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 [...]
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 [...]
