Best of 2012

Exclaim!'s Best Albums of 2012:

Improv and Avant-Garde

PUBLISHED Dec 19, 2012

Given the diversity and depth of the improv and avant-garde scene, instead of ranking and rating releases, we've asked regular contributors...

Groove 2012: What Frank Ocean's 'Channel Orange' Taught Us

PUBLISHED Dec 17, 2012

Owner of perhaps this year's most unique backstory, R&B artist Frank Ocean's ascendance into the mainstream was a perfect storm of promotio...

Groove 2012: PSY vs. Snoop Lion

PUBLISHED Dec 17, 2012

Nobody could have predicted that a cherubic thirty-something rapper from South Korea would record the most popular song of 2012. However, j...

Exclaim!'s Best of 2012:

An Analysis of the Year in Groove

PUBLISHED Dec 17, 2012

Our Exclaim! Best of 2012 lists have been posted for Dance and Electronic, Metal and Hardcore, Folk and Country, and, as of this morning, o...

Exclaim!'s Best Albums of 2012:

Pop and Rock, Part Two

PUBLISHED Dec 17, 2012

We left you hanging on Friday (December 14) with 30 through 16 on the Pop and Rock list. Now, we're unveiling the rest of our top 30, from...

Dance and Electronic 2012: Breaking Down the Boundaries of Sound

PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2012

If there's any song that summed up electronic music's renewed infatuation with hip-hop and R&B this year, it was Ryan Hemsworth's remix of...

Dance and Electronic 2012: Plays Here, Stays Here* (*For Now)

PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2012

In recent years, a slew of Canadian electronic music producers have relocated to London, UK or to electronic mecca Berlin. Here are five ri...

Exclaim!'s Best of 2012:

An Analysis of the Year in Electronic

PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2012

Now that we've sorted out the Exclaim! Best of 2012 in Dance and Electronic, it's time to take a closer look at what trends defined this ye...