reviews

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...

Big Boi Played the Game in Calgary

Calgary Stampede, July 10

PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2023

It was a match made in heaven for the Calgary Stampede: Big Boi at the Big Four Roadhouse. "Canada The ATLiens have landed" Big Boi announ...

Ottawa Bluesfest 2023's First Weekend Felt Bigger Than Ever

PUBLISHED Jul 10, 2023

After a post-pandemic downscale that resulted in the elimination of one of the Ottawa Bluesfest's five outdoor stages, later gate times on...