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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...

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  The Many Hats of Lubalin, Canada's Next Pop Music Savant

  PUBLISHED Nov 25, 2024

  Viral TikTok sensation. JUNO-nominated producer and songwriter. Frequent Charlotte Cardin collaborator. Solo artist supreme. These are a...

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  7 Influences That Help Give Lia Pappas-Kemps's Debut EP 'Gleam' Its Shine

  PUBLISHED Nov 22, 2024

  The coming-of-age process has been mined by writers since the dawn of time, and still people invariably try to put words to its universal...

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  Denzel Curry Explains Why "I Never Had Anxiety or Anything Like That Until I Got Famous"

  PUBLISHED Nov 20, 2024

  "I never had anxiety or anything like that until I got famous. Never had it," Denzel Curry tells Exclaim! over the phone on the day he's...

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  Kim Deal on the "Midwestern Dumbness" and "Orgy Music" of Her Big Solo Moment

  PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2024

  Kim Deal calls me from Dayton, OH, on the day of the American election. It's about 12 hours before the bubble officially bursts, and we're...