Anniversary
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...
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...
'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...
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...
Hollerado Remember the "Romantic Time" of 'White Paint' 10 Years Later
PUBLISHED Feb 24, 2023
A decade ago, it seemed like every few months brought a wild announcement from indie rockers Hollerado — a quarter-million dollar victory i...
Black Mountain's "Riff-Hungry" Psych Rock Epic 'In the Future' Turns 15
PUBLISHED Jan 20, 2023
In the mid-aughts, Vancouver was home to some buzzing indie bands like the New Pornographers and Destroyer, and respected metal bands like...
Art d'Ecco on the 50th Anniversary of 'Transformer': "I Often Wonder, 'What Would Lou Reed Do?'"
PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2022
Had things gone a little differently, modern music listeners might have never heard of Lou Reed. The Velvet Underground were famously comme...
Hot Hot Heat on the 20th Anniversary of 'Make Up the Breakdown' and Its Era-Defining New Wave Revival
PUBLISHED Oct 11, 2022
In 2002, Brooklyn was ground zero for a budding post-punk revival movement that was just starting to hit the mainstream. Meanwhile, on the...
