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Exclaim!'s 2014 in Lists: Top 20 Most Anticipated Albums of 2015 Published Jan 02, 2015We've ranked all of our favourite albums of the year, but this list is nearly as important: It's a ranking of the most hotly anticipated alb...
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Rich Aucoin, Tiësto and Jon Hopkins Lead Our New Year's Eve Can't Miss Concerts Published Dec 29, 2014New Year's Eve is the biggest party night of the year, and this means that concertgoers will want to choose wisely when deciding how to spen...
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Exclaim!'s 2014 in Lists: Top 10 Trends We Could Live Without in 2015 Published Dec 22, 2014The year 2014 was full of some obvious trends, some good (like anything and everything Young Thug did) and, well, many bad. At the risk of w...
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Exclaim!'s 2014 in Lists: Six Highs and Lows from DJ Mustard's 2014 Published Dec 22, 2014Starting with Tyga's 2012 hit "Rack City," DJ Mustard's involvement in rap music has — whether or not we'd like to admit it — pl...
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Exclaim!'s 2014 in Lists: Five Folk Albums from Minimalist to Maximalist Published Dec 19, 2014Neither the 12-member supergroup nor barebones simplicity took hold as a prevalent theme in 2014 — like the very definition of folk/co...
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Exclaim!'s 2014 in Lists: 5 Metal Acts From Joking to Not Joking Published Dec 19, 2014Mocking metal is easy, but authentic parody is hard because the truth is always more over-the-top than any caricature. Between the endless s...
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Exclaim!'s 2014 in Lists: Top 5 Reasons Toronto R&B Is Ready for Its Closeup Published Dec 18, 2014"Local" used to be a pejorative when it came to R&B in Toronto. When commercial urban radio first launched, they played good music and they...
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Exclaim!'s 2014 in Lists: Four Reasons Tanya Tagaq Broke Through in 2014 Published Dec 18, 2014The sublime Tanya Tagaq should be on anyone's short list of 2014's most noteworthy Canadian musicians. Over the course of five electrifying...
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Exclaim!'s 2014 in Lists: Top 5 Albums Heralding Disco's Return Published Dec 17, 2014Even in the year that Yeezus shook the world, Daft Punk's epic disco suite Random Access Memories had a more tangible influence, yanking dis...
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Exclaim!'s Best of 2014: Top 10 Reissues Published Dec 17, 2014With the vinyl resurgence now bigger than ever, it seems the music industry is now just as focused on the past as it is on the present. As s...
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Exclaim!'s 2014 in Lists: Top 10 Covers Albums of 2014 Published Dec 16, 2014For some reason, the music industry has long conflated singer and songwriter as if the acts of creation and expression were one job. But 201...