BNQT Volume 1 Last Gang A supergroup of sorts, featuring five vocalists from some very respected and much loved bands. BNQT (pronounced ‘banquet’) features Ben Bridwell of Band of Horses, Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand, Fran Healy of Travis, [...]
Old Crow Medicine Show 50 Years Of Blonde On Blonde Sony Music I love Old Crow Medicine Show, love them. They have put out some of the finest country/roots album over the past decade. And I love Bob Dylan, and like most people, recognize [...]
14 STEPS TO HARLEM A CONVERSATION WITH GARLAND JEFFREYS Garland Jeffreys is a legend. That is a fact. I don’t know that he would agree with me, but let it be said, Mr. Garland Jeffreys is a legend. His first solo album which was self-titled, [...]
THE RETURN OF ANDY McMASTER AN INTERVIEW WITH ANDY McMASTER (THE MOTORS) In March 1980, The Motors released a brilliant album, Tenement Steps. What fans didn’t know was by the time the album was released the band had disbanded. “We split before [...]
Animal Collective Meeting Of The Waters EP Domino Records Animal Collective have been around for over 15 years, and the core members of this band are Avey Tare (David Portner); Panda Bear (Noah Lennox); Deakin’ (Josh Dibb); and Geologist (Brian [...]
David Bowie Cracked Actor (Live In Los Angeles ’74) Parlophone On April 22, 2017, I was up very early to get in line at Dead Dog Records to try and get the new limited edition releases for Record Store Day. Among my purchases, I got my [...]
Ray Davies Americana Sony Music For Kinks fans, 2017 is shaping up to being a pretty good year. First Dave Davies and Russ Davies (his son) released the great album, Open Road on March 31, 2017 and Ray Davies has now released his first album of [...]
Why? w/ O (Formerly Eskimeaux) @ Lee’s Palace, Toronto April 17, 2017 The crowd streamed in in a steady pace, and for an Easter Monday night in Toronto, the club filled up pretty quickly. O (formerly known as Eskimeaux) opened the show [...]
Father John Misty Pure Comedy Sub Pop What can be said about Father John Misty (a.k.a. Josh Tillman) that has not already been said? One thing comes to my mind. During the last two years since the release of his last album, 2015’s I Love You, [...]
THE CASSETTE PLAYED POP TONES AN INTERVIEW WITH DANIEL ASH & KEVIN HASKINS OF POPTONE “Well, this is a first, isn’t it Kevin?” Daniel Ash asks his fellow Poptone member. “The first time we have been interviewed while driving cars in L.A., [...]
EXACTLY? …EXACTLY! A CONVERSATION WITH RICHARD FAIRBRASS OF RIGHT SAID FRED The name, Right Said Fred, comes from a 1962 top ten UK hit by Bernard Cribbins. The song, “Right, Said Fred” was produced by George Martin, who would go on, to [...]
The Strawbs Live In Gettysburg – Rites Of Spring Festival 2016 Witchwood Music The Strawbs have been around a long time, and there have been many member changes, with original member Dave Cousins as the longest standing member. He has [...]
Dave Davies & Russ Davies Open Road Sony Music The Kinks called it a day in 1994, following the release of their much overlooked, but brilliant, album To The Bone. Who would have predicted that Dave Davies, co-founder and the revolutionary [...]
Various Artists Resistance Radio: The Man In The High Castle Album Sony Music A compilation album put together by Danger Mouse and Sam Cohen as an imagined soundtrack from the Amazon series The Man In The High Castle. The title, Resistance [...]
Timber Timbre Sincerely, Future Pollution Arts & Crafts Timber Timbre have been around since 2005, when their debut album, Cedar Shakes was released. A dark, frightening, brooding album, and from there, they have continued on to this, their [...]
The Flatliners Inviting Light Dine Alone Records The Flatliners have been together for over 15 years, and their four man line-up has not changed in all those years. Inviting Light is album number five. Hailing from Brampton and Richmond Hill [...]
Right Said Fred Exactly! Universal Music Album number nine for Brothers Fairbrass (Richard and Fred), better known as Right Said Fred. And their first album since 2011’s Stop The World, which many assumed would be their last. Thankfully it was [...]
Bob Dylan Triplicate Sony Music Canada Studio album number 38 for Mr. Bob Dylan and, as usual, it is a big event. This is his first ever studio triple album set. It is also his first album since 2016’s Fallen Angels. Triplicate is a triple [...]
Richard Edwards Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset Joyful Noise Recordings This is Richard Edwards’ first solo album since his departure from Margot and The Nuclear So and So’s (one hell of a good name for a band). It would seem that last year was just [...]
Aimee Mann Mental Illness Red Music A new release from Aimee Mann is always an important event. Since leaving, and disbanding ‘Til Tuesday in 1988 They went out with a bang with the incredible album Everything’s Different Now which is one of [...]
Andy McMaster Agenda 21 Generally Speaking Records The Motors called it a day in 1980 with the fantastic, and damn near perfect album, Tenement Steps. At this point, The Motors were really Andy McMaster and Nick Garvey, who had worked together [...]
Jeb Loy Nichols Country Hustle City Country City/Jullian Records Jeb Loy Nichols has been around a while in the music business, the fact that he is not a household name is a shame, as he has produced, written and performed some of the most [...]
Wire Silver/Lead Pinkflag Records 2017 marks the 40th anniversary of the first Wire album, Pink Flag, one of the most influential albums of the last 40 years, and certainly the most important “punk” album ever issued. It broke new ground [...]
Fischer-Z Building Bridges BMG John Watts has been making music for over forty years, either with Fischer-Z or as a solo artist. This is his tenth album with Fischer-Z, and the first since 2016’s This Is My Universe (also a Fischer-Z album). On [...]
