Articles by Exclaim! Staff

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  Owen Pallett, DijahSB, Cheekface, Badge Époque Ensemble Set for Winterruption YEG 2025

  PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2024

  Returning for its fifth year in 2025, Edmonton's Winterruption YEG has announced the stacked first round of performers on the lineup for...

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  Hear the Week's Best New Canadian Music: Milk & Bone, Alessia Cara, TOBi, Peach Pit

  PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2024

  With Halloween having precariously found itself on a Thursday this year, there will simply have to be two "Halloweekends" of activity. We...

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  Calgary's GIRAF Festival Celebrates 20 Years of Independent Animation

  PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2024

  Calgary's GIRAF — Western Canada's biggest, boldest festival celebrating independent animation — is marking 20 years of outside-the-box...

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  The 20 Best Canadian Albums of the 2020s So Far

  PUBLISHED Oct 22, 2024

  Starting in the aughts and continuing into the 2010s, Canada was known for its indie rock boom. Now, as we arrive at the halfway point of...

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  Hear the Week's Best New Canadian Music: Japandroids, WHIPPED CREAM, Majid Jordan, Jayli Wolf

  PUBLISHED Oct 18, 2024

  Another week has come and gone; some would say more quickly than usual, given the Thanksgiving Monday statutory holiday here in Canada...

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  Bon Enfant Follow the Groove on 'Demande spéciale'

  PUBLISHED Oct 15, 2024

  There's no need to issue a special request: Montreal art rockers Bon Enfant have unleashed their new album 'Démande speciale' today via...

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  Hear the Week's Best New Canadian Music: Céline Dion, Zach Zoya, Aqyila, Klô Pelgag

  PUBLISHED Oct 11, 2024

  Thanksgiving weekend has once again snuck up on us. It's a tricky holiday, between all the colonialism and the family politics — but a...

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  8 Emerging Canadian Artists You Need to Hear in October 2024

  PUBLISHED Oct 9, 2024

  'BRAT' Summer is over! 'BRAT' Fall is in full swing! Or maybe neither ever truly existed, maybe nothing ever truly existed! The encroaching...