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  Meet Exclaim!'s Class of 2025: World News, Amelia Maxwell, OOZ, Kingdom of Birds

  PUBLISHED Jan 14, 2025

  Have you recovered from last weekend's awe-inspiring display of live offerings from the likes of Tara Kannangara, Your Grandad, Shunk and...

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  Canadian Guitarists Reveal the Pedals That Take Their Tone to the Next Level

  PUBLISHED Jan 14, 2025

  Whether it's the Edge's cathedrals of delay or Jimi Hendrix's towering fuzz and wacka-wacka wah, many guitarists are almost as well-known...

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  Robbie Williams Explains How 'Better Man' Allowed Him to Release "Another Rock in my Rucksack"

  PUBLISHED Jan 13, 2025

  Self-doubt and anxiety aggressively permeate 'Better Man,' layering the stardom Robbie Williams found as a member of Take That with...

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  RaMell Ross Seeks "a Sort of Realism" in 'Nickel Boys' and Its POV Perspective of the South

  PUBLISHED Jan 10, 2025

  Midway through a conversation with director and writer RaMell Ross, he recommends Scott L. Matthews's book...

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  Take the Gay Test with This Week's Funny Memes and Shitposts: January 10, 2025

  PUBLISHED Jan 10, 2025

  Alright, so what do we think about that Japanese Breakfast album title? In addition to bravely standing up to voice our opinion, this week's...

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  Franz Ferdinand Chase Their Own "Holy Grail" of Pop

  PUBLISHED Jan 9, 2025

  "I like art that comes with a freshness; with a perspective that you haven't seen before, but is comprehensible," Alex Kapranos tells...

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  Montreal's Most Anticipated Concerts of 2025

  PUBLISHED Jan 8, 2025

  New year, new music, and new concerts! As our concert checklists have been set back to zero, Montreal is here with all of your live music...

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  'Young Werther' Celebrates 2000s Toronto Through a "Haze of Nostalgia"

  PUBLISHED Jan 8, 2025

  "There's this idea that only films set in New York, Chicago or Paris will play," says Young Werther director José Avelino Gilles Corbett...