April issue 2020

​Lex Leosis Talks About Levelling Up Every Aspect for 'Mythologies' and the Future of the Sorority

PUBLISHED Mar 31, 2020

Rap group the Sorority — the one-time foursome turned threesome — made Cancon stars out of Polaris Music Prize-winning MC Haviah Mighty, Ke...

Burd & Keyz Honours His Partner's Legacy and Keeps an Eye on Toronto Up-and-Comers While Building His Producer Buzz

PUBLISHED Mar 31, 2020

Being a Toronto producer has a ring to it in boardrooms today, but ten years ago, it was all about pushing a few dollars into a dream.   "M...

Thundercat Finds Healing and Some Laughs on 'It Is What It Is'

PUBLISHED Mar 30, 2020

No matter the level of fame that virtuoso bassist Thundercat (aka Stephen Lee Bruner) attains, you get the sense he never forgets his roots...

​Canadians Who Score: Artists Who Successfully Made the Leap to Composing for Movies

PUBLISHED Mar 27, 2020

Alexander Sowinsky and Leland Whitty of BADBADNOTGOOD recently shared their bleak, beautiful music for Disappearance at Clifton Hill, putti...

​Gordon Lightfoot on Meeting Miles, Canadian Canoe Trips and That One Time with Ozzy

The Exclaim! Questionnaire

PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2020

Few Canadian musicians — or musicians, period — are as revered as Gordon Lightfoot. Across a career that's entering its seventh decade, Lig...

​Keynes Woods Is Ready to Put Himself on the Hip-Hop Map and Bring Ottawa with Him

PUBLISHED Mar 13, 2020

After popping up on radars with his must-see COLORS session that amassed over half-a-million views. and since dropping a handful of buzzing...

​Grimes Doesn't Care If You're Mad at Her, It's All Part of Her Art

PUBLISHED Mar 11, 2020

"I feel like two people," muses Grimes. "My online version — that's just a different identity."   If anyone knows about juggling different...

​U.S. Girls' Ambitious New Album, Featuring a 20-Piece Band, Is Actually Their Most Intimate

PUBLISHED Mar 4, 2020

If you could give one piece of advice to your teenage self, what would it be? Can you remember the most hurtful thing ever said to you? Do...