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News Sublime Are Getting Their Own Graphic Novel Sublime are about to be the subject of their very own graphic novel. Titled Sublime: $5 at the Door, the illustrated release is expected to...
News Royal Blood Detail New Album 'Typhoons' Royal Blood have returned with details of a new album. The English duo will share third full-length LP Typhoons on April 30 through Warner....
News D.O.A.'s Joey "Shithead" Keithley Sees Political Career Explored in Doc 'Something Better Change' Vancouver punk legends D.O.A. have continued to deliver new material for decades. Meanwhile, the band's frontman Joey "Shithead" Keithley ha...
News Hum Prep Reissues of 'You'd Prefer an Astronaut' and 'Electra 2000' After Hum surprise-released their first new album in decades, Inlet, last summer, they've now returned with plans for two reissues of their...
News Tomahawk Return with First New Album in Eight Years Tomahawk have returned with details of their first new album in eight years. The 12-track Tonic Immobility arrives March 26 through Ipecac R...
News Drake Postpones Release of New Album 'Certified Lover Boy' After teasing its January arrival late last year, Drake has postponed the release of hotly anticipated new album Certified Lover Boy. The...
News Village People Are Happy Trump Is Gone So He'll End "His Abusive Use" of Their Music As ex-president Donald Trump sailed off into the abyss — or as some would call it, Florida — yesterday morning (January 20) to the tune of F...
News Art d'Ecco Tackles TV Obsession on New Album 'In Standard Definition' Everyone's been spending a lot of time these days staring at screens, and British Columbia-based glam rocker Art d'Ecco is taking us to task...
News Ryuichi Sakamoto Has Been Diagnosed with Cancer Again Back in 2014, beloved Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto was diagnosed with throat cancer. Though he announced that he was in "great shape" ...
News Glastonbury Has Cancelled Its 2021 Edition With a new year comes our first major concert cancellation due to the coronavirus. Glastonbury — the long-running British music festival tha...
News Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Announces New Album 'Theory of Ice' Since dropping her last full-length album, f(l)ight, in 2016, Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg musician, writer and scholar Leanne Betasamosake Simp...
News Devin Townsend Teases "Complicated, Abstract" New Project 'The Puzzle' Devin Townsend's past year has included the release of a live album, an expanded version of 2019's Empath, and writing plenty of new materia...
News Donald Trump Bids His Presidency Farewell to the Tune of Frank Sinatra's "My Way" As Donald Trump's chaotic term as president came to an unceremonious close this week, the now-former president and his family have left the...
News Watch Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez and Garth Brooks Perform at Joe Biden's Inauguration The one story that has dominated the discourse so far today is Joe Biden being sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. The form...
News Russell Louder Details Debut Album 'Humor' Russell Louder's Humor is one of Exclaim!'s 29 Most Anticipated Canadian Albums of 2021, and the PEI-based artist has now detailed their deb...
News Insane Clown Posse Resent Being Compared to Capitol Rioters Insane Clown Posse have had their Juggalo fanbase compared to the Capitol rioters, and the group's Violent J is having absolutely none of it...
News Paul Jacobs Announces New Album 'Pink Dogs on the Green Grass' Prolific Montreal singer-songwriter Paul Jacobs has kept his solo output to a minimum in recent years, focusing instead on his duties as the...
News Donald Trump Pardoned Lil Wayne Before Leaving the White House While a meme-hungry internet hoped that it would be Joe Exotic walking free, Donald Trump's list of pardons before leaving the White House d...
News Gary Numan Explains How He Earned Just $65 from a Million Streams As artists have repeatedly explained, the economics of music streaming are more than a little broken. Adding to that ever-growing list is no...
News Dolly Parton Calls for Kindness and Good Deeds on Her 75th Birthday Legendary country music icon Dolly Parton is celebrating her 75th birthday today, and in lieu of any in-person performances, celebrations or...
News Small Black Return with First New Album in Five Years Brooklyn chillwavers Small Black have detailed their first new album in five years. The 11-track Cheap Dreams arrives April 9 through the ba...
Streams Billie Eilish and Rosalía Drop "Lo Vas a Olvidar (You Will Forget Her)" Billie Eilish and Rosalía have shared their English/Spanish-sung collaborative track "Lo Vas a Olvidar (You Will Forget Her)" today alongsid...
Streams Watch PUP Perform a Tiny Desk Home Concert PUP are the latest group to take part in the remote iteration of NPR's Tiny Desk (Home) Concerts, and as you may expect, the Toronto band ab...
Streams Jerry Leger Shares Folk Rocking Murder Mystery "Jumped in the Humber" Jerry Leger is reissuing his recent albums Time Out for Tomorrow (2019) and Songs from the Apartment (2020) on vinyl, and ahead of those Mar...
Streams Weezer Share New 'OK Human' Track "All My Favorite Songs," Confirm "Hella Mega Tour" Dates This week, Weezer revealed plans for a new album called OK Human, which is all set to arrive next week through Atlantic Records. Today, they...
Streams Watch the New Radicals' Full Reunion Set for the Biden Inauguration The New Radicals' "You Get What You Give" stands as one of the catchiest songs ever, and as promised, the group reminded us of that during P...
Streams Amanda Bynes Has Teased Her First-Ever Rap Song Former teen actor Amanda Bynes has had quite a journey through the last few years, but she's still going strong with creative output. In fac...
Streams America Is Already Healing with a Brand New Macklemore Freestyle Mere hours into Joe Biden's presidency, we may have some idea of what his era's pop culture will sound like as Macklemore has re-emerged wit...
Streams Architects Revisit the Royal Albert Hall in Their "Dead Butterflies" Video Just over a month out from sharing new album For Those That Wish to Exist, Architects are revisiting a performance for 2020 to mark the arri...
Streams Bad Religion Call for "Emancipation of the Mind" on New Single It's too early to tell whether or not a Joe Biden presidency will end the Age of Unreason, but Bad Religion are marking today's inauguration...
Streams The Besnard Lakes Deliver Animated Video for "Our Heads, Our Hearts on Fire Again" The Besnard Lakes' forthcoming double album The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings remains one of Exclaim!'s Most...
Streams Watch Fleet Foxes' Intimate New Video for "I'm Not My Season" Fleet Foxes are back throwing support behind the group's Shore album, this time by releasing an intimate new video for the record's "I'm Not...
Streams Foo Fighters Stage a Teenage Rebellion in Their "Waiting on a War" Video Foo Fighters are once again amping up the excitement for their new album Medicine at Midnight, but instead of shoes and sake, they are doing...
Streams Bernice Address the Self on New Song "It's Me, Robin" Bernice's forthcoming Eau de Bonjourno is one of our Most Anticipated Canadian Albums of 2021, and the Toronto outfit have shared another ne...
Streams Lubalin's "Internet Drama Part 3" Is Finally Here Montreal producer and viral meme sensation Lubalin has shared the much anticipated third instalment in his "Internet Drama" series. After...
Streams MGMT's Andrew VanWyngarden Shares "I Miss Dancing in New York" as Gentle Dom MGMT's Andrew VanWyngarden is back with more coronavirus-inspired music to tide us over into the 11th month of the pandemic, and he's here t...
Streams Hear Mo Kenney Cover Daniel Romano's "Hard on You" Mo Kenney has been in a covers sort of mood these days, so much so the Nova Scotia songwriter has a new album coming out simply called Cover...
Streams Hear the Week's Best New Canadian Music: Charlotte Cardin, Lubalin, Haviah Mighty As we get deeper in 2021, more and more Canadian albums are being announced — meaning we have a pile of new tracks to listen to. Our favouri...
Streams This TikTok Cat Singing "Down with the Sickness" Will Brighten Your Day In early coronavirus days, Disturbed's "Down with the Sickness" gained newfound popularity, surging 31 percent in digital sales between Marc...
Streams AFI Return with Two New Songs Just over two years on from sharing EP The Missing Man, AFI have unloaded a pair of new songs. Both "Twisted Tongues" and "Escape from Los A...
Streams DaBaby Releases a "Masterpiece" Prolific rapper DaBaby is still relatively young in his career, but he's now released his masterpiece. Or, at the very least, a song called...
Streams Haviah Mighty Is Feeling "Antisocial" on Huge New Single It's an era where we're all feeling a little antisocial whether we like it or not, and rising Toronto rapper Haviah Mighty has captured the...
Streams Feel the "Power" of Daniel Lanois' New Single Daniel Lanois' forthcoming album Heavy Sun remains one of Exclaim!'s 29 Most Anticipated Canadian Albums of 2021, and the Hamilton-based pol...
Reviews Kawthra Infuse Sludge Metal with Introspection on 'The Tenets' "Ignorance Is Bliss," "Confidence Is Key," and "Belief Is Reality" are the three immutable laws that define Kawthra's The Tenets. The debut...
Reviews Bicep's Trance Formula Works Most of the Time on 'Isles' Irish duo Bicep debuted strongly in 2017 with their self-titled album — a confident mix of continental trance melodicism and urban grit that...
Reviews Rhye Starts His Pop Pivot on 'Home' Before Rhye emerged from a haze of identity-obscuring mystery, it seemed like that voice could have belonged to anyone. The project's sensuo...
Reviews Kiwi Jr.'s 'Cooler Returns' Is Packed with Golden Hooks and Subtle Weirdness At a glance, Kiwi Jr.'s music scans as a retro revival of '60s pop sweetness and '90s slacker rock swagger — especially since frontman Jerem...
Reviews NDP MP Charlie Angus' Songwriting Remains Potent on Grievous Angels' 'Summer Before the Storm' Ontario folk veterans Grievous Angels are back with new material after a seven-year-long hiatus, attributed to the fact that the band's prin...
Reviews Pearl Charles Brings Sulky Country to the Disco on 'Magic Mirror' Pearl Charles may have released Magic Mirror in January, but it's far from being a wintery album with a drab tone. The singer-songwriter's s...
Reviews Sleaford Mods Show Their Versatility on 'Spare Ribs' Six albums in, the idiosyncratic style of Nottingham duo Sleaford Mods is still very much intact on Spare Ribs. Andrew Fearn's minimalistic,...
Reviews Jazmine Sullivan Explores Love, Sex and Money in the Instagram Age on 'Heaux Tales' Jazmine Sullivan's Heaux Tales plays like a late-night, wine-infused discussion amongst girlfriends about the sincere moments that yield the...
Reviews 'Drunk Tank Pink' Showcases Shame's Talent for Vivid Storytelling In the world of Shame's Drunk Tank Pink, perception is everything. Opener "Alphabet" kicks off with rattling snare and lurching rhythms f...
Reviews Viagra Boys Tear Themselves Open on Cathartic 'Welfare Jazz' Viagra Boys have aggressively explored their past struggles, negative habits and self-defeats. Life as a musician is a road filled with temp...
Reviews 'History of Swear Words' Has All the Wit of a Preteen Edgelord Hosted by Nicolas Cage Back when I was in elementary school, students were forced to participate in a school-wide public speaking competition. Every kid had to pic...
Reviews Steve Earle and the Dukes' 'J.T.' Is a Fitting Send-Off to Justin Townes Earle Tumultuous as their relationship was, Steve Earle clearly reveres his son Justin Townes Earle as a songwriter. Years after Steve (himself a...
Reviews The Dirty Nil Are No Longer Rock Underdogs on 'Fuck Art' In 10 years, the Dirty Nil have gone from scrappy small-town Ontario upstarts to Juno-winning rockers with a devoted base of riff addicts an...
Reviews Eminem Can't Shake the Haters on 'Music to Be Murdered By - Side B' A wise man once said, don't read your mentions. He said to ignore the comments section. He warned artists that it's dangerous to read your o...
Reviews Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste's 'Soul' Soundtrack Feels Like Two Scores in One The soundtrack to Pixar's new animated masterpiece Soul is, essentially, two scores in one. On the one hand, you've got music by New Orle...
Reviews Paul McCartney Recaptures the Magic of His Earliest Solo Work on 'McCartney III' Like its predecessors McCartney (1970) and McCartney II (1980), McCartney III was written, recorded and produced entirely by Sir Paul McCart...
Reviews Kid Cudi's 'Man on the Moon III: The Chosen' Is a Triumphant Finale In October 2016, Kid Cudi had hit rock bottom. He checked himself into rehab and shared a heartbreaking letter on Facebook in which he descr...
Reviews The Avalanches Give Their Signature Sound a Collaborative Update on 'We Will Always Love You' Albums by the Avalanches used to introduce themselves like dreamy street festivals — crowd chatter, hot pavement, snippets of music — arrivi...
Reviews Taylor Swift Finds the Sunshine on 'evermore' Just five months after Taylor Swift surprised the world with the sudden release of her eighth studio album, folklore, she decided to celebra...
Reviews 'Song Exploder' Season 2 Gets Emotional About the Creative Process Hosted by Hrishikesh Hirway Just a couple months after Song Exploder's debut mini-season, Hrishikesh Hirway's podcast-turned-Netflix-show is back for four more episodes...
Reviews You Might Not Know Bob Wiseman's Name, but You'll Appreciate His 'Music Lessons' Bob Wiseman has been many things in his long career — founding member of Blue Rodeo, solo artist, experimental musician, sideman and teacher...
Reviews Kacy & Clayton and Marlon Williams Find Organic Beauty with 'Plastic Bouquet' Here's a Commonwealth collaboration of three of the brightest talents in roots music. Saskatchewan folk duo Kacy & Clayton — cousins Kacy An...