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Exclaim! Comics: I Hate AI and Love Pareidolia
I hate AI! But I am powerless before a cute toy. In the latest edition of the Exclaim! comics page, we've got a robot puppy, the magical ph
Exclaim! Staff•Feb 20, 2024This Funny Week in Funny Tweets: February 16, 2024
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As studios continue to dump their stock into the wasteland that is the January and February movie calendar, streaming options are picking
Rachel Ho•Feb 16, 2024Bob Marley Is Remembered as a "Superhero" — but Kingsley Ben-Adir and Ziggy Marley Aim Deeper in 'One Love'
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Nathan Abraha•Feb 15, 2024Chromeo Rank Their 5 Best Songs
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Alex Hudson•Feb 14, 20248 Emerging Canadian Artists You Need to Hear in February 2024
Exclaim!'s latest New Faves include art pop from Winnipeg, industrial metal by way of Toronto and tender country from Vancouver
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Gen Handley•Feb 13, 2024Bob Marley's Albums Ranked by Greatness
Bob Marley is truly one of those bigger than life artists whose music crossed borders and essence influenced the world. With the biopic
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Even without a music festival going on, Riverstone Retreat would be a gorgeous place to visit — a dog-friendly camping spot near Durham, ON
Exclaim! Staff•Feb 9, 2024This Funny Week in Funny Tweets: February 9, 2024
Larry David vs. Elmo, how many guys you know, “What if AI could do-“ No, SNL might be a bad show, and much more from this week in funny
Vish Khanna•Feb 9, 2024"'Faith' Is Such a Triggering Word," but Madi Diaz Is Finding Her Own Peace
"I would rather hear what it means to you," Madi Diaz says, turning my own question on me. It's December when I reach her over the phone fr
Megan LaPierre•Feb 7, 2024Waxahatchee's 10 Greatest Pre-'Saint Cloud' Songs
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Kaelen Bell , Allie Gregory and Alex Hudson•Feb 6, 2024Ducks Ltd. Take Flight with Jangle Pop Perfection: "It's Grand, but Kind of Sad"
A couple hours north of Toronto, within the city limits of Owen Sound, is a grand but dilapidated mansion called Morland Place. It's got a
Alex Hudson•Feb 6, 2024Jeff Rosenstock's Battle Against Self-Hatred and One-Percenters
Over the past few years, Jeff Rosenstock has evolved from a punk's punk into one of the scene's most critically acclaimed, widely respected
Adam Feibel•Feb 2, 2024This Funny Week in Funny Tweets: February 2, 2024
Hand stuff, yeah, piss off, Nicki in a huff, upside down in the buff, and much more from this week in funny tweets
Vish Khanna•Feb 2, 202440 Years Later, 'Brave New Waves' Still Reverberates Through Canadian Underground Music
"Promised You a Miracle" is perhaps the most ideal yet unexpected soundtrack to start a revolution. On the one hand, it's a miracle that
Daniel Sylvester•Feb 1, 2024Exclaim! Readers Celebrate the Most Under-Appreciated Canadian Artists of 2023
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
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In an alternative universe, writer and director Molly McGlynn would’ve been granted the budget to properly set her sophomore feature during
Rachel Ho•Jan 31, 2024Exclaim! Readers Reveal Their Favourite Albums, Films and TV of 2023
Here at Exclaim!, we've already shared our lists of the best albums, films and TV shows. Now, as we put 2023 behind us, we're taking one
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The Eras Tour was by far the biggest live music event of the year — but, as we discovered in the results to our Readers Poll, music lovers
Exclaim! Staff•Jan 26, 2024This Funny Week in Funny Tweets: January 26, 2024
The most effed-up bastard I’ve ever seen, evergreen, good sitcom scenes, the Bills and what might’ve been, and much more from this week
Vish Khanna•Jan 26, 2024Cheekface Love People Who Find Them Annoying
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Sydney Brasil•Jan 24, 2024Meet Exclaim!'s Class of 2024: Cam Kahin, the High Loves, Nicolette & the Nobodies, WEBB
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Megan LaPierre•Jan 23, 2024Alkaline Trio Draw on Matt Skiba’s Time in blink-182 to Find “Unity of Purpose”
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Gen Handley•Jan 23, 2024This Funny Week in Funny Tweets: January 19, 2024
A prospective buyer, a trophy from the Good Liars, having a shotgun backfire, Better Call Saul joins The Wire, and much more from this week
Vish Khanna•Jan 19, 2024"Vancouver, Make Some Noise": The Golden Age of Wrestling Puts Local Scene in a Loving Headlock
"Vancouver, make some noise!" I'm standing in 604 Records' East Van performance space on Saturday night (January 12), where technical diff
Alex Hudson•Jan 18, 2024Here's What Makes Bad Album Art Awful, According to the Guy Who Wrote the Book
Every year, it gets harder to assemble our annual list of the worst album covers. Countless artists self-release albums from their bedrooms
Alex Hudson•Jan 17, 2024Meet Exclaim!'s Class of 2024: La Sécurité, Sunnsetter, OLGA, the Royal Family
Temperatures dropped in Toronto over the weekend, and Rachel Bobbitt's closing words from "Two Bit" rung out as a prelude to the frigid jou
Megan LaPierre•Jan 16, 2024Streaming Must-Sees (and Must-Skips) in January 2024
Happy 2024, everyone! We've made it to another year and, as the weather turns frigid across the country, there's no better time to ditch un
Rachel Ho•Jan 16, 20248 Emerging Canadian Artists You Need to Hear in January 2024
So, how was everybody's first two weeks of 2024? Holding it together? Letting it all fall apart? Either way, you're gonna need some new mus
Exclaim! Staff•Jan 16, 2024This Funny Week in Funny Tweets: January 12, 2024
Got it a sociologist or some shit another Top 5 by Dave Merritt, Jo Koy's lack of wit, and much more from this week in funny tweets. Januar
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For a musician, revisiting one's early releases can be a double-edged sword. It can reveal intricacies in the work that may have been lost
Marko Djurdjić•Jan 11, 2024Meet Exclaim!'s Class of 2024: Rachel Bobbitt, Life in Vacuum, Dermabrasion, His His
The energy in the room was electric at Monarch Tavern last Friday (January 5) during the first show of the Class of 2024 concert series, pr
Megan LaPierre•Jan 9, 20249 Iconic 'Mean Girls' Quotes That Have Entered the Lexicon
In the two decades since Mean Girls' initial release, the teen comedy has become more than just a movie: it's a wellspring of unforgettable
Alex Hudson•Jan 8, 2024Exclaim!'s 31 Most Anticipated Canadian Albums of 2024
We survived! Last year seemed hell-bent on breaking spirits and taking everyone down a peg or two, but the clouds cleared (and then quickly
Exclaim! Staff•Jan 8, 2024This Funny Week in Funny Tweets: January 5, 2024
I am future me, Steamboat Willie, clean Dead Kennedys, Toyota Coyote, and much more from this week in funny tweets. December 29 Jesus: [ho
Vish Khanna•Jan 5, 2024Exclaim!'s 10 Most Anticipated Films of 2024
After Barbenheimer saved cinema last year, we're anxious to see what the silver screen has to offer in 2024. A couple films from 2023 carry
Rachel Ho•Jan 5, 2024We've Edited a Bunch of Album Covers with Disney's Public Domain 'Steamboat Willie' Mouse
On New Year's Day, shortly after the stroke of midnight, the earliest version of Disney's Mickey Mouse from 1928 short Steamboat Willie ent
Calum Slingerland•Jan 5, 2024Meet Exclaim!'s Class of 2024: Bestfriend, Thermal, nodisco., Camille Léon
Happy New Year! It feels a bit aggressive to be tossing out the word "happy," given the everything, but maybe the manifestation girlies are
Megan LaPierre•Jan 2, 2024This Funny Week in Funny Tweets: December 29, 2023
John Candy appears, the next 4 years, constantly on the brink of tears, the nativity guys having beers, and much more from this week in fun
Vish Khanna•Dec 29, 2023This Funny Week in Funny Tweets: December 22, 2023
His name is Don, I'm thinking of moving to Oregon, "I CON," before dawn, and much more from this week in funny tweets. December 15 Oh no,
Vish Khanna•Dec 22, 2023The Year in Photos: Our Favourite Concert Memories of 2023
This year was the first one since 2019 without any lockdowns, as well as far fewer cancellations than in recent years. The concert industry
Exclaim! Staff•Dec 21, 2023Exclaim! Staffers Share Their Karaoke Classics
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Exclaim! Staff•Dec 21, 2023Here Are the Three Things Exclaim! Gave a 10/10 in 2023
It's easy to give out a 10/10 score in hindsight. To award an album, film or TV show a perfect score when it's first released, however, is
Alex Hudson•Dec 20, 2023Jeffrey Wright on the Truths of 'American Fiction': "I Was Living a Pretty Near Approximation to That Myself"
"There can be something cathartic in the process of working on a project such as this," actor Jeffrey Wright tells Exclaim! during a press
Rachel Ho•Dec 20, 2023The Music News That Defined 2023
As Hollywood ground to a halt due to actors' and writers' strikes, 2023 was a comparatively smooth time for the music industry. It was a ye
Alex Hudson•Dec 19, 2023Working for the Weekend: Canadian Musicians Reveal Their Day Jobs
It's famously challenging for even established artists to make a career out of music, meaning that most have to earn a living in other ways
Alex Hudson•Dec 18, 20238 Emerging Canadian Artists You Need to Hear in December 2023
It's officially time to big farewell to 2023, a year that took as much as it gave. Lighting up the darkness of this sometimes hard-to-navig
Exclaim! Staff•Dec 15, 2023Christmas Streaming Must-Sees (and Must-Skips) in December 2023
It's the most wonderful time of the year! We've officially landed in "Let's circle back in the new year" email territory, and, now more tha
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