Fontaines D.C. Skinty Fia Partisan Records Fontaines D.C. got their name from The Godfather character Johnny Fontane, a singer and actor played by Al Martino. They altered the spelling and added the D.C. when they discovered a band in Washington [...]
ROUGH TRADE IS WORK A CONVERSATION WITH ROUGH TRADE’S CAROLE POPE WITH BERNARD FRAZER (CHURCH OF TREES) In 1976, the first ‘direct to disc’ album was released by a relatively unknown Toronto band named Rough Trade. The album Rough Trade [...]
Brian Willoughby Twiddly Bits Cabritunes Records Brian Willoughby may be known for his work with the Strawbs as he has been a longstanding member. However, he has also worked with The Monks, Monty Python, Mary Hopkin and he has also released [...]
Nazareth Surviving The Law Frontiers Music Surviving The Law is Nazareth’s 25th studio album. Of course, over their 54-year history there have been many member changes, with only one original member remaining in the band, Pete Agnew on bass. [...]
DROWNING IN THE CULTURE A CONVERSATION WITH AVIV There is a lot happening for AVIV these days. The 16-year-old artist has not only just released her debut album, Drowning In The Culture, but she has been chosen to open for Imagine Dragons on the [...]
Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys Teen Tapes (For Performing Your Own Stunts) Unique Records/Schubert Music Teen Tapes (For Performing Your Own Stunts) is the third album in a trilogy released by Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys. It began with [...]
Pere Ubu Nuke The Whales 2006-2014 Fire Records Nuke The Whales 2006 – 2014 is the latest installment of Fire Records’ re-release of the Pere Ubu catalogue. For this set, they are focusing on four albums released between 2006 and 2014. The [...]
Marvin Gaye What’s Going On: 50th Anniversary 2LP Edition Motown/Universal Originally released in May of 1971, What’s Going On was Marvin Gaye’s 11th studio album. Not only was it a departure from the music he had been making up to 1970 [...]
Daryl Hall BeforeAfter Legacy Recordings Daryl Hall and John Oates have had hits from the early 1970s until quite recently. They are one of the most popular duos of all time. What is often forgotten, however, is that both of them have [...]
MARTHA WAINWRIGHT – STORIES I MIGHT REGRET TELLING YOU: A MEMOIR RANDOM HOUSE CANADA BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY Martha Wainwright comes from a very famous family. Her mother was Kate McGarrigle, one half of Kate and Anna McGarrigle and [...]
MY HEART IS AN ICE CREAM CONE A CONVERSATION WITH DALE BOZZIO OF MISSING PERSONS “I can recite the whole book verbatim. It can really drive you crazy, but that is the kind of mind I have. Everything is saved and filed in my head and I go to them [...]
Howard Jones The 12″ Album + 12″ers Vol. 2 Cherry Red Records Cherry Red continues to mine the Howard Jones catalogue and has come up with another brilliant release. This time they have taken the album The 12” Album, originally released in 1984 [...]
Men Without Hats Again (Part 2) Sonic Envy Last year, Men Without Hats resurfaced after a nine-year absence. Although they had toured, there had not been new music from them since 2012’s Love In The Age Of War. But in 2021, they released Again [...]
Wolfgang Flür Magazine 1 Cherry Red Records From 1973 until 1987, Wolfgang Flür was a member of Kraftwerk. After leaving Kraftwerk, he was involved with Yamo, collaborated with a number of artists, and released some solo records. On Magazine 1, [...]
Marianne Faithfull Vagabond Ways (Reissue) BMG Vagabond Ways was originally released in 1999 by Marianne Faithfull. For this album, she tapped Daniel Lanois and Mark Howard to produce her return to rock, or rather alternative rock. It was a very [...]
TANGERINE DREAM RAUM KSCOPE/EASTGATE MUSIC Edgar Froese formed Tangerine Dream in 1967, and through all of the incarnations of the band, remained the one constant member until his death in 2015. This is the band’s second album since is passing, [...]
The Vibrators The Albums 1985-1990 Cherry Red Records The Vibrators formed in 1976 and were part of the first U.K. punk scene. Sensing they had found the next Sex Pistols or Clash, Epic Records signed the band and their debut album was released [...]
Graven Simple Complex Independent Graven is, in actuality, Matty McKechnie and since 1999, he has put out consistently great and interesting music. He explores different styles and different genres with each release. For Simple Complex, he goes [...]
Tears For Fears The Tipping Point Concord Records Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith split after Tears For Fears’ third album, The Seeds Of Love. In the early 2000s Orzabal and Smith reunited and in 2005 released the wonderful Everybody Loves A Happy [...]
D’Virgilio, Morse & Jennings Troika Inside Out Music D’Virgilio, Morse & Jennings is a new band featuring some very seasoned musicians. Neal Morse brought the band together, which includes fellow Spock’s Beard and Big Big [...]
EVERYTHING I AM, EVERY MOMENT NEW A CONVERSATION WITH NEAL MORSE (D’VIRGILIO, MORSE & JENNINGS) “I don’t think I’m that busy”, Neal Morse laughed when I caught up with him recently to talk about a new project of his, the album Troika [...]
DANCE TO THE PERFECT MESS A CONVERSATION WITH CARL MARSH OF SHRIEKBACK Shriekback’s music has always been difficult to pigeonhole. Part of the post-punk, new wave scene, their music contained elements of funk, rock and sometimes ambient music. [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS OCEAN CHILD: THE SONGS OF YOKO ONO WARNER MUSIC Tribute albums by multiple artists are always a tricky thing. Tricky because you have many different styles interpreting one artist’s work. Sometimes this works really well, such as [...]
Church Of Trees Pish Posh Independent The term “pish posh” is an old expression that basically means something is ‘nonsense’ or ‘something absurd’. Though it is titled as such, that does not describe this new release from Church Of Trees, Pish [...]
