VibeByMelo And Travis Thickle THE HILLS HAVE WIFI Independent VibeByMelo is back with another quality album. Paired with Ottawa-based producer Travis Thickle, the two artists find their own lane creating a catchy project with conscious hip hop [...]
Daniel Romano’s Outfit Content To Point The Way You’ve Changed Records Content To Point The Way is Daniel Romano’s third full-length album release since the end of March. Prolific does not even begin to describe him. Even more [...]
MARK LANEGAN – SING BACKWARDS AND WEEP HACHETTE BOOKS BOOK REVIEW BY GERROD HARRIS Perhaps best known as the singer of the Screaming Trees, a band that would greatly influence the pending grunge explosion of the ‘90s, Mark Lanegan has released [...]
APPALACHIAN FOLK FESTIVAL LIVESTREAM CAST FROM VARIOUS LOCATIONS APRIL 25, 2020 The West Virginia area has a very healthy and diverse music community, which the Appalachian Folk Online Music Festival brought to the world this past week. These [...]
APPALACHIAN FOLK FESTIVAL PREVIEW: PART 2 A CONVERSATION WITH SARAH RUDY OF HELLO JUNE Labels can sometimes be misleading, especially when applied to music. So often we compare new music to that which has come before. “If you liked band X you’ll [...]
APPALACHIAN FOLK FESTIVAL PREVIEW: PART 1 A CONVERSATION WITH WILLIAM MATHENY The Appalachian Folk Festival is a live-stream that shouldn’t be missed and is coming your way on April 25. One of the featured artists for that online festival is [...]
Snog Lullabies For The Lithium Age Metropolis Australian David Thrussell aka Snog was already an enigma even before he came up with his latest album Lullabies For The Lithium Age. He has not been active in the music scene for quite a few years [...]
Philip Rambow Canadiana Fretsore Records When you listen to the new Philip Rambow album, Canadiana, the first thing you realize is that five years between albums is simply too long. His last album, 2015’s Whatever happened To Philip Rambow, was [...]
Indigo Girls Look Long Rounder Records Indigo Girls, composed of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, are a well-established outfit blending folk rock with a southern country sound, and when it works it really is damn good. It is shown at its best on [...]
Danzig Danzig Sings Elvis Cleopatra Records It’s no secret Glenn Danzig is greatly inspired by the pop music of the ‘50s. His new album, Danzig Sings Elvis, is a love letter to the era. The horror punk icon, commonly referred to as “Evil Elvis”, [...]
Ana Cristina Cash Shine Avondale Records Ana Cristina Cash has had a very diverse career up to this point. This album, Shine, is her first album since 2018’s My Christmas Collection, and her third entirely English language one. As Ana Cristina, [...]
Elmwood Underground These, Them’s And Those Independent Let us put everything on the table. There is a heavy and sad cloud hanging over this album. Sean Cunnington, guitarist for the band, passed away on March 18, 2020 due to COVID-19. So, [...]
A FITTING TRIBUTE TO A REMARKABLE MUSICIAN AND FRIEND A CONVERSATION WITH DWAYNE LAU OF ELMWOOD UNDERGROUND Music is very powerful. It can inform us, educate us, transport us in time, trigger a powerful memory in us, and provide us with a much [...]
X Alphabetland Fat Possum There is no doubt from the first few bars of album opener “Alphabetland” that Los Angeles icons X have never really left us. It’s surreal to think 35 years have passed since the original lineup recorded an album [...]
JOHN BARROW – HOW NOT TO MAKE IT IN THE POP WORLD (DIARY OF AN ALMOST HAS-BEEN) TRAFFORD PUBLISHING (REPRINT EDITION) BOOK REVIEW BY GERRY YOUNG As a self-described “journeyman of pop,” John Barrow certainly fits the bill, being a former [...]
Beartaker Total Disgrace Independent Without warning, Beartaker formed and dropped their debut EP, Total Disgrace. The four-song release comes from Monster Truck’s Jeremy Widerman and Bad Ideas’ Theodore Mckibbon, a pair of friends who recently [...]
Shoemaker Levee Phase Of The Days 1013793 Records DK If I were asked “What Canadian band would you like to see play at Red Rocks Amphitheatre?”, my response would be Shoemaker Levee. The band’s latest album, Phase of the Days, brings their prog [...]
LUX GRAVES – “GIRL WITH A GUN” A SPILL EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE Lux Graves is an all female electronic band from Auckland, New Zealand. Influenced by the genre witch-house, low-fi production & sad girl aesthetics, the duo [...]
THE BLACK FEVER – “NO WORK” A SPILL EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE The Black Fever are back with the video for their song “No Work,” which was released as part of their latest EP, Unarticulated Wants. The Toronto-based [...]
The White Buffalo On The Widow’s Walk Snakefarm Records The White Buffalo, persona of one Jake Smith, has returned with a new album On the Widow’s Walk, an impressive collection of songs about the passing of time and the search for [...]
Mick Harvey Waves Of ANZAC/The Journey Mute Mick Harvey has proven so far that he is an artist that is bound to surprise you, and in practically all cases, pleasantly. Not that some of his music is an easy listen, and he didn’t mean it to be. [...]
Well Yells We Mirror the Dead Independent Well Yells, the night-time name of Patrick Holbrook, has returned with his third album in the last few years We Mirror the Dead, a brooding, ominous set of tracks that thump along with a heaviness and [...]
The Pack A.D. It Was Fun While It Lasted Fontana North “It’s better to burn out than to fade away”, Neil Young sings in “My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)”. The Pack A.D. have announced that this will be their last album. Perhaps not forever, but [...]
Monks Road Social Humanism Monks Road Records Humanism is the third full album for the collective known as Monks Road Social. Featured artists on this album include: Mick Talbot (Style Council), Dr Robert (Blow Monkeys), Crispin Taylor [...]
