reviews
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Palehound's 'Eye on the Bat' Is Wry and Confrontational
PUBLISHED Jul 13, 2023
El Kempner reveals a new side of Palehound on their fourth effort, Eye on the Bat. Where previous albums have taken on a celebratory tone —...
Broken Social Scene Skipped Soundcheck and Lifted Spirits
Calgary Stampede, July 12
PUBLISHED Jul 13, 2023
Smoke had descended on the grounds for day seven of the Calgary Stampede, and the poor air quality had whipped the festival's normally rauc...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Metric's "Just the Once" Is a Giddy Reprieve from Modern Malaise
PUBLISHED Jul 12, 2023
Dance rock is back, haven't you heard? Two decades since their debut, Metric are as groovy as ever — except, rather than the spiky post-pun...
'Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One' Cruises to Dizzying Heights
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie
PUBLISHED Jul 12, 2023
So far this year, we've seen John Wick traipsing through the desert, Vin Diesel and co. on a car chase through Rome, and Indiana Jones sear...
A Brilliant Bass Coast 2023 Nourished the Soul
PUBLISHED Jul 12, 2023
Between the years of COVID delays, catastrophic 2021 floods and unfortunately timed Rogers meltdown, significant effort was required to pul...
Country Music Staked Its Claim at Winnipeg Folk Festival 2023
PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2023
Take a 30-minute drive North-East of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and you'll find a quintessential prairie forest. Innumerable trembling aspen and o...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: ANOHNI and the Johnsons 'My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross'
PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2023
ANOHNI's first album in 13 years with her forever-shapeshifting Johnsons is a return home — abandoning the chrome-buffed enormity of 2016's...
The Heady 'Rajan' Finds Night Beats at His Most Precise and Mature
PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2023
Danny Lee Blackwell works well in mystery. Over the past fourteen years, Night Beats has been his creative outlet for outlaw music with a b...