Scott Helman Hotel De Ville Warner Music Since bursting on the scene with the release of his debut EP Augusta in 2014, young Toronto singer/songwriter Scott Helman has toured the U.S. and Europe, both solo, with just his guitar as accompaniment, as well as with his bandmates [...]
Todd Rundgren White Knight Cleaopatra Records Todd Rundgren, the renowned singer/songwriter, recording artist, and producer, has released what may well be one of his best recordings to date with White Knight. Offering up a generous 15-track set list, Rundgren collaborates on [...]
John Oates – Change Of Seasons: A Memoir (With Chris Epting) St. Martin’s Press – April 4, 2017 ISBN – 978-1250082657 Book Review By Gerry Young In John Oates’ riveting new memoir Change of Seasons, one half of the mega-selling pop duo Hall & [...]
Goldfrapp Silver Eye Mute Records On Goldfrapp’s seventh album, Silver Eye, the London-based electropop duo of Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory return to their “Disco Goldfrapp” persona that has brought them great success in the past. You see, ever since their [...]
Spiral Stairs Doris & The Daggers Domino Records Former Pavement and Preston School of Industry guitarist Scott Kannberg (aka Spiral Stairs) took a sabbatical with his wife to Brisbane, Australia in 2010 after recording the first Spiral Stairs album, The Real Feel, little [...]
Duran Duran Last Night in the City: The Remixes Warner Music An interesting EP from Warner Music arrived, containing four remixes of Duran Duran’s “Last Night in the City” featuring Keisza, from their latest album Paper Gods. The remixes are by four of the world’s [...]
Paul Manchin Salutations Independent You may not have heard of Canadian singer/songwriter Paul Manchin until now, but chances are you will be hearing a lot about him soon, due to the release of his latest CD Salutations. Although having previously released six digital albums, [...]
No Joy Creep Top Shelf Records Montreal shoegaze band, No Joy, composed of the duo of Jasamine White-Gluz and Laura Lloyd, formed in 2009 and have released numerous EP’s and singles, along with three full-length studio albums – Ghost Blonde in 2010, Wait to Pleasure in [...]
Tall Ships Impressions Fat Cat Records Originally from Falmouth, England and now based in Brighton, Tall Ships consists of Ric Phetheen on vocals, guitars and keyboards, Matt Parker on bass guitar, backup vocals and keyboards, Jamie Bush on drums and James Elliott Field on [...]
Crushed Stars Displaced Sleepers Simulacra Records Hailing from Dallas, Texas, Crushed Stars have really delivered with their fourth and latest album Displaced Sleepers. Led by writer/guitarist/producer/front man Todd Gutreau, the band has long been known as “dream pop” [...]
Anthony Robustelli – Steely Dan F.A.Q.: All That’s Left To Know About This Elusive Band Backbeat Books – February 2, 2017 ISBN-10: 1495025128 ISBN-13: 978-1495025129 Book Review By Gerry Young The first time I heard Steely Dan’s hit single “Do It Again” [...]
Cloud Nothings Life Without Sound Carpark Records While attending high school in Cleveland, Cloud Nothing’s 25 year-old frontman, Dylan Baldi, would spend hours driving around the suburbs listening to music. If it sounded okay to him in that context, then it passed the [...]
Minihorse Big Lack Friendship Fever Records I first got wind of Ypsilanti, Michigan “Introvert Rock” band Minihorse a few months ago. Someone in my musical universe told me they were a band to watch out for and, lo and behold, their debut EP Big Lack showed up this week. [...]
Bob Dylan The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert! Sony Music Canada Growing up in the sixties, like I’m sure for many others at the time, Bob Dylan was my poet. Hell, I guess I even idolized the guy in a way only a teenager can. Seeing him arm and arm on the cover of [...]
Chris de Burgh A Better World Justin Time Records Chris de Burgh’s 22nd studio album, A Better World, arrived in stores on October 28th, and it ventures into familiar territory for de Burgh, that includes diverse styles, tempos, and instrumentation. A Better World seems [...]
Soft Lions XOXO Velvet Blue Records Following up on last year’s debut EP, Spellbreaker, the San Diego trio Soft Lions, led by Megan Liscomb, turn out six new tracks that deal with the usual pitfalls of youth, like objectification, breaking up, depression and falling in [...]
Crystal Fighters Everything Is My Family Zirkulo/PIAS/Atlantic Records The third studio album from pop party band Crystal Fighters is Everything Is My Family. A truly international band, Crystal Fighters is composed of Sebastian “Bast” Pringle (guitar and txalaparta), Graham [...]
