Summer 2022 Issue
Metric Rank Their 5 Best Songs
PUBLISHED Jul 12, 2022
"I am not scared of bold decisions," asserts Metric vocalist Emily Haines. "When we made 'Gimme Sympathy,' being an indie rock band releasi...
Exclaim! Comics Return with Dicks on TV, Expensive Summer Drinks and French 79
PUBLISHED Jun 30, 2022
Exclaim!'s comics page is back! After a hiatus of many years, comics have returned to the magazine starting with our Summer 2022 issue (on...
Canadian Artists Share Their Favourite Stories from Music Festivals
PUBLISHED Jun 27, 2022
Many Canadian artists will be sweating it out on stages all summer long, so we asked some of our favourites to share their most inspiring f...
Noah Reid on His Teenage Pop-Punk Band, NHL Encounters at ONroute and Memories of Leonard Cohen
The Exclaim! Questionnaire
PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2022
When Toronto actor Noah Reid appears on screen, he's often singing. As Patrick Brewer on Schitt's Creek, he had his breakout moment perform...
Limitations Inspire Joshua Van Tassel's "New and Strange" Synth Sounds
PUBLISHED Jun 9, 2022
"I love limitations," explains producer, composer and drummer Joshua Van Tassel. This explains why, when YSL Pro challenged this East Coast...
OMBIIGIZI Capture Lightning in a Bottle
PUBLISHED Jun 7, 2022
When OMBIIGIZI — the duo of Daniel Monkman (Zoon) and Adam Sturgeon (Status/Non-Status) — showed up at the Tragically Hip's Bathouse Record...
The Kids in the Hall Bare Everything — and We Do Mean Everything
PUBLISHED Jun 6, 2022
Kevin McDonald says he played no role in getting the Kids in the Hall back together to make the first new season of their beloved sketch se...
Angel Olsen Experiences a "Great Unravelling"
PUBLISHED Jun 3, 2022
Angel Olsen begins our conversation by apologizing — she'd had to reschedule our interview due to a nagging sinus infection, the kind that...