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Toronto's 6 Can't-Miss Concerts This Week, Including Kendrick Lamar, SZA, Perfume Genius and More

PUBLISHED Jun 9, 2025

Grab some fried rice at New Ho King before heading out a show this week. Including the return of NXNE Music Festival for four days and a...

Alf Clausen's 15 Best Songs from 'The Simpsons' Ranked

PUBLISHED Jun 9, 2025

If you only know Alf Clausen as the composer behind 'The Simpsons,' there's no shame in that. After brief stints scoring...

Frankie and the Witch Fingers Offer an Antidote to Our Trash-Filled World and Celebrate Canadian Psych

PUBLISHED Jun 6, 2025

"Where isn't there trash?" wonders vocalist-guitarist Dylan Sizemore, as Frankie and the Witch Fingers gather in their practice space in...

This Week's Newly Announced Tours, Including Blue Rodeo, Morrissey, Lola Young and More: June 6, 2025

PUBLISHED Jun 6, 2025

This week has proven itself to be a good week for multi-date, coast-to-coast, cross-country tours. Including a 20-plus date treks from Rick...

These Memes and Shitposts Are Tastier Than Sydney Sweeney’s Bathwater: June 6, 2025

PUBLISHED Jun 6, 2025

When compiling these memes, we realized at the last moment that one of them had explicit pornography in the background. Whoops! Who knows...

Ryan Guldemond Ranks Mother Mother's 5 Best Songs

PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2025

"If only songwriting improved with age the way practical skills do," muses Mother Mother frontman Ryan Guldemond. "It's hard not to look...

Bartees Strange Clarifies That He Isn't the Weeknd — but He Does Go to Fancy Grammy Parties

The Exclaim! Questionnaire

PUBLISHED Jun 4, 2025

Bartees Stange: musician, honorary Canadian, and future small business owner? While in Toronto on his tour in support of 'Horror,' he took...

5 Emerging Canadian Artists You Need to Hear in June 2025

PUBLISHED Jun 4, 2025

Train are pretty cringe at this point, but "Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)" admittedly still kind of holds up in the unapologetically corny love...