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Vancouver's Shame Spiral Return with Cryptic, Noisy 'Dictaphone Future' Published Jan 22, 2021One of the oddities in prolific Vancouver songwriter Chris Van Der Laan's wide array of projects, Shame Spiral released a few peculiar EPs b...
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Hear the Week's Best New Canadian Music: TUNS, Rhye, DijahSB Published Jan 22, 2021There was a Leonard Cohen song performed at the U.S. inauguration this week — Yolanda Adams sang "Hallelujah" — and there was also a pile of...
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The Horniest Songs of Netflix's 'Bridgerton' Explode in Streaming Charts Published Jan 22, 2021Netflix's new horny period drama Bridgerton was recently renewed for a second season, and it's not hard to understand why, when the show pan...
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Phoebe Bridgers and Dan Levy Are Doing 'SNL' Published Jan 22, 2021Saturday Night Live has just released its new schedule for 2021, and among those stars appearing are Phoebe Bridgers and Schitts Creek hero...
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This Funny Week in Funny Tweets: January 22, 2021 Published Jan 22, 2021The cold Bernie meme, the minimum wage scheme, the text that made Walter White scream, passing another penguin team, and much more from this...
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Genesis Delay Reunion Tour Yet Again, Share New Rehearsal Footage Published Jan 22, 2021In news that should be surprising to no one, Genesis have once again postponed their reunion tour due to COVID-19. On the plus side, though,...
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The White Stripes Share Bonnaroo 2007 Live Performance Published Jan 22, 2021In the White Stripes' continued efforts to archive and release their most iconic moments throughout their storied, decades-long career, the...
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'Babylon 5' and 'Lost' Actress Mira Furlan Dies at 65 Published Jan 22, 2021Mira Furlan — an actress best known for her roles in Babylon 5 and Lost — has died. Her passing was announced late last night, revealing she...
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PONY Announce Debut Album 'TV Baby' Published Jan 22, 2021If their power-pop stylings weren't evidence enough, PONY are undeniably children of the '90s, so it's no surprise the Toronto-based troupe...
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Valerie June Announces New Record 'The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers' Published Jan 22, 2021Valerie June has returned from a four-year break to announce plans for a new album titled The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers. Th...
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Run the Jewels, PUP and 'The Mandalorian' Rule the Exclaim! Readers Poll Published Jan 22, 2021Last year was a weird one for music lovers and movie watchers. Lockdown meant that we had more time than ever for entertainment — but the ma...
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Kawthra Infuse Sludge Metal with Introspection on 'The Tenets' Published Jan 20, 2021"Ignorance Is Bliss," "Confidence Is Key," and "Belief Is Reality" are the three immutable laws that define Kawthra's The Tenets. The debut...
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Bicep's Trance Formula Works Most of the Time on 'Isles' Published Jan 19, 2021Irish duo Bicep debuted strongly in 2017 with their self-titled album — a confident mix of continental trance melodicism and urban grit that...
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Rhye Starts His Pop Pivot on 'Home' Published Jan 18, 2021Before Rhye emerged from a haze of identity-obscuring mystery, it seemed like that voice could have belonged to anyone. The project's sensuo...
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Kiwi Jr.'s 'Cooler Returns' Is Packed with Golden Hooks and Subtle Weirdness Published Jan 18, 2021At a glance, Kiwi Jr.'s music scans as a retro revival of '60s pop sweetness and '90s slacker rock swagger — especially since frontman Jerem...
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NDP MP Charlie Angus' Songwriting Remains Potent on Grievous Angels' 'Summer Before the Storm' Published Jan 13, 2021Ontario folk veterans Grievous Angels are back with new material after a seven-year-long hiatus, attributed to the fact that the band's prin...
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This Funny Week in Funny Tweets: January 22, 2021 Published Jan 22, 2021The cold Bernie meme, the minimum wage scheme, the text that made Walter White scream, passing another penguin team, and much more from this...
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Run the Jewels, PUP and 'The Mandalorian' Rule the Exclaim! Readers Poll Published Jan 22, 2021Last year was a weird one for music lovers and movie watchers. Lockdown meant that we had more time than ever for entertainment — but the ma...
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'Kaputt' Turns 10: Destroyer's "Violently Laid-Back" Opus That Defined a Decade Published Jan 22, 2021By the time Dan Bejar released Kaputt on January 25, 2011, he was a decade and a half into a career that had already included eight prior De...
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'That '70s Show' Star Debra Jo Rupp Talks the Sitcom Tropes of Marvel's 'WandaVision' Published Jan 21, 2021Marvel Studios may have surprised some by avoiding the typical comic book movie mayhem and instead paying tribute to the mid-century sitcom...
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'Kim's Convenience' Has Changed the Canadian TV Game — Next Stop, the World Published Jan 18, 2021TV series Kim's Convenience sprung from the wildly successful 2011 play by Ins Choi, based on the playwright's personal experiences navigati...
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LU KALA Is Breaking Barriers as a Black Canadian Pop Star Published Jan 18, 2021"In Canada, even outside of Canada, I don't think there's a lot of Black pop stars that you can name, especially none that started out as po...
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This Funny Week in Funny Tweets: January 15, 2021 Published Jan 15, 2021Breakfast time machine, a mobile cat latrine, disgusted wax Springsteen, notes from the Pringles street team, and much more from this week i...