As far as we know, Kendrick Lamar isn't releasing a record in 2018, meaning that everyone else will get a shot at making the best album of t...

The CD has quickly become the punchline of the music industry, but as 2017 proved, everyone might be laughing a bit too soon. Despite the...

It's been another strong year in Canadian live music, with plenty of memorable performances from acts near and far, big and small, across al...

Write what you know, as the trope dictates, and most artists do to some extent. But this year, a number of high-profile musicians took that...

For most Americans, patriotism is a default; even internal criticism often comes from a place of "no one hits my little brother but me." But...

Artists responded in different ways to tumultuous recent events. Some turned up the party, some expressed their rage outwardly, while others...

This year, Lizzy Goodman chronicled the 2000s indie rock revival in her excellent book Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in...

"Has-beens shouldn't present awards to gonna-bes," Oasis's Noel Gallagher once famously said after accepting an award from INXS's Michael Hu...

Women's empowerment wasn't just the theme of 2017, but a movement that shaped and changed the political landscape and longstanding social st...

As our annual rollout of genre-specific album lists for the Best of the Year — which so far has covered the Top 20 Pop & Rock Albums, Top 10...

Anger is always in vogue, but this was an especially momentous year for punk and hardcore, bearing witness to some of the most boundary push...

The end of a calendar year is an excellent time to reflect on all of the best things that happened, but it's also a good time to take stock...

Conversations on making musical spaces more inclusive are far from over; there's plenty more work to be done. But thanks to several thoughtf...

Canadian artists delivered another batch of impressive music videos this year, courtesy of everyone from chart-topping R&B singers to indie...

Ranking albums is an odd thing to do in general, but at the end of our annual rollout of genre-specific album lists for the Best of the Year...

Look, we all know democracy is flawed. And so, in our annual voting for Exclaim!'s Top 20 Pop & Rock Albums, Top 10 Soul and R&B Albums, Top...

We're nearing the end of the rollout of our annual genre-specific album lists for the Best of 2017. So far, we've published our Top 20 Pop &...

Last week, we began the annual rollout of our genre-specific album lists for the Best of 2017, including the Top 20 Pop & Rock Albums, our T...

Last week, we began the annual rollout of our genre-specific album lists for the Best of 2017, including the Top 20 Pop & Rock Albums, our T...

As is our annual custom, Exclaim! has spent the past week rolling out our genre-specific album lists for the Best of 2017. It started with o...