News Small World Music Announces Online 2021 Edition of Asian Music Series Small World Music's Asian Music Series is now in its 19th edition. Having been sidelined last year due to the pandemic, the Toronto-based ev...
News My Chemical Romance Postpone Reunion Tour Until 2022 Adding to the mounting evidence that concerts are not going to be back in 2021, My Chemical Romance have just rescheduled their reunion tour...
News Apple Music Pays $0.01 Per Stream Foregoing the shiny web design and interactive graphs of its competitors, Apple Music has confirmed that the average per-play payout of its...
News Lowell Returns with New EP for 'Bloodthirsty' Horror Flick Lowell is back with a new release, but it marks a bit of a change for the Toronto artist. She this time is giving us songs made for a new ho...
News Vince Staples Has Two New Albums and a Netflix Series on the Way When it comes new music, Vince Staples has largely been quiet since a 2019 string of singles behind his Vince Staples Show, but as a new int...
News Iced Earth's Jon Schaffer Pleads Guilty for His Role in the Capitol Riot Iced Earth guitarist Jon Schaffer has pleaded guilty for his very public role in the U.S. Capitol riots. However, he has agreed to plead gui...
News Toronto's Mod Club Is Apparently Reopening as the Axis Club Back in November, Toronto concertgoers' hearts collectively broke after the announcement that the city's Mod Club Theatre would be shutting...
News Trapt Frontman Claims His Pedophilia Comments Were Just Jokes Trapt frontman Chris Taylor Brown landed the band in hot water last year over his support of Donald Trump, COVID-19 denial and embrace of th...
News Fionn Share Video for Sparkling Pop Single "Let Me Go," Announce 'Candid Constellations' EP Vancouver twin sister duo Fionn are one of Exclaim!'s favourite emerging Canadian artists, and they are continuing their exploration of spar...
News Sam Roberts Band Share Expanded 'Chemical City' Reissue for Album's 15th Anniversary Sam Roberts recently showed us his favourite rock shirt, but that's not the only navel-gazing he's done this week. To celebrate 15 years of...
News Poco's Rusty Young Dead at 75 Rusty Young — the singer-songwriter, guitarist and co-founder of classic country-rock band Poco — has died. According to an official stateme...
News Winnipeg Jazz Festival Cancels 2021 Edition As the pandemic rages on in Canada, more summer music festivals are cancelling their 2021 events. This now includes the TD Winnipeg Internat...
News Pile Announce Improvisational Album 'In the Corners of a Sphere-Filled Room' Pile have announced plans for a new improvisational album titled In the Corners of a Sphere-Filled Room, which is due to arrive on May 7....
News Pete Davidson Is Playing Joey Ramone in a New Biopic On the 20th anniversary of Joey Ramone's death, Pete Davidson has been cast to star as the late Ramones frontman in a new a Netflix biopic....
News 'The Simpsons' Will Poke Fun at the Smiths This Weekend Having been on television for what feels like millions of years, The Simpsons has touched on just about every pop culture property by now. B...
News Fyre Festival Attendees Awarded $7,220 Each in Class Action Settlement Four long years after the infamous Fyre Festival was hit with multiple class action lawsuits from angry ticket holders, a settlement has now...
News Osheaga Threatens to Leave Montreal over Space Dispute Organizers behind Montreal's Osheaga festival have suggested the event may soon be moved out of the city if a dispute over how much space th...
News R.I.P. Italian Music Innovator Amedeo Tommasi Amedeo Tommasi — one of Italy's most prestigious jazz players and soundtrack/library composers — has died. News broke this week that the Che...
News Kelly McMichael Shares "Stepping Stone" from Debut LP 'Waves' Onetime RENDERS leader Kelly McMichael is now releasing music under her own name, and the St. John's singer-songwriter has shared a new sing...
News Arkells Delay "The Rally" Until 2022 Arkells have once again delayed "The Rally," as they've pushed their big Hamilton concert back another year. It will now take place on June...
News Arcade Fire Release 45-Minute Instrumental "Memories of the Age of Anxiety" Arcade Fire are back! Well, um, kinda. The band have just released a new 45-minute instrumental piece — but you can only right now hear it v...
News SPELLLING Returns with New Album 'The Turning Wheel' Chrystia Cabral has shared details of a new album as SPELLLING. The Bay Area-based artist will release The Turning Wheel on June 25 through...
Streams Hear the Polyphonic Spree Cover Rush's "The Spirit of Radio" Today, the Polyphonic Spree have released a new covers album with takes on the Rolling Stones, Daniel Johnston, INXS and more — in addition...
Streams Hear the Week's Best New Canadian Music: Dizzy, Shad, Silverstein Canadian tunes incoming! Our favourite new music of the past week is collected in The Eh! List. This includes the latest tunes from long-...
Streams Fear Factory Share First New Song in over Five Years Fear Factory have shared their first new song in over five years. You can hear the industrial metal outfit make a crushing return with "Disr...
Streams Young Thug Delivers 'Slime Language 2' with Drake, Travis Scott Young Thug has assembled his Young Stoner Life friends and family for a new album. You can hear the star-powered Slime Language 2 in the pla...
Streams Tegan and Sara Team Up with Beach Bunny on New Version of "Cloud 9" Chicago rockers Beach Bunny have enlisted Tegan and Sara for a new version of their 2020 tune "Cloud 9." The Canadian sister duo chip in...
Streams The Trews Rock Out in an Empty Hockey Arena in "I Wanna Play" Video The Trews — like pretty much everyone else over the last year and change — just want to play. That's the theme of their new song, which is f...
Streams Alanis Morissette Shares Ode to the Road with New Single "I Miss the Band" Alanis Morissette's massive touring plans got derailed last year thanks to the pandemic, and today, she's looking back fondly on her time on...
Streams Hear DMX's Posthumous Single "Been to War" with Swizz Beatz and French Montana Following DMX's recent death at the age of 50, the rapper is being celebrated with a posthumous single. "Been to War" features Swizz Beatz a...
Streams Brampton Alt-Rockers Sicayda Go "Deeper In" the Darkness with New Video Brampton-based alt-rock explorers Sicayda started 2021 off strong with the release of their self-titled sophomore EP, which led them to be n...
Streams Listen to Ship of Fools' New 'Status Quo' EP Ontario punk rockers Ship of Fools dropped the title track from their Status Quo EP earlier this month, and today, you can listen to the qua...
Streams Language Arts Unearths '80s Nostalgia with "Blood Flow" Video Nova Scotia-based art-pop project Language Arts returns with a new single titled "Blood Flow," releasing the track alongside a Britton Proul...
Streams Toronto's Alaskan Tapes Shares New Album 'For Us Alone' Toronto-based artist Alaskan Tapes — a.k.a. Brady Kendall — releases his latest effort For Us Alone today, and you can listen to the album i...
Streams Stream Greta Van Fleet's 'The Battle at Garden's Gate' Grammy-winning rockers Greta Van Fleet have returned with their sophomore album The Battle at Garden's Gate, and you can take a listen to th...
Streams Hear Prince Josh Remix LAL's "Still Movements" Following last month's Ciel remix of "End of This World Together," LAL have now enlisted Prince Josh to rework another song from their album...
Streams Sylo Nozra Takes Flight on New Single "Spirits" Sylo Nozra has returned with another new single. "Spirits" was written and produced by the Toronto artist, frequent collaborator Goldchain a...
Streams BAD CHILD Shares Cinematic "Rouge" Video Canadian songwriter BAD CHILD — born Isaiah Steinberg in Kitchener, ON — has released a cinematic new video for his Free Trial song "Rouge."...
Streams Ruby Waters Goes on a Wild Ride in "Blow" Video Toronto singer-songwriter Ruby Waters was named one of Exclaim!'s New Faves last year on the strength of her If It Comes Down to It EP, and...
Streams Listen to the Second Volume of Sufjan Stevens' New Album 'Convocations' Earlier this week, Sufjan Stevens shared a new single titled "Lamentations II" from his forthcoming album Convocations, which is due to be r...
Streams Watch Greta Van Fleet's Electrified Performance of "Heat Above" on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' Adorable '70s rockers Greta Van Fleet are releasing their surprisingly solid new album The Battle at Garden's Gate tomorrow. To celebrate, t...
Streams Islands Share New Song "Set the Fairlight" As previously reported, Islands are about to return with a new album called Islomania. Ahead of its arrival, they've shared another new tune...
Streams Silverstein Share New Single "Bankrupt," Plot North American Tour Silverstein have returned with a new single. You can hear the Ontario outfit take aim at the rich and powerful on "Bankrupt" below. On "B...
Streams Sarah Neufeld Shares New 'Detritus' Tune "The Top" Arcade Fire and Bell Orchestre mainstay Sarah Neufeld will go solo for a third time with her new album Detritus next monthj. Today, she's pr...
Reviews Justin Nozuka Picks Sincerity over Variety on 'then, now & again' On his first collection of songs since 2018's Run to Waters, Justin Nozuka tries to channel his musical beginnings. He cites '70s singer-son...
Reviews Conway the Machine Sticks to His Signature Cadence on 'La Maquina' One of the most important — yet least discussed — tools in a rapper's arsenal is beat selection. A decent wordsmith can elevate himself to g...
Reviews Andy Stott Offers an Excitingly Different Take on His Trademarks with 'Never the Right Time' When surveying Andy Stott's musical trajectory, 2012's Luxury Problems stands like a monolith. With the masterful manipulation of his one-ti...
Reviews Greta Van Fleet's '70s Rock Cosplay Is Pretty Damn Sick on 'The Battle at Garden's Gate' Although it's never really been proven in any quantifiable way, a recent narrative has emerged that show business favours music that has bee...
Reviews Born Ruffians Don't Have Much 'PULP' to Wring Out After releasing JUICE and SQUEEZE in the past year, Born Ruffians conclude their thirst-quenching trilogy with PULP, a high-energy album tha...
Reviews The Armed Make Themselves Known in a Big Way on 'ULTRAPOP' The Armed are a band known for their elusiveness. The mystery surrounding the extreme group is made up of things like fantastical music vide...
Reviews Montreal's Spectral Wound Will Quench Anyone with 'A Diabolic Thirst' for Black Metal No matter how many subgenres pour out of black metal, there's always a place for groups like Spectral Wound to keep the foundational flame a...
Reviews Brockhampton Continue to Push Hip-Hop Forward on 'Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine' Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine is reportedly Brockhampton's penultimate album, with the final album due for release sometime later this...
Reviews Taylor Swift Reclaims Her Past on 'Fearless (Taylor's Version)' When the master recordings of Taylor Swift's first six albums were sold to Scooter Braun, Swift promptly announced she was going to re-recor...
Reviews Paul McCartney Gets by with a Little Help from His Friends on 'McCartney III Imagined' It took Sir Paul McCartney 50 years to complete the McCartney trilogy of self-recorded and performed solo albums. Now, with collaboration in...
Reviews Motorbike James Expresses Existential Wonder Through Well-Honed Songcraft on 'VIISIONS' The cover of Motorbike James' VIISIONS features a chrome-suited astronaut peering through a window, an image that certainly resonates after...
Reviews PONY Make Millennial Malaise Sound Fun on 'TV Baby' After five years of well-received live gigs and two solid EPs, the debut full-length album by Toronto-based group PONY has everything there...
Reviews Winnipeg's Tunic Purge Dark Emotions on Career-Spanning 'Exhaling' Tunic's music is all about complex and chaotic catharsis. Since releasing their debut 7-inch in 2016, and when they still could, the Winnipe...
Reviews claire rousay Puts Her Ambient Experimentation in 'a softer focus' On a softer focus, claire rousay has delivered both her most accessible and compositionally daring album to date. Past releases have often r...
Reviews Sook-Yin Lee and Adam Litovitz Radiate Warmth and Healing on 'jooj two' Since the mid-'90s, Sook-Yin Lee has embedded herself in Canadian culture through her work as a broadcaster, actor, filmmaker, musician, and...
Reviews Spirit of the Beehive's 'ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH' Captures the Beautiful Chaos of the Human Mind The words "entertainment" and "death" one after another seem like a commentary on society — as if to say our current social media-driven wor...
Reviews Milla Thyme Tries to Do It All on 'Everything Has Its Thyme' As the first signs of warmer days are finally starting to show, Montreal-based musician Milla Thyme has offered his fresh and crisp debut LP...
Reviews CFCF Pays Homage to the Heady Years of Y2K on 'Memoryland' Here is another quality electronic release setting out to explore a specific musical era. Last month, British producer Danny L. Harle mined ...
Reviews Godspeed You! Black Emperor Revisit Past Glories on 'G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!' Godspeed You! Black Emperor have always been ahead of the times. The Montreal post-rock legends pushed the boundaries of the then-nascent ge...
Reviews Dry Cleaning Spit Back the Unending Noise of the World on 'New Long Leg' Florence Shaw writes a song like a bowerbird builds a nest, with an obsessive fixation for colourful garbage. On Dry Cleaning's debut full-l...
Reviews Maritime Rapper AJ Helado's 'Helado' Belies Its High-School Bedroom Origins Still in high school, 17-year-old rapper-producer AJ Helado recorded his sophomore album from his bedroom in Saint John's North End, not tha...
Reviews Kota the Friend and Statik Selektah Are All Smiles on 'To Kill a Sunrise' It feels supremely fitting that Kota the Friend would drop his latest platter at the outset of spring. Breezy and light, the fiercely indepe...