Various Artists Fool’s Gold: Loosies Fool’s Gold Records Who the hell is Fool’s Gold anyways? Fool’s Gold is a record label that was founded in 2007 in Brooklyn by DJs, A-Trak and Nick Catchdubs. Bridging the Hip-Hop and Electronic [...]
Megascavenger Descent Of Yuggoth Selfmadegod Megascavenger is the brainchild of Swedish Death Metal icon Rogga Johanson. Johanson’s also responsible for delightfully brutal bands such as: Paganizer, Ribspreader, Demiurg, The Grotesquery, Bone [...]
I:Scintilla Marrow I Alfa-Matrix Records We live in a world of right and wrong, two paths that split the earth in two. The path we choose is solely based on our habits and attitudes, for once we venture on it is rather difficult to turn back. [...]
Legend Fearless Artoffact Records Legend, an Electronic music duo from Iceland, originally released their debut album Fearless independently. Soon after the release the album was re-released on Toronto-based record label Artoffact. On Fearless, [...]
DYM The Technocratic Deception Vendetta Music The Technocratic Deception, Canadian Industrial duo DYM’s second full-length studio album, offers up some great club tracks. I was confused by the choice of opener, “The End,” which is a weaker [...]
Alexisonfire Death Letter Dine Alone Records It was a sombre goodbye, for the record. Quite different from the farewell tour that graced the world, Toronto included, when the St. Catherines band played their last notes together. Death Letter, an [...]
Memory Tapes Grace/Confusion Carpark Records Moments cascade to our memory, like food aromas to the palate, causing a sudden rapture within the soul as we wait to feast with uvula and tongue clamouring. We know not what is to happen, or if we [...]
Ien Oblique Drowning World Infacted Recordings Drowning World, the debut album by musical trio Ien Oblique, is an 11-track album of well-crafted dark Electro-pop tracks that are reminiscent of the mid-’80s New Wave sounds that shaped the [...]
TRENT SEVERN @ THE DAKOTA TAVERN, TORONTO NOVEMBER 27, 2012 I never thought I would see a band as superbly talented as Trent Severn in a small environment like the Dakota Tavern in downtown Toronto. The words “mesmerizing,” “phenomenal,” [...]
Elvis Costello In Motion Pictures Universal Music In Motion Pictures is a compilation of Elvis Costello songs that were featured in movies, and according to the press release, were “originally brokered and now hand-picked, with the sometimes [...]
Kid Rock Rebel Soul Atlantic Records / Warner Music Group As an artist Kid Rock is a polarizing figure. He’s a Rapper and a Rock ‘n’ Roller, but this often dissatisfies fans of both genres. He does have a wide ranging, loyal following of NASCAR [...]
The Auras The Auras EP Unsigned It’s been a while since I’ve come across a Psychedelic Rock band imbued with the spirit of psychedelia from the ’60s. I think it’s safe to say, almost lamentably, that ostensibly contemporary music is moving away [...]
Various Artists The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 Chop Shop/Atlantic Twilight. A single word that holds the power to make a moon-eyed audiences scream in delight or cause a less-than-enthusiastic individual to shake their head in disgust. [...]
Amy Winehouse At The BBC Universal Music Canada Amy Winehouse quickly became an icon in the music industry with her single “Rehab,” being on many charts since its official release. Winehouse has recorded a number of sessions with the BBC that [...]
The Babies Our House On the Hill Woodsist Records Sound is a palpable thing, and has the capability of jarring emotions from us at a moment’s notice – a powerful display of energy animating clay long after it dissolves from reality. Music can in [...]
How To Destroy Angels An Omen Sony Trent Reznor returns with wife Mariqueen Maandig on vocals with a taster for next year’s How To Destroy Angels album. This six-track EP mainly delivers taut, lithe, percussive Funk. Opening track “Keep It [...]
Roc Marciano Reloaded Decon Decon Records just dropped Reloaded, Roc Marciano’s sophomore LP, and it is nothing less than dope. This Long Island, New York emcee has kept us waiting patiently for this album, but it was well worth the wait. “Tek [...]
TheWeeknd Trilogy Universal/Republic Records This long awaited three-disc (160 minute) compilation album is one pristine piece of work and a hell of an album. Trilogy is TheWeeknd’s first release with a major label. Mixtapes; House of Balloons, [...]
Shugo Tokumaru In Focus? Polyvinyl Record Co. Tokyo-born multi-instrumentalist Shugo Tokumaru is back with a fun new album laden with maddening and enchanting sounds. From high-energy tunes that don’t seem to come with a brake pedal, to slower, [...]
Crystal Castles Crystal Castles (III) Fiction / Casablanca / Universal Republic There was Crystal Castles (I), Crystal Castles (II), and finally here is their third self-titled album, Crystal Castles (III). Torontonians Alice Glass and Ethan [...]
Teen Daze The Inner Mansions Lefse Records Fraser Valley, of B.C.-based Teen Daze, is back with an atmospheric and hazy new album, his second full-length release to date. On The Inner Mansions, sounds float around and drift into one another, [...]
The Dirty Projectors About to Die Domino The Dirty Projectors have, in their decade of existence, established themselves as a strange brand of Art-pop, the element of Pop being the conduit separating them from being yet another [...]
The Envy Conception EP Simmons Records I fully realize that this is an album review, which usually means an all-encompassing review of the whole thing, but I’m going to focus on the single “Music To My Ears” because it pretty well explains this [...]
Various Artists Reggae Golden Jubilee – Origins of Jamaican Music VP Records Edward Seaga, former producer and Jamaican Prime Minister, “hand picked 100 of the most significant songs to emerge from the country to celebrate the island’s [...]
