December 2024 / January 2025 Issue

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  Exclaim!'s 20 Best Songs of 2024

  PUBLISHED Nov 28, 2024

  So much for the end of the monoculture. After the internet turned pop culture into a choose-your-own-adventure exploration of media, we...

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  Exclaim!'s 50 Best Albums of 2024

  PUBLISHED Nov 27, 2024

  With the charts ruled by generic country, and the pop vanguard turning in work that fell far short of their best, 2024 was a time of...

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  The Weather Station Sounds the Alarm: "I Wish I Could Just Be Brat and Have Fun"

  PUBLISHED Nov 26, 2024

  Screaming cars, snarling fluorescent advertisements and the thunder of construction batter the senses. The November sun sinks its teeth...

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  Denzel Curry Explains Why "I Never Had Anxiety or Anything Like That Until I Got Famous"

  PUBLISHED Nov 20, 2024

  "I never had anxiety or anything like that until I got famous. Never had it," Denzel Curry tells Exclaim! over the phone on the day he's...

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  Kim Deal on the "Midwestern Dumbness" and "Orgy Music" of Her Big Solo Moment

  PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2024

  Kim Deal calls me from Dayton, OH, on the day of the American election. It's about 12 hours before the bubble officially bursts, and we're...

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  8 Emerging Canadian Artists You Need to Hear in November 2024

  PUBLISHED Nov 12, 2024

  It's November! Winter is closer than ever, and summer is but a distant memory. As the darkness comes, so too do the gloomies, but we have...

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  Agriculture Overcame Early Disasters to Become Black Metal's Most Forward-Thinking Band

  PUBLISHED Nov 7, 2024

  Across Agriculture's three tremendous, triumphant releases, a pattern has emerged: the music rises, trembling, in optimism and memory...

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  Mount Eerie Celebrates the Transformative Influence of Eric's Trip

  PUBLISHED Oct 30, 2024

  "I like albums that feel like compilations — that go to lots of different places," Phil Elverum tells Exclaim! from his home studio on Orcas...