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News Foo Fighters Are Releasing Their Very Own "Midnight" Sake Foo Fighters' promo game for their upcoming album Medicine at Midnight has been going into overdrive recently. And for further proof of that...
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News Marianne Faithfull and Warren Ellis Announce New Album 'She Walks in Beauty' Marianne Faithfull has reunited with Warren Ellis for her newest body of work, an album of poetry set to "sound collage compositions" titled...
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News Eyehategod Share New Track "Fake What's Yours" Sludge metal lifers Eyehategod are set to break a lengthy absence with their new LP A History of Nomadic Behavior. Today, they've shared ano...
News New York Dolls' Sylvain Sylvain Dies at 69 Famed New York Dolls guitarist Sylvain Sylvain has lost his battle with cancer. The punk icon passed away Wednesday (January 13), his family...
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News Kevin Smith Reveals 'Clerks III' Script Pages, Link to My Chemical Romance Song Last year, Clerks mastermind Kevin Smith revealed that he would base the forthcoming third instalment of the film series around the lyrics o...
News Ariel Pink Is Embroiled in a Lawsuit Involving Claims of Physical and Sexual Abuse Ariel Pink's recent troubles have just gone from bad to worse, as news has now emerged that he's currently in a legal dispute with his ex-gi...
News Matt Mays Readies New Live Album 'From Burnside with Love' After taking a trip to Dog City last year, Matt Mays will now bring listeners to his hometown of Dartmouth, NS, with a new live album and co...
News Massive Attack's 3D, Flea & John Frusciante, Gary Numan, IDLES Join Gang of Four Tribute Album After hearing Serj Tankian and Tom Morello's contribution to the new Gang of Four tribute album, we've got the entire tracklist for the effo...
News Vanilla Fudge's Tim Bogert Dead at 76 Tim Bogert — the founding bassist of psych rock heroes Vanilla Fudge and a member of the Beck, Bogert & Appice supergroup — has died. The fa...
News Animal Collective Are Scoring a Film About SoundCloud Rappers Animal Collective's Brian "Geologist" Weitz and Josh "Deakin" Dibb have made music for a new documentary that follows SoundCloud rappers liv...
News Danny L Harle Announces New Album 'Harlecore' PC Music staple and prolific hyperpop collaborator Danny L Harle has announced plans to follow up his 2017 EP 1UL with a full-length "intera...
News Stereolab Detail New Compilation 'Electrically Possessed' Nearly a year on from teasing the arrival of two new Switched On compilations, Stereolab have shared details behind the first of the pair. E...
News Ex-Half Moon Run Member Isaac Symonds Announces Ambient Project with Toronto's Yaehsun Last year, Isaac Symonds and Montreal indie outfit Half Moon Run announced they'd be parting ways in order for Symonds to "go see what life...
News MF DOOM Streams Exploded by 870% Following News of His Death On New Year's Eve, news emerged that rap legend MF DOOM had passed away in October. The news quite naturally sparked a mass celebration of t...
News CD Projekt Red Just Delayed the Next-Gen Launch of 'Cyberpunk 2077' While Issuing Another Apology Once again, CD Projekt Red is issuing an apology over the truly disastrous — though hilarious — Cyberpunk 2077 launch. Today, the developer...
News Corb Lund Calls Out Alberta's "Alarming" Coal Mining Proposal Corb Lund is calling out Alberta's provincial government over a proposed coal mining plan in the Rocky Mountains, criticizing the sudden rol...
Streams Hear Mo Kenney Cover Daniel Romano's "Hard on You" Mo Kenney has been in a covers sort of mood these days, so much so the Nova Scotia songwriter has a new album coming out simply called Cover...
Streams Hear the Week's Best New Canadian Music: Charlotte Cardin, Lubalin, Haviah Mighty As we get deeper in 2021, more and more Canadian albums are being announced — meaning we have a pile of new tracks to listen to. Our favouri...
Streams This TikTok Cat Singing "Down with the Sickness" Will Brighten Your Day In early coronavirus days, Disturbed's "Down with the Sickness" gained newfound popularity, surging 31 percent in digital sales between Marc...
Streams AFI Return with Two New Songs Just over two years on from sharing EP The Missing Man, AFI have unloaded a pair of new songs. Both "Twisted Tongues" and "Escape from Los A...
Streams DaBaby Releases a "Masterpiece" Prolific rapper DaBaby is still relatively young in his career, but he's now released his masterpiece. Or, at the very least, a song called...
Streams Haviah Mighty Is Feeling "Antisocial" on Huge New Single It's an era where we're all feeling a little antisocial whether we like it or not, and rising Toronto rapper Haviah Mighty has captured the...
Streams Feel the "Power" of Daniel Lanois' New Single Daniel Lanois' forthcoming album Heavy Sun remains one of Exclaim!'s 29 Most Anticipated Canadian Albums of 2021, and the Hamilton-based pol...
Streams The Discarded Share Hour-Long Live Performance Featuring New and Unreleased Material Orangeville, ON, family rock troupe the Discarded have returned with new and unreleased material, following up their 2019 record Sound Check...
Streams Grievous Angels Share Tour-Inspired Video for "Red Deer to Margaree" Canadian alt-country veterans Grievous Angels have returned with a brand new tour-inspired video for their recent single "Red Deer to Margar...
Streams TLO Releases 'TLO Beats Vol 1: Good Morning' Beat Tape Hip-hop producer and DJ TLO has a lot of new material lined up for 2021. He's starting off strong with the release of his TLO Beats Vol 1: G...
Streams Descendents Call Donald Trump an "Asshole Twitter Troll" on New Song "That's the Breaks" The punk oracles suggested that a Donald Trump presidency would be good for the genre, and the last four years have mostly proven them wrong...
Streams Here's Your First Look at the Creation Records Biopic Nearly five years on from learning of its arrival, we finally have our first trailer for Creation Records biopic Creation Stories. You ca...
Streams Devours Is Back with a New Double A-side Single Like most of us, Jeff Cancade had a pretty rough 2020, but the Vancouver musician is now doing his best to pick himself back up and move onw...
Streams Listen to a New SOPHIE Remix from Autechre SOPHIE hasn't released much new music of her own in recent years, but the ever-busy sound shaper has still kept plenty busy via myriad colla...
Streams Foo Fighters Share New Tune "Waiting on a War" for Dave Grohl's Birthday Foo Fighters have already announced a special treat this week in the form of some new Vans, but they're not done yet. Celebrating Dave Grohl...
Streams Rochelle Jordan Returns with New Single "GOT EM" Ahead of sharing her first new full-length album since 2014, Rochelle Jordan has returned with another new single. You can hear "GOT EM" bel...
Streams Cartel Madras Centre Women, Work and Weed in Their "DRIFT" Video Following the arrival of "WORKING" last August, Cartel Madras have rolled out their first single of 2021. The Dom Dias-produced "DRIFT" arri...
Streams Hear Charlotte Cardin's New Single "Daddy" After returning with single "Passive Aggressive" last September, Charlotte Cardin has rolled out another new song. "Daddy" arrives alongs...
Streams Matt & Kim Remix Tokyo Police Club's "Gone" Tokyo Police Club are a couple of months out from releasing the 10th anniversary reissue of their 2010 sophomore record Champ, and today, th...
Streams Slipknot's Corey Taylor Pokes Fun at "Indie Rock" in His New "Samantha's Gone" Video Corey Taylor has given us a star-studded new video for his latest single "Samantha's Gone." Recruiting the likes Vanderpump Rules reality st...
Streams Watch AC/DC's New Video for "Realize" After sharing visuals for "Demon Fire" last month, AC/DC have given the music video treatment to another track from last year's POWER UP alb...
Streams Chastity Trashes 2020 with a Cover of Third Eye Blind's "Losing a Whole Year" Whitby's Chastity — a.k.a. Brandon Williams — has shared a cover of Third Eye Blind's "Losing a Whole Year" in the spirit of cancelling the...
Reviews NDP MP Charlie Angus' Songwriting Remains Potent on Grievous Angels' 'Summer Before the Storm' Ontario folk veterans Grievous Angels are back with new material after a seven-year-long hiatus, attributed to the fact that the band's prin...
Reviews Pearl Charles Brings Sulky Country to the Disco on 'Magic Mirror' Pearl Charles may have released Magic Mirror in January, but it's far from being a wintery album with a drab tone. The singer-songwriter's s...
Reviews Sleaford Mods Show Their Versatility on 'Spare Ribs' Six albums in, the idiosyncratic style of Nottingham duo Sleaford Mods is still very much intact on Spare Ribs. Andrew Fearn's minimalistic,...
Reviews Jazmine Sullivan Explores Love, Sex and Money in the Instagram Age on 'Heaux Tales' Jazmine Sullivan's Heaux Tales plays like a late-night, wine-infused discussion amongst girlfriends about the sincere moments that yield the...
Reviews 'Drunk Tank Pink' Showcases Shame's Talent for Vivid Storytelling In the world of Shame's Drunk Tank Pink, perception is everything. Opener "Alphabet" kicks off with rattling snare and lurching rhythms f...
Reviews Viagra Boys Tear Themselves Open on Cathartic 'Welfare Jazz' Viagra Boys have aggressively explored their past struggles, negative habits and self-defeats. Life as a musician is a road filled with temp...
Reviews 'History of Swear Words' Has All the Wit of a Preteen Edgelord Hosted by Nicolas Cage Back when I was in elementary school, students were forced to participate in a school-wide public speaking competition. Every kid had to pic...
Reviews Steve Earle and the Dukes' 'J.T.' Is a Fitting Send-Off to Justin Townes Earle Tumultuous as their relationship was, Steve Earle clearly reveres his son Justin Townes Earle as a songwriter. Years after Steve (himself a...
Reviews The Dirty Nil Are No Longer Rock Underdogs on 'Fuck Art' In 10 years, the Dirty Nil have gone from scrappy small-town Ontario upstarts to Juno-winning rockers with a devoted base of riff addicts an...
Reviews Eminem Can't Shake the Haters on 'Music to Be Murdered By - Side B' A wise man once said, don't read your mentions. He said to ignore the comments section. He warned artists that it's dangerous to read your o...
Reviews Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste's 'Soul' Soundtrack Feels Like Two Scores in One The soundtrack to Pixar's new animated masterpiece Soul is, essentially, two scores in one. On the one hand, you've got music by New Orle...
Reviews Paul McCartney Recaptures the Magic of His Earliest Solo Work on 'McCartney III' Like its predecessors McCartney (1970) and McCartney II (1980), McCartney III was written, recorded and produced entirely by Sir Paul McCart...
Reviews Kid Cudi's 'Man on the Moon III: The Chosen' Is a Triumphant Finale In October 2016, Kid Cudi had hit rock bottom. He checked himself into rehab and shared a heartbreaking letter on Facebook in which he descr...
Reviews The Avalanches Give Their Signature Sound a Collaborative Update on 'We Will Always Love You' Albums by the Avalanches used to introduce themselves like dreamy street festivals — crowd chatter, hot pavement, snippets of music — arrivi...
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Reviews 'Song Exploder' Season 2 Gets Emotional About the Creative Process Hosted by Hrishikesh Hirway Just a couple months after Song Exploder's debut mini-season, Hrishikesh Hirway's podcast-turned-Netflix-show is back for four more episodes...
Reviews You Might Not Know Bob Wiseman's Name, but You'll Appreciate His 'Music Lessons' Bob Wiseman has been many things in his long career — founding member of Blue Rodeo, solo artist, experimental musician, sideman and teacher...
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Reviews Danny Bell & His Disappointments Bring Big Feelings to Small-City Living on 'Songs for the Town' An accordion's magic lies in its wonky instability. Even expertly played, there remains the feeling that one miscounted note or mashed key w...
Reviews People of the Sun Shine Their Light Just When We Need It Most on 'Last Day of Summer' Last Day of Summer, the six-song debut outing from Regina-based People of the Sun, is a vibe-y, earthy affair that serves up a spicy blend o...
Reviews Ryan Hemsworth Brings His Love of Emo to the Fore on 'Quarter-Life Crisis' Though he's most often considered an electronic artist, indie rock and pop-punk have been regular influences in Ryan Hemsworth's music for y...
Reviews Joan of Arc End Their 25-Year Run with a Bang on 'Tim Melina Theo Bobby' If the 2000s had Broken Social Scene as the band with a giant, free flowing pool of talented members who often fronted other bands, Joan of...