WE’RE UNABLE TO SOUND ANY OTHER WAY A CONVERSATION WITH TOWER OF POWER BANDLEADER EMILIO CASTILLO With over fifty years of recording and extensive touring, Tower Of Power has been an essential funk and soul ensemble since the 1970’s. Hot on the [...]
Badguyswin Cowards Independent Canadian grunge band Badguyswin has released its debut album, Cowards. Hailing from Grand Forks, BC, the band lays it all on the line with a ‘90s-reminiscent, 12-track record that delivers on both nostalgia and on [...]
Prince And The Revolution Prince And The Revolution: Live Warner Music The latest offering from the Prince estate and his long mythologized vault comes in the form of Prince And The Revolution: Live. The surprise release, recorded on March 30, [...]
MARTIN POPOFF – ANTHEM: RUSH IN THE ’70s ECW PRESS BOOK REVIEW BY GERROD HARRIS Moving away from the coffee table style, album-by-album artists examinations he’s published in the last few years, Martin Popoff has moved his attention [...]
Mark Lanegan Straight Songs Of Sorrow Heavenly Recordings While seemingly keeping a low profile over the last decade, Mark Lanegan, of Screaming Trees, Queens Of The Stone Age, and countless other collaborative works, has simply refused to slow [...]
Pharmacose Prescription Fiction, Pt. 1 Silent Majority Group Jacksonville, Florida-based alternative rock band, Pharmacose, have released their debut EP, Prescription Fiction, Pt. 1. The six-song release follows a string of five previous single [...]
MARK LANEGAN – SING BACKWARDS AND WEEP HACHETTE BOOKS BOOK REVIEW BY GERROD HARRIS Perhaps best known as the singer of the Screaming Trees, a band that would greatly influence the pending grunge explosion of the ‘90s, Mark Lanegan has released [...]
Beartaker Total Disgrace Independent Without warning, Beartaker formed and dropped their debut EP, Total Disgrace. The four-song release comes from Monster Truck’s Jeremy Widerman and Bad Ideas’ Theodore Mckibbon, a pair of friends who recently [...]
Messer RE:TURN RE:VISIT RE:MIX MaddPants Records Hard-hitting alternative rock band, Messer, have returned in a unique fashion with RE:TURN RE:VISIT RE:MIX, a collection of remixes of their 2019 single, “Simple Man” made by their fans in a [...]
Thundercat It Is What It Is Brainfeeder Records Thundercat is back with his first record since 2017’s critically acclaimed Drunk with, what is bound to be yet another, sure-fire, creative triumph, It Is What It Is. True to form, the bass [...]
Pearl Jam Gigaton Republic Records Grunge legend Pearl Jam has made its long-awaited return with Gigaton, its first album since 2013’s Lightning Bolt and its first taste of new music since its one-off single, “Can’t Deny Me” in 2018. It goes [...]
The Wild! Still Believe In Rock And Roll eOne Music Over the course of the last half decade, the world seems to have rediscovered their interest in rock by heralding a number of up and coming champions of nostalgic tones that are beginning to [...]
Tower Of Power Step Up Mack Avenue Records With over half a century of music under their belt, iconic Oakland funk band Tower Of Power are back with their 21st release. Step Up is a return to traditional form and sees the horn-driven soul [...]
RETURNING THE EL MOCAMBO TO ITS FORMER GLORY THE MONUMENTAL RETURN OF AN ICONIC TORONTO VENUE Since 1948, The El Mocambo has been a central fixture of the Toronto live music scene. The club has hosted the likes of legends, ranging from The [...]
Ozzy Osbourne Ordinary Man Sony Music/Epic Records After a year of cancelled tours and growing health concerns, Ozzy Osbourne makes a triumphant return with his latest album, Ordinary Man. Backed largely by producer and guitarist Andrew Watt, [...]
Hold On Hollywood Love Stories Independent Up and coming rock band Hold On Hollywood have released their second studio EP. Love Stories follows their 2016 debut, Save Me and, more recently, their 2019 single, a cover of Eddie Money’s 1986 hit, [...]
Gil Scott-Heron & Makaya McCraven We’re New Again: A Reimagining By Makaya McCraven XL Recordings 10 years ago, Gil Scott-Heron released I’m New Here. It was not only his 13th studio album, but it was also his first album of new music [...]
Green Day Father Of All Motherfuckers Reprise If records were rated on titles alone, then Green Day would win album of the century with Father Of All Motherfuckers. Unfortunately for us and the veteran punk band, that simply is not the case as [...]
Stone Temple Pilots Perdida Rhino Channelling the beauty and melancholy that is the band’s legacy, Stone Temple Pilots have emerged with Perdida. This is a band, after all, despite being among the greatest alternative rock outfits of the ‘90s, [...]
Another Day Dawns Stranger Independent Among a growing scene of emerging hard rock bands that has been sweeping across America over the past few years, a number of independent bands have come to stand out for their musical output. Another Day [...]
Wayne Shorter The Music Of Wayne Shorter Blue Engine Records Wayne Shorter is among the few remaining musicians from the golden age of jazz. At the age of 86, the legendary saxophone player and songwriter has returned with his first album since [...]
Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band Express Yourself Real Gone Music While Charles Wright may not necessarily be a household name, everybody – everybody – knows the quintessential soul track “Express Yourself”. Whether it’s [...]
Dandy Lyon Wine Stilled Independent I remember being immediately captivated by Oshawa, Ontario’s Dandy Lyon Wine upon first seeing them live at Revival, a College Street club in Toronto. The trio took the stage with a raw and rootsy sense of [...]
The Who Who Universal Music Standing among the last classic rock bands from the 1960s, The Who have returned with WHO, their first album in 13 years. With a legacy spanning over 55 years, founding members Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey are [...]
