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 [...]
Stew Hot Independent Hailing from Sweden, Stew very well may be among some of the most interesting rock revivalists around as they take classic rock from the late 1960s to mid ‘70s and blend it with a rich sense of the blues and early soul. The [...]
Greta Van Fleet Anthem Of The Peaceful Army Republic Records While 2017 was the year Greta Van Fleet popped onto everyone’s radar with the strong release of their debut double EP, From The Fires. Since then, Greta Van Fleet has continued to make [...]
MARTIN POPOFF – IRON MAIDEN: ALBUM BY ALBUM VOYAGEUR PRESS – OCTOBER 16, 2018 BOOK REVIEW BY GERROD HARRIS Following the release of his examination of Pink Floyd earlier this year, Martin Popoff has released Iron Maiden: Album By [...]
Tom Morello The Atlas Underground Mom+Pop Music For his first solo album since 2011’s World Wide Rebel Songs – under the alias of The Nightwatchman – Tom Morello has returned with The Atlas Underground, a collection of twelve tracks featuring a [...]
The Cavemen Burn Out For Love b/w Dancing On The Razors Edge Dirty Water Records New Zealand’s grimiest punk outfit The Cavemen has returned with a two-track single, Burn Out For Love b/w Dancing On The Razors Edge. The single follows the [...]
Tom Morello @ The Harbourfront Centre Theatre, Toronto October 5, 2018 In what was perhaps the most surprisingly low key events in Toronto this weekend, Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave, and Prophets Of Rage, took the stage at [...]
Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators @ Casino Rama, Orillia October 4, 2018 Opening with “Avalon”, Slash, Kennedy, and The Conspirators wasted no time getting the show started. While their set only ran for a modest hour and a [...]
Wu-Tang Clan @ Rebel, Toronto September 30, 2018 With a timer counting down on their website – currently just over thirty-nine days at the time of my writing – it is a great time to be a Wu-Tang Clan fan in the city of Toronto. To raise brand [...]
Nile Rodgers & Chic It’s About Time Virgin EMI Records For the first time in a quarter of a century, Nile Rodgers & Chic have released a new album. It’s About Time follows their 1992 album, Chic-ism. While the band has remained a [...]
Thelonious Monk Mønk Gearbox Records Often considered to be among the greatest of contemporary jazz musicians, Thelonious Monk is an artist in every sense of the word who, needless to say, has truly earned his status as a legendary icon of the [...]
John Scofield Combo 66 Universal Music Acclaimed jazz guitarist John Scofield has returned with Combo 66, his latest full-length album following 2016’s Country For Old Men – his previous album as a band leader – and last year’s collaborative [...]
Electric Citizen Helltown RidingEasy Records Hailing from Cincinnati, Ohio, Electric Citizen have returned with their third full-length album, Helltown. It was named after their hometown – Northside was commonly referred to as Helltown in the [...]
Mini Mansions Works Every Time Fiction Records For their first release since 2015’s full length album, The Great Pretenders, Mini Mansions have returned with Works Every Time, a four track EP released with the purpose of ushering in a new sound [...]
Prince Piano & A Microphone 1983 Warner Music Since the tragic passing of Prince on April 21, 2016, the Prince estate has slowly begun releasing new material from the artist’s fabled – and quite literal –vault of unreleased music. For [...]
MC50 w/ UIC & Public Animal @ The Danforth Music Hall, Toronto September 20, 2018 The history of the MC5 has been nothing short of tumultuous; however, this has not stopped the band from earning a much deserved sense of respect in the rock [...]
