Articles by Matt Bobkin

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  Mustafa Wins 2022 Prism Prize

  PUBLISHED Jul 8, 2022

  The Prism Prize results are in: Mustafa has won the 2022 Grand Prize, honouring "outstanding artistry in [Canadian] music video production,...

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  The Weeknd's Toronto Tour Opener Postponed Night-Of Due to Rogers Outage

  PUBLISHED Jul 8, 2022

  Don't "Save Your Tears," this is a good time to spend them — the Weeknd has postponed his After Hours Til Dawn tour opener, scheduled for t...

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  Sled Island Built Bridges Between Calgary and the Rest of the World

  PUBLISHED Jun 29, 2022

  There are only so many music festival formats, but Sled Island's approach stands out: in addition to packing Downtown Calgary's venues and...

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  Sum 41 and Simple Plan Are Skipping Canada on Tour — Again

  PUBLISHED Jun 15, 2022

  One of the best moments of today's pop-punk renaissance has been the revelation that Sum 41 and Simple Plan had buried their early-career f...

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  Toronto's Elrichman Unleashes His Inner "Wilde Childe" on New Single

  PUBLISHED May 19, 2022

  Watch out, streets of Toronto: Elrichman is on the loose. As the pop-rock musician born Paul Erlichman prepares his third album Demolition...

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  Arcade Fire Step Off Their Pedestal for 'WE'

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2022

  It's no coincidence the set for their 2017 tour was a wrestling ring: Arcade Fire had done a heel turn. Since quickly becoming one of the b...

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  The 30 Artists Who Defined Exclaim!'s First 30 Years

  PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2022

  So much has changed since Exclaim! published its first issue in April 1992, but 30 years and over 300 issues later, what remains the same i...

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  Meet Exclaim!'s Class of 2022: Breeze, PONY, Bliss Fields, Only God Forgives

  PUBLISHED Apr 20, 2022

  We really didn't want the Class of 2022 to end, but this Saturday (April 23), nearly three months after the concert series' originally sche...