Gorillaz Humanz Parlophone It’s safe to say Gorillaz is one of the quirkiest and most enigmatic acts out there today. The virtual hip-hop band, after seven years, makes their comeback with Humanz, with help from an all-star lineup of collaborators. In a word, Humanz is [...]
HOTTER THAN THE SUN AN INTERVIEW WITH RYAN GULDEMOND OF MOTHER MOTHER The beginning of 2017 has been a busy time for Mother Mother. After the release of their new album, No Culture, it was right to the road for the Vancouver-based alt-rockers; launching a nationwide Canadian [...]
Hippo Campus Landmark Grand Jury Music The full-length debut from Minneapolis-based Hippo Campus, Landmark, is a well-written, complex, and atmospheric collection of alt-rock tunes that not only makes the listener think, but is easy to simply lose yourself in. Landmark is an [...]
Jonathan Roy Mr. Optimist Blues Warner Music Canada/Siena Records “Pro-athlete-turned-pop-star” isn’t a narrative that you’d typically expect to hear in the music industry, but it’s a narrative that applies to singer-songwriter Jonathan Roy. Roy shows off his vocal and [...]
Two Door Cinema Club Gameshow Parlophone Records Four years after the release of their second album, Beacon, and three years after the release of the Changing of the Seasons EP, Irish alt-Rock trio Two Door Cinema Club has finally delivered on its promises of a third [...]
Phantogram Three Republic Records Three, the aptly named third record from New York-based dreampop outfit Phantogram, sees more of the signature distorted, grimy, tension filled sounds that anyone familiar with their material would recognize, along with some pop-friendlier [...]
Empty Houses Daydream Sargent House After the successful release of 2014’s Oh, Common Life, Punk-Rockers David Mackinder and Adam Mercer of Fireworks shed their Rock outfit and enlist vocalist Ali Shea for a nostalgic Retro Pop sound in Empty Houses’ debut full-length release, [...]
Ladyhawke Wild Things Polyvinyl Records If you take the ingenious synthy goodness of CHVRCHES and the catchy Pop hooks of Carly Rae Jepsen and throw them in a blender, what you’ll get is probably something close to the third album from New Zealand native Pip Brown, alias [...]
