December 2024 / January 2025 Issue

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  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...

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  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...

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  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...

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  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...

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  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...

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  The Weather Station Sounds the Alarm: "I Wish I Could Just Be Brat and Have Fun"

  PUBLISHED Nov 26, 2024

  Screaming cars, snarling fluorescent advertisements and the thunder of construction batter the senses. The November sun sinks its teeth...

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  Denzel Curry Explains Why "I Never Had Anxiety or Anything Like That Until I Got Famous"

  PUBLISHED Nov 20, 2024

  "I never had anxiety or anything like that until I got famous. Never had it," Denzel Curry tells Exclaim! over the phone on the day he's...

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  Kim Deal on the "Midwestern Dumbness" and "Orgy Music" of Her Big Solo Moment

  PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2024

  Kim Deal calls me from Dayton, OH, on the day of the American election. It's about 12 hours before the bubble officially bursts, and we're...