Fall 2022 Issue
Exclaim! Comics: Butt Worms, Long-Distance Crushes and Daði Freyr
PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2022
There's a fall chill in the air, making it the perfect time to get cozy and curl up with a comic. Luckily, Exclaim!'s Fall 2022 issue inclu...
'The Banshees of Inisherin' Takes the Wit of 'In Bruges' to Even Darker Places
Directed by Martin McDonagh
PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2022
The first 30 minutes or so of The Banshees of Inisherin recall the hilarious banter of Martin McDonagh, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson's...
Meet the Artists Pushing Pop-Punk into the Future
PUBLISHED Oct 20, 2022
Pop-punk isn't just a sound: it's a mindset. That mindset of flipping off the status quo and unite the misfits against monocultural forces...
Tegan and Sara Rank Their 5 Best Songs
PUBLISHED Oct 18, 2022
Tegan and Sara have spent much of the last few years buried in the past: they released the teenage memoir High School in a 2019, recorded s...
black midi Push Back Against Being Labelled "Post-Brexit"
PUBLISHED Oct 14, 2022
Leading a perceived scene with some of your best friends must be a bewildering weight to carry. With that, it's easy to see why black midi...
Alvvays Revisit Teen Spirits to Find a New Buzz
PUBLISHED Oct 5, 2022
"No one's really successfully told me what to do," Molly Rankin tells me, before humbly clarifying that it's "not exactly a flex." There a...
Sloan on the 30th Anniversary of 'Smeared': Copying MBV, Halifax's Nascent Scene and Still Going Steady
PUBLISHED Sep 30, 2022
Sloan have spent three decades as one of Canada's most reliable purveyors of classic power pop — but they got their start on a very differe...
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Find a New Kind of Power on 'Cool It Down'
PUBLISHED Sep 30, 2022
As a covertly gay kid (covert to myself anyway; the truth was there in my voice and hands and stride for others to see and quietly understa...