Anniversary

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  Fucked Up Celebrate Their "Weirdest, Most Difficult" Music as 'The Chemistry of Common Life' Turns 15

  PUBLISHED Nov 7, 2023

  It starts with a woodland flute solo and ends with a seven-minute finale that reprises the riff of that first song. Certainly, 2008's The C...

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  'Pussy Whipped' Turns 30, but Bikini Kill's Righteous Rage Stays Young

  PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2023

  By the time Bikini Kill — shit-stirrers, heart-shatterers, truth tellers and original riot grrrls — released their debut full-length album...

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  Barenaked Ladies Reflect on the 25th Anniversary of "One Week": "I Believed It Would Be a B-Side"

  PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2023

  It's been... 25 years since Barenaked Ladies conquered the charts with their 1998 smash "One Week" — a song that spat out a string of pop c...

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  Voivod Reminisce About Montreal Cockroaches, Dave Grohl Shoutouts and 40 Years of Trailblazing Metal

  PUBLISHED Jul 21, 2023

  In the early '80s, when the Canadian metal scene was still nascent, four teenagers from Quebec dreamed of playing heavy metal on stage like...

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  Call Him Maybe: Jonathan Simkin Celebrates 20 Years of 604 Records and Becoming "Godfathers of a Neo-Grunge Movement"

  PUBLISHED Jul 13, 2023

  Look at this photograph: it's Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger with his lawyer, Jonathan Simkin. And while that shot was snapped many years...

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  No Joy Discuss Sonic Easter Eggs and Their Scrapped Second Album as 'Wait to Pleasure' Turns 10

  PUBLISHED Jun 23, 2023

  In the early 2010s, it suddenly became possible for guitar bands to earn a ton of hype with a non-existent studio budget, as acts like Best...

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  'The Smell of Our Own' Turns 20: The Hidden Cameras Reflect on Their "Unsanctioned Anarchist Catholic" Utopia

  PUBLISHED Apr 13, 2023

  "We didn't quite fit in the scene," Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras tells Exclaim!, reminiscing about the period when his Toronto-founded b...

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  Tim Baker Remembers Hey Rosetta!'s 'Into Your Lungs' and How It Ultimately Broke Up the Band

  PUBLISHED Apr 10, 2023

  Tim Baker is in on the joke.The singer-songwriter from St. John's, NL, offers up a trademark sheepish grin when confronted with a now-15-ye...