December 2024 / January 2025 Issue

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  8 Emerging Canadian Artists You Need to Hear in November 2024

  PUBLISHED Nov 12, 2024

  It's November! Winter is closer than ever, and summer is but a distant memory. As the darkness comes, so too do the gloomies, but we have...

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  Agriculture Overcame Early Disasters to Become Black Metal's Most Forward-Thinking Band

  PUBLISHED Nov 7, 2024

  Across Agriculture's three tremendous, triumphant releases, a pattern has emerged: the music rises, trembling, in optimism and memory...

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  Mount Eerie Celebrates the Transformative Influence of Eric's Trip

  PUBLISHED Oct 30, 2024

  "I like albums that feel like compilations — that go to lots of different places," Phil Elverum tells Exclaim! from his home studio on Orcas...

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  Peach Pit Rank Their 5 Best Songs

  PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2024

  Peach Pit have found their groove. Since making a big splash with the wry, wobbly indie pop of their debut, 2017's 'Being So Normal,' the...

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  Rich Aucoin Hangs Up the Parachute: "We've All Been Jumping Around — We Deserve a Sit"

  PUBLISHED Oct 15, 2024

  Rich Aucoin is packing up his parachute for the last time. After more than 15 years, his current New Nostalgia: Penultimate Tour marks the...

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  8 Emerging Canadian Artists You Need to Hear in October 2024

  PUBLISHED Oct 9, 2024

  'BRAT' Summer is over! 'BRAT' Fall is in full swing! Or maybe neither ever truly existed, maybe nothing ever truly existed! The encroaching...