Shoemaker Levee Phase Of The Days 1013793 Records DK If I were asked “What Canadian band would you like to see play at Red Rocks Amphitheatre?”, my response would be Shoemaker Levee. The band’s latest album, Phase of the Days, brings their prog [...]
Basia Bulat Are You In Love? Secret City Records Basia Bulat’s recent release Are You In Love? would have been best served opening with its second track “Electric Roses”. The album instead opens in a Broadway style with the title track that [...]
The Goners Good Mourning RidingEasy Records Simply put, The Goners are one of the coolest and heaviest garage rock bands I’ve heard in years. Not since first hearing Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats have I been so pumped for new music. The Swedish [...]
SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS @ REBEL, TORONTO JULY 29, 2019 It’s not every day that a legendary guitar hero rolls into town on tour with a hot band, and when the word was out that Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy and the [...]
Nuclear Revenge Let The Tyrants Rise Evil Spell Records/Undercover When listening to Nuclear Revenge’s debut full-length album you are instantly transported back in time back to 1986-87 when black metal and hardcore thrash was truly a [...]
MÖTLEY CRÜE – THE DIRT NETFLIX MARCH 22, 2019 When the first wave of promotion started circulating online about the upcoming Mötley Crüe Netflix movie a few months back, I was curious, however, worried that my beloved childhood heroes [...]
BACK TO THE ANTHEMS! BACK TO THE PARTY! A CONVERSATION WITH ANDREW W.K. Andrew W.K. released his first full-length studio album in 9 years on March 2, 2018 titled You’re Not Alone, a collection of writings that date as far back as 2005 and have [...]
Bahamas Earthtones Brushfire Records With the latest release of Earthtones from Toronto-based Bahamas (the incredible solo project of Afie Jurvanen), the emphasis is purely on ’70s R&B chill grooves. The beautifully-soulful production [...]
Jim James Tribute To 2 ATO Records Jim James’ forthcoming solo album Tribute to 2 is the most honest and best collection of songs I’ve heard since Sufjan Steven’s 2015 release Carrie & Lowell. This deep, diverse, and terrifyingly interesting [...]
BROWN ACID: THE FIFTH TRIP AN ALBUM BREAK-DOWN & CONVERSATION WITH SERIES CREATOR LANCE BARRESI Get ready for the next wave of retro phych fuzz that has been painstakingly sourced and dragged from the grave of dusty forgotten record company [...]
Various Artists Brown Acid: The FourthTrip RidingEasy Records The terms “Rare Tracks” or “Deep Cuts” would be vast understatements when describing the exclusivity of the songs that are offered up here on Brown Acid The Fourth Trip. The [...]
LOVE VERSUS A CONVERSATION WITH LEEROY STAGGER From punk rock to roots rock, Leeroy Stagger took his career from the hard edged Staggers to a roots rock solo outfit that is carving a deep path from coast to Canadian coast. Having learned the [...]
Dinosaur Jr @ The Danforth Music Hall, Toronto March 10, 2017 When J Mascis and Dinosaur Jr. roll into town, the mandate is simply to be the there without question. When the show was announced in December, social media was buzzing hard and the [...]
Prophets Of Rage @ Molson Amphitheatre, Toronto August 24, 2016 When the initial announcements came out about supergroup Prophets of Rage, with Rage Against The Machine members Tom Morello, Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk and replacement singers [...]
ROSE CORA PERRY AND THE TRUTH UNTOLD AN INTERVIEW WITH ROSE CORA PERRY In the early 2000s, Rose Cora Perry was busy making a name for herself and her London, Ontario-based band Anti-Hero. It was a group that truly gave Rose the much-needed [...]
Jadea Kelly Love & Lust Darth Jadea Music Jadea Kelly gets straight to the point with honest and heartfelt lyrics such as, “I wanna drown it. Way I feel. If I do does it make the heat less real?” These lines are surely apropos in opening [...]
Rhine An Outsider Independent Rhine’s latest full-length release, An Outsider, opens with seriously ominous sounds that will intentionally bend your mind in preparation for its impending sonic doom. The Seattle-based band has a unique brand of [...]
Black Sabbath Past Lives (Reissue) Warner Music Canada With the end of Black Sabbath’s career rapidly approaching, the band strategically reissued some of their best albums including the long-out-of-print Past Lives, now released with a [...]
Jen Foote Rock Chapel Road Independent The first thing that stands out on Jen Foote’s Rock Chapel Road full length release is the superb production quality and playing that supports her wonderfully comforting voice. The producer and musician [...]
Odium Terraform Year Of The Sun Records Delivering a punishing new album titled Terraform, Hanover, Ontario Canada’s Odium is set to crush the masses with 11 new songs. This melodic genre of death metal gives you the best of two worlds with [...]
Windhand Grief’s Infernal Flower Relapse Records As the sounds of a crackling bonfire introduce Windhand’s stunning new album, the band delivers the goods precisely at the 32-second mark, showcasing first-rate songwriting, studio [...]
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats @ Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto September 17th, 2015 Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats descended on Toronto for their second tour of duty on September 17 to an eager mixed crowd of metal heads, stoners and hippies. [...]
Iron Maiden The Book Of Souls Warner Music Canada After 40 years of blistering metal, Iron Maiden is back with their 17th studio album, The Book of Souls. The band has not changed their potent recipe of writing, recording and producing; what [...]
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats The Night Creeper Rise Above Records With Uncle Acid’s 4th full length release set to disturb the masses, Night Creeper assaults your psyche with doom and fury, peaks and valleys and bloody undertones that will [...]
