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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
WHEN YOU DRAW A CIRCLE YOU CAN BEGIN ANYWHERE A CONVERSATION WITH STEVEN LAMBKE Steven Lambke is a very talented individual. He is a writer, poet, musician, producer, performer and label owner. While attending University of Guelph in 1997, [...]
WE WERE HIPPIES, WE WERE WHO WE WERE A CONVERSATION WITH DENISE KAUFMAN OF ACE OF CUPS San Francisco in the mid 1960’s was the place to be, especially if you were a hippie. It was also a musical hub. The time and place was right for bands to [...]
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 [...]
TORSTEN IN QUEERETERIA A CONVERSATION WITH ANDY BELL In 1985 Andy Bell answered an advertisement placed by Vince Clarke, looking for a vocalist for his new project. That project turned into Erasure. Since their debut album, Wonderland (released [...]
Lefty And The Hatman Déjà Blue Independent Lefty and The Hatman are actually Marc ‘The Hatman’ Mann and Jeffrey ‘Lefty’ Levine. Both have extensive and rather impressive histories in music. Mann, working with Jeff Lynne, Electric Light [...]
John Lennon & Yoko Ono Wedding Album (Reissue) Secretly Canadian/Chimera Music Secretly Canadian and Chimera Music continue their ambitious Yoko Ono reissue project with this landmark album. Wedding Album was released to commemorate Lennon [...]
Bonnie Tyler Between The Earth And The Stars earMUSIC/Edel Between The Earth And The Stars is Bonnie Tyler’s 17th studio album, and her first since 2013’s Rocks and Honey. All that to say that this is an artist who has a fantastic catalogue [...]
Terry Draper In My Garden Terrytunes Klaatu disbanded in 1982, following the release of their last studio album, Magentalane (1981) and since then writer, drummer and vocalist Terry Draper has released a number of solo albums. In My Garden is a [...]
Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission Coldwater DFU Bloodlines Music Weddings, Parties, Anything called it a day, for all intents and purposes in 2012, but in terms of new music, their last studio album was released in 1997. Since then, Mick [...]
Mr.Kitty Ephemeral Negative Gain Records Ephemeral is Mr.Kitty’s seventh studio album. This is electronica in its finest form. Here, however, Mr.Kitty has outdone himself by assembling a 30-track double album about the death of a friend. It [...]
Rob Snarski Sparrow & Swan Teardrop Records Rob Snarski is based in Melbourne, Australia, and he has developed his own distinct sound, both vocaly and guitar playing (he refers to as ‘rudimentary’). Sparrow & Swan is his first solo album [...]
Goo Munday 9 Lives Nagative Gain From Sydney, Australia comes Goo Munday. An artist who is making inroads into the dark EDM music scene. 9 Lives is her debut album, and following her self titled debut EP, Munday delivers an electronic album that [...]
Glenn Shorrock Glenn Shorrock Sings Little River Band: The Hits Live in Studio Social Family Records It has been over two years since fans have heard from Glenn Shorrock, and he has been missed. Although his career has spanned 50 years, he is [...]
Townes Van Zandt Sky Blue TVZ Records/Fat Possum Records March 7, 2019 would have been Townes Van Zandt’s 75th birthday, and so it is a fitting release date for an album of unreleased material. Van Zandt died on January 1, 1997 and in his [...]
SOME THINGS PROVE EPHEMERAL, OTHERS ARE HERE TO STAY A CONVERSATION WITH MR.KITTY Recently, I had the opportunity to talk with Mr.Kitty. Though I spent some time speaking with him, I walked away with more questions than answers. That is not to [...]
REMINISCING A CONVERSATION WITH GLENN SHORROCK (FORMERLY OF LITTLE RIVER BAND) Glenn Shorrock has been making music for a long time. He started his professional life with classic band The Twilights, a band now considered to be one of the most [...]
Henry Bateman Hide & Seek Independent Henry Bateman is a 22 year old talent, based in Leeds, England. Hide & Seek is his third album, and he continues to progress while paying attention to traditions in the folk genre. Although he is [...]