Susie Scurry The Elvis Hour Independent Melbourne, Australia’s artist Susie Scurry released her debut album under the name The Grand Magoozi, and the self-titled album was released in 2016. Here she is, writing and recording under her own [...]
The Orb No Sounds Are Out Of Bounds Cooking Vinyl Alex Paterson is back with his friends under the banner of The Orb. Once again he is working with Thomas Fehlmann, and as duo they take the title of this album, No Sounds Are Out Of Bounds, [...]
Front Line Assembly WarMech Artoffact Records This is the first new music from Front Line Assembly since 2013’s Echogenetic, which was a brilliant and very successful album for the band. WarMech is not a follow-up to that album, but it is a [...]
Wilko Johnson Blow Your Mind Chess Records/Universal In 2014, much to everyone’s surprise, Wilko Johnson, who was handed a death sentence of a year in 2013 due to terminal pancreatic cancer, released an album with Roger Daltrey (Going Back Home) [...]
Immersion Sleepless Swim~ The band, Immersion, consists of Colin Newman (from Wire) and Malka Spigel (Minimal Compact). Sleepless is their fourth studio album, and their first since 2016’s Analogue Creatures Living On An Island. Sleepless is an [...]
Colin Stetson Hereditary: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Milan Records Scoring a film is a difficult task, and quite frankly there are not a lot of artists who can compose and arrange music for a film. Writing for a horror film is an even [...]
The English Beat Starring Dave Wakeling Here We Go Love Here We Go Records The Beat formed in 1978, and released their debut album in 1980, I Just Can’t Stop It. But the release of that album lead to some problems with their name in Australia [...]
GOOD TO GO A CONVERSATION WITH GLEN MATLOCK Believe it or not, my introduction to Glen Matlock came through an album I adored when I was young called Ghosts of Princes In Tours, and it was by The Rich Kids. Matlock played bass and wrote or [...]
MAKING A SOUNDTRACK FOR THE GLOBAL COLLAPSE OF MODERN CIVILIZATION A CONVERSATION WITH BILL LEEB OF FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY “WarMech is not really a Front Line Assembly album, it is a soundtrack, a follow-up to AirMech (2012), which was a soundtrack [...]
Various Artists Eric Clapton: Life In 12 Bars (Original Soundtrack Recording) Universal Music Enterprises Soundtracks of documentaries about musicians are interesting things and excellent opportunities to collect well known songs as a ‘best of’ [...]
Poptone Poptone LP Cleopatra Records Poptone is one half of Bauhaus or two thirds of Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets, you can decide your reference point. The truth is Poptone is a new band featuring Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins (both from [...]
Ian Burden Hey Hey Ho Hum Rutland Artspace Limited Ian Burden was a member of The Human League from 1980 until he left the band in 1987. Hey Hey Ho Hum is his second solo album (his debut solo album, Loot!, was released in 1990). Since then he [...]
Eamon McGrath Tantramar Saved By Vinyl Tantramar is Eamon McGrath’s sixth studio album. In between albums he keeps himself busy with Julie and The Wrong Guys as well as other studio work. But it is on his solo albums where he is able to shine [...]
Shriekback Why Anything? Why This? Independent Why Anything? Why This? is the first studio album by Shriekback since 2015’s Without Real String Or Fish. Why Anything? Why This? is not only a brilliant follow-up, it just may be one of the best [...]
Near Future Ideal Home Blanc Check Records Neil Arthur has been very busy of late. Since the fall of 2017 he wrote and produced the most recent Blancmange album (the brilliant Unfurnished Rooms), as well as put together the box set of [...]
RIGHTEOUS WOMAN A CONVERSATION WITH MARTHA MEREDITH OF FOR ESMÉ For Esmé is a band based in Toronto, fronted by Martha Meredith. Meredith and For Esmé is getting ready for the release of For Esmé’s third album, Righteous Woman. This will be the [...]
BRING BACK THE BLITZ KIDS A CONVERSATION WITH TIM MUDDIMAN Tim Muddiman is a musician with an impressive resume. He played guitar for Pop Will Eat Itself from 2010 until 2016. During this time he also served as the guitarist for Gary Numan. He [...]
TORONTO’S SONGWRITING SANCTUARY A CONVERSATION WITH MEMBERS OF THE TORONTO SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION Songwriters need at least two things in order to develop their craft: some form of an audience and feedback. In Toronto, songwriters are [...]
For Esmé Righteous Woman Independent Righteous Woman is electronic folk music. For this album, For Esmé’s Martha Meredith is clearing fronting the band and the album is her concept album. It is a feminist album, but rather than a political [...]
Ry Cooder The Prodigal Son Fantasy Records Ry Cooder has been playing since the 1960s and is one of the most respected slide guitarists to pick up a slide. He is also a brilliant guitarist, he is stunning at playing multiple instruments. On top [...]
Paul McCartney New (Reissue) MPL/Universal Music This reissue seems a little odd. Paul McCartney is in the process of reissuing his older albums, many in expanded, box set formats. New was released a mere five years ago, but McCartney has [...]
Paul McCartney Chaos And Creation In The Backyard (Reissue) MPL/Universal Music Paul McCartney has made a point of reissuing his older albums over the last few years. Usually these take the form of expanded box sets, but on May 18 he is [...]
Paul McCartney Wings Greatest (Reissue) MPL/Universal Music Over the last few years, Paul McCartney has rereleased several of his albums, usually in a variety of formats and usually in expanded editions. On May 18, 2018 he is rereleasing four [...]
Matt Dorrien In The Key Of Grey Mama Bird Recording Co. In The Key Of Grey is Matt Dorrien’s debut album. He has releasesd two albums under the name Snowblind Traveller, but In The Key Of Grey is his first album under his name. The first track, [...]
