Year In Review

Top 10 Canadian Music Videos of 2012

PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2012

The clips accompanying our Canadian artists' finest singles this year ran the gamut from big-budget productions with countless set pieces t...

Dance and Electronic 2012: Breaking Down the Boundaries of Sound

PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2012

If there's any song that summed up electronic music's renewed infatuation with hip-hop and R&B this year, it was Ryan Hemsworth's remix of...

Dance and Electronic 2012: Plays Here, Stays Here* (*For Now)

PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2012

In recent years, a slew of Canadian electronic music producers have relocated to London, UK or to electronic mecca Berlin. Here are five ri...

Exclaim!'s Best of 2012:

An Analysis of the Year in Electronic

PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2012

Now that we've sorted out the Exclaim! Best of 2012 in Dance and Electronic, it's time to take a closer look at what trends defined this ye...

Exclaim!'s Best Albums of 2012:

Pop and Rock, Part One

PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2012

Pop and Rock is a pretty wide-ranging genre, so it makes sense that more albums fell into this category than any other. Today, we're postin...

Exclaim!'s Best Albums of 2012:

Groove

PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2012

It was a breakout year for Soul, R&B and rhythm-based world music. We were definitely spoilt for choice in 2012, and it was a tough decisio...

Folk and Country 2012: Blues Explosion

PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2012

Jack White and Dan Auerbach aren't exactly Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, but it's hard to conceive of the blues still thriving in the 21st...

Folk and Country 2012: Canadian Tradition 2.0

PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2012

This country's greatest musical legacy, historically, has the strength of our singer-songwriters, dating back from before the pantheon of J...