Ought

Ought Offshoot Cola Are Fizzing with Energy on 'Deep in View'

PUBLISHED May 20, 2022

Along with the unceremonious announcement of the end of beloved Montreal post-punk band Ought in November 2021, the band's vocalist-guitari...

Ex-Ought Members Announce Debut Album as Cola

PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2022

Late last year, members of Montreal post-punks Ought, Tim Darcy and Ben Stidworthy, announced they'd be branching off to form a new band, C...

Ought Announce Split, Former Members Reconvene as Cola

PUBLISHED Nov 3, 2021

Montreal post-punk outfit Ought have announced they will officially disband after nearly nine years together. Along with news of their spli...

Exclaim!'s 50 Best Canadian Songs of the 2010s

PUBLISHED Nov 6, 2019

With the takeover of streaming platforms and playlists, not to mention the shrinking of our collective attention spans, a single track has...

Exclaim!'s 50 Best Canadian Albums of the 2010s

PUBLISHED Oct 31, 2019

After the CanRock explosion of the 1990s and indelible contributions to the 2000s golden age of indie, Canadians' musical output at-large t...

Ought

"Desire" (video)

PUBLISHED Mar 12, 2018

Ought released their latest studio album Room Inside the World last month, and the Canadian post-punk outfit have just treated album cut "D...

Ought

Lee's Palace, Toronto ON, March 7

PUBLISHED Mar 8, 2018

Ought are the kind of band that can wring desperate poignancy from humdrum sentiments. On their first two albums, they found change through...

Royal Mountain Records Gets Mac DeMarco, U.S. Girls, Calpurnia for Hamilton Festival

PUBLISHED Feb 28, 2018

Independent Canadian label Royal Mountain Records has been on a roll, releasing records from Mac DeMarco, U.S. Girls, Ought and more in the...