Home Front

Home Front, Dillinger Four, Slash Need Set for Toronto's Flowers in Concrete Festival

PUBLISHED May 20, 2025

Toronto hardcore punk promoter Not Dead Yet has teamed up with England-based independent record label Static Shock Records for the first...

2024 in Concert Photos: Our Favourite Live Music Memories

PUBLISHED Dec 18, 2024

This was a pivotal year for live music, when some huge pop stars struggled to sell tickets and another doubled the all-time record for...

Home Front Did What They Do Best in Toronto

Velvet Underground, May 3

PUBLISHED May 6, 2024

Home Front are one of Canada's best bands, in any genre, full stop, period. Hailing from Edmonton, Home Front was formed in 2021 by Graeme...

Exclaim! Readers Celebrate the Most Under-Appreciated Canadian Artists of 2023

PUBLISHED Jan 31, 2024

Here at Exclaim!, we're in the business of probing the underground music scene to highlight our country's best up-and-comers. Naturally, ou...

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 Emissions Record Shop Announces First Anniversary Event Series

PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2023

Emissions Record Shop — the Toronto purveyors of punk and hardcore records, located at Brunswick Ave and Harbord Street — is celebrating it...

Exclaim!'s 25 Best Albums of 2023 So Far

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2023

The ingénue, the prodigy, the blinding comet of talent that comes crashing to earth from seemingly out of nowhere — there are few character...

Home Front Can't Be Beaten Down on 'Games of Power'

PUBLISHED Mar 2, 2023

Home Front's first album feels more like a lost classic than a modern debut, a thrilling convergence of eras that spans uplifting new wave,...