Weakerthans

The 30 Artists Who Defined Exclaim!'s First 30 Years

PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2022

So much has changed since Exclaim! published its first issue in April 1992, but 30 years and over 300 issues later, what remains the same i...

John K. Samson Gives Us Cold Comfort That Trump's Going to Die with His New Song

PUBLISHED Jul 24, 2020

With Major League Baseball now back (with fake fans at least), Weakerthans hero John K. Samson is here to give us a new song called, "Fanta...

Check Out the Weirdest and Coolest Canadian Music Tattoos

PUBLISHED Jul 8, 2020

So you consider yourself a Canadian music fan? Prove it! Sure, maybe you own a couple of Weeknd albums or a Feist T-shirt — but that's noth...

We've Edited a Bunch of Classic Canadian Album Covers for the Era of Socially Distancing

PUBLISHED Mar 27, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has continued to change life as we know it, meaning the vast majority have been cooped up inside our homes as we p...

John K. Samson Fights for Your Right to Libraries on New Song "Millennium for All"

PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2020

Former Weakerthans frontman John K. Samson has returned with a new solo song in support of Winnipeg's Millennium Library.   Titled "Millenn...

Watch PUP Cover the Weakerthans' "Plea from a Cat Named Virtute" in Toronto

PUBLISHED Jul 22, 2019

PUP played their biggest hometown headlining show to date last night (July 21) at Toronto's Echo Beach, and during the set, the band paid h...

Weakerthans

Renaissance Radicals

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

John K. Samson may be broke but he's not broken. In the last month, the guitarist/vocalist/lyricist for Winnipeg indie folk rockers the Wea...

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Enter Stage Left

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Anyone who's followed the career of John K. Samson knows he's not in any hurry. Back in his early days with proto-punks Propagandhi, the ba...