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 [...]
STILL A STUDENT OF MUSIC AN INTERVIEW WITH MURRAY McLAUCHLAN “Every time I make an album, I think ‘that’s it’”, Murray McLauchlan reveals during our telephone conversation about his new album, Love Can’t Tell Time. Thankfully, Murray keeps on [...]
Paul McCartney Flowers In The Dirt (Reissue) Universal Music In 2010, Paul McCartney began a reissue series, called The Archive Collection, where he would reissue an album from his catalogue. The reissues would not only include the remastered [...]
Mount Eerie A Crow Looked At Me P. W. Elverum & Sun Mount Eerie is really songwriter and producer Phil Elverum. Elverum was married to Canadian artist Geneviève Castrée, shortly after the birth of their daughter, Geneviève was diagnosed [...]
Night Ranger Don’t Let Up Frontiers Music SRL By my count, this is Night Ranger’s 12th studio album. And to be very honest, they are not breaking any new ground with this one. They have returned to a tried and true formula. [...]
MACRO VS. MICRO AN INTERVIEW WITH YONI WOLF OF WHY? Yoni Wolf and Why? are back, and that is a very good thing. The last Why?album was 2012’s Mumps, Etc., but they have returned with Moh Lhean and continue to release their music on Joyful Noise [...]
THE BLOKE FROM FISCHER-Z A CONVERSATION WITH JOHN WATTS “People know me as the bloke from Fischer-Z”, laughs John Watts as we talk about his new album, Building Bridges, “so I went back to that name a couple of years ago instead of releasing it [...]
Peter Murphy Bare-Boned And Sacred Metropolis Records This is actually Peter Murphy’s fourth solo live album. And this is, by far, is his best . It was recorded at New York City’s Le Poisson Rouge in April 2016 during his Bare-Boned And Sacred [...]
Heath Green & The Makeshifters Heath Green & The Makeshifters Alive Records There appears to be a big resurgence in “real music”, you know, no loops, no synths, no samples, and basic guitar driven music played by real players. I, for [...]
Maker Move Your Feet Kidda Records Move Your Feet is a five track EP from UK’s Maker. This four piece band know their rock history and their music. The result is a rocking, bluesy, powerful EP. Co-produced by the band and Nick Brine, who up to [...]
David Bazan Care Undertow This is an interesting album, with an even more interesting title. Care. Simple, but also direct, almost an order. The theme of this album, spread throughout the lyrics is care…care for yourself but also, [...]
Andrew Golub – The Music Between Us – Concert Ads of Duran Duran Durandy Productions – March 3, 2017 ISBN – 978-0-692-63482-0 Book Review By Aaron Badgley Duran Duran represent the ‘80s. I think there can be no argument [...]
Murray McLauchlan Love Can’t Tell Time True North Records No one could ever accuse Murray McLauchlan of doing the expected. He takes his time between records, has been part of a success ‘supergroup’ (Lunch at Allen’s) and does pretty much [...]
Slow Death Lights Slow Death Lights Independent The debut album from Slow Death Lights has been a long time coming. Their preceding single/EP came out two years ago, but this album has been worth the wait. Slow Death Lights is the album fans [...]
Various Artists T2 Trainspotting (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Insomniac/Interscope Records I don’t envy the writers/producers of T2 Trainspotting. They have a lot to live up to as do the producers of the soundtrack. The first movie, [...]
THESE ARE THE DAYS, THESE ARE THE SONGS AN INTERVIEW WITH MICK THOMAS (WEDDINGS PARTIES ANYTHING) Mick Thomas? What the hell has he been up to lately? Well, quite a lot. A new book, a new compilation album, and recording new music. I had the [...]
Glenn Skuthorpe See My World Independent This is album number five from the remarkable Nhunggabarra, Kooma, Muruwari artist (his definition).. If I was honest I would say the first time I listened to this album I was not all that impressed. I [...]
Why? Moh Lhean Joyful Noise Recordings The band Why? evolved from artist Yoni Wolf, who had been using that name while performing in California. Older brother, Josiah started working with Yoni, and Doug McDiarmind joined the fold. Yoni’s [...]
