Best of 2017

The Year of Sad

Melancholy Dominated a Lot of Artistic Expression in 2017

PUBLISHED Dec 15, 2017

Artists responded in different ways to tumultuous recent events. Some turned up the party, some expressed their rage outwardly, while other...

Ranking the Year in Aughts Nostalgia, From LCD Soundsystem to the Shins

PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2017

This year, Lizzy Goodman chronicled the 2000s indie rock revival in her excellent book Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll i...

Exclaim!'s Top 11 EPs of the Year

Best of 2017

PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2017

As our annual rollout of genre-specific album lists for the Best of the Year — which so far has covered the Top 20 Pop & Rock Albums, Top 1...

Ladies First 2017: Cardi B, Rapsody and Stefflon Don Lead the Next Generation

PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2017

Women's empowerment wasn't just the theme of 2017, but a movement that shaped and changed the political landscape and longstanding social s...

No Warning Return and Propagandhi Rule: 2017 in Canadian Hardcore

PUBLISHED Dec 12, 2017

Anger is always in vogue, but this was an especially momentous year for punk and hardcore, bearing witness to some of the most boundary pus...

Here's Exclaim!'s Top 10 Canadian Music Videos of the Year

Best of 2017

PUBLISHED Dec 11, 2017

Canadian artists delivered another batch of impressive music videos this year, courtesy of everyone from chart-topping R&B singers to indie...

5 Strategies For Safer Music Spaces, Including Lido Pimienta's

PUBLISHED Dec 11, 2017

Conversations on making musical spaces more inclusive are far from over; there's plenty more work to be done. But thanks to several thought...

Exclaim!'s Top 10 Improv and Avant-Garde Albums

Best of 2017

PUBLISHED Dec 8, 2017

Ranking albums is an odd thing to do in general, but at the end of our annual rollout of genre-specific album lists for the Best of the Yea...