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News LL Cool J to Perform at BC Lions' Season Debut Grammy-winning rapper and Any Given Sunday actor LL Cool J is set to return to the football field to headline the Concert Kickoff ahead of t...
News 54•40 Announce 'Live at El Mocambo' Canadian rock lifers 54•40 have announced a live album recorded at Toronto's El Mocambo club. The very logically titled Live at El Mocambo w...
News Historic Replacements Photo Removed from University of Minnesota over a Ciggie Photos of the Replacements have been removed from the Coffman Memorial Union at the University of Minnesota after some students decided to n...
News The Weakerthans' John K Samson Releases Three New Songs as Vivat Virtute John K. Samson, bandleader of Winnipeg indie vets the Weakerthans, has released three new songs as Vivat Virtute (which roughly translates t...
News Flash Back Drop 'North American Nü Metal II' EP, Map Out West Coast Tour Regina-based nu metallers and Exclaim! New Faves alum Flash Back have released a new two-track EP titled North American Nü Metal II in addit...
News License-Free Lad Noel Gallagher Mards with Police over Range Rover Mystery Noel Gallagher of Oasis has been slapped with a penalty for his refusal to disclose the identity of a driver who was caught speeding in his...
News We Are Busy Bodies Launches New Imprint with Waking Eyes, Wide Mouth Mason Reissues Toronto label We Are Busy Bodies is launching a new reissue imprint called Record Record Label, focused primarily on limited vinyl reissues...
News PEI's Baited Announce New EP 'Cutting Teeth' East Coast hardcore metal band Baited have announced a new EP Cutting Teeth, out July 14. Baited comprises Liam Farrell, Chris Gallant, A...
News Coldplay Reduce Their Tour Emissions by Almost Half Nearly hitting their original goal of cutting tour emissions by 50 percent, Coldplay's Music of the Spheres tour has emitted 47 percent less...
News Steve Vai Maps Out Inviolate World Tour In support of his recently released archival album Vai/Gash, storied guitarist Steve Vai — who has played with the likes of Frank Zappa, Whi...
News Digable Planets Plot 30th Anniversary Tour for Debut Album To commemorate the 30th anniversary of their 1993 debut album Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space), hip-hop trio Digable Planets ar...
News Hamilton's FrancoFEST Gets LGS, Shauit, Pascale LeBlanc for 2023 Edition Brought to you by the Centre Francophone Hamilton, FrancoFEST — the largest Francophone arts and culture festival in the Niagara Peninsula —...
News Blake Mills Announces New Album with Chris Weisman, Shares New Song "Skeleton Is Walking" Super-producer and songwriter Blake Mills has announced Jelly Road, a new collaborative album written and recorded with songwriter, jazz mus...
News Speedy Ortiz Announce New Album 'Rabbit Rabbit,' Share New Single Back in April, Speedy Ortiz shared "Scabs," their first new song in five years, and now they've followed it up with another new single and n...
News Chat Pile Book North American Tour Politically-minded metal mavericks Chat Pile released one of Exclaim!'s favourite albums of 2022 with God's Country, and now they've announc...
News Saltwater Hank Shares New Song "'Nii Wila Waalt" First Nations Ts'msyen songwriter Saltwater Hank has shared the rollicking "'Nii Wila Waalt," the latest single from his upcoming full-lengt...
News Madonna to Release Songs with the Weeknd, Sam Smith Ahead of her sprawling 40th-anniversary tour, Madonna is set to drop her first tracks in four years with some massive cosigns. Last week...
News Margaret Glaspy Announces New Album 'Echo the Diamond,' North American Tour New York singer-songwriter Margaret Glaspy has announced her third studio album, led by new single "Act Natural." She'll also take her new m...
News Pip Blom Share "Is This Love?" Featuring Alex Kapranos, Announce New Album Amsterdam indie outfit Pip Blom have detailed their third album. While Bobbie won't arrive until October 20 (via Heavenly Recordings), the b...
News Moneen Take 'Are We Really Happy with Who We Are Right Now?' on 20th Anniversary Canadian Tour Moneen have announced an anniversary tour celebrating two decades of their sophomore album, 2003's Are We Really Happy with Who We Are Right...
Streams Hear the Week's Best New Canadian Music: Jenn Grant, Nelly Furtado, Haviah Mighty Just yesterday (June 1), we revealed our best 25 albums of 2023 so far ranking — and today, like every Friday, there's a crop of new contend...
Streams Kim Petras Joins Paris Hilton for "Stars Are Blind (Paris' Version)" Paris Hilton's reggae-lite "Stars Are Blind" has held strong as a beloved Girls-and-Gays anthem for nearly two decades now, the kind of cand...
Streams Listen to Chaka Khan and Rufus Wainwright Cover "Cotton-Eyed Joe" Where did you come from? And more importantly, where exactly did you go? These are the questions we ask of Cotton-Eyed Joe, and we've been a...
Streams Ilsey Covers Neil Young's "Heart of Gold" with Bon Iver Ilsey and Bon Iver's Justin Vernon are giving Neil Young's "Heart of Gold" new life with their cover, which was mixed and produced by BJ Bur...
Streams Katie Tupper Shares New Song "Little Love" Saskatoon's neo-soul darling Katie Tupper has just released a new single from her upcoming EP Where to Find Me, out June 23 via Arts & Craft...
Streams Listen to Noel Gallagher's Boneless Cover of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" With all of the marding Noel Gallagher is doing lately, it's been easy to forget that he and his High Flying Birds are releasing a new recor...
Streams Palehound Channel Tony Soprano in New "My Evil" Music Video Palehound have released a new single "My Evil" from their upcoming album Eye on the Bat, coming July 14 via Polyvinyl. "'My Evil' is abou...
Streams Montreal's Population II Share Bonsound Debut "Beau baptême" Montreal-based psych rock trio Population II — one of Exclaim!'s favourite finds from the city's 2020 Taverne Tour — have released a new sin...
Streams Here's the Cast of 'Succession' Singing Weezer for Some Reason Succession fans have had a lot to say about the end of the show this past week — but instead of being sad about the end of the beloved famil...
Streams Foo Fighters Share New 10-Minute Song "The Teacher" Foo Fighters have released a new 10-minute rock epic, "The Teacher," ahead of dropping their much anticipated But Here We Are later this wee...
Streams Watch Arctic Monkeys Play "Mardy Bum" for the First Time in a Decade Arctic Monkeys are sorry they were late! Perhaps in the spirit of their "too profound" counterparts, the 1975's mard with Noel Gallagher, th...
Streams Hear the Week's Best New Canadian Music: Jeremy Dutcher, Kelly McMichael, Haley Blais It was a short week, but we've got a full serving of new Canadian music in The Eh! List, including the return of Jeremy Dutcher with his fir...
Streams Taylor Swift Drops Ice Spice Remix of "Karma," Shares Extended "Snow on the Beach" with More Lana Del Rey Taylor Swift has shared two new songs on the deluxe version of Midnights, featuring a remix of "Karma" with Ice Spice (despite the former's...
Streams Julian Casablancas and the Voidz Release New Single "Prophecy of the Dragon" Julian Casablancas's band the Voidz have just released their first new single in two years. "Prophecy of the Dragon" is an '80s-inspired har...
Streams Listen to Little Misty's New Album 'Nowhere Land' With their album release party scheduled for tomorrow (May 27) at Cabaret Lion d'Or in Montreal, local folk heroes Little Misty have given t...
Streams Watch Coldplay Pay Tribute to Tina Turner Tributes to the late Tina Turner have continued to pour in, and now, video footage of Coldplay paying their respects has surfaced. At the...
Streams Foo Fighters Share New Song "Show Me How" Foo Fighters have gone dream pop with their new single "Show Me How." Check out the music video directed by Tim Kellner below. The new s...
Streams Kali Horse Team Up with Luna Li for New Single "New Spring" Living somewhere between performance art and dream pop, Toronto psychedelic art-rock band and Exclaim! Class of 2023 grads Kali Horse — f.k....
Streams Watch the Cure Debut Unreleased Song "Another Happy Birthday" Live at L.A. Concert Whether battling Ticketmaster fees or curating a new-look setlist, the Cure haven't shied away from bending the status quo during their curr...
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Reviews Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Westelaken's 'I am Steaming Mushrooms' Is Fantastic and Flavourful I owe a great deal of my time in Toronto to Ozzy's Palace, the West end house that shares its name with the 13-minute opening track opening...
Reviews Bully Finds Softness in the Feedback on 'Lucky for You' Over the course of three albums, Alicia Bognanno has proven her talent for crafting hooky, driving melodies that amplify, rather than mask,...
Reviews Bob Dylan Illuminates New Corners of His Music on 'Shadow Kingdom' When Bob Dylan's black-and-white film Shadow Kingdom emerged in 2021, depicting Dylan and a band performing select songs from his back catal...
Reviews Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Rich Aucoin Gets Celestial on 'Synthetic Season 2' Landing neatly between the worlds of Justice and Dan Deacon, with just a touch of 2010s Dan Snaith, Rich Aucoin's Synthetic Season 2, the se...
Reviews Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Helena Deland Ponders the Season on "Spring Bug" With a jaunty drum groove and latticework of acoustic arpeggios, Montreal singer-songwriter Helena Deland sweetly evokes the pastoral calm e...
Reviews W.I.T.C.H. Create a Fantastical Meeting Place on 'Zango' History tried to drown W.I.T.C.H., but they've resurfaced a miraculous 39 years after the release of their last album with a new offering th...
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Reviews Dave Matthews Band's 'Walk Around the Moon' Is Best When It Embraces Cringe Dave Matthews Band don't really do subtlety. Their biggest hit is a horny love song in which Matthews pleads to look up a woman's skirt, and...
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Reviews Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Brasstracks, Kemba & J. Hoard Are Positively Boisterous on "Dance Machine" Whether supporting hip-hop and R&B vocals or laying down dazzling horn-and-drum-driven grooves, Brasstracks instrumentals have never disappo...
Reviews Inside Out 2023: Witch Prophet Sets 'Leilani's Fortune' Apart from Other Music Docs Directed by Loveleen Kaur Earlier this month, Ayo Leilani released the acclaimed Gateway Experience, her third studio LP as Witch Prophet. Coinciding with this releas...
Reviews Dilly Dally's Toronto Swan Song Burned This Mother Down Lee's Palace, May 27 Six years ago, a weekend of shows ushered in the farewell to one of Toronto's foremost live music institutions: the Silver Dollar. Everyone...
Reviews Janet Jackson Reminded Toronto Why She's an Icon Budweiser Stage, May 23 Signalling the official start of summer in Toronto, Janet Jackson christened the city's Budweiser Stage on Tuesday night with a massive 40-s...
Reviews Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Lean into Heavy Fantasy with "Gila Monster" Following their latest foray into thrash metal with 2019's Infest the Rats' Nest, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard returned with a promise o...
Reviews Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: The Sky's the Limit on jev.'s "Lonrwrld (Freestyle)" jev. introduced himself to the world with tongue-twisting lyricism and the kind of flows that would leave a normal MC breathless on his debu...
Reviews The Dirty Nil's 'Free Rein to Passions' Is Lighthearted and Lean From humble underdog beginnings to Juno award-winning fame, the Dirty Nil have risen to become a finely-tuned, fan-favourite mainstay of the...
Reviews Incendiary Pose a Challenge on 'Change the Way You Think About Pain' Long Island has seen a steady output of influential heavy bands over the last few decades, Incendiary being one of which you could throw int...
Reviews Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: RP Boo Pushes Footwork to Its Limits on 'Legacy Volume 2' The legacy of footwork music begins with RP Boo, who released what is widely considered the style's first-ever track in 1997 with "Baby Come...