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From Meme to Movement: How Megan Thee Stallion's 'Hot Girl Summer' Went from Internet Trend to Cultural Shift Published Dec 11, 2019This year, three simple words shook up the internet and permeated the pop culture lexicon: Hot Girl Summer. But how did the term, coined by...
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The Highwomen and the Year of Brandi Carlile Published Dec 11, 2019From playing an instrumental role in the making of a music legend's comeback record to becoming part of a country supergroup with a purpose,...
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Exclaim!'s 10 Best Soul, Funk and World Albums of 2019 Published Dec 11, 2019Soul, funk and world music, by its very definition, covers a lot of ground — and 2019 is no exception. Artists like Lizzo and Anderson .Paak...
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Sylo Nozra Uses Meditation and Good Vibrations to Keep Creativity Alive in His Studio Published Dec 10, 2019Known for his chill avant-R&B flavoured tracks that rack up multimillion Spotify streams, Sylo Nozra is all about the zen of his bedroom stu...
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How Music Felt the Climate Emergency in 2019 Published Dec 10, 2019As climate anxiety worsened and world leaders ignored mounting pleas from scientists, the climate emergency defined the way we looked at the...
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Lil Nas X and the Challenge to Country Culture Published Dec 10, 2019When Solange Knowles released her fourth studio album, When I Get Home, in March 2019, she did it to highlight Black cowboy culture. "I...
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An Essential Guide to the Who Published Dec 10, 2019Virtually every rock band of the last 50 years owes the Who a debt they can never repay. Apart from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, the...
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Said the Whale's Ben Worcester Is a Canadian Cannabis Hero Published Dec 10, 2019Since long before legalization, Vancouver has been known as a particularly cannabis-friendly place — so it's only fitting that Said the Whal...
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Exclaim!'s 10 Best Folk and Country Albums of 2019 Published Dec 10, 2019"The stigma that country music is made for well-adjusted straight white men is just baloney," says current Exclaim! cover star Orville Peck....
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Canadian Musicians Tackle Mental Health on the Exclaim! Podcast Published Dec 09, 2019Royal Mountain Records' mental health fund helped to open up a much-needed discussion about the toll that the music industry can take on art...
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Exclaim!'s 15 Best Films of 2019 Published Dec 09, 2019All of 2019's top-grossing films were either superhero blockbusters (Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: Far From Home) or Disney reboots (The Li...