Lizzo has formally asked for a harassment lawsuit filed by three of her former dancers to be dismissed. The singer filed a response to the s...

We are two worlds apart — Ontario and Quebec — yet Backstreet Boys member AJ McLean's promise to run for mayor of Montreal just to get rid o...

Epic Games has sold Bandcamp 18 months after acquiring the platform. The game company that owns Fortnite announced the news in a press relea...

The 10 year anniversary celebration of Daft Punk's Random Access Memories continues with the announcement of a drumless edition of the Frenc...

After releasing the can't-miss album Tilt last year, Australian dance duo Confidence Man have announced a handful of North American tour dat...

Ice Spice really does stay cool as a cucumber. This spring, just ahead of Taylor Swift's dating-a-dirtbag era, the 1975's Matty Healy was un...

Queen of herself and hits, Shania Twain has announced the first-ever vinyl pressing of her Shania Twain: Greatest Hits collection. Availa...

No stunt training for John Wick: Chapter 4 could have been as gruelling as the "intense" therapy pop star Rina Sawayama went through. Follow...

Speedy Ortiz released their first album in five years last month — the wiry, dense Rabbit Rabbit — but now the band is looking to the past w...

Remember being a kid and thinking the future would entail teleportation, flying cars and cool shit like that? Instead, we got new Nazis, cha...

When Live Nation announced the Willie Nelson-inspired On the Road Again program yesterday, it felt like touring musicians could finally brea...

After winning hearts as a must-see film at last year's edition of TIFF, Carry It On — the Buffy Sainte-Marie documentary directed by Madison...

Synthpop icons Pet Shop Boys are celebrating 30 years of Relentless with a reissue. Available October 20 via Parlophone Records, the six-...

Having already postponed his North American tour dates with the E Street Band for the month of September, Bruce Springsteen has now pushed a...

Hot off winning the Polaris Music Prize, DEBBY FRIDAY has shared a new singe, "let u in."  The song is her first new material since this...

Christopher Pravdica (Swans, Xiu Xiu, the Gunga Din) has announced plans for his second album under his We Owe solo moniker. Major Inconveni...

L.S. Dunes seem to be running into more trouble than most with their music videos. After the post-hardcore supergroup released their visual...

Despite frontperson Deryck Whibley's recent health scare, Sum 41 are finally starting the rollout for their long-teased double album, Heaven...

Prolific doesn't seem like a strong enough word to describe the productivity of Australian psych-rock savants King Gizzard & the Lizard Wiza...

PACKS have announced their third record. Melt the Honey — the band's second effort in less than a year — arrives January 19 via Fire Talk....

Despite insistently still being at their very best, the 1975 are quitting while they're ahead: the band have announced an "indefinite hiatus...

It's been 20 years since the Go! Team released their incredibly fun debut album Thunder, Lightning, Strike, and they're set to celebrate it...

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...

Neil Young, an accomplished archivist, recently treated audiences to songs never played live before on his first tour in four years, and he'...

blink-182 finally stopped edging us with info about their new album, as they announced ONE MORE TIME... earlier this week. As promised, the...

There was another murder this week on the crime caper Only Murders in the Building. The perpetrator was Steve Martin, and the victim was the...

A new single from Bleachers, the band led by in-demand pop producer Jack Antonoff, has arrived. "Modern Girl" is said to be the "first si...

Continuing to roll out visuals behind this year's the record, 2023 Exclaim! cover stars boygenius have now shared an accompanying clip for t...

By now, it's no secret that Simu Liu can sing. After all, the Barbie and Shang Chi: Legend of the Ten Rings actor has taken the stage in fro...

A week out from unleashing new album For All the Dogs, Drake has shared a new collaborative single with SZA. You can hear the two team up on...

If pointing out that we're halfway through September doesn't make you feel like you're living on a prayer, we're not sure what will. Unfortu...

Barenaked Ladies are winging into the weekend with the arrival of 15th studio album In Flight, and you can now hear the entire effort below....

No part of the year feels more primed for reinvention than September. Summer is coming to a close, but we won't even fully appreciate it for...

If the long-running creative partnership between Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala — the duo instrumental to the music of At the...

TIFF season is officially upon us — and although things look a little different this year amid the writers' and actors' strikes, we here at...

It feels impossible to understate the impact of an album like Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. As of February, it has sold over 40 million copies wo...

Rush's "Jacob's Ladder" is not only the standout centrepiece of their 1980 album Permanent Waves, but one of the heaviest compositions the t...

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...

Death metal is metal's most overbearing and blunt subgenre. Often depicting cruelty, violence, disease and cynicism, the genre has a reputat...

Faith Is a Rock is one of the most flat-out beautiful rap albums I've heard in ages. With the Alchemist on production — continuing an extrem...

Life is a constant stream of shit, but sometimes getting beaten down can lead to a hot streak. Food, flowers, and psychedelics flourish wher...

There are certain bands who seem almost unbothered by how music has evolved over time, existing in a sort of peaceful stasis in the niche th...

It's not everyday that a band shows up in your inbox with a debut album that sounds so fully formed. I don't know what I was expecting when...