Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney is branching out with a new project. Called Sad Planets, his new band with John Petkovic will release thei...

In 2003, Madlib teamed with J Dilla to release Champion Sound as Jaylib. In 2014, he teamed with Freddie Gibbs to release Piñata, with the d...

RuPaul's Drag Race returns for its 11th season later this month, and the star-studded list of guest judges has just been announced.   Mile...

Skip Groff — a record store owner and a fixture in D.C.'s punk and alternative music scenes — has died. Groff's wife, Kelly Groff, confirmed...

Alex Lahey impressed with her underrated 2017 debut I Love You Like a Brother, and now the Australian singer-songwriter has revealed plans f...

Just over eight years ago, members of Anthrax, Fall Out Boy and Every Time I Die formed supergroup the Damned Things. Now, the group have re...

It's no secret that vinyl pressing plants have had a major backlog of orders as the music medium continues to grow in popularity. Fortunatel...

Northern Lights Festival Boréal will return to Sudbury this summer from July 4 to 7, and the first round of performers has just been announc...

Not unlike John Mayer before him, Said the Whale frontman Tyler Bancroft underwent an appendectomy in the middle of tour, and he is now on t...

Lady Gaga and her fiancé, Christian Carino, have broken up.   Her publicist confirmed the news to the Associated Press, though no further...

Stereolab are back! Having unveiled reissues and hinted at a live reunion, the group recently booked a couple of upcoming festival dates. No...

Lil Pump has unveiled the tracklisting for his upcoming album Harverd Dropout.   The long-delayed album finally arrives this week, and the...

Adele has long professed her love for Canadian rapper Drake, and Drizzy has reciprocated multiple times, but the pair took their appreciatio...

Before Anemone was a band, before they'd released their new album Beat My Distance, even before Montréal songwriter and band founder Chloé S...

After a year of surprise EP releases and single drops, 2 Chainz has finally set a release date for his Rap or Go to the League album. The...

Earlier this year, we learned that Machine Gun Kelly would be embodying Tommy Lee in the upcoming Mötley Crüe biopic The Dirt, and now the f...

Montreal's îleSoniq festival is set to return to the city for its sixth edition this summer, and ahead of time, organizers have shared the f...

After revealing that the Weeknd would be a part of his new Hyperion album last month, ​Gesaffelstein has detailed the rest of the record's t...

Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie are once again heading off on a co-headlining tour. And yes, they are coming to Canada. Following last year...

Johnny Marr has announced plans for a spring North American tour.   The trek will kick off on April 27 in Atlanta and will only make one C...

Liam Gallagher claims his older brother and former Oasis bandmate, Noel Gallagher, is threatening to sue him.   Last week, the younger bro...

In the wake of Phoebe Bridgers, Jenny Lewis and Mandy Moore further opening up about the growing Ryan Adams abuse scandal, the songwriter's...

Compton rapper Boogie is throwing more weight behind his Everything's for Sale album via a new video. This time, it's for the record's Emine...

Devours is gearing up to release his sophomore album Iconoclast, and we're getting a proper taste of it today via a new video for its "Curmu...

Following a significant lineup change, Scottish indie-pop crew Teenage Fanclub are about to start a North American tour tomorrow (February 2...

In the lead-up to their new album Father of the Bride, Vampire Weekend have unveiled a video for recent single "Harmony Hall."   The clip...

Pavement indie-rock lifer Stephen Malkmus is gearing up for his new album Groove Denied, his so-called "rejected" electronic album. We're no...

After teasing the arrival of collab album Bandana, Freddie Gibbs and Madlib have returned with a new single. Titled "Flat Tummy Tea," the...

Ace of Wands release their new album Lioness later this week, but Exclaim! is giving you the opportunity to stream the LP in its entirety ri...

Billy Moon released his debut full-length Punk Songs last year, and now the Toronto-based DIY-er has unveiled supporting tour dates and a vi...

Earlier this year, Sundance debuted the controversial two-part HBO documentary Leaving Neverland, which explores cases of sexual misconduct...

After releasing one of our Top 10 Hip-Hop albums of 2018 with Whack World, Tierra Whack has returned with a new song. Titled "Only Child,...

Not even a month removed from announcing her signing to Fat Possum/Royal Mountain, Ellis (a.k.a. Linnea Siggelkow) has shared a new single....

Today's a holiday, which means you're most likely not at work. As such, the NSFW designation of Cardi B's new "Thotiana" remix does not appl...

Veteran darkwave outfit Cold Cave are about to travel all over North America on a hefty tour, but before they leave their homes they're alre...

Drake toasted to the 10th anniversary of his 2009 breakout mixtape So Far Gone earlier this week, and now the release is finally available o...

Toronto pop-punk unit Carried Away release their sophomore EP Start Over next week, but Exclaim! is giving you the chance to hear it right n...

Cardi B may have had to back out of last year's "24K Magic Tour" with Bruno Mars, but the pair are clearly still on friendly terms, as they'...

Movements have been making quite the commotion since forming in 2015, getting a Warped slot in 2017 with just an EP before jumping up to mai...

Hamilton rockers the Dirty Nil are back with a video for "Pain of Infinity" off last year's Master Volume.   The clip sees the guys in the...

To celebrate Valentine's Day, Vancouver newcomer des hume is here to break your heart with an electro-R&B single aptly titled "Break Yr Hear...

Broken Social Scene are celebrating Valentine's Day by releasing an animated video for "Boyfriends."   The clip is an onslaught of GIFs, c...

Unofficially hailing from Welland, ON (officially hailing from "the propaganda arm of a shadowy international order), Dboy are making their...

Migos member Offset has been promising a solo album for some time now, but it's finally set to land next week. Before the album arrives, tho...

Windsor, ON hardcore sludge heroes Minors have quickly followed up their acclaimed debut with Abject Bodies. Instead of following the formul...

Described by the artist as a kind of travelogue, gathered, edited, composed and considered over a four-year period that included the reunion...

It wasn't supposed to be like this. After countless lineup changes and two breakups, Candlemass still haven't been able to top their genre-d...

Dead Witches couldn't be more doom if they strapped on inverted crosses and started calling themselves "Sons of Sabbath." From the "ex-Elect...

This young Australian singer-songwriter made a real mark with her 2016 debut, Don't Let The Kids Win, and subsequent international touring,...

As culture becomes oversaturated with '80s throwback sounds, Tim Kinsella and Jenny Pulse imbue their adjacent style with a fresh sense of i...

For the last decade or so (and via three separate aliases), Dutch producer Samuel van Dijk has proven himself a devoted explorer of the murk...

Looking beyond the four walls of her Berkeley apartment, on her wholly possessed sophomore release, Chrystia Cabral — aka Spellling — opens...

The Dears' Murray Lightburn has re-emerged under his own name with his second solo release, the heart-on-sleeve meets classic songwriter rec...

Institutional respectability appears to have found, captured and enshrined Volker Bertelmann, aka Hauschka. Well into the second decade of h...

The target of Sleaford Mods' disdain becomes clear as soon as vocalist Jason Williamson proclaims, "Graham Coxon looks like a left-wing Bori...

Since the release of his criminally overlooked debut in 2002, Moving Up Country, James Yorkston has always written music in reaction to his...

Santa Cruz, CA's Continuum offer up one hell of a crushing slab of technical death metal with their sophomore album, Designed Obsolescence....

It's not until the very last track on Amanda Rheaume's new LP, The Skin I'm In, that the promising songsmith truly lives up to the potential...

Twelve studio albums into her legendary career, Queen Chaka Khan hasn't lost her magic. But in an attempt to do it all, Hello Happiness lose...

With a bright light shining down on her, and hundreds of sets of eyes patiently gazing at the stage from all angles of the catwalk that wrap...

Arkells' tour stop in Toronto was a religious experience, with frontman Max Kerman declaring: "Tonight, Scotiabank Arena is the church of ro...

Through a veil of lo-fi production, the undeniable ring of Departure Chandelier's riffs speaks like dusty legends exhumed from the crypts of...

In the year since DIY Toronto DJ/promoter collective Forth debuted a label appendage to document and elevate the city's underground dance mu...

American East coast ensemble Wind Walker Orchestra invigorates their spry big band jazz with an interesting mix of contemporary influences....

In late 2013, Los Angeles-based Estonian ex-pat Maria Minerva enlisted friend Chelsea Faith (a.k.a. Cherushii) to tour the United States, an...

Florida Georgia Line's fourth studio album, Can't Say I Ain't Country, is a mix of country pop, rock and hip-hop, making it a bro-country me...