reviews
Le Tigre Continued the Fight in Toronto
History, July 21
PUBLISHED Jul 22, 2023
"I overhead a dad with his kid on the street the other day, and he said to the kid — 'what do we say to haters?' and the kid said, 'thanks...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Will Butler + Sister Squares' "Long Grass" Is a Summery Nostalgia Bomb
PUBLISHED Jul 21, 2023
It's been just over a year since Will Butler announced his leaving Arcade Fire. Since that, Butler's teamed up with Sister Squares — sister...
Festival d'été de Québec's Second Weekend Captured Musical Joie de Vivre
PUBLISHED Jul 21, 2023
It wasn't the first time in its history that Festival d'été de Québec (FEQ) had its best-laid plans washed away by Mother Nature. This year...
Amyl and the Sniffers Brought the Stank to Toronto
Danforth Music Hall, July 20
PUBLISHED Jul 21, 2023
You can usually tell what kind of show it's going to be by the smell of the crowd; patchouli and B.O. at Dead shows, beer at Alexisonfire,...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: emmersonHALL's Self-titled Debut Finds Him Smack Dab in the Middle of the Mess
PUBLISHED Jul 21, 2023
There's a creaking, buzzing sense of homespun familiarity to the debut from emmersonHALL, the alt-folk project from Ottawa (by way of Linds...
Mother Tongues' 'Love in a Vicious Way' Is a Perfectly Cut Diamond
PUBLISHED Jul 20, 2023
Mother Tongues play what loosely might be described as "psych rock" — but unlike the swaths of dreamy noise and drawn-out delay pedal jams...
a kid named rufus's 'whatever works' Is a Sprint Through the Anxieties of Being a Young Artist
PUBLISHED Jul 20, 2023
whatever works, the debut LP from a kid named rufus (a.k.a. Rufus Sivaroshan), boasts a short 27 minute runtime that feels like a sprint th...
'Oppenheimer' Is Explosive, but Its Best Parts Look Inward
Directed by Christopher Nolan
PUBLISHED Jul 20, 2023
In Greek mythology, two brothers, Prometheus and Epimetheus, were tasked with populating the world. Prometheus moulded a variety of creatur...