Tariq
Abigail Lapell, Devours, Fred Everything Join 2025 JUNOfest
PUBLISHED Mar 10, 2025
After revealing the artists performing at this year's upcoming JUNO Awards, a selection of newly announced Canadian artists will be hitting...
Hear the Week's Best New Canadian Music: Tate McRae, Aqyila, Motherhood, Tariq
PUBLISHED Jan 24, 2025
The month of January continues to last years, and this week felt especially long with you-know-who's inauguration kicking it off and...
Canadian Guitarists Reveal the Pedals That Take Their Tone to the Next Level
Show & Tell
PUBLISHED Jan 14, 2025
Whether it's the Edge's cathedrals of delay or Jimi Hendrix's towering fuzz and wacka-wacka wah, many guitarists are almost as well-known...
Exclaim!'s 28 Most Anticipated Canadian Albums of 2025
PUBLISHED Jan 6, 2025
It's been said every year since we hit 2020, but 2025 truly feels like maybe we're not meant to be here. Twenty twenty five? That's...
Tariq Details 'Scroll Before You Sleep' EP, Shares New Single
PUBLISHED Nov 26, 2024
Veteran Canadian songwriter Tariq relaunched his solo career recently with a new single and a fresh backing band (including past members of...
Tariq Introduces New Band with "The Ballad of You and Me"
PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2024
A veteran songwriter noted for his '90s CanCon hit "Chevrolet Way" and a member of the Vancouver jazz rock ensemble Brasstronaut, Tariq has...
Canadian Artists Come Clean About Their Musical Guilty Pleasures
Show & Tell
PUBLISHED Mar 10, 2021
What exactly counts as a "guilty pleasure" these days? Back in the '90s, people might have harboured a secret love for Britney Spears or th...
Tariq Premieres Cinematic "Light of the Moon" Video
PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2020
Tariq's album Telegrams had its first anniversary just a few days ago, and now the Vancouver songwriter (and Brasstronaut member) has share...