EXPLODING FLOWERS ALPHABET WINDOW MERITORIO RECORDS You don’t have to invent (or re-invent) the wheel, in this case, a microphone, guitar or any music related thing for your music to be good a truly listenable. You possibly just need to [...]
ELLA THOMSON TRIUMPH AND SADNESS MR BONGO RECORDS A great, brilliant sound never goes away, and the one that characterises the classic deep soul of 60s and 70s is certainly among them. Not many artists today either venture (or sometimes have the [...]
FONTAINES D.C. DOPAMINE CHAMBER XL RECORDINGS Dopamine Chamber is Fontaines D.C.’s fifth album, following 2024’s hugely successful Romance. There was a lot of pressure for the band to live up to the expectations set by Romance, not only did they [...]
LEVELLERS LEVELLING THE LAND WARNER/RHINO RECORDS Back in 1991, I was a poor student attending University Of Toronto, so I could not afford CDs, but I could afford cassettes. So, I purchased this album in that format and wore it out. It is a [...]
BILLBOARD STYLE PULL OF THE MOON GOOD ENGLISH RECORDS Very often, side projects turn into vanity projects, with all involved trying too hard to sound different than they usually do. Brooklyn’s Billboard Style is a side project of Ben [...]
LUCY DREAMS LIVE AT WIENER KONZERTHAUS SONICWAVEARTPOP Before Lucy Dreams released their most recent studio album, VVVVV, they performed it, in its entirety in concert. This live album, which was released with absolutely no fanfare or publicity, [...]
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ANN WILSON & TRIPSITTER CONSECRATED GROUND LABEL LOGIC There comes a point in a rock legend’s career when the temptation is to look backwards—to revisit the songs, sounds, and moments that made the artist famous. Ann Wilson has never seemed [...]
REUBEN AND THE DARK IF YOU KNOW ME, YOU KNOW MY BROTHER PULLING UP ARROWS RECORDS Calgary’s Reuben Bullock and his Reuben and The Dark have never been easy to categorize, even though quite a number of critics have been comparing them with [...]
TEENAGE FANCLUB DO NOT DARE TO DREAM MERGE RECORDS Being decades on the music scene, with fans needing extra fingers to count your albums, your music is bound to change, with one question being essential there – is the quality changing for [...]
GROWING PAINS DANIEL LOVES MANDY FOREVER PHOTO FINISH RECORDS Labeling band’s music has become a very hard job for PR people, as artists and bands these days keep crossing the strictly formulated terms that are supposed to describe the [...]
TWIN TEMPLE DOOMED LOVERS PENTAGRAMMATON RECORDS Roy Orbison never dabbled in demon worship… as far as we know. But if he did, it’d sound like Twin Temple’s latest album Doomed Lovers. The husband-and-wife duo are no strangers to controversy. [...]
DEATH VALLEY GIRLS WELCOME TO EARTH SUICIDE SQUEEZE RECORDS Death Valley Girls’ Welcome to Earth isn’t your typical grief record. It’s like Hanna-Barbera’s Josie and the Pussycats having an existential crisis. The album was born from the ashes [...]
GENESIS FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION ESOTERIC RECORDINGS/CHERRY RED RECORDS It is March 1969, and an album from a new band appears in record stores. The band is Genesis and the album is From Genesis to Revelation. It is a clever title, but sadly [...]
CAITLIN STARR SPEED SAVES G-FOIL RECORDS Freshly signed to G-Foil records, NYC-based post-grunge artist Caitlin Starr has released her second EP Speed Saves, a succinct and emotionally direct collection of tracks that revolve around her [...]
SUNNAN SPAGHETTI SOUL INDEPENDENT Spaghetti Soul is Sunnan’s sophomore album. They are a Swedish collective who have issued seven singles in preparation for this album. Since their debut album, 2025’s Cinema, the band has issued several singles [...]
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THE BEATLES RUBBER SOUL – SPECIAL EDITION (SUPER DELUXE) APPLE/UNIVERSAL MUSIC Rubber Soul is a very interesting album in The Beatles catalogue. It is arguably one of their most important, as it was a bridge to Revolver from their early [...]
FAT DOG CANCEL ME (I’M TIRED) DOMINO RECORDING COMPANY Fat Dog, one of the most boisterous acts to emerge from the UK within the last few years, has just released an explosive sophomore LP that sounds like what you would dance to at the end of [...]
DEAD POET SOCIETY MONARCH SPINEFARM RECORDS From beginning to end, Dead Poet Society creates an atmosphere that feels heavy, emotional, and almost unsettling in the best possible way. It is an album that doesn’t simply play in the [...]
LENE 3000 GREATEST SWAMP HITS 10K PROJECTS Lene 3000 is the moniker of Norwegian witch house singer songwriter Lene Talgø, who is just releasing her debut album with a grand title of Greatest Swamp Hits. For the uninitiated, according to [...]
VACATIONS PURSUIT OF ANYTHING NETTWERK MUSIC GROUP What is it with Australians and well too perfectly crafted sophisticated (pop) rock? Is it something in the water, tradition or something else? The number of such bands/artists from Down Under [...]
MX LONELY PERFECT HOUSE JULIA’S WAR RECORDINGS Peep beyond the meme inspired and crayon coloured artwork to find Perfect House, the most recent EP from Brooklyn, New York based shoegaze band, MX Lonely. The four-track record marks their second [...]
THE CRYSTAL TEARDROP LOVE YOU MORE POPCLAW RECORDS/RISE ABOVE RECORDS If you miss the days of peace, love, and rock ‘n’ roll when music wasn’t just something you listened to, it was something you could disappear into, The Crystal Teardrop [...]
GENE CHAMPAGNE TOO POP FOR PUNK…TOO PUNK TO CARE SIOUX RECORDS Gene Champagne has quite a history in rock ‘n’ roll, or rather punk. Besides making his own music (and by that, I mean he does everything), he is the drummer with Teenage Head, a [...]
NOFX 40 YEARS OF FUCKIN’ UP: SOUNDTRACK + SCORE FAT WRECK CHORDS The title of this album, 40 Years Of Fuckin’ Up, gives away the plot in some ways. NOFX has been around for 40 years, but their debut album, Liberal Animation was released in 1988, [...]
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