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New year, new memes! To kick off 2025, we're circling back to share these funny posts about dating in your local music scene, justice for
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As well as being the co-founder of Toronto indie institution Hand Drawn Dracula, James Mejia is a graphic designer who has been nominated
Alex Hudson•Jan 3, 2025Meet Exclaim!'s Class of 2025: Accelerant, Gaijin Smash, Chinese Medicine, Palm Sander
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Megan LaPierre•Jan 2, 2025Nicholas Hoult and Lily-Rose Depp Bring "Very Human" Fears to the Blood-Sucking Monster of 'Nosferatu'
For all the grief critics and cinephiles give to the film industry for constantly remaking and rebooting the same properties over and over
Rachel Ho•Dec 23, 2024'Bird': The Acclaimed Cast and Where You've Seen Them Before
After a few years working in the documentary and television space, filmmaker Andrea Arnold returns to her narrative roots and back to the
Rachel Ho•Dec 23, 2024'Better Man': The Real-Life Musicians in Robbie Williams's Biopic and the Actors Who Portray Them
This Christmas Day, Robbie Williams and Take That fans can rejoice in the theatrical release of the at-times-controversial singer's biopic,
Rachel Ho•Dec 20, 2024Commit Time Theft with Exclaim!'s Music Memes and Shitposts: December 20, 2024
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For Exclaim!'s December 2024 / January 2025 issue, we opted not to make any holiday-themed comics — instead, we've got a glimpse inside the
Exclaim! Staff•Dec 20, 2024For James Gunn, Directing 'Superman' Is a Balancing Act
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Rachel Ho•Dec 19, 2024Adrien Brody on the Timeliness of 'The Brutalist' and America's Enduring "Harshness"
To understand the American Dream is to understand the changing tides of the 20th century's most powerful nation. Writer James Truslow Adams
Rachel Ho•Dec 19, 20242024 in Concert Photos: Our Favourite Live Music Memories
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
Exclaim! Staff•Dec 18, 2024Universal Music's Ignite Showcase Reveals the Artists Poised for a Massive 2025
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Exclaim! Staff•Dec 17, 2024The Biggest Music News Stories of 2024
The discourse seems to get hotter every year, and 2024 was no exception. This was a year that brought the biggest rap beef of a generation,
Alex Hudson•Dec 17, 2024Seasonal Streaming Must-Sees (and Must-Skips) in December 2024
A hop, skip and 'Megalopolis' later, we're facing the end of another year with all the trimmings and festivities. Alongside the last-minute
Rachel Ho•Dec 16, 2024Just Had to Explain Exclaim!'s Funny Music Memes and Shitposts to My Parents over Breakfast: December 13, 2024
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When Exclaim! catches up with Menno Versteeg in the office at Royal Mountain Records, the Toronto label that the singer-guitarist co-founder
Ian Gormely•Dec 12, 2024The 25 Worst Album Covers of 2024
Trawling the murky depths of Bandcamp and SoundCloud turns up some of the worst album covers you've ever seen: AI fever dreams, raunchy
Exclaim! Staff•Dec 11, 2024Exclaim!'s Favourite Album Covers of 2024
Every year, Exclaim! publishes a list of the worst album covers of the year — and every year, people in the comments section tell us that w
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The firehose of new content never turns off. Amidst the constant gushing stream of blockbuster albums — and then deluxe versions, remixes
Exclaim! Staff•Dec 9, 2024The 10 Best Films You Didn't See in 2024
We're spoiled for options these days when it comes to movies, and with this excess comes many films that make a quiet entrance onto
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Are you one of those people who shares your Spotify Wrapped, or are you one of those people who complains about how everyone shares their
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Go even deeper with the music you love. From collectible merch items to tell-all memoirs, and even movie scores performed live in concert
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Are your presents wrapped? Your halls decked? Your Christmas white? No pressure, we've still got time. But even in these early December
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While we always judge a film or show on what it is, rather than what we wanted or expected it to be, there are some that simply fall short
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For people with Letterboxd accounts, home theatres and Criterion Channel subscriptions, give them what they really want this holiday season
Exclaim! Staff•Dec 4, 2024The Changing of the Guard: 2024 Was the Year of Pop Music's Restructuring
While the tectonic plates of popular music are in constant motion, change often moves so gradually that it can be hard to notice anything h
Josh Korngut•Dec 4, 2024Exclaim! Holiday Gift Guide: The Best Vinyl and Box Sets of 2024
There's an empty space on that KALLAX shelf and it's absolutely begging for a new record. This holiday season, get the music-lover on your
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A potentially controversial opinion: the television offerings of 2024 have been stronger than the film offerings. As the line between the
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The concert scene always slows down a bit over Christmas — although you might not know it from looking at this year's Toronto schedule
Alex Hudson•Dec 2, 2024Montreal's 7 Can't-Miss Concerts in December 2024 and January 2025
If there's one thing you can count on amidst the mayhem of holiday shopping, back-to-back celebrations and general end-of-the-year chaos
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We're nearly in it now: that purgatorial state as one year comes to an end and another begins. While severely deprived of vitamin D
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Even with the effects of last year's writer and actor strikes lingering, 2024 managed to churn out some grand blockbusters and thought
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It's Black Friday, and we're having a firesale on memes! In our weekly roundup of the week's best music memes and shitposts, we've got a
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So much for the end of the monoculture. After the internet turned pop culture into a choose-your-own-adventure exploration of media, we
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With the charts ruled by generic country, and the pop vanguard turning in work that fell far short of their best, 2024 was a time of
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Screaming cars, snarling fluorescent advertisements and the thunder of construction batter the senses. The November sun sinks its teeth
Kaelen Bell•Nov 26, 2024The Many Hats of Lubalin, Canada's Next Pop Music Savant
Viral TikTok sensation. JUNO-nominated producer and songwriter. Frequent Charlotte Cardin collaborator. Solo artist supreme. These are a
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The coming-of-age process has been mined by writers since the dawn of time, and still people invariably try to put words to its universal
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It's a huge day for guys that will cheat on you: it's the day that Exclaim! releases its weekly roundup of music memes and shitposts from a
Exclaim! Staff•Nov 22, 2024'Gladiator II': The Formidable Cast and Where You’ve Seen Them Before
The highly anticipated sequel to Ridley Scott's sword-and-sandals epic 'Gladiator' — a five-time Academy Award winner
Rachel Ho•Nov 20, 2024Denzel Curry Explains Why "I Never Had Anxiety or Anything Like That Until I Got Famous"
"I never had anxiety or anything like that until I got famous. Never had it," Denzel Curry tells Exclaim! over the phone on the day he's
Kyle Mullin•Nov 20, 2024Kim Deal on the "Midwestern Dumbness" and "Orgy Music" of Her Big Solo Moment
Kim Deal calls me from Dayton, OH, on the day of the American election. It's about 12 hours before the bubble officially bursts, and we're
Kaelen Bell•Nov 19, 2024Mmm Whatcha Say About Exclaim!'s New Funny Memes and Shitposts Roundup?: November 15, 2024
This week has been an alarming reminder of the corrupting nature of power, and the millions of our fellow citizens who fawn over a
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No disrespect to Halloween and spooky month, but Noirvember has always been more my jam. Conceived by film writer Marya E. Gates in 2010
Rachel Ho•Nov 14, 2024Five Wild Moments on Elvis's Canadian Tour
Yet another documentary about Elvis Presley's 1968 TV special (dubbed "The Comeback Special") is hitting Netflix on November 13, and while
Rachel Ho•Nov 13, 20248 Emerging Canadian Artists You Need to Hear in November 2024
It's November! Winter is closer than ever, and summer is but a distant memory. As the darkness comes, so too do the gloomies, but we have
Exclaim! Staff•Nov 12, 2024Hollerado Shed Light on Long-Lost Debut Album and Future Reunion Possibilities
Just when Menno Versteeg thought he was out, fate pulled him back in. Since Hollerado split in 2019, Versteeg has kept busy with projects
Ian Gormely•Nov 11, 2024Agriculture Overcame Early Disasters to Become Black Metal's Most Forward-Thinking Band
Across Agriculture's three tremendous, triumphant releases, a pattern has emerged: the music rises, trembling, in optimism and memory
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