Tiga and Hudson Mohawke have announced a collaborative album as Love Minus Zero. Having previously shared singles under the moniker in recen...

BMG has settled its lawsuit with MGA Entertainment. The record label filed a claim earlier this year claiming the toymaker's line of pooping...

Despite apparently being locked out of her Twitter (or X or whatever) account, SZA has informed fans that she's debating whether she should...

After just kicking off their Ontario tour late last month, Toronto's own Cowboy Junkies have been forced to postpone the remaining three dat...

Toronto-based Americana trio, the Lonesome Ace Stringband, will be releasing their sixth album Try to Make it Fly on Friday, October 13....

As they gear up for their coast-to-coast Canadian tour kicking off early next month, Big Wreck have announced the details of their forthcomi...

After having welcomed new frontperson Rui Martins into the fold back in 2021, French metalcore act Betraying the Martyrs have announced that...

Country singer-songwriter Tyler Childers is embarking on a massive world tour next year, which he has recently expanded to include shows in...

LANY have announced that they'll embark on a North American tour in 2024 behind their brand new project a beautiful blur.  They'll kick o...

After announcing its first names back in July and additional performers in September, M for Montreal has finally shared the full lineup deta...

As the 2023 MTV Europe Music Awards inch ever closer, organizers have unveiled the complete list of nominations. Canadian nominees are sc...

The anti-poverty organization Global Citizen hosts an annual music festival at Central Park in New York City. This year, it was headlined by...

Manitoba's new premier-designate is a former rapper: NDP politician Wab Kinew, who won the general election that took place yesterday (Octob...

There are New Jerseyites who write songs like "Jungleland," and there are others who blare songs like Guns N' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle"...

The National frontman Matt Berninger has revealed that he's revived his TV project Dos Apes with his brother Tom after a long hiatus caused...

Even when not in character as X-Men leader Charles Xavier, Sir Patrick Stewart is all about his wheels, and an excerpt from new memoir Makin...

The Stevie Nicks Barbie only left Barbieland two days ago, and she's already learning about the perils of late capitalism. After pre-orders...

The chokehold Matty Healy of the 1975's wildly offensive podcast appearance discussing Ice Spice's ethnicity seems to have on the cultural i...

Folk singer-songwriter Joey O'Neil released a performance video for her song "Fawning Season" from her latest album Phantom Vibes. The vi...

Beatles fans have been eagerly anticipating what's reported to be the group's final song ever since Paul McCartney promised it would come ou...

St. John's Music — the music education supplier and music instrument retailer founded in Winnipeg's North End in 1923 — is celebrating 100 y...

The Rural Alberta Advantage — with new album The Rise & the Fall arriving this week via Saddle Creek and Paper Bag Records — have mapped out...

It's no wonder Jack Black has considered making a School of Rock sequel, as he continues to show young people the power of music and stickin...

It's a big day for angsty people into guitar music. Johnny Marr was a special guest at PJ Harvey's show in Manchester, UK last night (Octobe...

Sweeping Promises — the Lawrence, KS-based post-punks often heard through the speakers of the Exclaim! office — made an appearance on The Be...

Wannabe-Winnipegger, Steely Dan hater and Against Me! legend Laura Jane Grace returns today with "Dysphoria Hoodie" — the first single from...

Ahead of supporting Oshawa heroes Dizzy on their North American tour, fanclubwallet — the indie rock project of Ottawa's Hannah Judge — has...

With the WGA strike having finally come to an end last week, late-night TV shows — your Jimmys and what have you — have returned in full, wr...

Ed Sheeran has a long way to go to reach Snoop Dogg status, but the singer-songwriter can now count himself among the lucky few to have been...

Recently resurrected social media star Lil Tay put an exclamation mark on her return to the limelight by dropping a new song "Sucker 4 Green...

Greyhound bus-bravers Ethan Hawke and Maya Hawke put their money where their mouths are. The father-daughter duo have recorded a cover of Wi...

This Friday, we're being blessed with a new Joni Mitchell box set — Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975) focuses on...

If you know anything about Mac DeMarco, it's that he's a big Ryan Paris fan. The Italian singer's 1983 synthpop hit "Dolce Vita" particularl...

If you live in Toronto, then you've probably heard powerful, belted tones of "Oh yeaaaaaah!" ringing out across the city randomly, yet persi...

Lil Yachty has had quite the year, and it's clear, based on his new single "The Secret Recipe" with J. Cole, that he feels entitled to more...

You know what goes together like ketchup and seemingly ranch? Fridays and new music. As always, we've rounded up the best new Canadian relea...

Lady Gaga is a pop star — and a jazz singer and a movie star and a makeup mogul etc., etc. — but you always kinda get the feeling that what...

It looks like Dua Lipa might be attempting a Lady Gaga — or a Janelle Monae, or a Cher if we really wanna go there — by parlaying her singin...

It's been roughly one year since Status/Non-Status released their Exclaim! Best of 2022 album Surely Travel. Today, the collective have reve...

He might've pronounced the forbidden second "T" in Toronto, but Anderson .Paak still deserves to be an honorary Torontonian after he showed...

Toronto-by-way-of-Montreal songwriter Cinzia & the Eclipse has returned with her second single of the year. "Back to Being Friends" finds a...

The Hidden Cameras recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of their 2003 album The Smell of Our Own, and now they're continuing the throwba...

It's been a big week for celebrating the shimmering stars in Canadian music, with DEBBY FRIDAY taking home this year's coveted Polaris Music...

Wade MacNeil — of Alexisonfire, Gallows and Dooms Children — appears in the Dirty Nil's new music video for "The Light, the Void, and Everyt...

POP Montreal brought no shortage of excitement to the city this year. Celebrating its 22nd instalment, the festival has steadily expanded be...

Almost exactly two years ago, Montreal psychedelic-meets-art-rock-three-piece Population II released their debut album À la Ô Terre. The alb...

Each time someone moved in their pew or headed to the washroom — or the merch line, which wrapped twice around the back room in a feverish s...

Everything that James Wyatt Crosby touches turns into a warm breeze, even when it's drenched in melancholy. The shade of "Ashamed" is hued b...

Rachel Brown's work as thanks for coming feels worlds away from the shattered art rock they make with Nate Amos as Water from Your Eyes. Whe...

You know an artist is striking previously unstruck nerves when any attempts to contextualize their music lands you on descriptions like "mid...

On a gorgeous, compelling record that meditates on death, life, love and the endless questions they conjure, La Force's Ariel Engle creates...

With her 2018 debut Lost & Found, Jorja Smith proved herself to be one of the most promising new R&B acts in the United Kingdom. The album h...

Hey Ocean! bassist David Vertesi wrote "One in a Million" about the death of Vancouver producer Olivia Quan last year, and while the lyrics...

It's kinda like a nap. It's kinda like something else but it is actually just "Sitting" by TJ Mack (Brian Jordan Alvarez). You may recogn...

Blonde Redhead invite you to share a meal on Sit Down for Dinner. Kazu Makino and twin brothers Amedeo and Simone Pace return with the band'...

Slow Pulp had humble beginnings. Started by three childhood friends — guitarist Henry Stoehr, drummer Teddy Mathews and bassist Alex Leeds —...

Armand Hammer's music sounds like a conspiracy corkboard in a shoddy Brooklyn apartment; it might seem disjointed at first, but there's alwa...

At their best, Animal Collective deconstruct pop forms and ecstatically regurgitate them in inspired spurts, alive with ideas that resist no...

Bringing something new to the table after nearly three decades is never an easy task, nor is it the safe option. But with the help of a new...

Just as Niagara alt-rock trio James Blonde has three members, so too does their sophomore studio album Chameleon have three sides to it — th...

Siiick Days sees Toronto's Pkew Pkew Pkew making tongue-in-cheek reference to a certain pandemic from recent history. Although COVID-19 stil...

Much has been made about the creative freedom Tinashe reclaimed since exiting her record deal with RCA, and following 2021's coming out part...

Look no further than the title: Luge isn't messing around about messing around. On their fourth full length release (not counting some Bandc...

Chat Pile is a strange and cavernous enigma. Everything about the Oklahoma City quartet — whose members, vocalist Raygun Busch, guitarist Lu...

There are many ways people deal with trauma, with pain, with isolation. Some retreat into themselves; others search for company and connecti...

"The Age of Pleasure was created to be our safe oasis," Janelle Monáe proclaimed to her rapt audience from the stage of Massey Hall, sharing...