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  The Changing of the Guard: 2024 Was the Year of Pop Music's Restructuring

  PUBLISHED Dec 4, 2024

  While the tectonic plates of popular music are in constant motion, change often moves so gradually that it can be hard to notice anything h...

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  Exclaim! Holiday Gift Guide: The Best Vinyl and Box Sets of 2024

  PUBLISHED Dec 3, 2024

  There's an empty space on that KALLAX shelf and it's absolutely begging for a new record. This holiday season, get the music-lover on your...

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  Toronto's 7 Can't-Miss Concerts in December 2024 and January 2025

  PUBLISHED Dec 2, 2024

  The concert scene always slows down a bit over Christmas — although you might not know it from looking at this year's Toronto schedule...

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  Montreal's 7 Can't-Miss Concerts in December 2024 and January 2025

  PUBLISHED Dec 2, 2024

  If there's one thing you can count on amidst the mayhem of holiday shopping, back-to-back celebrations and general end-of-the-year chaos...

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  Vancouver's 7 Can't-Miss Concerts in December 2024 and January 2025

  PUBLISHED Dec 2, 2024

  We're nearly in it now: that purgatorial state as one year comes to an end and another begins. While severely deprived of vitamin D...

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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...