News Winnipeg's Mulligrub Announce Sophomore Album 'Tragical,' Share New Single "Pink Donut" Winnipeg's Mulligrub — the twee-pop-punk project from Riley Hill, Kelly Campbell and Natalie Smith — have announced their second full-length...
News Slipknot Drop Surprise 'Adderall' EP Slipknot have surprise-released a new six-track EP entitled Adderall via Roadrunner. It follows the band's 2022 LP, The End, So Far, and...
News Neil Young Announces First Tour in Four Years Neil Young hasn't gone on tour in four years, but that's all about to change: the legendary singer-songwriter is announcing an acoustic solo...
News Kelly Clarkson Previews 'chemistry' with New Single Kellyoke superstar Kelly Clarkson is back with a new album chemistry, out June 23 via Atlantic Records. "Having chemistry with someone i...
News Charlotte Cardin Announces Sophomore Album '99 Nights,' Shares Title Track Last month, Charlotte Cardin announced her mysteriously titled 99 Nights Tour — today, the mystery's been solved, as Cardin has shared the n...
News Jess Williamson Extends North American Summer Tour Texas-born singer-songwriter Jess Williamson has extended her touring plans in support of her brand new album Time Ain't Accidental, out tod...
News Here's the Complete List of Winners from the 2023 Indies, Including July Talk, Alexisonfire, Tegan and Sara Canadian Music Week unveiled the winners of the Jim Beam® INDIES last night (June 8) at Toronto's History. ET Canada's Shreya Khanna host...
News Billy Talent Announce 'Live at Festhalle Frankfurt' Album As resurging pop-punks Billy Talent go about touring their 2022 album Crisis of Faith, the classic Canadian band have announced a live album...
News Keeper E. Announces Canadian Tour Don't be fooled by the title of Keeper E.'s recent single, "Nothing Going On" — the rising East Coast pop adventurer has plenty going on, na...
News Takeoff's Mother Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Bowling Alley Owners Late Migos member Takeoff's mother, Tatania Davenport, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the owners of 810 Billiards and Bowling —...
News Alkaline Trio Drummer Derek Grant Exits Band Chicago punk three-piece Alkaline Trio have become an Alkaline Duo for the time being, with news that longtime drummer Derek Grant will step...
News Charli XCX Says She and Robyn Have Been in the Studio Together: "Happy Pride" Pride comes but once a year, and — especially in light of the current political climate — it's always a cause for celebration. That sentimen...
News Mac DeMarco Clarifies That He's Not Retiring, Is Planning a New Album Mac DeMarco has been distancing himself from the rat race of the music industry lately, and in 2022 he told an audience, "After this tour, t...
News Harry Styles Is Rumoured to Be the Next Super Bowl Half Time Performer The Super Bowl Half Time Show demands spectacle. This year, Rihanna went so far as to get pregnant months in advance and reveal said pregnan...
News Son of Late Primal Scream Keyboardist Martin Duffy Accuses Band of Financial Exploitation In December of last year, keyboardist Martin Duffy died at 55 after suffering a brain injury caused by a fall in his home. Duffy had played...
News Rae Spoon Returns with New Album 'Not Dead Yet' Following a cervical cancer diagnosis in 2020, Calgary-born singer-songwriter Rae Spoon has announced their first new album in almost four y...
News Toronto's Thin Edge New Music Collective Showcase Works by Jocelyn Morlock, Bekah Simms for Reverb II Dedicated to commissioning and presenting composers of our time, Toronto's Thin Edge New Music Collective (TENMC) have announced their secon...
News Beverly Glenn-Copeland Shares New Song "Harbour (Song for Elizabeth)" Last month, Beverly Glenn-Copeland announced The Ones Ahead, his first album of new material in twenty years. At the time, he also shared th...
News Shamir Announces New Album 'Homo Anxietatem,' Shares Lead Single "Oversized Sweater" Shamir has announced the release of his ninth studio album — and first for Kill Rock Stars — to date, led by new Y2K-inspired single "Oversi...
News Craig Jones Leaves Slipknot It was a strange time for Slipknot when they released their latest album The End, So Far, last year — and things have only gotten stranger s...
News Mort Garson Makes a 'Journey to the Moon and Beyond' on New Album A new archival release from Mort Garson has been announced. The Canadian-born electronic pioneer and composer's Journey to the Moon and Beyo...
News underscores Announces Tour, Shares New Single Ahead of embarking on a newly announced North American tour, electronic musician underscores has shared a new single, "You don't even know w...
Streams Ellevator Share New "Claws" Video Hamilton band Ellevator have released a new EP, Do the Words I Spoke Still Move You?, via Arts & Crafts. The EP is made up of four reimag...
Streams Sam Smith and Madonna's "Vulgar" Turned Us into Prudes Every time they go into the studio, it seems like Sam Smith has a few questions rattling around in their brain: "What is subversion?" "What...
Streams Shawn Mendes Releases New Single Inspired by Canadian Wildfires Shawn Mendes has just released a new single "What the Hell Are We Dying For?" — his first new release in over a year. Using the wildfires as...
Streams PinkPantheress Drops 'Barbie' Soundtrack Offering "Angel" There may be a shortage of pink paint because of the Barbie movie, but there certainly hasn't been a lack in bangers. As such, PinkPantheres...
Streams Hear the Week's Best New Canadian Music: Jayda G, PUP, Amanda Marshall, Allison Russell As Smashmouth once put it, my world's on fire — how 'bout yours? And sure, they were right about it not being boring, but I'm definitely not...
Streams Listen to Jenny Lewis's Bright-Eyed New Album 'Joy'All' For Jenny Lewis's fifth solo album, fittingly titled Joy'All, the songwriter learned to bask in the journey — with a little help from her do...
Streams Drake Teams with J Hus for New Song "Who Told You" Drake has joined forces with J Hus on a new song. The UK rap artist has delivered his second single of the year in "Who Told You," complete...
Streams Kelly Clarkson Is Addicted to the Shindig with Her Cover of "Can't Stop" by RHCP In a shock to no one, Kelly Clarkson has slayed yet another cover. In her latest "Kellyoke" segment on The Kelly Clarkson Show, the singer a...
Streams Fucked Up and the Halluci Nation Team Up for "John Wayne Was a Nazi" After teaming up for a version of Dangerous Rhythm's "Electroshock," recent tour buddies Fucked Up and the Halluci Nation have joined forces...
Streams Grimes and Anyma Share Collaborative Banger "Welcome to the Opera" Terminally online futurist Grimes goes between considering music a "side-quest" and getting excited about it again, and this journey has now...
Streams Vivek Shraya and Donovan Woods Share Duet Multidisciplinary artist Vivek Shraya and singer-songwriter Donovan Woods have teamed up for a duet about the complexities of interracial re...
Streams PUP Share Two Outtakes from 'THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND' PUP have unveiled two previously unheard tracks from the recording sessions of THE UNRAVELLING OF PUP THE BAND. "How to Live with Yourself"...
Streams Ottawa's emmersonHALL Teams Up with fanclubwallet on New Single "Kindergarten" emmersonHALL — the indie alt-folk project of Ottawa-by-way-of-Lindsay singer-songwriter Cole Hallman (Sorry Snowman) — is getting nostalgic...
Streams Dizzy Find Comfort in Being "Close" to Each Other on New Single Oshawa is known for being Canada's automotive capital — and for birthing the ever-glistening indie pop band, Dizzy. As the release of their...
Streams Hear the Week's Best New Canadian Music: Jenn Grant, Nelly Furtado, Haviah Mighty Just yesterday (June 1), we revealed our best 25 albums of 2023 so far ranking — and today, like every Friday, there's a crop of new contend...
Streams Kim Petras Joins Paris Hilton for "Stars Are Blind (Paris' Version)" Paris Hilton's reggae-lite "Stars Are Blind" has held strong as a beloved Girls-and-Gays anthem for nearly two decades now, the kind of cand...
Streams Listen to Chaka Khan and Rufus Wainwright Cover "Cotton-Eyed Joe" Where did you come from? And more importantly, where exactly did you go? These are the questions we ask of Cotton-Eyed Joe, and we've been a...
Streams Ilsey Covers Neil Young's "Heart of Gold" with Bon Iver Ilsey and Bon Iver's Justin Vernon are giving Neil Young's "Heart of Gold" new life with their cover, which was mixed and produced by BJ Bur...
Streams Katie Tupper Shares New Song "Little Love" Saskatoon's neo-soul darling Katie Tupper has just released a new single from her upcoming EP Where to Find Me, out June 23 via Arts & Craft...
Streams Listen to Noel Gallagher's Boneless Cover of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" With all of the marding Noel Gallagher is doing lately, it's been easy to forget that he and his High Flying Birds are releasing a new recor...
Streams Palehound Channel Tony Soprano in New "My Evil" Music Video Palehound have released a new single "My Evil" from their upcoming album Eye on the Bat, coming July 14 via Polyvinyl. "'My Evil' is abou...
Streams Montreal's Population II Share Bonsound Debut "Beau baptême" Montreal-based psych rock trio Population II — one of Exclaim!'s favourite finds from the city's 2020 Taverne Tour — have released a new sin...
Reviews Bass Drum of Death Brought Rock 'N' Roll Bonafides to Toronto Lee's Palace, June 9 It was a garage band experience like no other at Lee's Palace on June 9. It felt like a look behind the proverbial curtain, watching a trio...
Reviews Paramore's Anti-Bullshit Toronto Show Was a Sacred Space Scotiabank Arena, June 8 The world is on fire, and Paramore are a band. This was the state of the union agreed upon going into Scotiabank Arena last night, collectiv...
Reviews Jayda G's 'Guy' Bubbles Over with Energy The second full-length from Jayda G, Guy is a more personal and thematic record than 2019's Significant Changes. Known for her infectious en...
Reviews 'Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)' Is a Flat Take on Music's Most Iconic Album Covers Directed by Anton Corbijn Anton Corbijn is primarily known as a maestro of music videos (Depeche Mode, U2, Arcade Fire, etc.), but the Dutchman is back to making musi...
Reviews Amaarae Is a Clever Alchemist on 'Fountain Baby' In a 2020 interview with Pitchfork, Amaarae wondered whether African music was on the brink of global popularity, similar to how Sean Paul k...
Reviews Jess Williamson Explores the Corporeal and Sublime on 'Time Ain't Accidental' For a split second, as Time Ain't Accidental's title track gets underway, you might think of early Taylor Swift. The unassuming country affe...
Reviews TEKE::TEKE Expand Their Kaleidoscopic Universe on 'Hagata' It can be difficult for a band with a truly distinctive sound to innovate and expand beyond their signature style without compromising their...
Reviews feeble little horse Are Relentlessly Unpredictable on the Charismatic 'Girl with Fish' The camaraderie between the members of feeble little horse is like jet fuel in the hands of arsonists. Set ablaze, their sophomore LP Girl w...
Reviews Dead Quiet Remain Ahead of the Curve on 'IV' Kevin Keegan might be possessed. Or, if not that, the Dead Quiet frontman has some connection to a manic spirit, one that allows his bellowi...
Reviews At Music Waste 2023, Vancouver's DIY Scene Continued to Shine Despite All Odds Celebrating their 29th year, Music Waste returned to the DIY venues of East Vancouver Thursday, June 1 to Sunday, June 4 for another year of...
Reviews Godflesh Creep Toward the Light on 'Purge' Six years have passed since we last heard from industrial metal legends Godflesh; while many things have changed in that period, the English...
Reviews Toronto's lavender wild Was the Sapphic Super Bowl Toronto's inaugural sapphic Super Bowl, lavender wild, arrived at RBC Echo Beach in the nick of time, with the first weekend of Pride Month...
Reviews Protomartyr March Toward Love on 'Formal Growth in the Desert' On Formal Growth in the Desert, Protomartyr's Joe Casey takes the band in a direction it's never gone before: toward love. The band's sixth...
Reviews Youth Lagoon Finds His Voice Again on 'Heaven Is a Junkyard' Before Youth Lagoon was put on hiatus, Trevor Powers' dream pop project was defined by its ethereal intangibility. It possessed a sound and...
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Reviews The Cure Were Alone in Space in Vancouver Rogers Arena, June 2 Astronauts frequently describe returning to Earth with a sense of profound despair. Viewed from a zoomed-out vantage point that engulfs this...
Reviews McKinley Dixon Manifests a Different Future on 'Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?' Through her cutting and renowned Beloved Trilogy, author Toni Morrison cradled beautiful multitudes within her many captivating and boundles...
Reviews Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Half Moon Run Are Having More Fun Than Ever on 'Salt' I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to attend an early listening session for Half Moon Run's Salt back in April, which quickly be...
Reviews Thantifaxath Plunge into the Depths on 'Hive Mind Narcosis' Hive Mind Narcosis is an album of dueling identities. On the one hand, the album features bleak and cold elements of black metal. On the oth...
Reviews Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Westelaken's 'I am Steaming Mushrooms' Is Fantastic and Flavourful I owe a great deal of my time in Toronto to Ozzy's Palace, the West end house that shares its name with the 13-minute opening track opening...
Reviews Bully Finds Softness in the Feedback on 'Lucky for You' Over the course of three albums, Alicia Bognanno has proven her talent for crafting hooky, driving melodies that amplify, rather than mask,...
Reviews Bob Dylan Illuminates New Corners of His Music on 'Shadow Kingdom' When Bob Dylan's black-and-white film Shadow Kingdom emerged in 2021, depicting Dylan and a band performing select songs from his back catal...