Isolation Nation

Soft Plastics (f.k.a. Frog Eyes) Premiere New Video, Explain Why Isolation Is Barely Different from Normal Life

PUBLISHED May 12, 2020

After spending nearly two full decades releasing fidgety, bookish art-rock under the name Frog Eyes, British Columbia songwriter Carey Merc...

Rhye Returns with "Beautiful" Single, Sheds Light on His New Album and Isolation Fixations

PUBLISHED May 8, 2020

Rhye is bringing a little love into our lives. The Canadian R&B singer born Mike Milosh just released a new single called "Beautiful," and...

Northcote Plots New Material for 2020, Shares His Isolation Fixations

PUBLISHED May 7, 2020

Onetime hardcore noisemaker Northcote hasn't released a full-length since 2015's Hope Is Made of Steel, but now the Victoria-based folk-roc...

Toronto's Pantayo Offer a Glimpse Inside Their Isolational Spaces While Shining a Light on "Magical" Kulintang Music

PUBLISHED May 6, 2020

Pantayo's music sounds simultaneously ancient and modern, familiar and groundbreaking. Based in Toronto, the five-piece meld traditional ku...

Cecile Believe Moves Past Mozart's Sister and Enters a Post-Genre World

PUBLISHED May 5, 2020

Cecile Believe lives in a post-genre world. Having previously made music under the name Mozart's Sister, she shifted to her new moniker as...

Take a Tour of the Homes Where Canadian Musicians Are Self-Isolating

Show & Tell

PUBLISHED Apr 28, 2020

Canadian artists have been spending a whole lot more time at home lately — and since we can't see them onstage right now, Exclaim! caught u...

Patrick Holland (f.k.a. Project Pablo) Throws Out the Rulebook and Experiments with New Styles in Isolation

PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2020

Having abandoned the alias Project Pablo for his given name, Montreal electronic producer Patrick Holland had set aside the month of April...

LOONY Is Using Self-Isolation to Get Inspired and Reconnect with Nature

PUBLISHED Apr 22, 2020

Scarborough R&B singer LOONY doesn't seem to be letting self-isolation get her down. She's releasing her new EP, JOYRiDE, this week, and sh...