Casper Skulls Lips & Skull Buzz Records Although trends in popular music would suggest guitar Rock has been through a bit of a latent period in the past few years, labels [...]
Lou Barlow Apocalypse Fetish Joyful Noise Recordings A year after the release of Brace the Wave, a record exploring the complexity and heartbreak of his divorce, Lou Barlow [...]
Hooded Fang Venus On Edge Daps Records My first encounter with Hooded Fang was on a compilation called Milkin’ It, an In Utero tribute record littered with every corner of [...]
Solids Else Dine Alone Records Sometime in the early teens of the 21st century, a niche group of rock bands decided they were completely burned out on jangly Libertines-esque rock music, and [...]
Nap Eyes w/ Century Palm & Cian Nugent @ The Garrison, Toronto April 7, 2016 The Garrison is a great venue for soft, airy music. Typically the crowd and performers have an [...]
Yeasayer Amen & Goodbye Mute Records Many bands make careers out of applying the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” philosophy: Rage Against the Machine did it for a few years, [...]
Wintersleep The Great Detachment Dine Alone Records A few years ago, economist and Freakonomics co-author Stephen Dubner declared McDonald’s McDouble hamburger to be the [...]
The Dirty Nil Higher Power Dine Alone Records For the better part of a decade, The Dirty Nil has been chipping away a monolith of a rock band. They’ve been patiently releasing 7” [...]
Yuck Stranger Things Mamé Records Breaking up is hard to do. After the success of Yuck’s eponymous first record in 2011, founding member Daniel Blumberg left the band, leaving the [...]
Junior Boys Big Black Coat Geej Recording/City Slang Big Black Coat, Junior Boys’ first release in five years (and first for new label City Slang), finds them working in the [...]
The Pooches Heart Attack EP Lame-O Records Geography has always served as ambivalent signifier for bands. The Strokes were compared to Television upon the release of their first [...]
Vicky Speedboat Two Years No Basement Independent More than halfway through Two Years No Basement, vocalist/guitarist Will Lindsay declares “I tend to fall in love [...]
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart Hell Yebo Music Packaged as a sort of afterthought, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart’s Hell EP is a pleasant three-track offering from the New York band. [...]
