Legendary Canadian media figure Nardwuar the Human Serviette has established himself as a singular force over the decades, carving out a nic...

Beloved Talking Heads leader David Byrne and beloved film director Wim Wenders are joining forces for a new anthology TV series. While in th...

An official memorial celebration to honour late Rush icon Neil Peart has been postponed once again due to COVID-19 restrictions. After an...

After officially reuniting last August, Genghis Tron have detailed their first new album since 2008. Dream Weapon arrives March 26 through R...

Clark has returned with details of a new album. The producer will share Playground in a Lake on March 26 via Deutsche Grammophon. The 16-...

Late last year, Shia LaBeouf faced some serious abuse allegations from former partner and Honey Boy co-star FKA twigs. Her statement was sup...

Sub Pop is once again branching out — this time with its very own flagship brick-and-mortar record store. Today the famed label opened Su...

Since TikTok's sea shanty community, which is affectionately known on the app as #shantytok, started gaining viral popularity early this yea...

Having announced in December that their 2021 edition would take place virtually, organizers behind Montreal's annual winter electronic event...

With his 2020 EP Apparition in the books, serpentwithfeet has announced plans to return with a full-length record titled DEACON this year. T...

In late December, the Killers shared a tracklisting for a follow-up to last year's Imploding the Mirage, and it appears guitarist Dave Keuni...

Storied independent record label Big Dada Recordings has announced plans to relaunch as "a label run by Black, POC & Minority Ethnic people...

After returning with their first new music in 15 years, System of a Down are continuing in their reunion activities by announcing their own...

Following countless delays, the sexual assault trial against Hedley frontman Jacob Hoggard has now been pushed back to 2022. While the tr...

In an unsurprising turn of events, one of Trapt frontman Chris Taylor Brown's bandmates is making an effort to distance himself from the gro...

Netflix's new horny period drama Bridgerton was recently renewed for a second season, and it's not hard to understand why, when the show pan...

Saturday Night Live has just released its new schedule for 2021, and among those stars appearing are Phoebe Bridgers and Schitts Creek hero...

In news that should be surprising to no one, Genesis have once again postponed their reunion tour due to COVID-19. On the plus side, though,...

If their power-pop stylings weren't evidence enough, PONY are undeniably children of the '90s, so it's no surprise the Toronto-based troupe...

Valerie June has returned from a four-year break to announce plans for a new album titled The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers. Th...

The viral sea shanty trend on TikTok has proved lucrative for its shining star, Nathan Evans. The mailman from Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, h...

A few years back, Chris Murphy (Sloan), Matt Murphy (yhe Super Friendz) and Mike O'Neill (the Inbreds) released an album under the name TUNS...

While FKA twigs has currently been making headlines over her abuse allegations against former partner Shia LaBeouf, the UK artist is taking...

July Talk have returned with a timely new video for their Pay for It song "The News," which shows the band as TV reporters covering the dump...

Montreal art-pop combo Freelove Fenner released a couple of EPs and an album the better part of a decade ago, but they haven't been heard of...

Stranger Things indie-rock dude Finn Wolfhard is once again shining a light on his latest musical project, the Aubreys, who have given us a...

Teenage Fanclub are getting ready to deliver their new album Endless Arcade, and once again, the Scottish indie-pop heroes have shared anoth...

As promised, Canadian comedy legend Tom Green is using these weird and unprecedented times as an inspiration to take a road trip through Ame...

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones have one hell of a huge hit, but they're far from a one-hit wonder. In fact, the band's robust and excellent dis...

Metalcore explorers Code Orange spent much of 2020 becoming one with the internet, promoting their Underneath album with a series of groundb...

One of the oddities in prolific Vancouver songwriter Chris Van Der Laan's wide array of projects, Shame Spiral released a few peculiar EPs b...

There was a Leonard Cohen song performed at the U.S. inauguration this week — Yolanda Adams sang "Hallelujah" — and there was also a pile of...

In the White Stripes' continued efforts to archive and release their most iconic moments throughout their storied, decades-long career, the...

Billie Eilish and Rosalía have shared their English/Spanish-sung collaborative track "Lo Vas a Olvidar (You Will Forget Her)" today alongsid...

PUP are the latest group to take part in the remote iteration of NPR's Tiny Desk (Home) Concerts, and as you may expect, the Toronto band ab...

Jerry Leger is reissuing his recent albums Time Out for Tomorrow (2019) and Songs from the Apartment (2020) on vinyl, and ahead of those Mar...

This week, Weezer revealed plans for a new album called OK Human, which is all set to arrive next week through Atlantic Records. Today, they...

The New Radicals' "You Get What You Give" stands as one of the catchiest songs ever, and as promised, the group reminded us of that during P...

Former teen actor Amanda Bynes has had quite a journey through the last few years, but she's still going strong with creative output. In fac...

Mere hours into Joe Biden's presidency, we may have some idea of what his era's pop culture will sound like as Macklemore has re-emerged wit...

Just over a month out from sharing new album For Those That Wish to Exist, Architects are revisiting a performance for 2020 to mark the arri...

It's too early to tell whether or not a Joe Biden presidency will end the Age of Unreason, but Bad Religion are marking today's inauguration...

The Besnard Lakes' forthcoming double album The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings remains one of Exclaim!'s Most...

Fleet Foxes are back throwing support behind the group's Shore album, this time by releasing an intimate new video for the record's "I'm Not...

It's been a good decade for heavy music in Japan, but while many of these acts have been enjoying success in Japan and Europe, very few have...

After releasing an EP in the fall of 2019, Rosier are back with their first full-length effort since changing their name. Formerly Les Poule...

Portrayal of Guilt are slowly becoming an institution in the realm of heavy music. Existing as sonic drifters amongst many subgenres, Portra...

On her long-awaited debut album, Collapsed in Sunbeams, British phenom Arlo Parks has delivered an essential reprieve from what has been a d...

The space we occupy is a curious thing. I am in a contained room, but I am also in my mind within a room, and my mind is boundless. Is my ro...

"Ignorance Is Bliss," "Confidence Is Key," and "Belief Is Reality" are the three immutable laws that define Kawthra's The Tenets. The debut...

Irish duo Bicep debuted strongly in 2017 with their self-titled album — a confident mix of continental trance melodicism and urban grit that...

Before Rhye emerged from a haze of identity-obscuring mystery, it seemed like that voice could have belonged to anyone. The project's sensuo...

At a glance, Kiwi Jr.'s music scans as a retro revival of '60s pop sweetness and '90s slacker rock swagger — especially since frontman Jerem...

Ontario folk veterans Grievous Angels are back with new material after a seven-year-long hiatus, attributed to the fact that the band's prin...

Pearl Charles may have released Magic Mirror in January, but it's far from being a wintery album with a drab tone. The singer-songwriter's s...

Six albums in, the idiosyncratic style of Nottingham duo Sleaford Mods is still very much intact on Spare Ribs. Andrew Fearn's minimalistic,...

Jazmine Sullivan's Heaux Tales plays like a late-night, wine-infused discussion amongst girlfriends about the sincere moments that yield the...

In the world of Shame's Drunk Tank Pink, perception is everything. Opener "Alphabet" kicks off with rattling snare and lurching rhythms f...

Viagra Boys have aggressively explored their past struggles, negative habits and self-defeats. Life as a musician is a road filled with temp...

Back when I was in elementary school, students were forced to participate in a school-wide public speaking competition. Every kid had to pic...

Tumultuous as their relationship was, Steve Earle clearly reveres his son Justin Townes Earle as a songwriter. Years after Steve (himself a...

In 10 years, the Dirty Nil have gone from scrappy small-town Ontario upstarts to Juno-winning rockers with a devoted base of riff addicts an...

A wise man once said, don't read your mentions. He said to ignore the comments section. He warned artists that it's dangerous to read your o...

The soundtrack to Pixar's new animated masterpiece Soul is, essentially, two scores in one. On the one hand, you've got music by New Orle...

Like its predecessors McCartney (1970) and McCartney II (1980), McCartney III was written, recorded and produced entirely by Sir Paul McCart...

In October 2016, Kid Cudi had hit rock bottom. He checked himself into rehab and shared a heartbreaking letter on Facebook in which he descr...