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  This Funny Week in Funny Tweets: April 14, 2023

  PUBLISHED Apr 14, 2023

  Right about now the funk soul brother, an astronaut like no other, Wordle inspires a mother, pointlessly drinking one beer over another, an...

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  'The Smell of Our Own' Turns 20: The Hidden Cameras Reflect on Their "Unsanctioned Anarchist Catholic" Utopia

  PUBLISHED Apr 13, 2023

  "We didn't quite fit in the scene," Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras tells Exclaim!, reminiscing about the period when his Toronto-founded b...

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  Feist Searches for "Useful Truths" Within Life's Dizzying Highs and Tragic Lows

  PUBLISHED Apr 12, 2023

  We tend to ask songs for confirmation of our experience, to tell our stories in ways more beautiful than we allow for ourselves. We lay our...

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  The 'BlackBerry' Effect: 5 Companies You Didn't Know Were Canadian (and Who Might Play Them in a Movie)

  PUBLISHED Apr 11, 2023

  Matt Johnson's latest film, BlackBerry, hits cinemas in less than a month, detailing the rise and devastating fall of the world's first sma...

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  Tim Baker Remembers Hey Rosetta!'s 'Into Your Lungs' and How It Ultimately Broke Up the Band

  PUBLISHED Apr 10, 2023

  Tim Baker is in on the joke.The singer-songwriter from St. John's, NL, offers up a trademark sheepish grin when confronted with a now-15-ye...

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  Exclaim!'s Staff Picks for April 10, 2023: Zulu, Cheekface, Allie Kelly

  PUBLISHED Apr 10, 2023

  As you continue making your way through the chocolate eggs you probably just searched for and found in the hallowed aisles of a Shoppers Dr...

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  This Funny Week in Funny Tweets: April 6, 2023

  PUBLISHED Apr 6, 2023

  Older animals are more likely to die, we should maybe stop A.I., don't mess with a sound guy, a missing mango was 10 metres high, and much...

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  8 Emerging Canadian Artists You Need to Hear in April 2023

  PUBLISHED Apr 6, 2023

  Famously, April showers bring May flowers — but they also bring great new Canadian music! This month's New Faves run the gamut from synthes...