Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers The Best Of Everything Universal Just over six months following the release of the massive career anthology An American Treasure, which featured an abundatnce of never before heard material, the Tom Petty estate [...]
Gary Clark Jr. This Land Warner Music Few artists can evoke the excitement on stage and in the studio as Gary Clark Jr. does as he continues to redefine the forms which both the blues and pop music can take on. His latest album, This Land, is no [...]
The Chocolate Watchband This Is My Voice Dirty Water Records Revered proto-punk rock outfit, The Chocolate Watchband, have returned with their first album since 2000’s Get Away. This Is My Voice is a track album which takes the listener back to [...]
GETTING IT ALL OUT A CONVERSATION WITH FRANK BELLO AND DAVID ELLEFSON While the name “Altitudes & Attitude” may not yet ring a bell, it certainly should after the band’s recent full-length debut, Get It Out. Comprised of two of metal’s most [...]
Snakerattlers All Heads Will Roll Dirty Water Records The UK punk duo Snakerattlers have returned with their sophomore album, All Heads Will Roll, following up their 2017 debut, This Is Rattlerock. Comprised of husband and wife duo Dan Oliver [...]
Metallica Helping Hands… Live & Acoustic At The Masonic Blackened Recordings Metallica seems to be in a sort of career Renaissance. Its latest studio album, 2016’s Hardwired… to Self-Destruct, has been heralded as the band’s strongest [...]
Ron Wood & Ronnie Lane Mahoney’s Last Stand (Limited Green Vinyl Reissue) Real Gone Music While its 1972 film counterpart may not be very memorable – likely due to its Canadian origins and its lack of a theatrical release – Mahoney’s Last [...]
Jailbirds The Black River Independent I need very little reminder of the vibrance of Toronto’s independent music scene. The amount of talent that has emerged in the last few years is nothing short of astounding. That being said, every now and [...]
Jaye P. Morgan Jaye P. Morgan (Reissue) WeWantSounds In what should have been a landmark moment for soul and disco music, Jaye P. Morgan released her self-titled album, Jaye P. Morgan, in 1976. Rather than being a watershed moment for both her [...]
The Cavemen Lowlife Slovenly Recordings Making their Slovenly Recordings debut, The Cavemen return with a new three-track EP. Lowlife, as expected, continues developing the same style of grimy, abrasive punk firmly established on 2018’s Nuke [...]
HOLLYWOOD COULDN’T MAKE THIS UP: THE STORY OF JACKIE SHANE A CONVERSATION WITH GRAMMY AWARD NOMINEE ROB BOWMAN The story of Jackie Shane is truly one for the ages. While her name may only ring a bell for record-collecting soul enthusiasts and [...]
Altitudes & Attitude Get It Out Megaforce Records Get It Out is the second release and first full-length album from Altitudes & Attitude, a collaboration between Frank Bello and David Ellefson, bassists for Anthrax and Megadeth [...]
WHEN DRUMS CONDUCT A CONVERSATION WITH JACOB ARMEN On September 8th of last year, drummer extraordinaire Jacob Armen released his latest album, When Drums Conduct. The album is an ambitious undertaking which sees Armen collaborate with well over [...]
Bruce Springsteen Springsteen On Broadway Sony Music Paired with the release of his Netflix special, Bruce Springsteen has brought his highly acclaimed Broadway show to a recorded format. Featuring the songs and stories from Tony Award winner [...]
BEEF, METAL, AND TIME TRAVEL A CONVERSATION WITH MAC SABBATH MANAGER MIKE ODD I first heard of Mac Sabbath a couple of years ago when they went viral as they made headlines across some of the biggest media outlets. While some enjoyed it for the [...]
Rush Hemispheres: 40th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition UMe While Rush may be done recording new music and touring as a band, their catalogue lives on with their recent 40th anniversary celebrations as they remaster and repackage their [...]
Chris Cornell Chris Cornell Universal Music Few artists, if any, could successfully go from the unrelenting heaviness of “Jesus Christ Pose” to the warm gentleness of “Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart” with an equal amount of quality, integrity, [...]
MARTIN POPOFF – QUEEN: ALBUM BY ALBUM VOYAGEUR PRESS – NOVEMBER 13, 2018 BOOK REVIEW BY GERROD HARRIS Without releasing an album or even touring, Queen very may well be the band of the year. Since the release of the trailer for [...]
Stevie Wonder @ Casino Rama, Orillia November 9, 2018 Few artists remain who are legendary in musicianship and talent; even fewer have had such an impact that they helped shape an era of popular music and continue to influence it for decades [...]
Johnny Mafia Princes De L’Amour Dirty Water Records Returning with their first full length album since their 2016 debut, Michel-Michel Michel, Johnny Mafia have released Princes de l’Armour. Much like the rest of the Dirty Water Records [...]
Charles Bradley Black Velvet Daptone Records After his sudden and unexpected passing on September 23 of last year, the legacy of Charles Bradley has been one that embodies the sense of classic funk and soul music for the modern era. Much like [...]
Hoodooed Lotka-Volterra Independent For their fifth release, Quebec-based rock group Hoodooed have released Lotka-Volterra, an experimental, nine track album which revels in its own obscurity, quirks, creativity, and refusal to remain in one [...]
MICHAEL DIAMOND AND ADAM HOROVITZ – BEASTIE BOYS BOOK SPIEGEL & GRAU BOOK REVIEW BY GERROD HARRIS Now here’s a little story that has got to be told – actually, it’s a story over thirty years in the making and it’s not so little; it results [...]
The Struts Young & Dangerous Interscope Records English-Canadian rock outfit, The Struts, have had an amazing year. While busy with their own headlining tour across North America and Europe to promote the release of their single, “Body [...]
