Richie Assaly
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 3
- Latest publication
- Sep 14, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Exclaim
- Top 500K sites
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 14, 2026
Latest articles
Erykah Badu Saved the Hits for the Next Lifetime in Toronto │ Exclaim! (opens the original)
Read excerpt
The thing is, you never know what you're going to get at an Erykah Badu concert. When I saw her live in Detroit a few years back, she was so late that the band started without her, performing three full songs (including "The Healer"!) with only backing vocals. Of course, she eventually made her way to the stage — descending from the heavens in a willowing dress like a bohemian angel, at least in my memory — and proceeded to hypnotize the entire arena with her goddess-like presence and otherworld
Kacey Musgraves Changed My Mind About the Bejewelled Ballsack in Toronto │ Exclaim! (opens the original)
Read excerpt
To be honest, I dreaded the rhinestone ballsack. A couple days before Kacey Musgraves arrived in Toronto for the second stop on her Middle of Nowhere tour, images emerged showing the Texas country star perched atop a massive, slightly asymmetrical scrotum; a giant pair of glittering truck nuts gliding gracefully above a crowd. Mediated through social media, the bit seemed tacky and gross. In fact, it sort of gave me the ick. Fortunately, these concerns quickly waned as Musgraves's seven-piece ba
Kelela's 'new avatar' Offers a Glimpse of Another World │ Exclaim! (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Last winter, Kelela released a live performance of Joni Mitchell's "Furry Sings the Blues," a semi-deep cut from her 1976 jazz-folk opus Hejira. Kelela's rendition of the song is utterly transfixing: accompanied by a little more than a fretless bass, her voice is muscular, but expertly restrained; each note animated with a subtle fervour as she basks in the eccentric, meandering splendour of Mitchell's baroque lyricism. It lasts just over five minutes, but feels limitless. "Who wants more drama?
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
Top 500K sites
For Exclaim, the outlet · Measured Aug 1, 2026
Website popularity band, not a count of readers or article views.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.