HIRS Collective
Exclaim!'s 50 Best Albums of 2023
PUBLISHED Nov 30, 2023
This was the year of the long-awaited payoff. After long stretches of toil and creative refinement, 2023 saw the dam break for a handful of...
Toronto's New Friends Fest 2023 Celebrated the Subversive Force of Community
PUBLISHED Aug 8, 2023
Started in 2017, New Friends Fest — Toronto's preeminent (post)hardcore, punk and screamo festival — held its fourth, devastatingly loud i...
Exclaim! Staffers Pick the Can't-Miss Acts of Festival Season 2023
PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2023
This summer, Canadian music fans are spoiled for choice: wherever you look on the map, there are amazing music festivals taking place, from...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks for April 3, 2023: feeble little horse, Tommy Lefroy, the HIRS Collective
PUBLISHED Apr 3, 2023
Rivals, victims, villains and tin men; we've got a full house of everyday and fantastical characters with this week's edition of Exclaim!'s...
Toronto's New Friends Fest Gets the HIRS Collective, Gulfer, pageninetynine for 2023 Edition
PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2023
The DIY purveyors of punk and hardcore over at New Friends Fest have announced details of their 2023 event, which is due to take place at T...
The HIRS Collective Get Members of My Chemical Romance, Fucked Up, Touché Amoré for New Album 'We're Still Here'
PUBLISHED Oct 31, 2022
Experimental hardcore crew the HIRS Collective have announced plans for their new album, We're Still Here, which will arrive March 24 via G...