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  No Joy Discuss Sonic Easter Eggs and Their Scrapped Second Album as 'Wait to Pleasure' Turns 10

  PUBLISHED Jun 23, 2023

  In the early 2010s, it suddenly became possible for guitar bands to earn a ton of hype with a non-existent studio budget, as acts like Best...

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  This Funny Week in Funny Tweets: June 23, 2023

  PUBLISHED Jun 23, 2023

  Gillian Anderson made me gay, how to do your kid's last day, what did people say, new hockey to play. and much more from this week in funny...

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  Wednesday Find Heart and Humour in Life's Darkest Moments

  PUBLISHED Jun 22, 2023

  Turns out you can go home again. On Rat Saw God, Wednesday's fifth album, the North Carolina quintet mine the collective pitfalls and bless...

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  What's 2023's Song of the Summer? Exclaim! Staffers Share Their Picks

  PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2023

  Choosing the song of the summer is no laughing matter — how do we want to define the coming months? What tone do we set on this, the day of...

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  Bartees Strange Is Looking for Sustainability — and a Home in Canada

  PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2023

  What Bartees Strange wants most is long-term sustainability. "If I could figure out a way to make a living doing this thing I really, real...

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  Jenn Grant Spans Canada with a "Time Capsule of Togetherness"

  PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2023

  When East Coast singer-songwriter Jenn Grant was forced off the road and into isolation at the beginning of the pandemic, she decided to ma...

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  Exclaim! Staffers Pick the Can't-Miss Acts of Festival Season 2023

  PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2023

  This summer, Canadian music fans are spoiled for choice: wherever you look on the map, there are amazing music festivals taking place, from...

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  8 Emerging Canadian Artists You Need to Hear in June 2023

  PUBLISHED Jun 16, 2023

  This month's gaggle of New Faves are thrashers, crooners, party starters and quiet observers — they do it all, and they do it well. With a...