5 Emerging Canadian Artists You Need to Hear in March 2025
While you're waiting for winter to finally thaw out, here are some artists guaranteed to whip up a little thermal energy. Our New Faves for
Exclaim! Staff•Mar 4, 2025
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Toronto's Can't-Miss Concerts This Week: March 3–9
It's a new month! Making it to the next arbitrary calendric marker of time is as good as any reason to celebrate in times like these, right
Exclaim! Staff•Mar 3, 2025Meet the Metal Band Spreading the Gospel of Earplugs at Concerts
On November 25, 2023, twin brothers Tyson and Dylon Opalinsky of emerging metal band Opal in Sky drove to the Thunderbird Arena in
Angus MacCaull•Mar 3, 2025Vancouver's 10 Can't-Miss Concerts in March 2025
With JUNOfest taking over Vancouver on March 28 and 29, followed by the 2025 JUNOS at Rogers Arena on March 30, this month will bring some
Exclaim! Staff•Feb 28, 2025Montreal's 10 Can't-Miss Concerts in March 2025
With spring approaching slowly but surely, concert season is beginning to ramp up, and Montreal has a healthy offering of live shows to
Exclaim! Staff•Feb 28, 2025Have One on Hooters in Our Weekly Roundup of Music Memes and Shitposts: February 28, 2025
Here we are in the year 2025, and our weekly memes roundup has two different posts about Joanna Newsom. Maybe this is the universe's way of
Exclaim! Staff•Feb 28, 2025"A Mischievous Atmosphere of Frivolity": A 25-Year History of Wavelength Winter Festival
Wavelength Winter Festival is a Toronto institution 25 years in the making, as the community concert series celebrates two and a half
Exclaim! Staff•Feb 27, 2025Mae Martin's "Earnest Music" Is an Extension of What They've Always Done: "I Sound Like Myself"
'I'm a TV' is Mae Martin's self-described "earnest music album," and its forthright sincerity will doubtless come as a surprise for fans of
Alex Hudson•Feb 27, 2025Panda Bear Embraces "Forced Interaction" to Open a Collaborative New Chapter
Do anything for 25 years and people start expecting certain things from you. For Noah Lennox, those expectations include stacked vocals
Ian Gormely•Feb 25, 2025Toronto's Can't-Miss Concerts This Week: February 24–March 2
After three weeks of February concert recommendations, have you still not found what you're looking for? Whether it's a beautiful day or a
Exclaim! Staff•Feb 24, 2025'Universal Language' Finds a Home in Its "Authentic Depiction of Winnipeg"
"It's kind of next level in a lot of ways to see Winnipeggers saying, 'We've never seen a more authentic depiction of Winnipeg than this'"
Marie Saadeh•Feb 21, 2025Meet Me at the White Lotus: Great Wolf Lodge for This Week's Memes and Shitposts: February 21, 2025
Quebec content stands tall in this week's roundup of the funniest music memes and shitposts, including Azealia Banks's assessment of French
Exclaim! Staff•Feb 21, 2025Basia Bulat Ranks Her 5 Best Songs
Welcome to Basia Bulat's house. With her new album (out on February 21 through Secret City Records), the songwriter is welcome listeners
Alex Hudson•Feb 20, 2025Imaginary North Is Shaking Up the Chill World of Ambient Music with Conceptual Epics and Local-Minded Live Events
Ambient music has exploded on streaming services, as listeners turn to abstract soundscapes for relaxation and concentration — but one labe
Exclaim! Staff•Feb 20, 2025Saya Gray Is Remaking Pop in Her Own Image
"This is the first time in my life that I'm not chaotic," Saya Gray tells me without ceasing movement. She's pacing back and forth on Zoom
Megan LaPierre•Feb 19, 2025Streaming Must-Sees (and Must-Skips) in February 2025
The just-passed Valentine's Day and Black History Month provide a joyous reprieve to the grey beginnings of the calendar year. Celebrating
Rachel Ho•Feb 18, 2025Toronto's Can't-Miss Concerts This Week: February 17–23
Not to out Canada as a fake country or anything, but it's pretty funny that today is Family Day in five provinces, while others are out here
Exclaim! Staff•Feb 17, 2025These Memes and Shitposts Could Traumatize a French DJ: February 14, 2025
That sportball recital sure was something, eh? Anyway... Valentine's Day is here, and while Canada's Certified Loverboy hides his
Exclaim! Staff•Feb 14, 2025Remix Classic CanCon Albums with This Cover Art Generator
Last year, Charli XCX's 'BRAT' generator was inescapable, with fans — and even Kamala Harris's official campaign page — using it to render
Alex Hudson•Feb 14, 2025Horsegirl Have Changed Everything, Except for "Friendship, Connection and Love"
Horsegirl have moved on to greener pastures: the last couple of years have seen big changes for singer-guitarists Penelope Lowenstein and
Matty Pywell•Feb 13, 2025Toronto Maple Leafs Reveal Their Off-Ice Musical Pursuits
When I arrive at the Toronto Maple Leafs practice facility in Toronto, the rink is empty. When I'd visited in the past, a sea of players in
Alexa Margorian•Feb 11, 2025Toronto's Can't-Miss Concerts This Week: February 10–16
The Grammy Awards to Superbowl Sunday to Valentine's Weekend is a hell of a run in terms of things we're meant to feel like we should get
Exclaim! Staff•Feb 10, 2025Meet the Guy Fighting the Algorithm and Forcing Music Lovers Out of Their Comfort Zones
The internet was supposed to end the monoculture — but instead it only consolidated taste, algorithms creating the illusion of choice while
Alex Hudson•Feb 10, 2025'Bring Them Down' Director Christopher Andrews Wonders If "We're Losing a Sense of Morality"
"Once you start a war, what does it take to finish a war?" writer and director Christopher Andrews ponders, recalling this question as form
Rachel Ho•Feb 7, 20255 Emerging Canadian Artists You Need to Hear in February 2025
There's probably something poetic in how the shortest month of the year inevitably follows the longest (sure, there are others on the
Exclaim! Staff•Feb 7, 2025I Was in Bunz Trading Zone, Trade War Memes Do Not Scare Me: February 7, 2025
My name is Drake and I'm here to say, our weekly roundup of music memes is back in a major way. This week, we've got a tattoo of all our fa
Exclaim! Staff•Feb 7, 2025Exclaim! Comics: Freestyling with the Norm Macdonald of Hip-Hop
Here at Exclaim!, we're standing at the crossroads, just trying to sell a guitar on Kijiji! This month's comics page includes a meeting with
Exclaim! Staff•Feb 6, 2025Dream Theater Rank Their 5 Best Songs
As Dream Theater celebrate their 40th anniversary, the storied prog metal band have come full-circle: their 16th studio album, this year's
Alex Hudson•Feb 5, 2025From Floods to Fires, Spiritbox Brave the Storm
The waters never seem to calm for Spiritbox. The Victoria, BC-founded group are one of the fastest-rising acts in modern metal, with their
Manus Hopkins•Feb 4, 2025Montreal's 7 Can't-Miss Concerts in February 2025
Despite being the shortest month of the year, February has no shortage of live music offerings. From Canadian singer-songwriters to solo
Karlie Rogers•Feb 3, 2025Vancouver's 10 Can't-Miss Concerts in February 2025
Let's all make an effort to squeeze as many concerts as possible into the shortest month of the year! This February packs a punch in a small
Exclaim! Staff•Feb 3, 2025Toronto's Can't-Miss Concerts: February 3–9
Ah, February — the short king of months. It's a welcome change after dragging ourselves through the 90-some days of January, and the concert
Exclaim! Staff•Feb 3, 2025Wait, Are the Grammys Good Now?
Last night (February 2), the Weeknd showed up at the Grammy Awards to perform "Cry for Me" and "Timeless" from his newly released album
Alex Hudson•Feb 3, 2025Can Toronto Break the Concert Curse in 2025?
Even before Donald Trump's threats against Canada, the border may have caused at least one concert cancellation in Toronto. Jhené Aiko
Angus MacCaull•Feb 3, 2025Five Must-See Movies at the 2025 Available Light Film Festival
One of the most uniquely located film festivals in the country, Available Light Film Festival (ALFF), is back for its 23rd edition from
Rachel Ho•Jan 31, 2025Our Weekly Music Memes and Shitposts Are a Vibe: January 31, 2025
Together, we could get stoned and listen to emo music like Halsey and Evanescence! This week in our roundup of memes and shitposts, we've
Exclaim! Staff•Jan 31, 2025Sook-Yin Lee Honours Sex Work in "the City That Farts"
"I call Toronto the city that farts. As opposed to Vancouver — that is the city of urine. In Vancouver, all the back alleys smell like
Alex Hudson•Jan 31, 2025Jack Quaid Didn't "Want to Be a Moustache Twirling Villain" in 'Companion'
"Find someone made just for you," reads the tagline for Drew Hancock's buzzy debut 'Companion.' Anyone who's watched the film's trailers
Alexander Mooney•Jan 30, 2025His Bum Is on the Mule: Tom Green Was "Sort of Unhappy with How Things Had Gone"
The more Tom Green changes, the more he stays the same. In 2021, Green pulled up stakes in Los Angeles and moved to the Ottawa Valley. He
Ian Gormely•Jan 29, 2025Meet Exclaim!'s Class of 2025: SHEBAD, Lavender Town, Mileena
As they (Nelly Furtado, first and foremost) say, all good things must come to an end. Our Class of 2025 concert series, proudly supported by
Megan LaPierre•Jan 28, 2025Neko Case Ranks Her 5 Best Songs
"I didn't really listen to my old music much," acknowledges Neko Case. "I was so deep in just making it happen it's hard to remember." Case
Alex Hudson•Jan 28, 2025The Work of Our Memes Is Mysterious and Important: January 24, 2025
Here on the severed floor of Exclaim!, our work is mysterious and important — much like the surprising resemblance between Lil Wayne and
Exclaim! Staff•Jan 24, 2025John Magaro Didn't Want 'September 5' to "Be Hollywood"
In the early morning of September 6, 1972, the ABC Sports broadcast control room in Munich, West Germany went quiet. Led by a young Geoffrey
Rachel Ho•Jan 23, 2025Drake Still Doesn't Understand Why He Lost to Kendrick Lamar
During last year's infamous rap feud, Drake and Kendrick Lamar kept searching for a smoking gun. In "meet the grahams," Lamar alleged that
Alex Hudson•Jan 22, 2025Jo Passed Returns from Burnout to Rediscover "Pure Connection to Songwriting"
In 2019, Royal Mountain Records launched a mental health fund for its artists, providing artists with money to use for therapy and wellness
Alex Hudson•Jan 22, 2025Meet Exclaim!'s Class of 2025: 9Million, Clothesline from Hell, mishi, Pillea
Just like TikTok in the US after that so-called ban, we're back already! There's no weird propaganda to be had here; just stellar local live
Megan LaPierre•Jan 21, 2025Bob Dylan's 'Blood on the Tracks' Turns 50: Its Songs Ranked from Worst to Best
The year is 2025 and Bob Dylan is, yet again, having a moment. Between Dylan's curious social media presence and Timothée Chalamet's
Alex Hudson•Jan 20, 2025Canadian Artists Reflect on How US Border Relations Could Impact the Touring Industry
At the outset of yet another Trump presidency, and after months of the politician's inflammatory anti-Canuck rhetoric, Densil
Kyle Mullin•Jan 20, 20258 Emerging Canadian Artists You Need to Hear in January 2025
It's a new year! Just like that, we're living in the hyper-future. Let's hope 2025 has more good to offer the world than 2024 did
Exclaim! Staff•Jan 17, 2025Wave Goodbye to TikTok with This Week's Funniest Music Memes and Shitposts: January 17, 2025
Well, TikTok — it's been real, it's been fun, but it hasn't been real fan. With the social media platform running out of road and a US ban
Exclaim! Staff•Jan 17, 2025