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This Week's Newly Announced Tours, Including Queens of the Stone Age, the Beths, GWAR and More: June 27, 2025

PUBLISHED Jun 27, 2025

It may be the end of the month, but tour announcements for this fall and winter have only continued to ramp up. Including Queens of the...

Royale Lynn Embraces Riffs as Heavy as Her "Brutally Honest" Lyrics

PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2025

At age 21, Royale Lynn left home and moved to Nashville to take a chance on a career in music. Now, nine years later, the Aylmer, ON-raised...

Five Must-See Acts at Montreal's Piknic Électronik 2025

PUBLISHED Jun 25, 2025

Piknic Électronik has long been a staple of the Montreal summer, running from May all the way until October with outdoor shows most Sundays...

Born Ruffians Threaten to Beat Up an Exclaim! Staffer but We're Kind of Chill About It

The Exclaim! Questionnaire

PUBLISHED Jun 24, 2025

Born Ruffians were on the cover of Exclaim! in 2013, and for them, it's been 12 years too long since they were last put into national...

Lorde's 10 Best Songs Ranked

PUBLISHED Jun 24, 2025

The feeling of pressing play on a new Lorde song is unmatched. After all, they only come around every four years. At 28, the New Zealand...

Celine Song Made 'Materialists' "as Romantic as I Could Muster, Given My Own Materialism"

PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2025

"There's a line in my movie — 'I'm not merchandise. I'm a person.' — I think about that line as something that, for example, Liz Bennet...

Cryptopsy Find Pleasure in Punishment: "We Are Now Here to Destroy"

PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2025

Extremity is in the eye of the beholder. Something that's barely a blip for you may be the pinnacle of vulgarity, violence and sexuality...

How It Feels to Be a 27-Year-Old Man Reading Our Roundup of Memes and Shitposts: June 20, 2025

PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2025

Remember when Twitter Main Characters were still a thing? Back in my day, everybody used a social media app called Twitter. (Technically...