Vicious Beast I Am Drugs Independent Over the last year or so, Monster Truck’s lead vocalist and bassist Jon Harvey has been teasing his latest project through social media. Vicious Beast came to life through a handful of scorching live dates [...]
Peter Daltrey & The Know Escape Running Through Chelsea Think Like A Key Music Running Through Chelsea is a good example of how music can mesh together from different genres and different eras. Peter Daltrey has been making music since the [...]
The Who The Who With Orchestra: Live At Wembley Universal Music Six decades into their career, The Who continues to experiment with its performances, justifying its worth as one of the greatest bands of its era. Their 2019 tour saw the British [...]
Filter The Amalgamut (20th Anniversary Edition) Craft Recordings Just over 20 years ago, Richard Patrick released Filter’s third album, The Amalgamut. The album was a triumph and marked the conclusion of a three-album era – which kicked off with [...]
boygenius The Record Interscope The debut album The Record by supergroup boygenius is a remarkable album that showcases the individual and collective talents of Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, and Phoebe Bridgers. “$20” and “Satanist” are the heaviest [...]
John Foxx The Arcades Project Metamatic It seems hard to believe that after close to 50 years of making music, John Foxx has never recorded a solo piano album until now. The Arcades Project is his second release this year and although it is not [...]
Foghat Road Fever: The Complete Bearsville Recordings 1972-1975 HNE/Cherry Red Records I remember watching an MTV awards show, many, many years ago. Jim Carey, dressed as a hippie, made the joke “would it kill you to play some Foghat?” He was [...]
Peggy Lee I’m A Woman (60th Anniversary Edition) Capitol Records/UMe In 1963, Peggy Lee had a surprise hit with the song “I’m A Woman”. She had not been on the charts since 1958 with her classic “Fever”. Rock ‘n’ roll had a firm grip on [...]
Kilmore From The Inside Independent Kilmore’s latest release From The Inside hits all the marks on the Psych/Groove/Stoner Rock report card. Straight A’s here! This exceptionally talented Halifax-based band led by female vocalist [...]
Tara MacLean Sparrow Independent Sparrow is the latest album from Canadian singer-songwriter Tara MacLean. The music veteran has just released a memoir called Song of the Sparrow, and this album is the soundtrack to the book. Recorded in Lake [...]
City And Colour The Love Still Held Me Near Dine Alone Records Dallas Green, aka City and Colour has amassed quite a following behind his six albums so far, and his latest, The Love Still Held Me Near, will probably not only confirm that [...]
August Heaven’s Gate Independent Basing your music on philosopher’s ideas can not only be a tricky thing, but very often, quite indulgent and overbearing, and if that philosopher is Georges Bataille, whose main ideas revolve around [...]
Various Artists Cherry Stars Collide Cherry Red Records Actually, the full title of this 4-CD set is Cherry Stars Collide, Dream Pop, Shoegaze & Ethereal Rock 1986-1995. Cherry Red had quite a good reason for such a title, as there is quite [...]
Murray A. Lightburn Once Upon A Time In Montreal Dangerbird Records Murray A Lightburn’s third solo album, Once Upon A Time In Montreal, is a deeply dramatic, personal affair. Herein, Lightburn takes a pause from his primary gig as [...]
Deerhoof Miracle-Level Joyful Noise Recordings Deerhoof has been around since the 90s, but Miracle-Level marks the band’s “studio-debut album.” Previously Deerhoof was well-known for their DIY methods, but the band decided to make itself [...]
The Zombies Different Game Cooking Vinyl Records Rock legends The Zombies are back and better than ever with their latest album, Different Game. It showcases a band at the top of its game in terms of songwriting, instrumentation, and vocals. Rod [...]
Crown Lands Fearless Spinefarm Records Few Canadian bands, if any, have had a trajectory that Crown Lands have well deservingly enjoyed over the last decade. Following the release of the debut full-length album in 2020, the band pressed forward [...]
Puscifer Existential Reckoning: Rewired Puscifer Entertainment/BMG The experimental rock group Puscifer recruited some of their most creative friends to create Existential Reckoning: Rewired, a companion remix collection of their studio album [...]
ACE OF WANDS – DESIRING A SPILL EXCLUSIVE ALBUM PREMIERE Recorded and produced over the last 3 years, Desiring showcases a more mature and bolder Ace of Wands. The arrangements are complex and considered, while the songwriting is [...]
apaull White LeBaron Furnace Room Records apaull is back with another EP of electronic music, a four-track collection called White LeBaron. With it, the Dutch-Canadian music producer has continued the stream of regular music drops that he began [...]
NATALIE MERCHANT DEBUTS NEW SINGLE “TOWER OF BABEL” | FIRST ALBUM OF NEW SONGS IN NEARLY A DECADE KEEP YOUR COURAGE OUT APRIL 14 NONESUCH RECORDS Natalie Merchant’s new single “Tower of Babel” is out now alongside a new video; listen and watch [...]
GORD DOWNIE AND BOB ROCK SHARE MUSIC VIDEO FOR “GREYBOY SAYS” ARTS & CRAFTS The penultimate song before the arrival of Gord Downie and Bob Rock’s long-anticipated album, Lustre Parfait, “Greyboy Says” is its rallying cry. [...]
CHARLIE BENNETT – “I’LL GIVE YOU THE MOON” A SPILL EXCLUSIVE MUSIC PREMIERE Charlie Bennett is 22-year-old indie/bedroom-pop artist born and raised in Birmingham and currently living in London. Inspired by the likes of [...]
ABIGAIL LAPELL SHARES NEW SINGLE “MOUNTAIN” AHEAD OF DELUXE EDITION OF STOLEN TIME LP OUTSIDE MUSIC Toronto songwriter Abigail Lapell returns with the deluxe edition of Stolen Time, her elemental and evocative new album. Since its launch in [...]
