December 2024 / January 2025 Issue
Exclaim! Holiday Gift Guide: The Best Music Gear and Audio Equipment of 2024
PUBLISHED Dec 12, 2024
Give the gift of creativity this festive season. For the musicians and audiophiles on your holiday list, here are some of 2024's most...
Menno Versteeg on Hollerado's Mistakes and Getting Choked Out by Paul McCartney's Bodyguard
PUBLISHED Dec 12, 2024
When Exclaim! catches up with Menno Versteeg in the office at Royal Mountain Records, the Toronto label that the singer-guitarist co-founder...
Exclaim! Holiday Gift Guide: The Best Music Merch and Books of 2024
PUBLISHED Dec 5, 2024
Go even deeper with the music you love. From collectible merch items to tell-all memoirs, and even movie scores performed live in concert...
Exclaim! Holiday Gift Guide: The Best Film Presents of 2024
PUBLISHED Dec 4, 2024
For people with Letterboxd accounts, home theatres and Criterion Channel subscriptions, give them what they really want this holiday season...
Exclaim! Holiday Gift Guide: The Best Vinyl and Box Sets of 2024
PUBLISHED Dec 3, 2024
There's an empty space on that KALLAX shelf and it's absolutely begging for a new record. This holiday season, get the music-lover on your...
Exclaim!'s 20 Best Films of 2024
PUBLISHED Dec 2, 2024
Even with the effects of last year's writer and actor strikes lingering, 2024 managed to churn out some grand blockbusters and thought...
Exclaim!'s 20 Best Songs of 2024
PUBLISHED Nov 28, 2024
So much for the end of the monoculture. After the internet turned pop culture into a choose-your-own-adventure exploration of media, we...
Exclaim!'s 50 Best Albums of 2024
PUBLISHED Nov 27, 2024
With the charts ruled by generic country, and the pop vanguard turning in work that fell far short of their best, 2024 was a time of...