Staff Picks

Exclaim!'s 15 Best EPs of 2022
PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2022
Ah, the humble EP. Not only are they the short kings of release formatting, the very essence of their length seems to be continuously under...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks for December 5, 2022: Weyes Blood, Keysha Freshh, Nia Archives
PUBLISHED Dec 5, 2022
'Tis the season of year-end lists, but November releases are notorious for not having had quite enough time to catch on or even just narrow...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks for November 28, 2022: Fred again.., Dan Mangan, Lisa O'Neill
PUBLISHED Nov 28, 2022
Tomorrow, the final Exclaim! issue of 2022 hits newsstands and we will reveal to the world what music, in our humblest of opinions, defined...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks for November 21, 2022: Dry Cleaning, U.S. Girls, Joji
PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2022
Somehow, against all odds, it's November 21. We're just as shocked as you are, and we're trying to ease the troubling rate of time's passin...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks for November 14, 2022: Hemlocke Springs, Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn, Pony Girl
PUBLISHED Nov 14, 2022
This probably goes without saying, but we are not Dolly Parton; Jeff Bezos has not given us $100 million to "do good things." (It's blood m...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks for November 7, 2022: The Big Moon, Poolblood, Westerman
PUBLISHED Nov 7, 2022
With the US midterm elections happening tomorrow (November 8), CUPE on strike in Ontario and Elon Musk cracking down on his own Twitter tro...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks for October 31, 2022: NNAMDÏ, Hanorah, chemical club
PUBLISHED Oct 31, 2022
Happy Halloween! As you try your best to sidestep the tricks today, we're here with another treat for you, as per usual. While you can't un...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks for October 25, 2022: Björk, Zoon, Jeffrey Lewis
PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2022
We'd never go so far as to sneak an unsolicited album into your iTunes library — Bono says he's sorry, but the trauma remains — with Exclai...