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News Paul Jacobs Announces New Album 'Pink Dogs on the Green Grass' Prolific Montreal singer-songwriter Paul Jacobs has kept his solo output to a minimum in recent years, focusing instead on his duties as the...
News Donald Trump Pardoned Lil Wayne Before Leaving the White House While a meme-hungry internet hoped that it would be Joe Exotic walking free, Donald Trump's list of pardons before leaving the White House d...
News Gary Numan Explains How He Earned Just $65 from a Million Streams As artists have repeatedly explained, the economics of music streaming are more than a little broken. Adding to that ever-growing list is no...
News Dolly Parton Calls for Kindness and Good Deeds on Her 75th Birthday Legendary country music icon Dolly Parton is celebrating her 75th birthday today, and in lieu of any in-person performances, celebrations or...
News Small Black Return with First New Album in Five Years Brooklyn chillwavers Small Black have detailed their first new album in five years. The 11-track Cheap Dreams arrives April 9 through the ba...
News Korn's Jonathan Davis Designed the Band's Logo Left-Handed Using a Crayon Korn's band logo — you know, with that signature backwards "R" — while iconic in its own right, is admittedly pretty goddamn ugly. And it se...
News Have Iced Earth Been Dropped by Their Record Label? Yesterday, it was reported that Iced Earth guitarist Jon Schaffer turned himself in after storming the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., and...
News Beverly Glenn-Copeland's 'Keyboard Fantasies' Is Getting Another 35th Anniversary Reissue Formerly unsung Canadian music hero Beverly Glenn-Copeland has finally been getting some long overdue attention. Last year saw the release o...
News 33.3 Music Compilation Extends Submission Deadline It's no secret that the ongoing pandemic has been devastating to the music industry, but there have been several new initiatives designed to...
News Weezer Announce New Album 'OK Human' Out of nowhere, Weezer have just announced a new album — and it's not Van Weezer. Today Rivers Cuomo and co. revealed we'll get a record cal...
News Tragically Hip and Odds Offshoot Strippers Union Ready New Double Album Tragically Hip guitarist Rob Baker and Odds frontman Craig Northey have announced a third full-length LP as Strippers Union. Double album Th...
News Viral "Dreams" Meme Creator Joins Biden Inauguration Parade Nathan Apodaca — the TikTok user who helped Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams" skyrocket on streaming charts 43 years after its release — has been rec...
News Converge Mistaken for Internet Company in the Philippines Despite a recent foray into the virtual world, Converge have been forced to clarify that they are not an internet service provider in the Ph...
News Iced Earth's Jon Schaffer Has Turned Himself in to the FBI Earlier this month, Iced Earth guitarist Jon Schaffer was spotted storming the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., a decision that quickly lan...
News New Radicals Will Reunite to Play "You Get What You Give" at the Biden Inauguration In times of great turmoil, economic and social insecurity and general anxiety, there's still someone somewhere constantly asking us to remem...
News Phil Spector Dead at 81 "Wall of Sound" production legend Phil Spector has died. This morning it was revealed the producer died of "natural causes" on Saturday (Sep...
News Rage Against the Machine Examine Race in New Short Film 'Killing in Thy Name' Rage Against the Machine have collaborated with artist collective the Ummah Chroma for a new short film about whiteness. The 10-minute Killi...
News Duke Bootee — Co-Writer of Grandmaster Flash's "The Message" — Dead at 69 Duke Bootee — co-writer and rapper on Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five's early hip-hop classic "The Message" — has passed away. He die...
News Neil Young and Crazy Horse Detail 'Way Down in the Rust Bucket' After giving Way Down in the Rust Bucket a new release date earlier this week, Neil Young and Crazy Horse have now shared the tracklisting f...
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...
Streams Bad Religion Call for "Emancipation of the Mind" on New Single It's too early to tell whether or not a Joe Biden presidency will end the Age of Unreason, but Bad Religion are marking today's inauguration...
Streams The Besnard Lakes Deliver Animated Video for "Our Heads, Our Hearts on Fire Again" The Besnard Lakes' forthcoming double album The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings remains one of Exclaim!'s Most...
Streams Watch Fleet Foxes' Intimate New Video for "I'm Not My Season" Fleet Foxes are back throwing support behind the group's Shore album, this time by releasing an intimate new video for the record's "I'm Not...
Streams Foo Fighters Stage a Teenage Rebellion in Their "Waiting on a War" Video Foo Fighters are once again amping up the excitement for their new album Medicine at Midnight, but instead of shoes and sake, they are doing...
Streams Bernice Address the Self on New Song "It's Me, Robin" Bernice's forthcoming Eau de Bonjourno is one of our Most Anticipated Canadian Albums of 2021, and the Toronto outfit have shared another ne...
Streams Lubalin's "Internet Drama Part 3" Is Finally Here Montreal producer and viral meme sensation Lubalin has shared the much anticipated third instalment in his "Internet Drama" series. After...
Streams MGMT's Andrew VanWyngarden Shares "I Miss Dancing in New York" as Gentle Dom MGMT's Andrew VanWyngarden is back with more coronavirus-inspired music to tide us over into the 11th month of the pandemic, and he's here t...
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...
Reviews Kawthra Infuse Sludge Metal with Introspection on 'The Tenets' "Ignorance Is Bliss," "Confidence Is Key," and "Belief Is Reality" are the three immutable laws that define Kawthra's The Tenets. The debut...
Reviews Bicep's Trance Formula Works Most of the Time on 'Isles' Irish duo Bicep debuted strongly in 2017 with their self-titled album — a confident mix of continental trance melodicism and urban grit that...
Reviews Rhye Starts His Pop Pivot on 'Home' Before Rhye emerged from a haze of identity-obscuring mystery, it seemed like that voice could have belonged to anyone. The project's sensuo...
Reviews Kiwi Jr.'s 'Cooler Returns' Is Packed with Golden Hooks and Subtle Weirdness At a glance, Kiwi Jr.'s music scans as a retro revival of '60s pop sweetness and '90s slacker rock swagger — especially since frontman Jerem...
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...
Reviews Taylor Swift Finds the Sunshine on 'evermore' Just five months after Taylor Swift surprised the world with the sudden release of her eighth studio album, folklore, she decided to celebra...
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...
Reviews Kacy & Clayton and Marlon Williams Find Organic Beauty with 'Plastic Bouquet' Here's a Commonwealth collaboration of three of the brightest talents in roots music. Saskatchewan folk duo Kacy & Clayton — cousins Kacy An...