Year In Review

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  Dance & Electronic 2011: A Benchmark Year for Canadians

  PUBLISHED Nov 28, 2011

  Since the mid-2000s or so, the consensus about Canada's electronic music has been more dispirited than encouraging. Canada could've been a...

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  Hip-Hop 2011: How to Be a Hip-Hop Superstar in the Internet Age

  PUBLISHED Nov 28, 2011

  Find something fun to shout Ever found yourself wanting to shout "Wolf Gang!" (or its even more irreverent bizarro cousin "Golf Wang!") in...

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  Hip-Hop 2011: That Canadian Sound

  PUBLISHED Nov 28, 2011

  The amount of talent in Canada's hip-hop production scene is ridiculously deep with talent and hip-hop heads around the world are beginning...

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  Improv & Avant-Garde 2011: Unstandards - Reinventing Jazz

  PUBLISHED Nov 28, 2011

  One of my favourite quotes in Exclaim! this year comes courtesy of Badbadnotgood (pictured): "A young person doesn't give a fuck how you pl...

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  Pop & Rock 2011: Canada - The Next Generation

  PUBLISHED Nov 28, 2011

  Being a Canadian was once a dirty word for bands trying to break internationally. But over the last decade an increasing number of eclectic...

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  Pop & Rock 2011: Sax-y Times

  PUBLISHED Nov 28, 2011

  "Saxophones are becoming this thing. I began to see a pattern forming. That's why we did it early. Next year everyone's gonna have a saxoph...

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  Punk 2011: A Fucked Up Year

  PUBLISHED Nov 28, 2011

  In November of 2010, Fucked Up detailed their forthcoming full-length album to Exclaim!, a "completely relatable rock opera rife with meta-...

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  Soul and World 2011: Everyone's In tUnE

  PUBLISHED Nov 28, 2011

  For the last several years, the big winners (for critics looking at soul, funk and world albums), have found a sweet spot that works well i...