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 [...]
Beach House Depression Cherry Sub Pop Musically, it’s rare to find a dreamier band than Baltimore’s Beach House. Depression Cherry is yet another amazing example of their musical power. Since their incredible self-titled debut album in 2006, [...]
Great Lake Swimmers A Forest Of Arms Nettwerk / Weewerk A Forest of Arms is a collection of profound and musically dynamic tracks that runs deeper than meets the ear. The stunning acoustics on this 6th studio album by Toronto folk rock darlings [...]
C & C Surf Factory Garage City Six Sooter Records C & C Surf Factory is a band with a great blend of garage-based rockabilly and surf guitar jams, brought to you by Toronto axe masters Colin Cripps and “Champagne” James Robertson. Their [...]
Loopity Goofs Secret Gems Hidden Weapons Black Crack Records The long awaited, debut full-length album from Toronto’s Loopity Goofs is LOADED with killer beats, sample and grooves. Gord Shields and Scott Atherton are the brains behind [...]
Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell Asthmatic Kitty The entrancing sound of Sufjan Stevens’ unmistakable music is beautiful. The unpredictable yet cohesive sonic journey through his new album Carrie & Lowell will undoubtedly hold your [...]
Cannibal Corpse / Behemoth / Aeon @ The Phoenix, Toronto February 24th, 2015 Sweaty bodies and by a barrage of death metal ripping through the venue’s PA system greeted fans upon setting foot into the jam-packed Phoenix Concert Theatre on [...]
Danko Jones Fire Music New Damage Records The return of Danko Jones comes with great timing, challenging a music scene that is overrun by shoeless, whistling and clapping hipster bands. Their new release Fire Music cuts through the crap and [...]
Marilyn Manson The Pale Emporer Hell, Etc. The king of industrial doom rock is back in top form for 2015 promoting another set of sick, disturbing, and irresistible tracks on his new album The Pale Emperor. Marilyn Manson just unleashed his 13th [...]
No Fame – No Fortune – Just Music: An Interview With Nick Sewell Of Biblical When the band name BIBLICAL is mentioned, there’s only a select few that know them despite having an enviable resume on the Canadian music scene since 2010. [...]
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats @ Lee’s Palace, Toronto September 28th, 2014 Uncle Acid’s debut Toronto appearance was a highly anticipated show for the stoner metal purists, this up and coming psych-metal mega force has toured Europe [...]
Lykke Li I Never Learn EMI/Atlantic The mysterious music of Lykke Li brings pleasure, pain, sadness and joy among other intense feelings. Her unique style of swooping ambient sounds with an eerily beautiful voice will stun you and have you [...]
Flash Lightnin’ For The Sinners Pheromone Recordings In a few words, Flash Lightnin’s new album, For The Sinners, kicks mammoth ass. If you go back in time to the killer four on the floor stadium rock bands of the ‘70s and ‘80s, like [...]
Jerry Leger Early Riser Latent Recordings Early Riser marks Jerry Leger’s seventh album in less than 10 years and it’s clear that he’s a man on a mission to reinvigorate the Canadian Roots Rock landscape for the better. When [...]
Various Artists Ronnie James Dio: This Is Your Life (Tribute Album) Rhino In honour of Ronnie James Dio’s incredible music career and immeasurable influence on heavy metal and hard rock, the best of today’s metal bands congregated [...]
Bonobo Flashlight EP Ninja Tune With Bonobo’s latest release Flashlight EP, we are once again graced by the subtle groovy sounds that seem to be designed to alter your state of mind and get your feet moving. Scott Green, AKA Bonobo, is one of [...]
Mastodon Live At Brixton Warner Music Live At Brixton is a punishing set of pure metal mayhem that only Mastodon can deliver. Having previously seen these guys live, I’m not at all surprised by their technical perfection. Mastodon was destined [...]
Helloween Straight Out of Hell The End Records Hair Metal seems to be raising a lot of fans from the dead these days, making the return of ’80s fantasy Hair band Helloween perfectly timed. 2013 is seeing big tours and Vegas residencies by bands [...]
Lee Harvey Osmond The Folk Sinner Latent Recordings The great thing about Lee Harvery Osmond is that you can immediately set the band apart from others. They have their own sound that puts them in an elite group of Canadian roots rockers. A [...]
TRENT SEVERN @ THE DAKOTA TAVERN, TORONTO NOVEMBER 27, 2012 I never thought I would see a band as superbly talented as Trent Severn in a small environment like the Dakota Tavern in downtown Toronto. The words “mesmerizing,” “phenomenal,” [...]
Bison B.C. Lovelessness Metal Blade For those wondering why there are only six songs on this full-length release from Vancouver’s Bison B.C., the answer is simple; the average track is over seven minutes long. These dudes are the kings of [...]
Ladyhawk No Can Do Triple Crown Audio Recordings The opening tracks of Ladyhawk’s No Can Do, “Footprints,” “I’m a Witch” and “No Can Do,” are rather strong and catchy tunes that get the album going with a strong start. After these three songs [...]
Jason Collett Reckon Arts & Crafts Jason Collett keeps turning out amazing songs regardless of his high-profile as one of the lead members of Broken Social Scene. The impressive opening song, “Pacific Blue,” immediately gets your attention [...]
