finding My Religion Published Aug 22, 2017James Murphy is happy. Seated on a large, comfortable couch in a Brooklyn hotel room, the LCD Soundsystem frontman is open, talkative an...