Tom Petty Wildflowers & All The Rest Warner Records Three years ago, shortly before commencing his fortieth, and tragically his final tour, Tom Petty announced that his seminal 1994 album, Wildflowers, had an entire second half, written and [...]
Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown Pressure Spinefarm Records For the last decade, Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown have been among the most promising up and coming rock bands making waves throughout the underground scene. Their latest album, [...]
MARTIN POPOFF – LIMELIGHT: RUSH IN THE ’80s ECW PRESS BOOK REVIEW BY GERROD HARRIS Author Martin Popoff continues his deep dive into the discography of Rush with Limelight: Rush In The ‘80s, the second book in his trilogy on the [...]
GIVE THE DRUMMER SOME A CONVERSATION WITH CINDY BLACKMAN SANTANA File Give The Drummer Some under the ‘albums you didn’t hear about but should most definitely check out’ category. The latest album from Cindy Blackman Santana – former, long time [...]
TO FEEL OUR HUMANITY IN SOLIDARITY A CONVERSATION WITH NINA HAGEN After nearly a decade without releasing any new music, punk rock queen and innovator Nina Hagen has made her triumphant return with “Unity”. The cult legend has teamed up with [...]
EYES FOR YOU A CONVERSATION WITH DROP TOP ALIBI’S BRANDON GREGORY Few rock bands from Ontario get me nearly as excited as Toronto’s very own Drop Top Alibi. This is a band who, since 2017, has been releasing hard-hitting and melodic rock [...]
Public Enemy What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down? Def Jam Recordings Despite kind-of-firing-kind-of-not-firing Flavor Flav in March of this year, east coast hip hop pioneers Public Enemy are back; perhaps better than they have been in the [...]
Deftones Ohms Reprise Four years ago, Deftones released Gore, the most drastic departure from their known alternative brand of metal. Now, the band has reunited with long-time producer, Terry Date, who produced the first four Deftones’ records [...]
Magnolia Bayou Strange Place Independent Hailing from Southern Mississippi, Magnolia Bayou have released their sophomore album, Strange Place. The full-length album follows their 2018 self-titled debut and a series of singles released throughout [...]
NO CLICK TRACK, NO EDITS – 25 YEARS OF LIVE FAST, DIARRHEA A CONVERSATION WITH JOSH FREESE If you’ve listened to the radio even once in the last two decades, you’ve heard Josh Freese. As one of rock and pop’s most respected and go-to session [...]
Marylin Manson We Are Chaos Loma Vista Recordings Coming off a pair of acclaimed records, Marilyn Manson is in the midst of a mid-career renascence as he returns with We Are Chaos. The album, written and produced by Shooter Jennings, sees Manson [...]
Toots And The Maytals Got To Be Tough Trojan Jamaica For the first time in a decade, acclaimed reggae band Toots And The Maytals have returned with a brand new studio record, Got To Be Tough. The album, comprised of brand new material along with [...]
Metallica S&M2 Blackened Recordings Given the success of 1999’s S&M and, more recently, 2019’s acoustic Helping Hands… Live & Acoustic At The Masonic, Metallica have returned with S&M2 a sequel to their 1999 live album which saw [...]
South Of Eden The Talk Lava Records Previously known as Black Coffee, the newly-named South Of Eden have returned with The Talk. The four-track EP is not only their debut under the new moniker, but also marks their label debut since signing with [...]
Creedence Clearwater Revival Cosmo’s Factory (50th Anniversary Half-Speed Master) Craft Recordings Originally released in 1970, Cosmo’s Factory was the fifth full-length album from Creedence Clearwater Revival in the two years since the band had [...]
Crown Lands Crown Lands Universal Music Following two critically acclaimed studio EPs, 2016’s Mantra and 2017’s Rise Over Run , and their recent and fantastic acoustic EP, Wayward Flyers Vol. 1 released earlier this year, Crown Lands have [...]
Alive Alone Therapy Independent Following the release of their debut single, “Safe Sinner”, earlier this year, Alive Alone has released their debut studio EP, Therapy. The rough, hard-hitting, and abrasive six-track release marks a strong and [...]
Stuck On Planet Earth Beautiful Nowhere Anthem Entertainment After a number of years as a staple of the Toronto live music community and a handful of singles and EPs, Stuck On Planet Earth have released their long-awaited debut full-length [...]
Julian Taylor The Ridge Independent Few Toronto artists get me as excited with the news of new music as Julian Taylor does. A musical chameleon, Taylor’s work has come in the shape of rock, funk, pop, and soul, written and performed with an [...]
DIO, DRUMS, AND 50 YEARS OF ROCK A CONVERSATION WITH CARMINE APPICE The name Carmine Appice is one of respect and high regard among drummers as a stylistic innovator whose influence made rock drumming what it is today. While he may not be a [...]
Crown Lands Wayward Flyers Vol. 1 Universal Music Despite the electrifying and driving rock pulse of their recent singles “Howlin’ Back” and “Spit It Out”, Canada’s most promising up and coming rock band, Crown Lands, has returned with Wayward [...]
Run The Jewels RTJ4 BMG After promising their highly anticipated fourth album, RTJ4, would be available for free download in response to those in need due to the global pandemic and the recent racial protests in America, hip-hop duo Run The [...]
Rush Permanent Waves: 40th Anniversary Edition Universal Originally released in 1980, Permanent Waves is the latest Rush album in their series of reissues, and their first release since the equally sudden and tragic passing of drummer Neil Peart [...]
Blacktop Mojo Static Sandhill Records Following a truly successful sophomore album, Under The Sun, released in the fall of last year, Blacktop Mojo have returned with a four-track EP, Static. Given the Texas hard rock band’s rapidly growing [...]
