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Drake King In the North Published Mar 29, 2016Whether you call him Drizzy Drake, the Boy, 6 God, Do Right and Kill Everything or one of the several adopted names he's cooked up, Drake ha...
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Tap, Tap Coalition 'Loud on Planet X' Merges Indie Music and Indie Gaming Published Mar 28, 2016You may've seen Fucked Up's Damian Abraham rip his shirt off and jump into the crowd, but did he ever land on a three-eyed blobby green alie...
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Venetian Snares Where I Play Published Mar 28, 2016The music made by Aaron Funk is weird to the extreme, and often profoundly terrifying. Traditionally embraced more by European audiences tha...
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Into It. Over It. Emotional Rescue Published Mar 24, 2016"The most creative and awesome material comes from when a band that sounds like they shouldn't fit with a producer, and a producer that does...
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Violent Femmes Back In the Sun Published Mar 23, 2016Violent Femmes' new album, their first since 2000's Freak Magnet, hearkens back to their classic early '80s recordings. We Can Do Anything c...
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Låpsley Inner Space Published Mar 23, 2016When Holly Lapsley Fletcher was younger, she was expecting to work for National Geographic as a physical geographer. There was no dream of b...
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Gaslight Anthem's Brian Fallon The Exclaim! Questionnaire Published Mar 22, 2016After nearly a decade fronting the beloved New Jersey heartland rockers the Gaslight Anthem, it's time for Brian Fallon to make a new name f...
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Loretta Lynn Raising Hell Published Mar 22, 2016It's been a long journey that has seen Loretta Lynn — who started life as a coal miner's daughter in Butcher Hollow, Van Lear, KY, was marri...
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Ethan Hawke Jazz Junkie Published Mar 21, 2016"The movie's not trying to be a factually accurate biopic," Ethan Hawke tells me about Born to Be Blue, an exploration of a year in West coa...
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Matmos Laundry Day Published Mar 21, 2016"Oh man, it's such an unglamorous answer." MC Schmidt sits in the home office he shares with his partner, Drew Daniel, blushingly trying to...
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The Dirty Nil Who's Next? Published Mar 21, 2016In the early 2000s, untold "scheming and dreaming" took place in the neighbourhoods along Highway 99 in Dundas, ON. That's where teenage...