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News Mogwai Announce 'Every Country's Sun' Album, Share New Song When Scottish post-rockers Mogwai announced their North American fall tour, they revealed that they had recently finished recording a new fu...
News PWR BTTM Dropped By Polyvinyl Buzzed about DIY duo PWR BTTM released their sophomore LP Pageant yesterday (May 12), but in the wake of sexual assault allegations (and a d...
News 'Master of None' Season 2 Gets Soundtrack Release Today (May 12) marks the release of Aziz Ansari's anticipated return to his Master of None series on Netflix. It makes sense then that today...
News Deadmau5 Files Countersuit in "Meowingtons" Trademark Battle Back in March, Canadian electronic music icon deadmau5 (a.k.a. Joel Zimmerman) found himself locked in a trademark battle over the name of h...
News Dirty Beaches' Alex Zhang Hungtai Returns with Love Theme Project Alex Zhang Hungtai retired his Dirty Beaches moniker back in 2014, though he has continued making music under a variety of different aliases...
News Katy Perry Is Cooked in a Giant Pot in the "Bon Appétit" Video You know those giant soup pots that doubled as baths in old Bugs Bunny cartoons? Katy Perry takes a dip in one in the new video for her Migo...
News Details of PWR BTTM's Alleged Sexual Assault Emerge Buzz band PWR BTTM are in the midst of international scrutiny following some serious allegations of sexual assault. Despite their efforts ...
News METZ Treat Their Albums to Expanded Vinyl Reissues Though a newly released teaser from METZ is heavily hinting at a new album, the noisy Toronto three-piece are giving their first two release...
News Kaytranada Teams Up with Compton MC Buddy for 'Ocean & Montana' EP When it comes to producing for rappers, Kaytranada's portfolio boasts beats for Freddie Gibbs, Chance the Rapper, Lou Phelps, Wiki and more....
News "Weird Al" Yankovic and Lil Yachty Are Finally on an Album Together Ahead of his Teenage Emotions debut, Lil Yachty is set to explore some teenage storytelling with a spot on the Captain Underpants sound...
News Logic Announces "Everybody's Tour" with Joey Bada$$ and Big Lenbo Logic delivered his third studio album Everybody earlier this month, and now the rapper has mapped out a support tour behind the record. ...
News PWR BTTM Touring Member Quits After losing two opening bands on their upcoming tour over allegations of sexual assault, PWR BTTM have now lost a touring member. Mult...
News Coachella Offshoot Desert Trip Will Not Return in 2017 Thousands of boomers descended upon Indio, CA, last year to take in sets from the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and more as part of Coachella of...
News Tim Heidecker Has Written a Beautiful Folk Song About the Horrors of 4Chan Endlessly prolific comedy great Tim Heidecker always has a ridiculous amount of projects on the go, but he always makes time to troll far-r...
News Deryck Whibley's Mom Opens Up About the Sum 41 Singer's Sobriety Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley very publicly hit rock bottom a few years ago but has since channelled his struggle to get sober into the ban...
News Stream Prince's Previously Unreleased Track "Our Destiny / Roadhouse Garden" An epic reissue of Prince's Purple Rain LP is set for release this summer, and now another previously unreleased track has been unleashed. ...
News T-Rextasy Back Out of Tour with PWR BTTM in Wake of Sexual Assault Allegations New York band T-Rextasy were slated to open for PWR BTTM on the duo's upcoming summer tour, but they have now backed out following the sexua...
News Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Celebrates Merle Haggard's Life (Not Death) on 'Best Troubador' When Merle Haggard died in April 2016, Will Oldham was already working on Best Troubador, a new Bonnie 'Prince' Billy collection of covers t...
News Hear Cornelius's Striking Return with "If You're Here" Last month, we learned Japanese electronic music icon Cornelius would be coming back into our lives with the new album Mellow Waves — his ...
News HAIM Share Studio Version of "Right Now," Detail New Album We're slowly but surely edging our way towards HAIM's upcoming Something to Tell You, so it's about time we get all the album details — so...
Streams Subjectivity 'Five Songs' (EP stream) Three graduates of Calgary's all-ages music scene have formed the spiky post-punk group Subjectivity, and today Exclaim! is happy to present...
Streams Banks & Steelz "Who Needs the World" Interpol's Paul Banks teamed up with Wu-Tang Clan's RZA as Banks & Steelz for Anything But Words last year, and now the dynamic duo has retu...
Streams Undesirable People "Choose" (video) Detroit-based rockers Undesirable People are unleashing their brand new video for "Choose," and Exclaim! is giving you the first look at it....
Streams Paramore 'After Laughter' (album stream) Paramore fans have been waiting four years for a new record from the group, and that wait is finally over. After Laughter is available to st...
Streams Todd Rundgren 'White Knight' (album stream) Todd Rundgren lifted the curtain on his collab-heavy LP White Knight back in March, and you can now hear the entire record right here. ...
Streams Calvin Harris "Rollin" (ft. Future & Khalid) This week Calvin Harris unloaded the details behind his new album Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1. And to stoke that anticipation a little bit highe...
Streams Fleet Foxes "Fool's Errand" (video) With Fleet Foxes' new Crack-Up headed our way next month, Robin Pecknold and co. are giving us another proper taste of the album with "Fool'...
Streams Melvins "Christ Hammer" With the double album A Walk with Love and Death and a North American tour coming up, sludge greats Melvins have given us a new song to clam...
Streams She-Devils "Hey Boy" (video) She-Devils drop their self-titled debut LP later this month, but before the record arrives, the Montreal duo have unveiled a new video. ...
Streams Miley Cyrus "Malibu" (video) Miley Cyrus has been having something of a personality crisis through her music. After flirting with trap alongside Mike WiLL Made-It, she ...
Streams Thurston Moore "Aphrodite" (video) Former Sonic Youth guitar wiz Thurston Moore returned with his latest solo LP Rock n Roll Consciousness a couple weeks ago, and now he's del...
Streams Slowdive "30th June" (Japanese bonus track) Slowdive delivered their first new LP in 22 years last week, and for listeners in Japan, their version of the self-titled disc contains bonu...
Streams Blink-182 "Wildfire" The last we heard from California mall punks Blink-182, the trio were channeling some Underoath vibes on a weird metalcore experiment. No...
Streams Danny Brown "Kool Aid" Given his penchant for weed and pizza, it was only a matter of time before Danny Brown needed a drink — and it turns out his beverage of c...
Streams Only Yours "Waiting" Toronto indie pop outfit Only Yours recently released a self-titled EP, spawning the Leah Fay-featuring "Edge of My Dreams." Now, they've un...
Streams Tim Moxam "Honey from the Hive" (video) Former Great Bloomers member Tim Moxam released his debut album Soft Summer last year, and he's welcoming this year's summer months with a v...
Streams Snoop Dogg "Trash Bags" (ft. K Camp) Snoop Dogg is set to deliver his latest LP Neva Left later this month, and before it arrives, the rap icon has shared another new cut in "...
Streams Little Simz "Backseat" From touring with Ab-Soul, to her own trek in support of Stillness in Wonderland, Little Simz has logged a lot of hours on the road this pa...
Streams Swet Shop Boys "Thas My Girl" Swet Shop Boys made a contribution to Record Store Day 2017 with their Sufi La EP, and if you weren't able to get your hands on it then, t...
Streams Paper Beat Scissors "What Am I Going to Do with Everything I Know" (Weather Station cover) Tim Crabtree's Paper Beat Scissors project is ready to release the follow-up to 2015's Go On later this month, but before All We Know offici...
Reviews Chippy Nonstop The Factory, St. John's NL, May 13 Party starter Chippy Nonstop was lost amongst a throngs of dancers. They surrounded her in her DJ booth, which was decked out in TV screens ...
Reviews Jake Nicoll The Ship, St. John's NL, May 13 Local boy Jake Nicoll is an unassuming pop master who brought his wondrous songs to life with a solid quintet. There's a sly yet confessiona...
Reviews Mac DeMarco Danforth Music Hall, Toronto ON, May 12 Mac DeMarco, the casual king of good times, walked onto the Danforth stage drenched in a rather ominous deep red light and into an absolute ...
Reviews Perfume Genius Theatre Fairmount. Montreal QC, May 12 There's no question that the latest album from Mike Hadreas — best known as Perfume Genius — is good. No Shape is a rich, textual exper...
Reviews Phèdre Factory, St. John's NL, May 12 A small gathering at Factory grew increasingly larger and became more animated as Daniel Lee and April Aliermo of Hooded Fang treated Newfou...
Reviews Jaunt Rock House, St. John's NL, May 12 Jaunt exhibited such sensitivity as songwriters and musicians onstage, their group hug before the show made total sense. The Toronto quintet...
Reviews Town House Rock House, St. John's NL, May 12 With post-rock ambiance and ever-building rhythmic patterns, Town House perform songs that are equally informed by stillness and motion. The...
Reviews The Jesus & Mary Chain Massey Hall, Toronto ON, May 12 In the ten-year span it took Scottish alt-rock legends the Jesus & Mary Chain to release a new album, they completed a full-on reunion tour ...
Reviews U2 / Mumford & Sons BC Place, Vancouver BC, May 12 U2 kicked off their 30th anniversary tour in celebration of The Joshua Tree last night in Vancouver, cramming BC Place with generations of f...
Reviews Harry Styles Harry Styles When One Directioner Harry Styles released his debut single, "Sign of the Times," last month, it was a genuine shocker. That the 23-year-old...
Reviews Chris Stapleton From a Room: Volume 1 In 1928, Jimmie Rodgers recorded a song called "T for Texas." It was talking blues, but its use of yodelling, how it ran through the banjo, ...
Reviews Laura Marling / Valley Queen Danforth Music Hall, Toronto ON, May 10 The talk after last night's (May 10) sold out Laura Marling show at the Danforth Music Hall was of its length and abrupt end. "I don't do en...
Reviews Alive in Tucson Cabin Weekend With their second release, Saskatoon unit Alive in Tucson put forth a succinct set of straightforward pop rock songs reminiscent of Weezer o...
Reviews The Velveteins Slow Wave Slow Wave, the debut full-length from Edmonton-based the Velveteins, is a sunny soundtrack to mark the beginning of a hot and dry Prairie su...
Reviews Forest Walker UV Sea Los Angeles-based composer Forest Walker Christenson works in a variety of realms, often transcending aural landscapes with his many endeavo...
Reviews Merzbow & Alessandro Cortini Merzbow & Alessandro Cortini Japanese noise great Massami Akita (aka Merzbow) and Nine Inch Nails multi-instrumentalist Alessandro Cortini have produced a solid candidat...
Reviews Tambour Chapitres [Vinyl Edition] Montreal composer Simon P. Castonguay has partnered with Moderna Records to repackage excerpts from his two exceptional EPs, Chapitre I (rel...
Reviews Fotocrime Always Hell In 2015, after 12 years and five albums, Louisville, KY post-hardcore trio Coliseum went on hiatus. Now, after officially calling it quits o...
Reviews Aidan Baker & Karen Willems Nonland Percussionist Karen Willems and guitarist Aidan Baker both have large discographies full of numerous collaborations and projects, but a trad...
Reviews Various Dekmantel 10 Years 3 For the third instalment of the Dekmantel 10 Years EP series, the Amsterdam label calls on Levon Vincent, Legowelt, Joey Anderson and Centra...