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Vancouver Band Necking Confront Love, Privilege and Loneliness on Debut Album 'Cut Your Teeth'

PUBLISHED Jul 4, 2019

Cut Your Teeth is the fearlessly personal debut album by Vancouver four-piece Necking. The album, out July 5 via Mint Records, is as stingi...

Rising UK Rockers black midi Bring the Noise on Debut 'Schlagenheim'

PUBLISHED Jul 3, 2019

"All he said before the gig was, 'I'm going to jump up in the air and when I land, just go into noise and we'll see what happens.'"   These...

​Hatchie Channel "Trust, Understanding, Loyalty, Love" on Shoegaze-y Debut LP 'Keepsake'

PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2019

"I felt like my EP was all bright and shiny, so I wanted to break things up a bit with new tones," says Hatchie mastermind Harriette Pilbea...

An Artist-First Mentality Is Key to Taurus Recording

PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2019

"Not even joking," Thomas D'Arcy says, looking at all the knobs and dials on his mixing board, "I would say five percent of why I became a...

Mark Ronson Stumbled Upon Deep, Untapped Emotions Making New Album 'Late Night Feelings'

PUBLISHED Jun 25, 2019

If "Uptown Funk" officially enabled British super-producer Mark Ronson to become a household name — "oh, that guy" status, at the very leas...

ABAKOS's Pierre Kwenders and Ngabonziza Kiroko Salute "Fun" on New Album 'Solar Soldier'

PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2019

Although the two members of ABAKOS — Ngabonziza Kiroko and Pierre Kwenders — grew up in different parts of the Congo, and mostly ran in dif...

Operators' Dan Boeckner

The Exclaim! Questionnaire

PUBLISHED Jun 12, 2019

Before my interview, Operators' publicist tells me that I have 20 minutes with frontman Dan Boeckner. We end up talking for over an hour; t...

Dizzy's 7 Favourite Places in Oshawa

PUBLISHED Jun 11, 2019

Oshawans Dizzy are a pop band and family — brothers Alex, Mackenzie and Charlie Spencer plus singer Katie Munsha — who've been active since...