Articles by Matt Bobkin

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  Badge Époque Ensemble's Max Turnbull Announces New Album as Badge Epoch

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2021

  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 membe...

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  Watch Rufus Wainwright Perform "Over the Rainbow" from His New Concert Film

  PUBLISHED May 27, 2021

  Since 2006, Rufus Wainwright has paid tribute to Judy Garland's 1961 live album, Judy at Carnegie Hall, including multiple runs of "Rufus D...

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  New Chance Returns with 'Real Time'

  PUBLISHED May 26, 2021

  Less than two years after Toronto experimental artist New Chance delivered the Hardly Working EP — one of Exclaim!'s Best EPs of 2019 — the...

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  Lisa LeBlanc and Salebarbes Cover Cajun Classic "Bonsoir Moreau"

  PUBLISHED May 26, 2021

  Last week, Exclaim! shared a list of five "New Acadian Classics for Your First East Coast Kitchen Party," including a song by Louisiana-bor...

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  The Halluci Nation, Formerly A Tribe Called Red, Announce New Album 'One More Saturday Night'

  PUBLISHED May 21, 2021

  Last month, electronic duo A Tribe Called Red revealed that they had changed their name to the Halluci Nation ahead of a forthcoming album,...

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  Jon Vinyl Talks Through His Problems on "Told You"

  PUBLISHED May 21, 2021

  Toronto crooner Jon Vinyl is embracing his emotions on his new single "Told You." The R&B tune finds Vinyl working through communication i...

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  PACKS Plant Seeds of Hope in an Apocalypse on 'Take the Cake'

  PUBLISHED May 20, 2021

  With everything going on these days, nihilism is at an all-time high. Today's young people have endured multiple recessions, the climate cr...

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  'Hip-Hop's Greatest Producers' to Get Their Due in New Book

  PUBLISHED May 18, 2021

  In the world of hip-hop, rappers get all the love — but what about the producers who bring their rhymes to life? Beatmakers are finally get...