It was a strange time for Slipknot when they released their latest album The End, So Far, last year — and things have only gotten stranger s...

A new archival release from Mort Garson has been announced. The Canadian-born electronic pioneer and composer's Journey to the Moon and Beyo...

Ahead of embarking on a newly announced North American tour, electronic musician underscores has shared a new single, "You don't even know w...

Miami synthpop duo Magdalena Bay have just been signed by New York City-based record label Mom+Pop Music, where artists like Maya Hawke and...

It looks like the mard between Matty Healy and Noel Gallagher is somewhat one-sided.  In a very on-brand move, Healy opened for his own b...

After announcing its initial lineup back in February, NXNE has unveiled the full slate of 300 emerging artists set to perform at the Toronto...

Vampire Weekend are releasing a live album, Frog on the Bass Drum Vol. 01, on vinyl only, produced by Jack White's Detroit-based pressing pl...

Aluna — half of duo AlunaGeorge — has unveiled plans for her second solo record. MYCELiUM arrives July 7 via Mad Decent.  With the album...

Austin glam-punk band A Giant Dog have shared "Different Than" — the lead single from their upcoming album, Bite, out August 25 via Merge. ...

Things have been busy for the members of the xx lately: Oliver Sim released his album Hideous Bastard last year, Jamie xx just booked a Toro...

Glasser — the art-pop project helmed by Boston-born songwriter and producer Cameron Mesirow — has announced crux, her first new album in a d...

Boston's post-hardcore supergroup Fiddlehead have shared a punchy new song "Sullenboy" — the lead single from their forthcoming album, Death...

The billion-dollar Great Canadian Casino Resort Toronto — the country's largest casino — is scheduled to open to the public this summer. It'...

Social Distortion have cancelled their North American tour as frontman Mike Ness deals with stage-one tonsil cancer. Ness has had surgery...

Nobody wants to let Dua Lipa levitate! The pop star's Future Nostalgia hit "Levitating" already caused controversy for its since-removed DaB...

George Winston — the award-winning American musician known best for his top-selling solo piano albums named for the seasons — has died. News...

Rival Consoles has announced a North American tour, with details arriving alongside new single "Coda," which you can hear below. This fal...

The Ontario Festival of Small Halls will once again bring live music to small communities across the province this October, and organizers h...

K.Flay is gearing up to release a new album, revealing that MONO will hit streaming platforms on September 15 via GIANT Music.  The L.A.-...

Violent Femmes have added a fall leg to their 40th anniversary tour, including two Canadian stops. The band will play their classic debut...

Astrud Gilberto — the Brazilian singer who popularized bossa nova worldwide with her recording of the song "The Girl from Ipanema" — has die...

Fresh off the release of the serious person (part 1) EP (featuring the viral hit and recent Exclaim! Staff Pick, "if i were a fish"), Tennes...

Multidisciplinary artist Vivek Shraya and singer-songwriter Donovan Woods have teamed up for a duet about the complexities of interracial re...

PUP have unveiled two previously unheard tracks from the recording sessions of THE UNRAVELLING OF PUP THE BAND. "How to Live with Yourself"...

emmersonHALL — the indie alt-folk project of Ottawa-by-way-of-Lindsay singer-songwriter Cole Hallman (Sorry Snowman) — is getting nostalgic...

Oshawa is known for being Canada's automotive capital — and for birthing the ever-glistening indie pop band, Dizzy. As the release of their...

Just yesterday (June 1), we revealed our best 25 albums of 2023 so far ranking — and today, like every Friday, there's a crop of new contend...

Paris Hilton's reggae-lite "Stars Are Blind" has held strong as a beloved Girls-and-Gays anthem for nearly two decades now, the kind of cand...

Where did you come from? And more importantly, where exactly did you go? These are the questions we ask of Cotton-Eyed Joe, and we've been a...

Ilsey and Bon Iver's Justin Vernon are giving Neil Young's "Heart of Gold" new life with their cover, which was mixed and produced by BJ Bur...

Saskatoon's neo-soul darling Katie Tupper has just released a new single from her upcoming EP Where to Find Me, out June 23 via Arts & Craft...

With all of the marding Noel Gallagher is doing lately, it's been easy to forget that he and his High Flying Birds are releasing a new recor...

Palehound have released a new single "My Evil" from their upcoming album Eye on the Bat, coming July 14 via Polyvinyl. "'My Evil' is abou...

Montreal-based psych rock trio Population II — one of Exclaim!'s favourite finds from the city's 2020 Taverne Tour — have released a new sin...

Succession fans have had a lot to say about the end of the show this past week — but instead of being sad about the end of the beloved famil...

Foo Fighters have released a new 10-minute rock epic, "The Teacher," ahead of dropping their much anticipated But Here We Are later this wee...

Arctic Monkeys are sorry they were late! Perhaps in the spirit of their "too profound" counterparts, the 1975's mard with Noel Gallagher, th...

It was a short week, but we've got a full serving of new Canadian music in The Eh! List, including the return of Jeremy Dutcher with his fir...

Taylor Swift has shared two new songs on the deluxe version of Midnights, featuring a remix of "Karma" with Ice Spice (despite the former's...

Julian Casablancas's band the Voidz have just released their first new single in two years. "Prophecy of the Dragon" is an '80s-inspired har...

With their album release party scheduled for tomorrow (May 27) at Cabaret Lion d'Or in Montreal, local folk heroes Little Misty have given t...

Tributes to the late Tina Turner have continued to pour in, and now, video footage of Coldplay paying their respects has surfaced. At the...

Foo Fighters have gone dream pop with their new single "Show Me How." Check out the music video directed by Tim Kellner below.  The new s...

Living somewhere between performance art and dream pop, Toronto psychedelic art-rock band and Exclaim! Class of 2023 grads Kali Horse — f.k....

For a split second, as Time Ain't Accidental's title track gets underway, you might think of early Taylor Swift. The unassuming country affe...

It can be difficult for a band with a truly distinctive sound to innovate and expand beyond their signature style without compromising their...

The camaraderie between the members of feeble little horse is like jet fuel in the hands of arsonists. Set ablaze, their sophomore LP Girl w...

Kevin Keegan might be possessed. Or, if not that, the Dead Quiet frontman has some connection to a manic spirit, one that allows his bellowi...

Celebrating their 29th year, Music Waste returned to the DIY venues of East Vancouver Thursday, June 1 to Sunday, June 4 for another year of...

Six years have passed since we last heard from industrial metal legends Godflesh; while many things have changed in that period, the English...

Toronto's inaugural sapphic Super Bowl, lavender wild, arrived at RBC Echo Beach in the nick of time, with the first weekend of Pride Month...

On Formal Growth in the Desert, Protomartyr's Joe Casey takes the band in a direction it's never gone before: toward love. The band's sixth...

Before Youth Lagoon was put on hiatus, Trevor Powers' dream pop project was defined by its ethereal intangibility. It possessed a sound and...

In a 2017 interview with gal-dem, aja monet said, "I don't share things for you to understand or feel me, I'm sharing something so that we c...

Astronauts frequently describe returning to Earth with a sense of profound despair. Viewed from a zoomed-out vantage point that engulfs this...

Through her cutting and renowned Beloved Trilogy, author Toni Morrison cradled beautiful multitudes within her many captivating and boundles...

I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to attend an early listening session for Half Moon Run's Salt back in April, which quickly be...

Hive Mind Narcosis is an album of dueling identities. On the one hand, the album features bleak and cold elements of black metal. On the oth...

I owe a great deal of my time in Toronto to Ozzy's Palace, the West end house that shares its name with the 13-minute opening track opening...

Over the course of three albums, Alicia Bognanno has proven her talent for crafting hooky, driving melodies that amplify, rather than mask,...

When Bob Dylan's black-and-white film Shadow Kingdom emerged in 2021, depicting Dylan and a band performing select songs from his back catal...

Landing neatly between the worlds of Justice and Dan Deacon, with just a touch of 2010s Dan Snaith, Rich Aucoin's Synthetic Season 2, the se...

With a jaunty drum groove and latticework of acoustic arpeggios, Montreal singer-songwriter Helena Deland sweetly evokes the pastoral calm e...

History tried to drown W.I.T.C.H., but they've resurfaced a miraculous 39 years after the release of their last album with a new offering th...

PRIORS frontman Chance Hutchison has no doubt lived the life of a societal sonic reprobate — woken up on cigarette-burned carpets and couche...

Marci knows what she does best. Her first single since last year's excellent debut could have easily been an outtake from it, and that's jus...