Following the lead of Just for Laughs, Montreal's International Jazz Festival has cancelled its 2020 edition due to the coronavirus pandemic...

Millions of people are trying to come up with ways to survive COVID-19-induced isolation, but the boys of Chromeo are spending their time th...

After postponing the first leg of their North American tour last month, Tool have now announced the postponement of the entire run. The t...

At the tail end of 2018, Montreal art-rockers Suuns embarked on a West Coast U.S. tour, which would mark their final dates with founding mem...

It's long been known that "Wu-Tang is for the children," and between guided meditation recordings and public health recommendations, they've...

Last week, outspoken pop experimenter M.I.A. stoked some flames of controversy when she suggested she was against vaccines. Now, she's clari...

Vancouver songwriter Jordan Klassen recently nabbed a Prism Prize nomination with his video for recent single "Virtuous Circle." Now, he's a...

With so many people in isolation, music lovers around the world have taken to performing songs on their balconies — from an Italian guitaris...

It's a weird time to be alive, and many of us our turning to our faithful old favourites for comfort. Among them is, of course, the inimitab...

On an unusually bright winter day in early March, Exclaim! met up with Hamilton-based artist Linnea Siggelkow, who performs under the name E...

Bill Withers — the iconic and long-running singer-songwriter best known for "Lean on Me," among many other tunes — has passed away. He died...

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard are adding to their increasingly large catalogue, this time with a double live album and feature-length fil...

Canadian artists have already detailed how hard they will be hit as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, and figures from across Ontario's...

Ellis Marsalis — a jazz pianist, music educator and the patriarch of the Marsalis family — has died. In a statement, son Branford Marsalis c...

Caribou made the decision to postpone his North American tour last month thanks to coronavirus, and he has now rescheduled the run for later...

Earlier this month, Bikini Kill announced their intention to reschedule a string of their upcoming North American tour dates due to ongoing...

This Saturday (April 4) will mark 25 years since the release of Guided By Voices' Alien Lanes, and to mark the occasion, the Ohio outfit are...

Toronto alt-rockers July Talk have announced plans for a new record titled Pray for It. The album will be released on July 10 via Sleepless...

Megan James and Corin Roddick are describing the place where they conceived "Stardew," the first song they wrote for their third album as Pu...

The coronavirus lockdown has had an added sting for Red Hot Chili Peppers diehards, since it's put a pause of the long-awaited return of cla...

Arcade Fire's Win Butler appears to be cooking up something new after a now-deleted video featuring new music from the artist surfaced on In...

A week after releasing debut album Before Love Came to Kill Us, Jessie Reyez has surprise released a deluxe edition of the album. The new ve...

Vancouver bedroom pop songwriter des hume has been rolling out a steady stream of singles over the past year-plus, and here's the latest. RA...

Ahead of releasing a new album later this year, the Elwins have shared a first single from the effort. "Take Me All the Way" arrives alon...

Toronto alt-rockers Billy Talent have been slowly dropping new singles in support of a forthcoming full-length. Now, they've shared hopeful...

This month would have seen the 1975 head out on tour with Phoebe Bridgers, but since those plans have been postponed, the collaborators have...

SWANES are returning to action with new EP Trials and Simulations next month, and before it arrives, Exclaim! is proud to premiere the Toron...

Philadelphia rockers Fire in the Radio have just released their third album, Monuments, out today on Wednesday Records. To keep the celebrat...

Frank Ocean has blessed the dumpster fire that is the world in 2020 with two brand new songs. Today, he dropped "Dear April" and "Cayendo."...

As promised, Drake delivered a new track called "Toosie Slide" at midnight, and it's accompanied by a music video that sees Drake showing of...

As promised, Drake has given us his new single "Toosie Slide." So yes, you can stream it now, as well as dance along if you're into that sor...

Today, Jenny Hval was set to kick off a North American tour behind last year's The Practice of Love. Now, the Norwegian songwriter has share...

Mavis Staples has returned with a new single, marking her first new material since last year's album We Get By. Titled "All in It Togethe...

After possibly contracting coronavirus a few weeks ago, Radiohead's Ed O'Brien appears to be in recovery and is finally well enough to conti...

Post-punk outfit Iceage have done what they do best: post punk. Yes, the band have dropped a new online single to help us navigate the age o...

Tariq's album Telegrams had its first anniversary just a few days ago, and now the Vancouver songwriter (and Brasstronaut member) has shared...

Montreal soul singer-songwriter Hanorah is among the millions under lockdown in their homes to slow the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus). To...

German punk'n'roll ass-kickers Lucifer Star Machine have been making a racket for nearly two full decades, and now they're releasing their f...

Pop-punk vets NOFX continue to share goodies for the quarantined ahead of their forthcoming new album. They've already delivered "I Love You...

Purity Ring will return with new album WOMB come the end of this week, and the Edmonton duo have shared a final new song before the complete...

Following the release of her Miss Anthropocene album, Grimes has made it clear that she is all about the art, and that's certainly true when...

As promised, Orville Peck is back with new music today — his first new single since he released his debut album over a year ago. The mask...

Indie crooner Jerry Paper has shared a new song from his upcoming album, Abracadabra. "Puppeteer" arrives today from the effort, and you can...

Roger Waters has shared a cover of a protest song titled "The Right to Live in Peace." The song arrives with a video from Chilean doctor,...

After returning from the techno sanctuary of Berlin, Scott Hardware watched the 1987 German film Wings of Desire. The movie was widely impac...

Pale Mare, one of Toronto's best local acts have returned and with their signature brand of sludge and stoner metal being incorporated into...

There are seven pigs in this band's name, but they might as well be called "Ow Ow Ow Ow Ow Ow Ow," because Viscerals feels like a punch in t...

There's bound to be lots of music made before, but released during the COVID-19 pandemic, which will lead some of it to feel eerily prescien...

Without a doubt, UK death dealers Live Burial play the death metal style that spawned millions of metalheads in the early '90s. Drawing on m...

There is perhaps no better album with which to face our current uncertainty than Thundercat's It Is What It Is. Filled with gentle reflectio...

Past Palms' new EP, Vernal, takes the listener to the New York-based artist's leafy, bright apartment. The songs, all of them, are extraordi...

Like the name of his winning single, "Sum 2 Prove" implies, Atlanta's Lil Baby approaches My Turn like he's trying to silence doubters. On t...

In 2017, Eric Hilton and Rob Garza — Thievery Corporation's founding members — performed alongside a 22-piece orchestra at the John F. Kenne...

This Way to Oblivion, the latest full-length outing from Portland, OR-based folk sextet Ezra Bell, sonically dishes up a healthy portion of...

I'm Your Empress Of, the third album by Honduran-American artist Lorely Rodriguez under her moniker Empress Of,  is a collection of funky R&...

As if anyone expected anything different, WVRM's Colony Collapse is an unrelenting, bludgeoning assault on the ears from start to finish, in...

The elephant in hip-hop culture conversations has always been time. When is it too late to start a career? When is it time to retire? How mu...

Yaeji's music always feels so personal. Whether she's covering artists like Drake and Mall Grab — probably the first time these to have appe...

Mississauga crooner PARTYNEXTDOOR usually has a knack for making music meant to be turned up and repeated on impulse. That infectious qualit...

Newly emerging from northern Michigan, Charmer sound exactly like an emo band from the Midwest. The easiest comparison here is Tigers Jaw, n...

Since first releasing "Ra Ra" in 2017 and following up with her Higher Self EP in 2018, Montreal-based rapper Naya Ali has been slowly expan...

The barriers between real life and science fiction, between tangibility and abstraction, have rarely felt more frail. There's a disorienting...

Compared to some of Testament's peers, the band have produced a steady output this past decade — a new studio album every four years since 2...

Shoegaze is good music to lose yourself in; it's simultaneously soothing and obliterating, music to make yourself feel both small and signif...

With the current, unprecedented times we are living in, it seems that what the world needs most is new content that feels lighthearted and h...

After almost a full year of extensive touring, Anna Burch is back with her sophomore effort, If You're Dreaming, a subdued collection of son...