Since the COVID-19 pandemic first hit Canada in early 2020, it's far easier to list what's changed since then than what's the same, and the...
In any other year, PACKS would be one of Toronto's most notable bands to watch. After enjoying moderate success over the last few years with...
What happens when you cross experimental rockers Mr. Joy with prolific bandleader Matthew "Doc" Dunn? Why, you get Dr. Joy, of course! The n...
At this point, you shouldn't call any Daniel Romano album drop a "surprise release," since they pretty much all come with little to no warni...
With each year that passed since Kings of Convenience's 2009 album, Declaration of Dependence, their idiosyncratic brand of acoustic folk fe...
In 2018, Hubert Lenoir took the music world by storm seemingly overnight, riding the hype from his debut album Darlène to become the hottest...
Toronto rock trio Ace of Wands confronted restrictive "Feminine Values" last March in what was supposed to start the lead-up to their sophom...
Post-punks Deliluh left Toronto in 2019 as a four-piece and have now resurfaced somewhere unspecified in Europe as a duo. They've chronicled...
The sun may be shining bright these days, but noisy Toronto post-punks Shallow Waves are bringing back the bleakness of the dead of winter w...
Exclaim! aren't the only ones dropping their list of favourite recent albums today — the Polaris Music Prize has just announced its 2021 lon...
It's been a while since we've been able to travel, but that's not stopping Super Plage. The Montreal-based electro-popster is teaming up wit...
Since leading Montreal's mid-aughts indie rock golden age as a member of short-lived but still-beloved trio the Unicorns, Nick Thorburn has...
It's been a long 16 months without live music, a gruelling ongoing stretch that Toronto-based filmmaker Danny Alexander has chronicled in hi...
Music venues in Toronto have been closing at a steady rate over the past few years due to rising rent prices and a lack of direct government...
Lungbutter drummer and Montreal music scene fixture Joni Sadler has died. She was 35. News of her death from a brain aneurysm on May 30 w...
The impending summer weather means road trips, and Blair Lee has delivered a new anthem perfect for long stretches of time driving down high...
Max Turnbull has taken on many musical forms over the years — he's recorded music as Slim Twig, led Badge Époque Ensemble, and been a member...
Since 2006, Rufus Wainwright has paid tribute to Judy Garland's 1961 live album, Judy at Carnegie Hall, including multiple runs of "Rufus Do...
Last week, Exclaim! shared a list of five "New Acadian Classics for Your First East Coast Kitchen Party," including a song by Louisiana-born...
Less than two years after Toronto experimental artist New Chance delivered the Hardly Working EP — one of Exclaim!'s Best EPs of 2019 — the...
