Vivien Cooper & Bro Paul Brown The Instrumental Alphabet Moonwhistle Music Author, lyricist, poet, writer and voice actress Vivien Cooper has teamed up with musician/producer Paul Brown of The Waterboys to create a very unique and original [...]
Electric Six Streets Of Gold Cleopatra Records What have we here? An entire album of covers by Electric Six? Yes, and what a treat this is. Streets of Gold is Electric Six’s 15th studio album, and their first since 2018’s brilliant Bride Of The [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
JOHN M. BORACK – THE BEATLES 100: ONE HUNDRED PIVOTAL MOMENTS IN BEATLES HISTORY RARE BIRD BOOKS BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY I have said it before, and I will say it again, writing books about The Beatles is not an easy task these days. [...]
MAKING THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE UNDERSTANDABLE IN AN ARTISTIC WAY A CONVERSATION WITH MURRAY McLAUCHLAN Murray McLauchlan is a legend. He may not personally agree, but he is.. Not because he has been inducted in the Canadian Country Music Hall Of [...]
Murray McLauchlan Hourglass True North Records/Linus Entertainment Murray McLauchlan’s debut album, Song From The Street was released 50 years ago. In all the years since that debut, McLauchlan has done pretty much what he wanted to do, and he [...]
Future Lives Spirit House Soft Magic Records Spirit House is the followup to Future Lives debut album, Mansions. One would think the latter would be very hard to top, but top it they did. Future Lives is a project that was started by former King [...]
Marc Almond Enchanted (Deluxe Expanded Edition) SFE/Cherry Red Enchanted was originally released in 1990 and was Marc Almond’s sixth solo outing after he took a break from Soft Cell. This album followed one of his most successful solo albums, [...]
Frank Zappa Zappa ‘88: The Last U.S. Show UMe/Zappa Records What can you say about Zappa that hasn’t been said before. He was a genius, an innovator, one of the best guitarists ever to grace the planet, funny, and passionate about what he was [...]
Dennis DeYoung 26 East, Volume 2 Frontiers Music Last year Dennis DeYoung released the album 26 East: Vol. 1 which was originally to be his farewell to the music world. He recorded so much music that he was encouraged to split the project into [...]
Various Artists The Problem of Leisure: A Celebration Of Andy Gill And Gang Of Four Universal Music The Gang Of Four were not only the most important post-punk band of its time, they stand as one of the most important bands of all time. Their [...]
NEVER HAD A WISH COME TRUE A CONVERSATION WITH KANDLE Kandle Osborne, known as Kandle, (“it is a weird name, but I didn’t pick it”, she laughs) has been making music for over 10 years. She has grown up with music, being the daughter of 5440’s [...]
RAYS ON THE WATER A CONVERSATION WITH ANDY McMASTER (THE MOTORS) The Motors formed in 1977 by Andy McMaster and Nick Garvey. Both were in the band Ducks Deluxe, and when that band called it a day in 1975, they formed The Motors. McMaster and [...]
Various Artists Still Wish You Were Here: A Tribute To Pink Floyd Cleopatra Records There have been a number of tribute albums recorded paying tribute to Pink Floyd and usually these take the form of artists covering one of their classic albums. [...]
The Reducers Live: New York City 2005 Rave On Records Hailing from New London, Connecticut, The Reducers produced some mighty fine music from 1978 until 2012. The band consisted of Hugh Birdsall (vocals, guitar), Peter Detmold (vocals, guitar), [...]
Betty Moon Cosmicoma Evolver Music Cosmicoma is Betty Moon’s 10th album, and her first since last year’s Little Miss Hollywood. To me, Cosmicoma is very much a continuation of Little Miss Hollywood, not exactly a part two, but a continuation. [...]
Mary Hopkin Live At The Royal Festival Hall 1972 (Reissue) Mary Hopkin Music This concert, and album, have a remarkable history. The show was originally designed as Mary Hopkin’s farewell to show business, thankfully that would not be the case, [...]
Various Artists RAM ON: The 50th Anniversary Celebration Of Paul & Linda McCartney’s Ram Spirit Of Unicorn Music/Cherry Red Full disclosure…I think Ram is one of the greatest albums of all time. Period. It has taken 50 years for [...]
Good Lovelies B-Sides Fontana North The Good Lovelies are Caroline Brooks, Kerri Ough & Susan Passmore, and they have been making music since 2007. B-Sides is their first E.P. of new music since their Christmas album, Evergreen (2019). [...]
Sufjan Stevens Convocations Asthmatic Kitty Sufjan Stevens never does the expected, never has, and no doubt never will. Following the success of his 2020 release The Ascension, he has followed it up with a five-album box set titled Convocations. [...]
This Twisted Wreckage Ei8ht Independent This Twisted Wreckage is the latest project from Luke “Skyscraper” James, former frontman and guitarist for the band Fàshiön, and more recently a member of The Pull Of Autumn. For This Twisted Wreckage, [...]
John Lennon John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band – The Ultimate Collection (Super Deluxe Box Set) Apple/Universal Music Reviewing a reissue or rerelease is never really easy. For me, there are a few considerations. Does the album deserve to find a [...]
