Summer Issue 2019
Wild Side's 9 Favourite Places in Niagara Falls
PUBLISHED Jul 16, 2019
Wild Side are a Niagara Falls-based hardcore band who released their debut album, Who the Hell is Wild Side?, in May on Triple B Records. T...
Sum 41 Survive Teen Stardom, Substance Abuse and Changing Tastes to Rise Again on 'Out for Blood'
PUBLISHED Jul 12, 2019
The early oughts were awash in bouncy pop punk bands. Yet Sum 41, a young and bratty quartet from the Toronto suburb of Ajax, ON, somehow m...
At Jonas Bonnetta's Port William Sound Studio, Beauty Is the Only Distraction
PUBLISHED Jul 10, 2019
At the dead end of a tree-lined, gravel sideroad in Mountain Grove, ON — a sleepy rural town located about an hour north of Kingston and 90...
Tony Hale
The Exclaim! Questionnaire
PUBLISHED Jul 8, 2019
On screen, Tony Hale specializes in playing loyal, lovable weirdoes: he played naïve mama's boy Buster Bluth on Arrested Developed, and won...
Vancouver Band Necking Confront Love, Privilege and Loneliness on Debut Album 'Cut Your Teeth'
PUBLISHED Jul 4, 2019
Cut Your Teeth is the fearlessly personal debut album by Vancouver four-piece Necking. The album, out July 5 via Mint Records, is as stingi...
Rising UK Rockers black midi Bring the Noise on Debut 'Schlagenheim'
PUBLISHED Jul 3, 2019
"All he said before the gig was, 'I'm going to jump up in the air and when I land, just go into noise and we'll see what happens.'" These...
Hatchie Channel "Trust, Understanding, Loyalty, Love" on Shoegaze-y Debut LP 'Keepsake'
PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2019
"I felt like my EP was all bright and shiny, so I wanted to break things up a bit with new tones," says Hatchie mastermind Harriette Pilbea...
Mark Ronson Stumbled Upon Deep, Untapped Emotions Making New Album 'Late Night Feelings'
PUBLISHED Jun 25, 2019
If "Uptown Funk" officially enabled British super-producer Mark Ronson to become a household name — "oh, that guy" status, at the very leas...