Lucy Spraggan Today Was A Good Day Cooking Vinyl Naming your album Today Was A Good Day is certainly a good indication of how the artist feels at the moment. And with [...]
The Last Bees The Last Bees Independent By the first few notes of his debut EP it becomes obvious that Milwaukee’s Ian Nash, or basically The Last Bees loves The Beatles, [...]
James Parm Oh My Darling Independent How do you reconcile with personal breakup? One way is to take a long trip far away, and James Parm left Montreal for South East Asia after [...]
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 [...]
