BAD REED – “STAINED GLASS” [SINGLE] (2016) Independent December 16, 2016 Since this quartet released their first professional studio EP in 2015, Bad Reed has been tirelessly touring South East Canada supporting their release. [...]
Telefon Tel Aviv Fahrenheit Fair Enough Ghostly International Telefon Tel Aviv reissues its September 2001 release Fahrenheit Fair Enough on Ghostly International. Joshua Eustis is currently the only member of the group, after friend and [...]
Arc Iris w/ Qais And The Qosmonauts & Lone Kodiak @ The Satellite, Los Angeles December 1, 2016 Last night The Satellite hosted Arc Iris, a band whose new record Moon Saloon was released earlier this year on Bella Union (Europe) and ANTI- [...]
Dungen Häxan Mexican Summer Sweden’s psychedelic rockers, Dungen, are known for their insane live performances and distinct sound. Their latest work, Häxan, is an instrumental album that doubles as a narrative accompaniment to Lotte Reiniger’s [...]
The Weeknd Starboy Republic Records / Universal Music Canada Who is Abel Tesfaye? This isn’t something you’ll be hearing this year. Tesfaye, AKA The Weeknd, was propelled full-throttle onto the pop scene when his massive 2015 hit, “I Can’t Feel [...]
Lil Yachty Lil Boat Universal Music Canada Lil Yachty is one of the major breakout hip-hop and trap stars of the past year. During 2016 alone, he was featured on the cover of the XXL Freshman Issue, appeared as a model in Kanye West’s [...]
MUSIC THAT MAKES YOU THINK AN INTERVIEW WITH ROB GARZA OF THIEVERY CORPORATION Rob Garza and Eric Hilton have been making music as Thievery Corporation for over two decades. They’ve done it all while sticking to their influences and what they [...]
Immanu El Hibernations Glitter House Records With so many bands trying to make it in this insanely competitive and difficult time for the record industry, it can be difficult to stick what you do best. It’s hard to make something you love while [...]
Justice Woman Warner Music Canada / Ed Banger Records Since French duo Gaspard Augé & Xavier de Rosnay released Cross in 2007, you would probably have had to live under a rock to have missed the smash hit single, “D.A.N.C.E.” If you’ve been [...]
Islands Return To The Sea (Reissue) Manque Music 10 years after its original release, the Canadian Indie Rock staple, Islands, remaster and re-release their debut LP. The “light but firm” remaster has never sounded better and is available on all [...]
Martha Wainwright Goodnight City Cadence Music Group/PIAS It might seem difficult trying to live up to household folk names like Loudon and Rufus, but in her sixth studio album, Martha Wainwright has successfully rounded out her sound and showed [...]
Body/Head No Waves Matador Records Kim Gordon (ex-Sonic Youth) and experimental guitarist Bill Nace’s project Body/Head is based on improvisation with one another. Their debut album, Coming Apart, was released in 2013 and followed by a [...]
MOTHLIGHT A BAND SHARES THEIR THOUGHTS ON THE MUSIC BUSINESS, CHANGES & HOW TO DEAL WITH THEM I’m in a band. It’s called Mothlight and for the better part of the last year we’ve spent our time and money writing & [...]
The Radio Dept. Running Out Of Love Labrador Records For some time now Swedish indie-rockers, The Radio Dept. have been a staple in the provocative lo-fi dream-pop game. Their latest, Running Out Of Love, is true to from but provides a new [...]
His Clancyness Isolation Culture Hand Drawn Dracula / Maple Death Records His Clancyness’s forthcoming art-pop LP Isolation Culture provides an uplifting effervescence and groovy weightlessness that leaves you head-bopping and smirking as you [...]
Army Of The Universe 1999 & The Aftershow Metropolis Records Throughout listening to this album I was excited, entertained and confused. Army of the Universe’s newest release 1999 & The Aftershow sounds like a mashup of many greats from [...]
Tilted Axes Music For Mobile Electric Guitars Peppergreen Media Tilted Axes is the project of Patrick Grant, a composer and performer living in New York City and creating music for a wide range of media. A native of Detroit, MI, Grant moved to [...]
