CIRCUIT3 METANOIA: MUSIC FROM THERAPY MORTALITY TABLES Circuit3 is Dublin-based musician Peter Fitzpatrick, and Metanoia: Music From Therapy is the first Circuit3 release since 2022’s Technology For The Youth. This primarily instrumental album [...]
JAH WOBBLE AND TIAN QIYI MYSTIC LIVERPOOL: THE BEATLES’ PSYCHEDELIC PSONGBOOK CHERRY RED RECORDS/30 HERTZ Since 1964, there have been numerous interpretations of The Beatles’ music. Stax, jazz, classical, Motown, country, Bing Crosby, [...]
JETHRO TULL J-TULL DOT COM: ANOTHER CAST OF THE NET (DELUXE EDITION) INSIDE OUT MUSIC Released in 1999, J-Tull Dot Com was Jethro Tull’s 20th studio album. Anderson and company navigated the 1980s well, but the 1990s proved to have new [...]
THE WOMACK SISTERS THE WOMACK SISTERS DAPTONE RECORDS Zeimani, BG, and Kucha are The Womack Sisters. The granddaughters of Sam Cooke, the daughters of Cecil and Linda Womack of Womack & Womack, and the nieces of Bobby Womack, their lineage [...]
JUNGLE SUNSHINE AWAL RECORDINGS British indie soul collective Jungle have been on a generational run, record after record, creating soul-jazz fusion, atmospheric vibes, and creative music videos with meticulous choreography. Most recently, they [...]
THE MOUNTAIN GOATS DAYS CADMEAN DAWN RECORDS Reviewing a Mountain Goats album can be a bit of a tall order. It’s like trying to describe the taste of an apple to an apple virgin. There are so many variables and textures and tastes that [...]
CANCER BATS GIVE ME DIRT BAT SKULL RECORDS/NEW DAMAGE RECORDS Riding high off the 20-year anniversary of their debut album, Birthing The Giant, which was celebrated with a triumphant cross-Canada tour, Cancer Bats have returned with Give Me [...]
STRAWBERRY ALARM CLOCK WHERE’S ONE? BIG STIR RECORDS When Strawberry Alarm Clock formed in 1967, it was really the coming together of two bands (Thee Sixpence and Waterfyrd Traene), and when they released their debut single, “Incense and [...]
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JOHN CARPENTER CATHEDRAL SACRED BONES RECORDS John Carpenter has long been known for turning nightmares into something tangible. For Carpenter’s new album, Cathedral, this is no different. In many ways, it grimly depicts a setting befitting of [...]
EFFE SOLDER ARTIST HOUSE RECORDS Dream pop in all its shapes and forms (old and new) lives on, and Melbourne, Australia’s singer/songwriter effe and her latest EP Solder confirm the fact. As far as that old and new thing is concerned, effe [...]
MCLUSKY MY PAIN AND SADNESS IS MORE SAD AND PAINFUL THAN YOURS BEGGARS BANQUET mclusky continues to make noise as they reissue their classic 2000 album, My Pain and Sadness Is More Sad and Painful Than Yours. Remastered by Sean Magee at Abbey [...]
CHARLIE EDWARD PUSHING MY LUCK ADA/WARNER MUSIC CANADA When not sharing the stage with Big Wreck, Joe Perry, Mötley Crüe, or Greta Van Fleet, Toronto’s Charlie Edward has spent much of the last year writing and recording the follow-up to his [...]
THE FAMILY DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR BIG BLACK COW RECORDS There are so many reasons a band would name itself The Family, with one key reason being that they actually are. In this case, Delusions of Grandeur is a debut by a family, or you could say [...]
LITVAR BEING HERE MOTHER WEST RECORDS Litvar’s frontman Rex Thurstan describes the band’s new offering, Being Here, as “a bare, stripped-back folk record.” Yet, that might be stretching it a bit. Of course, Thurstan might [...]
MOPAR STARS OFFICIAL RESEARCHERS OF THE NJ DEVIL K RECORDS/PERENNIAL RECORDS You would probably need more than ten fingers to count how many times critics have proclaimed the death of power pop – you know that rock genre, where melody, harmony [...]
CHURCH OF TREES TEN INDEPENDENT Church of Trees is a very prolific band. Since Bernard Frazer introduced the band to the world in 2017, they have released nine albums. Ten is their tenth, and, to date, their best. Although Frazer has been the [...]
CINDY BLACKMAN SANTANA COHERENCE MACK AVENUE RECORDS Following 2020’s Give The Drummer Some, Cindy Blackman Santana has returned with her seventh solo studio album, Coherence. The album takes a distinct turn towards contemporary jazz fusion, [...]
DEAD HORSE BEATS CHILLING EFFECT BASTARD JAZZ RECORDINGS Montreal/Toronto’s Dead Horse Beats, brainchild of Patrick Wade, have released its fourth studio album, Chilling Effect. The eight-track album fuses late ‘70s R&B, yacht rock, baroque [...]
DOMI & JD BECK WHO ASKED? BLUE NOTE RECORDS From going viral over their cover of the late rapper MF DOOM’s “ALL CAPS” to their incredible 2022 debut album NOT TiGHT. French American jazz duo DOMi Louna and JD Beck have released their [...]
TRASHCAN SINATRAS EVER THE OPTIMIST TCS RECORDINGS Not only are the Trashcan Sinatras celebrating their 40th anniversary this year, but they are also releasing their first album in ten years. Ever The Optimist is the long-awaited follow-up to [...]
STEVE HACKETT & STEVE ROTHERY THE ROARING WAVES CENTURY MEDIA If you have ever wondered what happens when two guitarists from two different prog-rock bands, both with a prog history in their solo careers, come together to record an album, [...]
MICHAEL HAMPTON KING KONG VIRGIN RECORDS In December of 2025, longtime Parliament-Funkadelic guitarist Michael Hampton released his latest album, Into The Public Domain, an instrumental album that marked the beginning of a new trilogy of records [...]
JON ANDERSON OLIAS OF SUNHILLOW MOBILE FIDELITY SOUND LAB When Yes completed the tour in support of their 1974 release, Relayer, the group came to the decision to take a break and each member could record their own album. Given Yes’s schedule [...]
PLANETTE AUTOMATIC BLUE FASCINATION BAD CATT RECORDS Ok, two ways side projects can go – sideways or good ways. The former usually turns up when it is a vanity project of those involved, while the latter comes up when those involved feel the [...]
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