​Panda Bear's 'Buoys' Finds Noah Lennox Revisiting the Guitar and 'Sung Tongs'

Published Feb 06, 2019

Animal Collective member Panda Bear is being characteristically open, honest and dry as he sits and talks in an Exclaim! interview about his...

Panda Bear Buoys

Published Feb 05, 2019

Animal Collective have rarely looked back while making music, together or separately, Since the band began their mainstream-ish ascent in th...

Ryley Walker Covered an Entire Unreleased Dave Matthews Band Album and It's No Joke

Published Nov 14, 2018

For the uninitiated, you'd be forgiven for thinking Ryley Walker was trolling when he announced, back in late September, a full covers album...

Ryley Walker The Lillywhite Sessions

Published Nov 13, 2018

According to a theory first made popular on the internet by since-suspended Twitter user @Swank0cean, the number one song on your 14th birth...

Jack White TD Place, Ottawa ON, November 9

Published Nov 10, 2018

For a long time (perhaps fairly), Jack White was considered a rock'n'roll purist: a Luddite who plays and records on archaic pieces of equip...

Sturgill Simpson RBC Bluesfest, Ottawa ON, July 13

Published Jul 14, 2018

Sturgill Simpson is a lot of things to many people: a modern day country outlaw, a hard-hitting soul artist, a cosmic warrior, a father.  ...

Dave Matthews Band RBC Bluesfest, Ottawa ON, July 11

Published Jul 12, 2018

The Dave Matthews Band are at a strange point in their career and the zeitgeist as a whole.   On one hand, their recent album — Come Tomor...

Foo Fighters RBC Bluesfest, Ottawa ON, July 10

Published Jul 11, 2018

In the lead-up to the release of the Foo Fighters' ninth studio album, last year's ambitious and ostentatious magnum rock opus Concrete and...

Greta Van Fleet RBC Bluesfest, Ottawa ON, July 10

Published Jul 11, 2018

On the surface, Greta Van Fleet — the Michigan-bred, four-piece rock band — look like the kind of thing David Fricke dreams about.   They...

Ghostface Killah RBC Bluesfest, Ottawa ON, July 7

Published Jul 08, 2018

Ottawa's RBC Bluesfest has had a divisive relationship with hip-hop in recent years.   Back in 2015, the inclusion of Kanye West sparked s...

Jethro Tull RBC Bluesfest, Ottawa ON, July 6

Published Jul 07, 2018

Most bands don't make it to their 50th anniversary; band members retire, people pass away and fans move on.   So, while everyone under the...

Herbie Hancock TD Ottawa Jazz Festival, Ottawa ON, June 30

Published Jul 01, 2018

Ottawa, like a lot of Ontario cities, was expected to reach record-breaking highs this Canada Day long weekend. With the possibility of the...

Tanya Tagaq TD Ottawa Jazz Festival, Ottawa ON, June 28

Published Jun 29, 2018

For the 2018 edition of the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival, organizers invited a select number of artists from the Circumpolar North to play the fe...

Béla Fleck and the Flecktones TD Ottawa Jazz Festival, Ottawa ON, June 28

Published Jun 29, 2018

Halfway through their Thursday night set, and seconds before Béla Fleck and the Flecktones — the bluegrass fusion jazz odyssey jam band — la...

Alison Krauss TD Ottawa Jazz Festival, Ottawa ON, June 26

Published Jun 27, 2018

On Tuesday night, acclaimed country singer Alison Krauss's performance outside Ottawa City Hall felt like a homecoming of sorts.   Part of...

Iceage / Mary Lattimore The 27 Club, Ottawa ON, June 24

Published Jun 25, 2018

Former post-punk wunderkinds Iceage have grown increasingly ambitious in recent years, moving away from the buzzsaw riffs of their youth in...

Ray LaMontagne The Exclaim! Questionnaire

Published Jun 14, 2018

For a professional songwriter, Ray LaMontagne is a man of few words. "You should know something about me: it takes me a long time to answer...

Ray LaMontagne Part of the Light

Published May 16, 2018

After stepping into the tone zone with Dan Auerbach for 2014's unexpected rock breakout Supernova, enigmatic folk artist Ray LaMontagne recr...

Fu Manchu Clone of the Universe

Published Feb 02, 2018

Southern California stoner rock gods Fu Manchu are the musical equivalent of a van with an interplanetary dust-up painted on its side. Their...

No Age Snares Like a Haircut

Published Jan 19, 2018

No Age make music you don't so much consume as become acclimated to.   For over a decade, the L.A. art punks have crafted hazy, wondrous a...