Charlotte Cornfield In My Corner Next Door Records Charlotte Cornfield has delivered a four-track EP, In My Corner, a new offering that includes two covers and two original numbers for her fans seeking some new material. Lucinda Williams’ [...]
THE YETI HAD IT COMING A CONVERSATION WITH BRIAN POSEHN Heavy metal as a genre has a long history of being able to laugh at itself. Anyone with a passing knowledge of Spinal Tap or The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years, or [...]
The Bombpops Death In Venice Beach Fat Wreck Chords This is a band who absolutely have found their moment. Check out the promotional poster for “Zero Remorse” and you will see a band that is ready to reach a far greater audience. Putting [...]
Biff Byford School Of Hard Knocks Silver Lining Music Anyone who was in an English High School in 1980 could not have missed Saxon’s Wheels of Steel, it was the album every teenager into rock was carrying around with them. Many years later, lead [...]
A CHEERFUL LITTLE EARFUL A CONVERSATION WITH DIANA PANTON Canadian Jazz vocalist Diana Panton is one of those rare artists who can cross over between adult and children’s music, connecting to either world. She’s had considerable success in this [...]
Brian Posehn Grandpa Metal Megaforce Records Heavy Metal as a genre has often shown that it has a sense of humour. Anyone with a passing knowledge of Spinal Tap or The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years will know that the [...]
Black Sugar Transmission Wandering Into The Bullseye Independent For the uninitiated, Black Sugar Transmission has existed for around a decade now, and they are about to enter an almost ridiculously prolific year, with three album releases all [...]
OUR EYES WILL BLEED FROM THE LED A CONVERSATION WITH MICHELLE BENSIMON AND ISABELLE BANOS OF CAVEBOY Michelle Bensimon and Isabelle Banos of Canadian all-female indie pop trio Caveboy grew up to the sounds of Fleetwood Mac and the melody of The [...]
BisonBison Hover Zozaya Records BisonBison is collaborative project that consists of producers Dani Ramez and Chad Skinner, alongside drummer Brad Weber of Caribou, harpist Sinéad Bermingham, and vocalist Sophia Alexandra. It is a talented [...]
Drive-By Truckers The Unraveling ATO Records This is the twelfth album by southern country rock band Drive By Truckers. They are one of the hardest working bands on the circuit with a devoted following and hit the road to deliver their blend of [...]
Blossoms Foolish Loving Spaces Virgin/EMI Blossoms are a young British guitar-based band hailing from Manchester who have already a number one album in the UK tucked into their back pocket. They have a serious desire to take the interest they [...]
FOOLISH LOVING SPACES A CONVERSATION WITH TOM OGDEN OF BLOSSOMS After a period of semi-sleep, there is a new British invasion on the way that will shake up the North American music scene. Bands like The Marmozets and Black Honey will have to be [...]
Oppkast C2H50H Independent Okay, this is a band going places – most likely the beer tent, the pub and any other place that sells copious amounts of alcohol! With a name that translates as vomit this was a review that required a certain [...]
Juliana Hatfield Juliana Hatfield Sings The Police American Laundromat Records I think that to do an album completely devoted to another artist, you really have to be able to bring something fresh to the table, something that allows the audience [...]
Russian Baths Deepfake Good Eye Records First albums are always difficult, bands are finding their way and don’t always get things right their first time in studio. The interestingly-named Russian Bath hails from New York, and provide for their [...]
Slothrust Peach Dangerbird Records A three-piece band hailing from Boston, Slothrust is a band finding their feet. They consider themselves a garage/alternative band, but personally, I’d put them more in the mainstream rock category. The [...]
The Orange Kyte Carousel Little Cloud Records The Orange Kyte’s third release, Carousel, is an album to turn up loud and let it transport you to the psych scene of the early ‘80s. The album has a high level of energy and is powered along by the [...]
Diana Panton A Cheerful Little Earful Little Things There is absolutely nothing not to like about this album. Canadian Diana Panton sings to me that I’m adorable any time at all. This girl has such a voice, jazz trained and as sweet as honey [...]
Starcrawler Devour You Rough Trade Starcrawler, called by some ‘the saviours of rock’ — even though I’m not at all sure they’d want to be — emerged as a high school band in 2017 and quickly came to prominence in the LA grunge/punk [...]
Yuka Dreamscape Independent Dreamscape is the third album from Toronto based funk/soul outfit Yuka, and to be honest if this album was any smoother musically it would give a billiard ball a run for its money. Self-produced and originally [...]
