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Alkaline Trio Draw on Matt Skiba’s Time in blink-182 to Find “Unity of Purpose”
PUBLISHED Jan 23, 2024
"I went through a very fucking dark place back during COVID and got pretty unhealthy," says Matt Skiba......
"Vancouver, Make Some Noise": The Golden Age of Wrestling Puts Local Scene in a Loving Headlock
PUBLISHED Jan 18, 2024
"Vancouver, make some noise!" I'm standing in 604 Records' East Van performance space on Saturday night (January 12), where technical diff...
Here's What Makes Bad Album Art Awful, According to the Guy Who Wrote the Book
PUBLISHED Jan 17, 2024
Every year, it gets harder to assemble our annual list of the worst album covers. Countless artists self-release albums from their bedrooms...
Meet Exclaim!'s Class of 2024: La Sécurité, Sunnsetter, OLGA, the Royal Family
PUBLISHED Jan 16, 2024
Temperatures dropped in Toronto over the weekend, and Rachel Bobbitt's closing words from "Two Bit" rung out as a prelude to the frigid jou...
Protest the Hero's 'A Calculated Use of Sound' at 20: How They Got Over Embarrassment and Learned to Love Their Debut EP
PUBLISHED Jan 11, 2024
For a musician, revisiting one's early releases can be a double-edged sword. It can reveal intricacies in the work that may have been lost...
Meet Exclaim!'s Class of 2024: Bestfriend, Thermal, nodisco., Camille Léon
PUBLISHED Jan 2, 2024
Happy New Year! It feels a bit aggressive to be tossing out the word "happy," given the everything, but maybe the manifestation girlies are...
Jeffrey Wright on the Truths of 'American Fiction': "I Was Living a Pretty Near Approximation to That Myself"
PUBLISHED Dec 20, 2023
"There can be something cathartic in the process of working on a project such as this," actor Jeffrey Wright tells Exclaim! during a press...
Hand Drawn Dracula's Founder on "How to Run a Label Without Losing My Shirt"
PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2023
Before there was the label, there was the aesthetic. James Mejia, Toronto indie label Hand Drawn Dracula's founder, was a graphic deisnger,...