It takes 30 minutes, and several call apps to properly connect with Mikaela Straus. Sound is an issue, and she bristles at the choppy audio...

When Greg Gonzalez, founding member and vocalist of ambient-pop band Cigarettes After Sex, speaks, he does so in pictures.   Talking about...

Ottawa artist City Fidelia is celebrating the release of his long-awaited debut LP, PainKiller. Since he started, he's amassed millions of s...

If you were to walk through Bartlett Parkette, a small green space on Geary Avenue in the west end of Toronto, you would likely mistake the...

When asked where White Reaper are as a band in 2019, frontman Tony Esposito keeps it pretty literal. "We're all in the van together, on a hi...

The Dead South are arguably Canada's best-known "bluegrass" band. Their video for "In Hell I'll Be in Good Company" has been viewed over 150...

What's the first thing you notice about an album? The artwork? The tracklist? Those seemingly ubiquitous ambient intros? With Jacques Greene...

Sometimes it only takes a "pocket of songs" and a little bit of trust for a project to get off the ground. For Emilee Sorrey, the Cape Breto...

Sometimes it takes 47 years to travel 1,100 km and that feels about right. Just ask Fred Eaglesmith, a Canadian singer and songwriter from r...

Brigitte Naggar, who performs as Common Holly, doesn't want to give too much of herself away. Even her debut album, Playing House, a wheezin...

From the pages of our publication and in conversation with our writers and the artists we profile, this is the Exclaim! Podcast. Each episod...