Ashley Wilson Paint The Sky Independent For artists who are just starting to gain some notoriety, the natural tendency is to compare them to more familiar names. Though [...]
Gordon Lightfoot The Complete Singles 1970-1980 Real Gone Music Gordon Lightfoot is a legend in the fullest sense of the word, an honour that few musicians [...]
The Camino Side Project Of Movement & Music Paul Farran Music Montreal’s Paul Farran has quite an interesting story, and instead of picking up a pen, [...]
Dave Allen Live At The Five & Dime Independent Toronto’s Dave Allen came up with When The Demons Come, one of the more sublime debut albums of 2017 and still he seems [...]
DEREK & DAVE PHILPOTT – DEAR MR. POP STAR UNBOUND – SEPTEMBER 20, 2018 BOOK REVIEW BY LJUBINKO ZIVKOVIC The premise for this book is brilliant – a [...]
Blitzen Trapper Furr (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) Sub Pop Did you ever wonder what a compendium album of roots/americana music with a psychedelic [...]
Merry Clayton Merry Clayton Real Gone Music Strange is the fate of backup singers. Many have extraordinary talents, but rarely get anything beyond a mention in the liner [...]
Reuben & The Dark Arms Of A Dream Arts & Crafts Anybody a bit more familiar with Calgary’s Ruben & The Dark has known them so far as just yet another set of [...]
Megan Bonnell Separate Rooms Cadence Music Group Three albums into her musical career and Megan Bonnell is ready to become a name that is recognizable beyond Canadian [...]
Dana Buoy Ice Glitter Gold Everloving Akron/Family are (were?) one of those bands from whose inception you were never on a sure ground. On record or live (even better), you [...]
Idiot Grins State Of Health Snug Harbor Records Harkening back to bygone musical times requires detailed musical knowledge and perception, but also a vision of what kind of sound [...]
The Flux Machine Hurricane Independent How do you mix a good cocktail that will pump you up, get you moving, jump around so that at one point you can simply drop? Usually, it means [...]
Dave Allen When The Demons Come Independent Dave Allen has released When the Demons Come, a stone cold brilliant album that absolutely should not become a tiny footnote of, in this [...]
Various Artists Stax Country Stax Records Would anyone have expected a country music album from the stalwart Southern soul label Stax? Nevertheless, while there is a history [...]
Julien Baker Turn Out The Lights Matador Records Julien Baker’s new album Turn Out the Lights is emotionally disarming, as her talent as a songwriter/lyricist/singer makes [...]
Dirty Fences Goodbye Love Greenway Records You walk into a punk/heavy rock dive, you’re seriously craving a greasy burger and an even more seriously cold beer. Oh, and you want [...]
Little Coyote The Trouble With Teeth EggHunt Records Debut albums can be a tough affair, for the artists making them and for the listeners encountering an artist they are not [...]
Michael Nau The Load Suicide Squeeze Sometimes, no matter how good you are or how hard you try — or both — you just have an extremely hard time making it. It can be any [...]
