This year, three simple words shook up the internet and permeated the pop culture lexicon: Hot Girl Summer. But how did the term, coined by...

Ariana Grande is just a handful of shows away from wrapping up her lengthy "Sweetener World Tour," and she's already revealed plans for a li...

Prior to becoming Linkin Park's lead vocalist, Chester Bennington manned the mic for a Phoenix, AZ band named Grey Daze. Now, the band are s...

Black Label Society made headlines this fall when Zakk Wylde and co. announced a North American tour — only to then cancel it minutes later....

Google is the latest company to reveal its year-end stats, and it has revealed some very questionable taste in celebrity gossip.   The top...

Making for quite the double bill, Bad Religion and Alkaline Trio have announced they are joining forces for a co-headlining North American t...

From playing an instrumental role in the making of a music legend's comeback record to becoming part of a country supergroup with a purpose,...

Lasso Montreal is set to debut in the city this coming August, and organizers have revealed the first headliner set to be part of the countr...

The streaming wars have created such a demand for content that the streaming services have now opted to make streamable shows about other st...

Veteran electronic music composer Fennesz treated the world to his excellent comeback album Agora this year, and in 2020, he'll take the rec...

Lizzo went to the Los Angeles Lakers game on Sunday (December 8) and was feeling "Good As Hell" when she got her big moment on the Jumbotron...

Harry Styles stepped in to host The Late Late Show last night (December 10) and played a disgusting game of "Spill Your Guts" with Kendall J...

DaBaby rolled through Toronto last night (December 10), but he wasn't the only star on stage at Rebel — he brought Toronto hero and his past...

Non La is the new moniker of DJ On, a member of the Vancouver indie group Thee AHs. This coming Valentine's Day, Non La will release the hea...

Just over a month removed from sharing their initial lineup, organizers behind Montreal's Igloofest have revealed that Kaytranada will also...

Gaslight Anthem leader Brian Fallon is continuing on with his solo career and has just announced his third proper album. It's called Local H...

Paul McCartney's children's book High in the Clouds will be coming to Netflix soon.   The streaming giant has confirmed that it will relea...

Royce 5'9" last released his Book of Ryan album in 2018, and it appears fans won't be waiting much longer for the Detroit MC's follow-up eff...

As climate anxiety worsened and world leaders ignored mounting pleas from scientists, the climate emergency defined the way we looked at the...

Eminem reignited an old feud with Mariah Carey last week with a guest spot on Fat Joe and Dre's song "Lord Above," and Carey's ex-husband Ni...

When Solange Knowles released her fourth studio album, When I Get Home, in March 2019, she did it to highlight Black cowboy culture.   "I...

As the year winds down, the Flaming Lips are looking ahead to their 2020, and it turns out that includes a series of "intimate theatre shows...

If you've been wanting more MGMT in your life, you just got some. The band have returned with the new song "In the Afternoon," which has arr...

The Cure celebrated the 30th anniversary of their classic 1989 album Disintegration earlier this year. To commemorate the event, the band pl...

From starting the year as a member of Exclaim!'s Class of 2019 to covering our year-end issue, Orville Peck has had nothing short of a whirl...

Alicia Keys filled in for James Corden as host of The Late Late Show last night (December 9) and was visited by none other than Billie Eilis...

Weezer recently contributed a new track called "Lost in the Woods" to the Frozen II soundtrack, and now the song has been given the visual t...

Lizzo initially dropped "Good As Hell" back in 2016 on her Coconut Oil EP, but like her chart-topping hit "Truth Hurts," it's been given new...

Ahead of releasing new mixtape SMS for Location Vol. 3 next week, Montreal's Moonshine collective have rolled out a new single from the effo...

Kacey Musgraves stopped by The Late Late Show with James Corden last night (December 5), and got into the holiday spirit with a live perform...

Earlier this year, BADBADNOTGOOD teamed up with Toronto-via-Japan vocalist Jonah Yano on the title track of his debut EP Nervous, and the co...

After it was held off of last year's K.T.S.E., Teyana Taylor has finally shared "We Got Love." The Kanye West-produced single was set to...

As promised, Blink-182 have shared a brand new Christmas song. Along with the track, they've shared a seriously wild claymation music video....

Following a brief respite, noise-hungry Vancouver group storc are back with their appropriately titled storc II. As such, you can dive into...

Halsey has released a pair of new tracks from her upcoming album Manic. She's treated "Finally // Beautiful Stranger" to a video, and unveil...

Harry Styles has unveiled a video for the latest single from his upcoming album Fine Line.   "Adore You" has been paired with a Dave Meyer...

Toronto-based three-piece grunge act Bad River bring a blend of post-punk, garage rock and noise to their sound, delicately balancing harsh...

Psychic Void are full of beautiful contradictions. The Windsor band are chaotic yet melodic, short yet well-composed, and familiar while off...

Taylor Swift is the latest artist to get in on the holiday spirit, gifting us a new tune called "Christmas Tree Farm."   The Lover singer...

La Roux has just shared the second single from her forthcoming record Supervision alongside some flashy new visuals. The artist explains...

Having shared spots on DJ lineups around the globe these past few years, Jon Hopkins and Kelly Lee Owens have now teamed up for a collaborat...

Rico Nasty has just shared a brand new track called "Hard" — and as you may expect — it goes hard. The song arrives today alongside a set...

While we still haven't heard their unreleased collab with Nick Cave, New York's Flatbush Zombies have now joined forces with Tech N9ne for a...

Of Montreal treated a Toronto audience to the debut of "Polyaneurism" back in October, and ahead of new album UR FUN arriving early next yea...

Any band that name themselves after a Melvins song immediately deserve extra credit, but that it's after one of the Melvins' greatest songs...

After nearly 20 years in obscurity, Duster have returned with their signature fuzzed-out, so-called "tranq rock" on their third full-length...

Annie Hart's melodies are like music remembered from a dream. On her second solo album, A Softer Offering, Hart's intention was to create a...

Nearing the end of the third quarter, Fat Joe, like many veteran rappers in 2019, pulled up with new energy and hunger that had seemingly be...

Lhasa de Sela matters. So much is proven in Fred Goodman's new book from the University of Texas Press' "Music Matters" series, titled Why L...

Vancouver's disco lovers flocked to the sold-out Vogue Theatre on Sunday for Boney M.'s "Holiday Favourites & Classic Hits," featuring Liz M...

Whatever you think of the Who's recent dark patch — Roger Daltrey's voice problems, Pete Townshend casually saying he "Thanks God" that Keit...

EPs have found new life in the age of streaming, acting as perfect packages for the attention-deficit generation to discover new music. Asta...

Camila Cabello took the pop world by storm when she left X-Factor byproduct Fifth Harmony and released her critically acclaimed solo album,...

Genre fusion is nothing new, but every once in a while, there are bands that set a new standard, giving new vitality to the styles at play....

Orville Peck played his 120th ("or something like that") and final show of the year on Thursday night in Toronto, ending his explosive 2019...

Hurt Valley is the newest project from California-based singer-songwriter Brian Collins. A high school science teacher by day, he's been cra...

Animal Collective's Avey Tare is back with a twelve-inch EP, Conference for Birds / Birds in Disguise. The EP features songs played during h...

Releasing music created across two decades could reveal a band's growing pains, but the new "best of" double vinyl from Montreal band Stars...

It's a testament to how completely we've dissolved genre barriers that a record can merge the sounds of seven decades of popular music witho...

Two-and-a-half-hour compilation Tunes 2011-2019 works its way backwards through the last decade of Burial's output, but like many of the pro...

It might seem counterintuitive to make club music for home use, but it isn't half as weird as making club music for mornings spent meditativ...

Jangle pop — that loose, chiming style of indie rock — is one of those genres that's easy to make, but deceptively hard to do well. Ducks Un...

If you caught Raffaela Weyman on one of her recent opening gigs for Carly Rae Jepsen, you know that the Toronto pop singer, who performs as...

DeForrest Brown, Jr. transplanted himself from the deep South to New York City in the early 2010s, and has since garnered a reputation as a...

It's only been six months since Badge Époque Ensemble dropped their self-titled debut, but if their new three-track EP is any indication, th...

In honour of the tenth anniversary of Merriweather Post Pavilion — Animal Collective's eighth studio album and their most commercially succe...