Cokie The Clown You’re Welcome Fat Wreck Chords There was a time when it would have been impossible to believe that Fat Mike could make you cry. “Fat Mike” Burkett, often-controversial frontman of longstanding punk band NOFX, has an outlet for some seriously dark subject matter. As his self-proclaimed [...]
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Cranberries In The End BMG Many bands aspire to be timeless, but The Cranberries are one of the few to have achieved that goal. On In The End, The Cranberries have possibly delivered their finest album in their 30-year and eight-album history, despite the untimely passing of lead singer/songwriter Dolores [...]
Josh Ritter Fever Breaks V2 Records Benelux Recorded down in Nashville, Fever Breaks may be Josh Ritter’s most obviously country album. From the instrumentation and lyrics to the vocal inflections Ritter uses as he sings phrases like “y’all say that you’re doing well livin’ down in Arkansas” over a pedal steel [...]
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Various Artists Brown Acid: The Eighth Trip RidingEasy Records Brown Acid: The Eighth Trip is a time capsule which has concealed the secluded and otherworldly Woodstock spirit in a vacuum of proto-metal and stoner-rock absolute gems! The compilation is curated by Daniel Hall of RidingEasy Records and Lance [...]
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Joyous Wolf Place In Time Roadrunner Records Joyous Wolf is a band in a very curious position. While they don’t quite seem to have the mainstream attention as say Greta Van Fleet for their role in the growing rock revival that is sweeping North America and Europe, the Southern California rock outfit seems to be a [...]
TR/ST The Destroyer House Arrest/Grouch Spooky Canadian electropop project TR/ST is here again in 2019, with his usual ethereal take on club music. The new album, The Destroyer Part 1, is half of a new 2 part effort. The second part is rumored to be showing up some time before the end of the year thankfully. What [...]
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David J Thoughts And Prayers (7″ Single) Schoolkids Records You can tell David J is pissed. You can see it from his announcement video concerning his new single which is to be released this coming Record Store Day (April 13) with backing band Comrades on Schoolkids Records. More than that, you hear it in [...]
The Chemical Brothers No Geography Virgin/Universal Music No Geography is The Chemical Brothers ninth studio album, and their first album of all new material since 2015’s Born in the Echoes. The Chemical Brothers are an electronic duo, based in Manchester and are comprised of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons. And No [...]
88Glam 88Glam 2.5 Republic Records Derek Wise and 88 Camino have released the deluxe version of the original sophomore album, 88Glam2 with 88GLAM 2.5. With an additional two songs and features ranging from Nav and Gunna, Derek Wise and 88 Camino’s deluxe album, is underwhelming. Derek Wise and 88 Camino’s deluxe [...]
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Damien Jurado In The Shape Of A Storm Mama Bird Recording Company In The Shape Of A Storm is Damien Jurado’s 14th studio album since his debut in 1997. This alone is quite an accomplishment but when one hears the quality of music Jurado has produced over the years, one must be even more impressed. In The Shape Of [...]
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2 Wolves Our Fault Inverse Records Five years since their previous release, 2 Wolves, the gothic metal band from Finland, are back to amaze us with their new studio album, Our Fault, which is a tremendous mix of rhythms. Our Fault is without a doubt a wave of surprises. The album is dark, melodic, and melancholic. [...]
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Badfinger So Fine – The Warner Bros. Rarities Real Gone Music Badfinger is best known for its hits on The Beatles’ Apple Records in the early 1970s, and perhaps for “Baby Blue”, which closed out the final episode of Breaking Bad. But following their four albums (five if you count the album when they were [...]
Band Of Skulls Love Is All You Love SO Recordings Formed in 2008, U.K. Southampton Indie Rock outfit Band Of Skulls release their fifth studio album Love Is All You Love, following 2016’s Default. Led by original members guitarist/vocalist Russell Marsden and bassist/vocalist Emma Richardson, the album [...]
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Streetheart Life.Legacy.Music Universal Music Life.Legacy.Music is the perfect summer compilation. Streetheart was a radio staple in the late 1970s throughout the 1980s on AM and FM radio, with a number of hits which continue to be radio staples today and rightfully so. It produced some of the finest pop/rock [...]
Big Business The Beast You Are Joyful Noise Recordings Most doom metal songs are made to get lost in. 20-minute (or an hour) long epics aren’t a rarity. Big Business gets right to the point. Almost every track on their most recent The Beast You Are has a melody you can hum, a huge riff, and not much else. There’s [...]
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Weyes Blood Titanic Rising Sub Pop Natalie Mering, aka Weyes Blood, makes time stand still. She doesn’t wave a magic wand or play distortion tricks with strobe lights. She emotes, and time stops for her. Titanic Rising, her fourth full-length LP, is not an album that wallows in or trades on misery for suicide [...]
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Justin Wright Music For Staying Warm First Terrace Records Justin Wright is a cellist and composer who bridges experimental and classical music. Although Music For Staying Warm is the followup to his solo EP in 2017 (Pattern Seeker). He also founded Montreal’s Sweet Mother Logic in 2007, who released two albums [...]
Todd Rundgren’s Utopia Live At The Chicago Theatre Cleopatra Records In 2018, Todd Rundgren reunited with former members of Utopia and began a tour that took him and his band on the road for an extensive tour. The tour was a success, both commercially and critically. Live At The Chicago Theatre documents [...]
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James Parm Oh My Darling Independent How do you reconcile with personal breakup? One way is to take a long trip far away, and James Parm left Montreal for South East Asia after his breakup. When he returned, he had not lost his girlfriend, but he had also lost his job and his band. Maybe the way out is to record [...]
Gino Vannelli Wilderness Road SoNo Recordings Wilderness Road is the first album of all new material, written by Gino Vannelli in about ten years. Good Thing (2009) was the last time we heard anything new from the pen of Vannelli. He has released albums in between but Wilderness Road is a return of sorts for [...]
Ceschi Sad, Fat Luck Fake Four Inc. This month brings us Sad, Fat Luck. This is Ceschi’s 5th solo album. The Connecticut-born rapper was praised in his home town for being one of the most influential hip-hop artists in his area and has most recently left us with this 13-track LP. The upbeat album takes on many [...]
Priests The Seduction Of Kansas Sister Polygon Washington-based Priests returns with its sophomore release, the intriguingly-titled The Seduction of Kansas. Building a reputation for punk-soaked ferocity and memorable live shows, the band has moved towards a more melodic approach to their music this time around [...]
Various Artists The New Testament Dirty Water Records Whether you’re an angsty teen looking to frighten your uptight parents or an aging punk who refuses to sell out to the corporate lifestyles, Dirty Water Records’ roster is certainly the place to look for new music. Stating it better than I ever could, their [...]
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Steven Lambke Dark Blue You’ve Changed Records Dark Blue is Steven Lambke’s second solo album, and his first since 2015’s Days Of Heaven. He has recorded with numerous bands, including The Constantines, and most recently with Construction and Destruction (2018’s Revolution C). He has also released solo [...]
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