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  Bartees Strange Is Looking for Sustainability — and a Home in Canada

  PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2023

  What Bartees Strange wants most is long-term sustainability. "If I could figure out a way to make a living doing this thing I really, real...

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  Jenn Grant Spans Canada with a "Time Capsule of Togetherness"

  PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2023

  When East Coast singer-songwriter Jenn Grant was forced off the road and into isolation at the beginning of the pandemic, she decided to ma...

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  Exclaim! Staffers Pick the Can't-Miss Acts of Festival Season 2023

  PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2023

  This summer, Canadian music fans are spoiled for choice: wherever you look on the map, there are amazing music festivals taking place, from...

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  8 Emerging Canadian Artists You Need to Hear in June 2023

  PUBLISHED Jun 16, 2023

  This month's gaggle of New Faves are thrashers, crooners, party starters and quiet observers — they do it all, and they do it well. With a...

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  This Funny Week in Funny Tweets: June 16, 2023

  PUBLISHED Jun 16, 2023

  We must eat the yachts, you got caught, not knowing the word spot, you want me to do WHAT, and much more from this week in funny tweets. J...

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  King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard's 20 Best Songs Ranked

  PUBLISHED Jun 15, 2023

  Listening to King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard's 23-album, 231-song discography takes 16 hours and 21 minutes — that is, if you exclude a co...

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  Streaming Must-Sees (and Must-Skips) in June 2023

  PUBLISHED Jun 15, 2023

  With summer blockbuster season officially underway, the Toretto family, Ariel and robots in disguise are dominating our cinemas, but at hom...

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  Who Is the Weeknd, Anyway?

  PUBLISHED Jun 15, 2023

  Abel "the Weeknd" Tesfaye is arguably the biggest pop star on the planet, but his first foray into TV isn't going well. After a shallow fir...