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Streaming Must-Sees (and Must-Skips) in April 2023
PUBLISHED Apr 18, 2023
April in Canada is arguably worse than the long winter months. The promises of beautiful spring weather are quickly washed away by freak su...
Exclaim! Comics: Spring Is Here (Sorta) So It's Time to Take Your Club-Level Soundsystem to the Park
PUBLISHED Apr 17, 2023
Spring is here! Well, sort of. Sure, there's still the occasional ice storm, but the buds are on the trees and it's time to bring the obnox...
Exclaim!'s Staff Picks for April 17, 2023: Shygirl, Charlotte Cornfield, Navy Blue
PUBLISHED Apr 17, 2023
The first weekend of Coachella is done and dusted — and, the even more widely-celebrated first weekend of not spending the entirety of your...
Caroline Polachek Distills the Magic of the Real World
PUBLISHED Apr 14, 2023
"I always feel a bit alienated by the term 'worldbuilding,'" Caroline Polachek tells Exclaim! from New York City, where the night before, s...
This Funny Week in Funny Tweets: April 14, 2023
PUBLISHED Apr 14, 2023
Right about now the funk soul brother, an astronaut like no other, Wordle inspires a mother, pointlessly drinking one beer over another, an...
'The Smell of Our Own' Turns 20: The Hidden Cameras Reflect on Their "Unsanctioned Anarchist Catholic" Utopia
PUBLISHED Apr 13, 2023
"We didn't quite fit in the scene," Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras tells Exclaim!, reminiscing about the period when his Toronto-founded b...
Feist Searches for "Useful Truths" Within Life's Dizzying Highs and Tragic Lows
PUBLISHED Apr 12, 2023
We tend to ask songs for confirmation of our experience, to tell our stories in ways more beautiful than we allow for ourselves. We lay our...
The 'BlackBerry' Effect: 5 Companies You Didn't Know Were Canadian (and Who Might Play Them in a Movie)
PUBLISHED Apr 11, 2023
Matt Johnson's latest film, BlackBerry, hits cinemas in less than a month, detailing the rise and devastating fall of the world's first sma...