Months out from what would have been their 10th annual event, organizers behind Ontario country festival Boots and Hearts have cancelled the...

After over a decade of silence, Mudvayne are reuniting. Today the long-gone metal group announced they are officially getting back together...

After Getting into Knives on a full-length LP last year, the Mountain Goats have detailed a follow-up effort. The band will share the 12-son...

Jorja Smith has returned with her first project since 2018. The Grammy-nominated artist and Exclaim! cover star has detailed Be Right Back,...

Canadian artists are teaming up to raise awareness about the global climate crisis with a livestream event called Climate Live, airing this...

Robert Ross — the American rap artist known best as Black Rob — has died. Ross passed away Saturday (April 17) at Grady Memorial Hospital in...

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl and his mother Virginia Hanlon Grohl shared their plot to launch their own TV show back in February, and no...

Lizzo is feeling a little embarrassed after admitting that she got drunk and slid into Chris Evans' DMs over the weekend. On Saturday (Ap...

Hellbent on making sure some cold fries inevitably end up on eBay, McDonald's recently completed some much-hyped cross-promotion with Travis...

The Toronto Comic Arts Festival has announced that it is back (virtually) and running from May 8 to 15.   With a week of on-demand program...

Mike Mitchell, the guitarist of the Kingsmen who played on "Louie Louie," has died. He was 77. The Kingsmen's drummer Dick Peterson confi...

As previously promised, The Simpsons used their platform to poke fun at Morrissey last night, hiring Benedict Cumberbatch to voice the chara...

Small World Music's Asian Music Series is now in its 19th edition. Having been sidelined last year due to the pandemic, the Toronto-based ev...

Adding to the mounting evidence that concerts are not going to be back in 2021, My Chemical Romance have just rescheduled their reunion tour...

Foregoing the shiny web design and interactive graphs of its competitors, Apple Music has confirmed that the average per-play payout of its...

Lowell is back with a new release, but it marks a bit of a change for the Toronto artist. She this time is giving us songs made for a new ho...

When it comes new music, Vince Staples has largely been quiet since a 2019 string of singles behind his Vince Staples Show, but as a new int...

Iced Earth guitarist Jon Schaffer has pleaded guilty for his very public role in the U.S. Capitol riots. However, he has agreed to plead gui...

Back in November, Toronto concertgoers' hearts collectively broke after the announcement that the city's Mod Club Theatre would be shutting...

Trapt frontman Chris Taylor Brown landed the band in hot water last year over his support of Donald Trump, COVID-19 denial and embrace of th...

Vancouver twin sister duo Fionn are one of Exclaim!'s favourite emerging Canadian artists, and they are continuing their exploration of spar...

Sam Roberts recently showed us his favourite rock shirt, but that's not the only navel-gazing he's done this week. To celebrate 15 years of...

Chvrches have shared their first new music since 2019. You can hear the Glasgow trio's latest single "He Said She Said" below. "He Said S...

Today, the Polyphonic Spree have released a new covers album with takes on the Rolling Stones, Daniel Johnston, INXS and more — in addition...

Canadian tunes incoming! Our favourite new music of the past week is collected in The Eh! List. This includes the latest tunes from long-...

Fear Factory have shared their first new song in over five years. You can hear the industrial metal outfit make a crushing return with "Disr...

Young Thug has assembled his Young Stoner Life friends and family for a new album. You can hear the star-powered Slime Language 2 in the pla...

Chicago rockers Beach Bunny have enlisted Tegan and Sara for a new version of their 2020 tune "Cloud 9." The Canadian sister duo chip in...

The Trews — like pretty much everyone else over the last year and change — just want to play. That's the theme of their new song, which is f...

Alanis Morissette's massive touring plans got derailed last year thanks to the pandemic, and today, she's looking back fondly on her time on...

Following DMX's recent death at the age of 50, the rapper is being celebrated with a posthumous single. "Been to War" features Swizz Beatz a...

Brampton-based alt-rock explorers Sicayda started 2021 off strong with the release of their self-titled sophomore EP, which led them to be n...

Ontario punk rockers Ship of Fools dropped the title track from their Status Quo EP earlier this month, and today, you can listen to the qua...

Nova Scotia-based art-pop project Language Arts returns with a new single titled "Blood Flow," releasing the track alongside a Britton Proul...

Toronto-based artist Alaskan Tapes — a.k.a. Brady Kendall — releases his latest effort For Us Alone today, and you can listen to the album i...

Grammy-winning rockers Greta Van Fleet have returned with their sophomore album The Battle at Garden's Gate, and you can take a listen to th...

Following last month's Ciel remix of "End of This World Together," LAL have now enlisted Prince Josh to rework another song from their album...

Sylo Nozra has returned with another new single. "Spirits" was written and produced by the Toronto artist, frequent collaborator Goldchain a...

Canadian songwriter BAD CHILD — born Isaiah Steinberg in Kitchener, ON — has released a cinematic new video for his Free Trial song "Rouge."...

Toronto singer-songwriter Ruby Waters was named one of Exclaim!'s New Faves last year on the strength of her If It Comes Down to It EP, and...

Earlier this week, Sufjan Stevens shared a new single titled "Lamentations II" from his forthcoming album Convocations, which is due to be r...

Adorable '70s rockers Greta Van Fleet are releasing their surprisingly solid new album The Battle at Garden's Gate tomorrow. To celebrate, t...

As previously reported, Islands are about to return with a new album called Islomania. Ahead of its arrival, they've shared another new tune...

Silverstein have returned with a new single. You can hear the Ontario outfit take aim at the rich and powerful on "Bankrupt" below. On "B...

Revisiting her French-sung 2020 album, Tu ne mourras pas, and other previous works, Montreal pop-folk songwriter Maude Audet has offered up...

Thirty-six years in and it's finally time to rightfully name Dinosaur Jr. 'the AC/DC of indie rock.' While each have maintained a hefty care...

Charlotte Cardin wants to be set free. On the titular, opening track to the Montreal singer-songwriter's debut album, Phoenix, you can pract...

On his first collection of songs since 2018's Run to Waters, Justin Nozuka tries to channel his musical beginnings. He cites '70s singer-son...

One of the most important — yet least discussed — tools in a rapper's arsenal is beat selection. A decent wordsmith can elevate himself to g...

When surveying Andy Stott's musical trajectory, 2012's Luxury Problems stands like a monolith. With the masterful manipulation of his one-ti...

Although it's never really been proven in any quantifiable way, a recent narrative has emerged that show business favours music that has bee...

After releasing JUICE and SQUEEZE in the past year, Born Ruffians conclude their thirst-quenching trilogy with PULP, a high-energy album tha...

The Armed are a band known for their elusiveness. The mystery surrounding the extreme group is made up of things like fantastical music vide...

No matter how many subgenres pour out of black metal, there's always a place for groups like Spectral Wound to keep the foundational flame a...

Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine is reportedly Brockhampton's penultimate album, with the final album due for release sometime later this...

When the master recordings of Taylor Swift's first six albums were sold to Scooter Braun, Swift promptly announced she was going to re-recor...

It took Sir Paul McCartney 50 years to complete the McCartney trilogy of self-recorded and performed solo albums. Now, with collaboration in...

The cover of Motorbike James' VIISIONS features a chrome-suited astronaut peering through a window, an image that certainly resonates after...

After five years of well-received live gigs and two solid EPs, the debut full-length album by Toronto-based group PONY has everything there...

Tunic's music is all about complex and chaotic catharsis. Since releasing their debut 7-inch in 2016, and when they still could, the Winnipe...

On a softer focus, claire rousay has delivered both her most accessible and compositionally daring album to date. Past releases have often r...

Since the mid-'90s, Sook-Yin Lee has embedded herself in Canadian culture through her work as a broadcaster, actor, filmmaker, musician, and...

The words "entertainment" and "death" one after another seem like a commentary on society — as if to say our current social media-driven wor...

As the first signs of warmer days are finally starting to show, Montreal-based musician Milla Thyme has offered his fresh and crisp debut LP...

Here is another quality electronic release setting out to explore a specific musical era. Last month, British producer Danny L. Harle mined ...

Godspeed You! Black Emperor have always been ahead of the times. The Montreal post-rock legends pushed the boundaries of the then-nascent ge...