Cover Story

2002 — Year in Review

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Attacking it from a variety of angles, the collective musical heads at Exclaim! come together to delight in and debate over the best offeri...

Tortoise

Rhythm Methods

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

When the five members of avant-rock collective Tortoise arrive in Canada this month for the Eastern swing of Exclaim!'s 12th Anniversary Co...

This Is The End

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

On a languid Sunday afternoon in the summer of 1999, I saw the future of metal. Not in Boston or New York. It wasn't in Toronto, Philadelph...

Sarah Harmer

Out at the Hideout

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

While pissing behind Sarah Harmer's woodshed, I think of a line on her new album: "Living this close to the road / You question your vulner...

Broken Social Scene

Toronto's Ambassadors to the World

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Last year it was Montreal's electronic community. The year before that it was Vancouver's pop community. This year, Toronto rocks. And this...

Bright Eyes

Twofer Grace

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

It seemed like a good idea at the time. In the early ‘90s, teen melodrama Beverly Hills 90210, in an effort to boost its hipster credibilit...

Bad Religion

Rocking For the Free World

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Click here to read the full transcript of interview between Dennis Lyxzén and Brett Gurewitz. In the first part of an Exclaim! exclusive (...

Stars

Trial By Fire

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Armed as always with a shameless passion, a melodic prowess and an envied lyrical flair, Stars have exploded the tender, insular world of t...