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2024 in Concert Photos: Our Favourite Live Music Memories
PUBLISHED Dec 18, 2024
This was a pivotal year for live music, when some huge pop stars struggled to sell tickets and another doubled the all-time record for...
Universal Music's Ignite Showcase Reveals the Artists Poised for a Massive 2025
PUBLISHED Dec 17, 2024
Sabrina Carpenter, Gracie Abrams and d4vd — what do they all have in common? In addition to being enormous pop stars who had huge 2024s...
The Biggest Music News Stories of 2024
PUBLISHED Dec 17, 2024
The discourse seems to get hotter every year, and 2024 was no exception. This was a year that brought the biggest rap beef of a generation,...
Exclaim! Holiday Gift Guide: The Best Music Gear and Audio Equipment of 2024
PUBLISHED Dec 12, 2024
Give the gift of creativity this festive season. For the musicians and audiophiles on your holiday list, here are some of 2024's most...
Menno Versteeg on Hollerado's Mistakes and Getting Choked Out by Paul McCartney's Bodyguard
PUBLISHED Dec 12, 2024
When Exclaim! catches up with Menno Versteeg in the office at Royal Mountain Records, the Toronto label that the singer-guitarist co-founder...
The 25 Worst Album Covers of 2024
PUBLISHED Dec 11, 2024
Trawling the murky depths of Bandcamp and SoundCloud turns up some of the worst album covers you've ever seen: AI fever dreams, raunchy...
Exclaim!'s Favourite Album Covers of 2024
PUBLISHED Dec 10, 2024
Every year, Exclaim! publishes a list of the worst album covers of the year — and every year, people in the comments section tell us that w...
22 Great Canadian Albums You Might Have Missed in 2024
PUBLISHED Dec 9, 2024
The firehose of new content never turns off. Amidst the constant gushing stream of blockbuster albums — and then deluxe versions, remixes...
