Bad Buzz For A Good Time, Call… Independent Sporting a new lineup, Toronto punk rockers Bad Buzz have returned since their 2019 studio EP, Try Harder. Following a trio of singles released in the first half of this year – “Carousel”, “A [...]
David Crosby For Free BMG Sometime this August, David Crosby will turn 80. He has practically been around throughout the entire history of rock music in all its forms. That, along with working solo, working with such iconic bands as The Byrds, [...]
Dallas Burrow Dallas Burrow Independent For some, the cowboy hat Dallas Burrow is wearing on his second, self-titled album might be the only reason to skip on it. For others, it might be exactly the reason to pick it up. In both cases, they [...]
Prince Welcome 2 America Sony The posthumous additions to the expansive discography of Prince have included a pair of massive deluxe reissues and numerous vinyl debuts, while the two unreleased collections of music – 2018’s Piano & A [...]
JOSÉ JUNIOR – YO NO SOY MARINERO EP A SPILL EXCLUSIVE ALBUM PREMIERE If Spanish love ballads and the ’90s neo-psych scene in England sound like an unlikely pairing… well, it’s probably because they are, but they make for [...]
KENNETH WOMACK & JASON KRUPPA – ALL THINGS MUST PASS AWAY. HARRISON, CLAPTON, AND OTHER ASSORTED LOVE SONGS CHICAGO REVIEW PRESS BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY Finding new topics about The Beatles, or even Eric Clapton for that matter, [...]
FHANG – “KING BLAME” HIDDEN SHIP While life reached a standstill as the pandemic stalled the plans of musicians everywhere, a collaboration began bubbling under the surface. Prolific Montreal bassist Mishka Stein and innovative [...]
MILES A. COPELAND III – TWO STEPS FORWARD, ONE STEP BACK: MY LIFE IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS JAWBONE PRESS BOOK REVIEW BY BRYAN WILLISTON One of the best music memoirs to be released in recent years, Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: My Life In [...]
THE HORSESHOE TAVERN CHILL-O-RAMA FEATURING SKYDIGGERS & THE SADIES w/ ELLIOTT BROOD @ CITYVIEW DRIVE-IN, TORONTO JULY 17, 2021 Where does one go on a hot, summer evening in Toronto? Perhaps the drive-in for a triple bill, featuring Elliott [...]
KATATONIA CELEBRATES 30 YEARS WITH EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF RARITIES AND B-SIDES PEACEVILLE RECORDS Marking 30 years since the formation of one of the most enigmatic & aurally captivating bands to grace the dark rock/prog genre, Mnemosynean [...]
KIM MITCHELL TO BE INDUCTED TO THE CANADIAN SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME ON JULY 21 SPECIAL PRESENTATION BY BNL FRONTMAN AND FRIEND ED ROBERTSON The much-anticipated induction, which was postponed due to the pandemic in 2020, will air July 21 on [...]
KEVIN DREW (AKA K.D.A.P.) NEW INSTRUMENTAL LP INFLUENCES OUT NOW | SHARES NEW VIDEO FOR “DOOMS DIVE” ARTS & CRAFTS K.D.A.P. (aka Kevin Drew a Picture) is Kevin Drew. You may know him as the leader of Toronto indie-rock ensemble Broken Social [...]
BILLY BRAGG ANNOUNCES NEW STUDIO ALBUM THE MILLION THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPENED + STREAMED CONCERT COOKING VINYL Billy Bragg will release The Million Things That Never Happened, his tenth studio album, on October 8th 2021 on the Cooking Vinyl [...]
Debra-Jean Creelman Threshold Modern Laundry Recording Club Debra-Jean Creelman has done something very special with Threshold, her new full-length release. It is full of unique sounds and music that truly stands out among the new releases this [...]
The Fall Are You Are Missing Winner (Deluxe Reissue) Cherry Red Apologists attribute prerelease sales of Are You Are Missing Winner at gigs in 2001 for the fun fact that The Fall’s 22nd studio album was the only one after 1983 not to chart. [...]
Blutengel Erlösung: The Victory of Light Out Of Line Music German Gothic duo Blutengel, comprised of vocalists Chris Pohl and Ulrike Goldmann, have had quite a busy year thus far. Not only did they release a collection of ‘80s covers this year [...]
Dee Gees (Foo Fighters) Hail Satin Sony Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters have truly reached a point where they can do no wrong – so much so, that such a sentiment feels redundant. Their latest Record Store Day release, Hail Satin sees the rock [...]
Barenaked Ladies Detour De Force Raisin’ Records Barenaked Ladies have been a consistent force since their beginnings in 1988, with the initial duet of friends Ed Robertson and Steven Page. With the current lineup of Robertson, Jim [...]
Acid Dad Take It From The Dead Greenway Records/The Reverberation Appreciation Society Following their 2018 self-titled debut, Acid Dad has returned with newly released LP Take It From the Dead, co-released by Greenway Records and The [...]
Chet Faker Hotel Surrender BMG “Music does something.” So begins Chet Faker’s opening monologue on his sophomore release Hotel Surrender. To call it his sophomore release is a bit if a misnomer – while this is technically the second Chet Faker [...]
John R. Miller Depreciated Rounder Records Yet another Americana/alt country album you would say? Maybe. That is a remark that you can encounter from anyone that isn’t too keen on the genre and takes only a cursory listen to Depreciated, [...]
A Place To Bury Strangers Hologram Dedstrange If you haven’t heard A Place to Bury Strangers (APTBS) since their arrival, making records about exploding heads and shows loud enough to do the same, not too much has changed. For fans of the [...]
Sylvia Sweet Stuff Wewantsounds The legacy of Sylvia Robinson is that as a hip-hop pioneer, she was the woman who pushed The Sugar Hill Gang into the studio to record “Rapper’s Delight”, the first ever recorded hip-hop track and mega hit – and [...]
IRON MAIDEN ENDS WEEKS OF ONLINE SPECULATION TO REVEAL FIRST NEW MUSIC IN 6 YEARS “THE WRITING ON THE WALL” PARLOPHONE Iron Maiden today revealed their brand-new track, “The Writing On The Wall,” with an eagerly anticipated global YouTube video [...]
