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News Lizzo Sued by Another Former Employee over Working Conditions Yet another one of Lizzo's former employees has filed a lawsuit against her. Asha Daniels, who claims to have worked in the singer's wardrob...
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News Travis Scott's Phone Is at the "Bottom of the Gulf of Mexico," Says Attorney Earlier this week, Travis Scott faced a civil deposition about the fatal Astroworld crowd crush in 2021. His questioning reportedly lasted n...
News Nicki Minaj's Husband Is Under House Arrest After Threatening Offset Kenneth Petty, Nicki Minaj's husband, has been ordered to serve 120 days of home detention for violating the terms of his probation after he...
News Ruby Singh Announces Double Album in Collaboration with Flora, Fauna and Fungi Vancouver polymath Ruby Singh has announced a double album with his most natural collaborators: the natural world. On kraKIN — a "more-than-...
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News The Jins Join Fefe Dobson on North American Tour With Fefe Dobson's comeback in full swing, Vancouver indie rock trio the Jins have announced their support on the singer's upcoming North Am...
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Streams Watch Wade MacNeil in the Dirty Nil's New Video for "The Light, the Void, and Everything" Wade MacNeil — of Alexisonfire, Gallows and Dooms Children — appears in the Dirty Nil's new music video for "The Light, the Void, and Everyt...
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Streams Bleachers Return with New Song "Modern Girl" A new single from Bleachers, the band led by in-demand pop producer Jack Antonoff, has arrived. "Modern Girl" is said to be the "first si...
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Streams Watch Simu Liu Perform Original Song "Don't" and Cover Kings of Leon at Surprise Vancouver Concert By now, it's no secret that Simu Liu can sing. After all, the Barbie and Shang Chi: Legend of the Ten Rings actor has taken the stage in fro...
Streams Drake and SZA Team Up for New Song "Slime You Out" A week out from unleashing new album For All the Dogs, Drake has shared a new collaborative single with SZA. You can hear the two team up on...
Streams Hear the Week's Best New Canadian Music: Majid Jordan, the Beaches, iskwē, Bahamas If pointing out that we're halfway through September doesn't make you feel like you're living on a prayer, we're not sure what will. Unfortu...
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Reviews The Alchemist, MIKE and Wiki Conjure Effortless Chemistry on 'Faith Is a Rock' Exclaim! Staff Picks Faith Is a Rock is one of the most flat-out beautiful rap albums I've heard in ages. With the Alchemist on production — continuing an extrem...
Reviews Will Butler + Sister Squares Stake Their Claim on Their Self-Titled Record Life is a constant stream of shit, but sometimes getting beaten down can lead to a hot streak. Food, flowers, and psychedelics flourish wher...
Reviews Teenage Fanclub Continue to Do What They Do on 'Nothing Lasts Forever' There are certain bands who seem almost unbothered by how music has evolved over time, existing in a sort of peaceful stasis in the niche th...
Reviews Hillsboro's Self-Titled Debut Is a Sparking Live Wire Exclaim! Staff Picks It's not everyday that a band shows up in your inbox with a debut album that sounds so fully formed. I don't know what I was expecting when...
Reviews 'Tim: Let It Bleed Edition' Captures the Replacements as Clearly and Boldly as Fans Could Hope Though music fans have every right to be cynical about remixed and remastered reissue campaigns, few such releases feel as startling and mir...
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Reviews Faye Webster Is in No Rush on the Beautiful "Lifetime" Exclaim! Staff Picks Faye Webster's music tends to find a molasses-slow groove — sun-warmed and droopy eyed, the kind that you could sorta just vibe on for hours...
Reviews Loraine James Preserves Love's Artifacts on 'Gentle Confrontation' With every album, one gets the sense that Loraine James has discovered new facets of herself, however big or small they may be. "I really ch...
Reviews Chappell Roan Gets Hot, Heavy and Heartbroken on 'The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess' Chappell Roan likes to get down, in every sense of the phrase. On her very danceable debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, t...
Reviews CHAI's Self-Titled Album Is Sweet and Sticky but Never Saccharine Japanese pop experimentalists CHAI espouse a philosophy that they call Neo Kawaii. A reference to the Japanese word for cute, Kawaii encoura...
Reviews Crumb and Melody's Echo Chamber Feel the Gentle Sting of Memory on "Le Temple Volant" Exclaim! Staff Picks There's something so comfortable to me about a collaboration between Crumb and Melody's Echo Chamber, maybe because many of my university da...
Reviews Rifflandia 2023 Brought Star Power and Synergy to Victoria After last year's victorious return, the 2023 edition of Rifflandia inevitably felt more low stakes, able to breathe without the burden of m...
Reviews 'Laugh Track' Is in the Centre of the National's Venn Diagram Albums come in twos these days for Aaron Dessner. He produced and co-wrote most of Taylor Swift's 2020 double-header, and this year oversaw...
Reviews TIFF 2023: 'Hate to Love: Nickelback' Has All the Right Reasons, but Little Insight Directed by Leigh Brooks If you still claim to hate Nickelback, trying listening to "Photograph" — and, this time, really listen to it, forgetting about all those cu...
Reviews Gatlin Finds Something Like Closure on 'I Sleep Fine Now' Exclaim! Staff Picks Clarity. That's the sheen-smeared word that first comes to mind when I think of Gatlin, a singer-songwriter who is actually from Orlando, FL...
Reviews The Beaches' 'Blame My Ex' Is a Win As far as album titles go, you can't get much more pointed than Blame My Ex, the latest pull-no-punches full-length from the Beaches. Releas...
Reviews Iggy Pop Brought Sweaty Swagger to Ottawa's CityFolk Festival Nobody wants to let go of summer when September rolls around. Thankfully for Ottawa folk, CityFolk Festival arrives just in time to kick the...
Reviews Loraine James Is Caught in the Anxieties of Digital Romance on "I DM U" Exclaim! Staff Picks Loraine James's Gentle Confrontation is said to be an album the artist's younger self would have made, though its centrepiece "I DM U" captu...
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