The SOCAN Songwriting Prize has announced its 2021 winners. A fan vote has determined that Billy Raffoul won the English-language prize with...

After taking a few years off from recording, '00s noise-pop darlings Sleigh Bells have returned with plans for a brand new record called Tex...

Over the weekend, DaBaby made some horrifyingly homophobic comments on-stage at Rolling Loud in Miami. Since then, he's been trying to expla...

After having So Much Fun on his last solo outing, Young Thug has now announced a follow-up album with an NPR Tiny Desk (Home) Concert. Pe...

Joey Jordison — the American musician known best as the former drummer, co-songwriter and founding member of masked metal outfit Slipknot —...

Now that Denis Villeneuve's incredibly delayed Dune film is finally coming out, so too is the soundtrack by Hans Zimmer. But since just one...

The United States government has sold the sole copy of Wu-Tang Clan's Once Upon a Time in Shaolin album — which was forfeited in 2018 by dis...

CIVIC TV is the brainchild of Toronto singer-songwriter Lowell Sostomi and the latest act to sign to Flemish Eye, through which he'll be del...

Liz Harris has announced her first album as Grouper since 2018. The nine-song Shade will be released October 22 through Kranky. Shade's t...

Somewhere between Norway and the North Pole, there's a place — and that place is an island, where a vault will be installed for "future-proo...

Metal Church frontman Mike Howe has died. The band confirmed the sad news on Monday night (July 26). Howe was 55. "It is with our deepest...

Saint Etienne are making their return with a new album. The record is titled I've Been Trying to Tell You, and it's out September 10 via Hea...

Toronto-based musician Robin Dann — leader of Polaris-nominated outfit Bernice — has collaborated with Soundstreams to curate an immersive a...

Britney Spears' newly appointed lawyer has filed a petition to remove her father as the conservator of the 39-year-old pop star's estate, wh...

After implanting — and removing — his very flashy facial piercing earlier this year, it appears Lil Uzi Vert has reattached his $24 million...

The fourth studio album from electronic musician Chris Stewart's Black Marble project — titled Fast Idol — will officially be released on Oc...

Radiohead haven't released a new album since 2016's A Moon Shaped Pool, but Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood's side-project the Smile apparent...

Haviah Mighty has just been awarded the 2021 Prism Prize for the music video for her song "Thirteen." Director Theo Kapodistrias will rec...

Smashing Pumpkins are once again looking back at their glory days with a new live release. Today Billy Corgan announced he'll give fans a ne...

Last year saw Voivod deliver EP The End of Dormancy and live LP Lost Machine, and the Quebec metal institution have no plans to slow down wi...

Adorable soccer sitcom Ted Lasso just returned for its second season on Apple TV+, and the first episode features all of the usual corny jok...

Kanye West album releases are messy, to say the least. So it was no big surprise that the previously announced DONDA release date already ca...

Metal talk show Two Minutes to Late Night continues to bring together music's finest to perform covers of iconic songs, and their latest add...

Here we go again! It's been an unusually long week, right? You deserve to treat yourself to something nice — may we offer you a nice playlis...

The Hidden Cameras are back. The long-running orchestral pop band have just shared a new single called "Redemption." The song was recorde...

Drake has teamed with fellow Toronto MC Smiley for a new single. You can hear the two trade bars on the Tay Keith-produced "Over the Top" be...

Gunna and Polo G have appeared on a new single from Kawhi Leonard's forthcoming Culture Jam LP. You can hear the two come together on "Waves...

After releasing her debut album Chrysalia in December 2020, Montreal-based Exclaim! New Fave, Eve Parker Finley (f.k.a. Lonely Boa), has jus...

The long-awaited debut album from our Montreal-born Exclaim! cover star Chiiild (née Yonatan Ayal) Hope for Sale is out today, and you can h...

Through possible clairvoyance — considering the record-breaking temperatures — or general omnipotence, it's finally official: we're in a for...

Lorde is back with another Solar Power offering. This time, it's a song called "Stoned at the Nail Salon," which you can now check out for y...

Grimes is once again giving us more content. This time, it's a new song called "100% Tragedy," though she's only shared a snippet. Claire...

After going viral for their performance of "Racist, Sexist Boy" at the L.A. Public Library earlier this year, tween girl band the Linda Lind...

Donald Glover's signature falsetto is back in full-force on his contribution to Brittany Howard's collection of remixes of her debut solo al...

Kamasi Washington is one of the many contributors to the forthcoming Metallica Blacklist, a massive 53-track covers collection arriving late...

Lights and deadmau5 are back together at last. Today the pair have shared a new EDM single called "When the Summer Dies," and you can hear i...

As Snoop Dogg (or whatever he's going by now) once said: Greetings, loved ones — let's take a journey. New Music Friday has rolled around...

Syd has returned with her second single of 2021. "Fast Car" follows the Internet vocalist's "Missing Out," and can be heard below alongside...

Iron Maiden are storming back. After weeks of driving speculation with 'Belshazzar's Feast'-emblazoned posters popping up around the world,...

Brampton pop singer Alessia Cara has shared two new singles in advance of her next album. "Sweet Dream" and "Shapeshifter" are out now throu...

Last month, Florida-born experimentalist Yves Tumor released the glam-rock single "Jackie" and now they've shared a whole EP — because it's...

Somali-Canadian singer-songwriter Amaal is back with a magnetic new single "Honey." It arrives complete with an accompanying visual where sh...

Last month, Daniel Romano's Outfit surprised us with both a live album-drop and actually announcing their next studio effort in advance. Cob...

Andrew W.K. will return with new album God Is Partying this September, and the proudly engaged party rocker has unloaded another new tune fr...

Tush have accumulated a well-earned reputation as one of Toronto's most incendiary groove machines. Originally surfacing from the city's fer...

In the modern music landscape, few things are as polarizing as the posthumous release. Most of the time, unfinished music gets pieced togeth...

The trail of desire that leads to Jack Antonoff, writer and producer of some of the biggest pop albums released within the past decade, is a...

Formalizing the declaration of A Tribe Called Red's 2016 album We Are the Halluci Nation by adopting it as their new name, the Halluci Natio...

Somewhere between the 10 p.m. coffees and 10 a.m. tequilas, Leon Bridges found a groove. Recorded during two years' worth of all-night jam s...

For Toronto's Erez Zobary, making music has long been about healing. Working through debilitating vocal nodules and stage fright has all bee...

One hesitates to pin Yellow, Emma-Jean Thackray's official debut full-length, down with a reductive label such as "jazz fusion." The genre n...

The posthumous album has sadly been a staple in hip-hop for years, occasionally resulting in legacy-cementing projects like J Dilla's immacu...

It's a shame that Descendents put off finishing 9th & Walnut for so long, as an album this focused and snotty would have surely launched a k...

A funny thing happened on the way to Darkside's return from hiatus. After all, Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington announced that the band was...

If those sharing Clairo's understated viral hit "Pretty Girl" in 2017 could time travel to our heat-warped present, it's entirely possible t...

Willow Smith didn't think she was capable of singing rock music. Her pivot from dreamy pop and R&B to angsty punk rock was a surprise to her...

Not everyone has time to pull together a playlist of the best new tunes, so we're here to do it for you. Here are some can't-miss tracks fro...

Victoria Cheong continues to mature as a producer, lyricist and vocalist. As New Chance, she continues to draw inspiration from '80s and '90...

Since he first stepped onto the scene, Vince Staples' music has been characterized by its abrasive and uncompromising aspects. Whether the j...

It's surprising to learn that Broken Social Scene centrepiece Kevin Drew made his new solo album, Influences, with a beat-making phone app....

Barenaked Ladies: a venerated Canadian institution. A group of scrappy Scarborough pop culture nerds who — through wit, skill and unrestrain...

Nathan Williams probably doesn't get enough credit for his songwriting savvy. He pigeonholed Wavves early on with slacker punk anthems with...

Stepping out from their main gigs with Last Ex, FET.NAT and VICTIME on the self-titled debut from their new project Album, Olivier Fairfield...

SAULT's new album, NINE, will only be online for 99 days. Making their new album temporarily available is merely the latest in the acclaimed...

Meggie Lennon wants to create a realm of nostalgia, yearning for both the recent past and beyond. Sounds from Your Lips is a promising solo...

What is it about Nandi Rose (a.k.a. Half Waif) that causes people to describe her art in such a lavish manner? Reviews for last year's sweep...