Vancouver's Shame Spiral Return with Cryptic, Noisy 'Dictaphone Future'

Published Jan 22, 2021

One of the oddities in prolific Vancouver songwriter Chris Van Der Laan's wide array of projects, Shame Spiral released a few peculiar EPs b...

Sloan/Super Friendz/Inbreds Supergroup TUNS Return with 'Duly Noted' LP

Published Jan 22, 2021

A few years back, Chris Murphy (Sloan), Matt Murphy (yhe Super Friendz) and Mike O'Neill (the Inbreds) released an album under the name TUNS...

'Kaputt' Turns 10: Destroyer's "Violently Laid-Back" Opus That Defined a Decade

Published Jan 22, 2021

By the time Dan Bejar released Kaputt on January 25, 2011, he was a decade and a half into a career that had already included eight prior De...

Jerry Leger Shares Folk Rocking Murder Mystery "Jumped in the Humber"

Published Jan 21, 2021

Jerry Leger is reissuing his recent albums Time Out for Tomorrow (2019) and Songs from the Apartment (2020) on vinyl, and ahead of those Mar...

Kiwi Jr.'s 'Cooler Returns' Is Packed with Golden Hooks and Subtle Weirdness

Published Jan 18, 2021

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...

Hear the Week's Best New Canadian Music: Charlotte Cardin, Lubalin, Haviah Mighty

Published Jan 15, 2021

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...

Our Lady Peace's Raine Maida Is Supporting Local Artists with New Cannabis Company

Published Jan 13, 2021

Our Lady Peace frontman Raine Maida has become the latest Canadian artist to get involved in the country's legal cannabis business, as he's...

Brampton's Mile End "Choose Life" in Morbid New Video

Published Jan 13, 2021

Having spent the past couple of years cutting their teeth in Brampton, ON's underground scene, Mile End are ready to have a breakout 2021. T...

B.A Johnston, the Dirty Nil, Ed the Sock Celebrate Hamilton in 'This Is the Thing' Trailer

Published Jan 12, 2021

The Hamilton music and comedy scene will be coming to the small screen thanks to This Is the Thing, a new show featuring some of the Ontario...

The "Internet Drama" Guy from TikTok Just Released a New Single

Published Jan 12, 2021

Montreal artist Lubalin went massively viral at the end of 2020 by turning internet fights into TikTok bangers. For those wanting to hear wh...

Shallow North Dakota's Tony Jacome Diagnosed with Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer

Published Jan 11, 2021

Tony Jacome, singer-drummer of the Hamilton-based noise trio Shallow North Dakota, has been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. The ca...

Lana Del Rey Details 'Chemtrails over the Country Club'

Published Jan 11, 2021

Lana Del Rey has been talking about her album Chemtrails over the Country Club for many months now, and having missed the originally promise...

Kathryn Calder Launches Calming Toll-Free Phone Service

Published Jan 07, 2021

New Pornographers member and solo songwriter Kathryn Calder is the city of Victoria, BC's Artist-in-Residence, and this has led her to launc...

BRANCHES Returns with Cosmic New Single "Keep Going"

Published Jan 05, 2021

Jonny Dylan Hughes has been releasing music under his own name in recent years, but now the Western Canadian polymath — currently based in E...

'History of Swear Words' Has All the Wit of a Preteen Edgelord Hosted by Nicolas Cage

Published Jan 05, 2021

Back when I was in elementary school, students were forced to participate in a school-wide public speaking competition. Every kid had to pic...

"Bean Dad" Controversy Leads 'My Brother, My Brother and Me' Podcast to Change Theme Song

Published Jan 04, 2021

Yesterday (January 3), John Roderick of the 2000s indie rock band the Long Winters became universally known as "Bean Dad," after his tweet t...

Exclaim!'s 29 Most Anticipated Canadian Albums of 2021

Published Jan 04, 2021

We can all agree that we've been quite keen for 2020 to come to an end, but it still might be a while before life returns to something resem...

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Share "We're Gonna Get There in the End"

Published Dec 31, 2020

A few months ago, Oasis bloke Noel Gallagher made some decidedly unhelpful comments about how he doesn't wear a mask, but now he's closing o...

Avril Lavigne Is Working on New Music with Machine Gun Kelly

Published Dec 31, 2020

Here's another reason to be excited about the beginning of a new year: 2021 will reportedly bring new music from Avril Lavigne, who is in th...

'The Simpsons' Predicted the Ontario Finance Minister's St. Barts Controversy

Published Dec 31, 2020

The Simpsons has once again successfully predicted the future. The famously prescient cartoon has previously foreseen everything from the Di...