Spring 2024 Issue
Exclaim! Comics: I Want My CDs!!!
PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2024
Spring has sprung! And yet, without any instruction from us, this month's artists turned in a surprisingly creepy selection of comics, incl...
METZ Rank Their 5 Best Songs
PUBLISHED Apr 10, 2024
After spending over a decade and a half kicking up a noisy racket, METZ are ushering in a new chapter. It's not that 'Up on Gravity Hill'...
'Civil War' Director Alex Garland Is Sick of Being Lectured To: "I Am a Sentient Grown-Up"
PUBLISHED Apr 9, 2024
"I'm trying to have a conversation, as opposed to a lecture," Alex Garland tells Exclaim! while in London, UK promoting his latest film...
iskwē's Vulnerable Strength: "I Had a Good Front, but I Was a Mess"
PUBLISHED Apr 9, 2024
When I ask iskwē why she recorded her fourth and latest album, 'nīna,' in Mexico City, she smiles in that honeyed way of hers that leaves...
Blunt Chunks' Painful Transformation Brought Her a "Toronto Diss Track" and a Beautiful Album
PUBLISHED Apr 8, 2024
I meet Caitlin Woelfle-O'Brien at the historic Broadview Hotel, which she promptly informs me used to be a strip club. "When they first...
Vampire Weekend Ditch "Smartass Stuff" and Ask the Big Questions
PUBLISHED Apr 3, 2024
For Ezra Koenig, Vampire Weekend haven't been gone that long. "The five years flew by," he says. "Five years doesn't feel long anymore. So...
Khruangbin Go from Farm to Fame: "We've Done Everything That You Shouldn't Do"
PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2024
"I always say we're the band that did every single thing wrong." Over a Friday morning Zoom call, Khruangbin drummer Donald "DJ" Johnson...
School of Song Shares the Magic of Songwriting with the Help of Indie Rock Giants
PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2024
In early 2022, barely a year after launching School of Song, co-founders Blue Sheffer and Steven van Betten found themselves awake until...
