Daniel Sylvester II

Fave songs feat. Steve Cropper. RIP.
1. Booker T. & The MGs - Green Onions
2. Otis Redding - Try a Little Tenderness
3. John Lennon - Stand by Me
4. Booker T. & The MGs - Time is Tight
5. Frank Black - Dark End of the Street
6. John Prine - The Great Compromise

Exclaim!'s 20 Best Songs of 2025 │ Exclaim! Your daily dose of the best music, film and comedy news, reviews, streams, concert listings, interviews and other exclusives on Exclaim!

I got to write about Marie Davidson's sassy dancefloor banger, "Fun Times," for Exclaim!'s 20 Best Songs of 2025 list.

Canada needs a monopoly buster! ⚠️ Canada will pick its next Competition Commissioner soon! Sign by Nov 28 ✍️ to demand a leader who will #StopMonopolies and fix Canada’s competition crisis ⚖️. https://openmedia.org/Competition4Cana...

⚠️ Canada will pick its next Competition Commissioner soon! Sign by Nov 28 ✍️ to demand a leader who will #StopMonopolies and fix Canada’s competition crisis ⚖️. openmedia.org/Competition4... @openmedia.org

Exclaim!'s 50 Best Albums of 2025 │ Exclaim! Your daily dose of the best music, film and comedy news, reviews, streams, concert listings, interviews and other exclusives on Exclaim!

I got to write about Exclaim!'s @exclaimdotca.bsky.social number one album of 2025, the much-deserving Bite Down by Montreal's Ribbon Skirt.

Favourite Jimmy Cliff songs. RIP.
1. The Harder They Come
2. Many Rivers to Cross
3. You Can Get It if You Really Want
4. Guns of Brixton
5. I Can See Clearly Now
6. Wild World
7. Wonderful World, Beautiful People
8. Vietnam
9. Reggae Night
10. Treat Youths Right

Fave somgs featuring Mani on bass. RIP.
1. Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
2. Primal Scream - Accelerator
3. Stone Roses - Love Spreads
4. Primal Scream - Swastika Eyes
5.Stone Roses - Fools Gold
6. Primal Scream - Kill All Hippies
7. Primal Scream - Kowalski
8. Stone Roses - I Am the Resurrection

Paul McCartney Made Montreal Come Together at Rock and Roll Megachurch │ Exclaim! Bell Centre, November 18

Travelled to a strange French colony last night to write a piece for @exclaimdotca.bsky.social on some upstart named Paul McCartney. Looks like he's going places.

Canada Needs Privacy Law Reforms Now! 🇨🇦 Canada’s privacy laws are DECADES old and fail to protect us from corporate misuse & government overreach. ✊ Tell MPs it’s time for real Privacy Law Reform and to make #Privacy4Canadians a priority...

🇨🇦 Canada’s privacy laws are DECADES old and fail to protect us from corporate misuse & government overreach. ✊ Tell MPs it’s time for real Privacy Law Reform and to make #Privacy4Canadians a priority! 📨 openmedia.org/Privacy4Cana...
@openmedia.org

Société Générale: Stop Financing Adani's Coal Société Générale brags about its so-called coal ‘exclusion policy’, but behind the scenes, it’s bankrolling one of the world's most corrupt, climate-wrecking coal giants: Adani. Rings a bell? Yes, it’

Société Générale: Stop Financing Adani's Coal
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Ten favourite Squeeze songs with Gilson Lavis on drums. R.I.P.
1. Tempted
2. Pulling Muscles (From the Shell)
3. Hourglass
4. Take Me, I'm Yours
5. Christmas Day
6. Another Nail in My Heart
7. Satisfied
8. Black Coffee in Bed
9. Up the Junction
10. Annie Get Your Gun

You don't mess with the Zohran.

5 Emerging Canadian Artists You Need to Hear in November 2025 │ Exclaim! Meet Exclaim!'s latest New Faves, including Indigenous power pop from Treaty 7, Toronto's next big thing in post-hardcore and more

I got to write a few words about They Say Stories, a very cool power pop band from Calgary, AB Treaty 7, for Exclaim!
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If it means Obama can run against him, bring it on.

Blew Jays.

Technically, his name should be Franken Berry's Monster.

You guys ever notice that that the President of the United States is a lil' bitch?

Bruce Springsteen's Albums Ranked │ Exclaim! The blue-collar rock everyman almost never delivers a dud

Just like Springsteen himself, I worked my basebell cap-holding lil' butt off ranking every one of The Boss' studio albums for @exclaimdotca.bsky.social

Talib Kweli Demanded to Be Heard in Ottawa │ Exclaim! 27 Club, October 9

No Mos Def, but I finally got to hear Talib Kweli perform a few Black Star songs. I'll take it! Here's what I have to say about it via @exclaimdotca.bsky.social
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Fix Bill C-8: Stop the Fast-Track of a Flawed Cybersecurity Bill Huge encryption risks, same secret orders. 🚨 Don’t let it fast track through Parliament. Speak up and tell your MP to #FixBillC8 now! 📣 https://openmedia.org/FixBillC8

🇨🇦’s Cybersecurity bill is back! Bill C-8 is Bill C-26’s twin. 👯‍♀️ Huge encryption risks, same secret orders. 🚨 Don’t let #BillC8 fast track through Parliament. Speak up and tell your MP to #FixBillC8 now! 📣 openmedia.org/FixBillC8-bsky
@openmediaorg.bsky.social

Radiohead's Albums Ranked from Worst to Best │ Exclaim! To mark 25 years of 'Kid A,' we're counting down the highlights of the band's calogue

Happy 25th anniversary to Kid A. I celebrated the only way I know how, by ranking all of Radiohead's albums for @exclaimdotca.bsky.social.

Favourite LPs featuring Danny Thompson, RIP.
1. Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
2. Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
3. Pentangle - Sweet Child
4. David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive
5. Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story
6. T. Rex - Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow

Ducks Ltd. Were as Big as All Outside at Long-Awaited Ottawa Debut │ Exclaim! 27 Club, September 26

I got to write about Ducks Ltd. first Ottawa appearance for @exclaimdotca.bsky.social . Spoiler: it was worth the wait.

Sloan's 'Based on the Best Seller' Is Blockbuster Canadiana │ Exclaim! Your daily dose of the best music, film and comedy news, reviews, streams, concert listings, interviews and other exclusives on Exclaim!

"The wheel hasn't been reinvented, but you get all the inside jokes because they're your friends — and you're just happy to have been invited along for the ride."
Sloan's 14th LP does all the Sloan stuff you expect from a Sloan album. Here's what I had to say about it for @exclaimdotca.bsky.social

"Let them eat Hamburger Helper."

No confidence in von der Leyen Our friend and colleague Mariam Abu Dagga was killed in Gaza. She was reporting from Nasser Hospital when an Israeli missile hit. Minutes later, another strike killed her and the rescue team.Ursula vo

Time to get rid of Ursula von der Leyen's European Commission! action.eko.org/a/eu-no-conf...

Five favourite Flipper songs.
RIP Bruce Loose.
1. Sex Bomb (Album - Generic Flipper, 1982)
2. Ha Ha Ha (single, 1980)
3. Sacrifice (Gone Fishin', 1984)
4. Way of the World (Album - Generic Flipper, 1982)
5. Learn to Live (Love, 2009)

Nobody better lay a finger on my Badmotorfinger.

Favourite albums featuring Jim Kimball on drums
1. Mule- Mule
2. The Jesus Lizard - Blue
3. Laughing Hyenas - Life of Crime
4. Firewater - Get off the Cross, We Need the Wood for the Fire
5. Laughing Hyenas - You Can't Pray a Lie

Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Ornette Coleman
Charles Mingus
Thelonious Monk
Sun Ra
Kamasi Washington
Rashaan Roland Kirk
Herbie Hancock
Makaya McCraven

Favourite Mastodon songs:
1. Blood and Thunder (Leviathan)
2. March of the Fire Ants (Remission)
3. Colony of Birchmen (Blood Mountain)
4. The Czar (Crack the Skye)
5. Stargasm (The Hunter )
6. Iron Tusk (Leviathan)
7. Gigantium (Hushed and Grim)
8. The Wolf Is Loose (Blood Mountain)