KEITH WALLEN INFINITY NOW RISE RECORDS Rock music’s Breaking Benjamin’s guitarist Keith Wallen has released his new solo album Infinity Now via Rise Records. The follow up to 2021’s This World Or The Next comes alongside a spring tour with [...]

THE PLOT IN YOU VOL. 2 FEARLESS RECORDS After the release of Vol. 1 earlier this year, The Plot In You returns with a second EP titled Vol. 2. Hailing from Hancock County, OH, The Plot In You have become quite a force within the modern rock [...]

KAMASI WASHINGTON FEARLESS MOVEMENT YOUNG Kamasi Washington exudes ambition. For evidence of this, look not only to his virtuosic performance and songwriting, but look to the fact that his debut album, 2015’s The Epic, was a three-volume [...]

CAMERA OBSCURA LOOK TO THE EAST, LOOK TO THE WEST MERGE RECORDS Camera Obscura is back after a hiatus of quite a few years and you might not say that they are back with a vengeance, but you may with the usual melodic detail and sophistication, [...]

JESSICA PRATT HERE IN THE PITCH MEXICAN SUMMER Those familiar with Jessica Pratt  might be mainly accustomed to her excellent songwriting usually based on her no less incredible vocals and acoustic guitar. Her songwriting was always that good [...]

JOHN CARPENTER LOST THEMES IV: NOIR SACRED BONES John Carpenter, the “Prince of Darkness”, is widely known as a movie-maker and composer for some of the best science fiction, action, and horror movies of the ‘70s and ‘80s. Carpenter has joined [...]

DEA MATRONA FOR YOUR SINS PICADILLY RECORDS The highly-anticipated debut album For Your Sins from Orláith Forsythe and Mollie McGinn of the Irish rock duo Dea Matrona has finally arrived. For Your Sins drips with flavour and style. It features [...]

JOHN McKIEL HEX YOU’VE CHANGED RECORDS With the release of his fourth album Hex, Jon McKiel finds new ways to push traditional song structures and production boundaries. The New Brunswick native returns with this 10-song LP following the [...]

VARIOUS ARTISTS PUNK FLOYD – A TRIBUTE TO PINK FLOYD CLEOPATRA RECORDS When Dirk McQuickly left The Rutles, he formed The Punk Floyd. This album, Punk Floyd – A Tribute To Pink Floyd, is not the long lost album by that band, but rather punk [...]

CHARLOTTE DAY WILSON CYAN BLUE STONE WOMAN MUSIC/XL RECORDINGS With the release of her second full-length album, Charlotte Day Wilson provides a captivating musical production, one that is as engaging as it is sonically mesmerizing. Fans of the [...]

FRANK TURNER UNDEFEATED XTRA MILE RECORDINGS Frank Turner is famously prolific. This is now his tenth studio album, and it’s a defiant and typically sing-a-long howl from Turner, particularly on songs like the opener “Do One”, but perhaps best [...]

STEPHEN SANCHEZ ANGEL FACE (CLUB DELUXE) MERCURY RECORDS/REPUBLIC RECORDS/UNIVERSAL MUSIC In 2023 I reviewed Stephen Sanchez’s debut album, Angel Face for Spill Magazine. Although I did not include it in the original review, I do recall thinking [...]

SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE TIME IS GLASS DRAG CITY Ben Chasny, or Six Organs Of Admittance, was never an artist that could be pinned down, and his albums so far ran through a gamut of sounds, from pastoral folk to full-on, loud psychedelia or [...]

KYP HARNESS KICK THE DUST INDEPENDENT After 30 years on the scene, you are free to call Kyp Harness a Canadian musical institution. Just take a look (and a listen) to a myriad of releases listed on his Bandcamp page and the fact that his take on [...]

COLOUR FILM HALF AN HOUR INDEPENDENT Matthew de Zoete, Hamilton, ON singer-songwriter, has been around for a while (since 2006, to be precise) and has been quietly making some sublime sounds ever since. Yet behind quietly lies the fact that Half [...]

JUSTICE HYPERDRAMA ED BANGER RECORDS/BECAUSE MUSIC Justice’s highly anticipated fourth album, Hyperdrama, is now here. It has been more than seven years since their previous album, Woman. Even more, they have released a few singles in [...]

GOSPELBEACH WIGGLE YOUR FINGERS CURATION RECORDS Gospelbeach is a band out of Los Angeles. Wiggle Your Fingers is an incredibly well-produced and well-written album that is full of strong melodies, fantastic lyrics, and spirit. Although they are [...]

BLITZ VEGA NORTHERN GENTLEMAN FUTURESONIC RECORDS/CEN/THE ORCHARD On May 19, 2023, the world lost Andy Rourke. He was a remarkably talented bass player and DJ. He was also working with KAV (Kav Sandu, the former guitarist for Happy Mondays) in a [...]

THUNDER QUEENS STRIKE ONE VICTORY POOL Thunder Queens is a trio out of London, Ontario, consisting of Violet Bruneel, Lola Hayman, and Clara Magnan. Their debut album, Strike One, is a rocking good time of punk, grunge, 70s metal, and riot [...]

BIRDFEEDER WOODSTOCK SOUL SELECTS You don’t get any socials for seemingly anonymous Birdfeeder. Frankly, you don’t really need them as this is a sort of a left-field supergroup playing some laid-back (well, not all the time), [...]

KATY PINKE KATY PINKE GLAMOUR GOWNS RECORDS When you learn a bit more about Katy Pinke who just released her debut self-titled album, it is easy to find out that you have a true artist on your hands. Along with developing her musical career (she [...]

VARIOUS ARTISTS LOVE, LA ORG MUSIC Compilation albums have often been hit-and-miss, over the course of recorded music history, but that is not the case with Love, LA. This multi-artist release is a rare gem among the ‘compilation’ genre. As a [...]

BERNIE WORRELL WAVE FROM THE WOONIVERSE ORG MUSIC The legacy of Bernie Worrell continues to develop despite his passing in 2016. The estate of legendary keyboardist, primarily known for his work with the revolutionary Parliament and Funkadelic, [...]

VARIOUS ARTISTS THE WESTBOUND SOUND: WESTBOUND RECORDS CURATED BY RSD, VOL. 1 ORG MUSIC Established in 1968, Westbound Records rose to prominence throughout the 1970s among Detroit’s premier funk labels. While their roster would include the [...]