Paul Weller Fat Pop (Volume 1) Polydor Records Paul Weller returns with Fat Pop (Volume 1), his 16th solo LP, created at his Black Barn Studio in Surrey, where he recorded the vocals, pianos and guitars, and then sent to his bandmates (drummer [...]
Daniel Lanois Heavy Sun Missing Piece Group Best-known for his previous production work on U2’s album Joshua Tree, Bruce Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball, and Bob Dylan’s Time Out Of Mind, 11-time Grammy Award winner Daniel Lanois [...]
The Smashing Pumpkins Cyr Sumerian Records The latest double album release by The Smashing Pumpkins, Cyr, featuring 20 new songs written by leader Billy Corgan, was bound to be a hit-and-miss affair with [...]
MIKE CARR – ROCK MY WORLD CANADA PRESENTS: CANADIAN BLUES REFERENCE & COLLECTOR’S GUIDE ROCK MY WORLD CANADA BOOK REVIEW BY GERRY YOUNG Canadian Blues Reference & Collector’s Guide, by ambitious superfan Mike Carr, is a [...]
The Killers Imploding The Mirage Island Records The highly anticipated sixth studio album by The Killers titledImploding The Mirage was recorded in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Park City Utah, where lead vocalist and writer Brandon Flowers has [...]
The Psychedelic Furs Made Of Rain Cooking Vinyl It’s been 29 years since the last Psychedelic Furs album, 1991’s World Outside, but between 1980 and 1991, the band released a total of seven albums that featured such well-known radio [...]
Betty Moon Little Miss Hollywood Evolver Music Since moving to Southern California from Toronto in 2010, Betty Moon has carved out a musical career that would be the envy of most Canadian singer/songwriters (male or female), and she’s had [...]
July Talk Pray For It Sleepless Records Pray For It, the third album by highly successful alternative/rock band July Talk, redefines yet again their well-known musical chops that have already brought them multiple number one singles, along with [...]
Betty Moon Translucent Evolver Music Betty Moon has led a very creative, and highly productive, musical career. Before her major label album debut for A&M Records in 1990, she was also the frontwoman for cutting-edge Toronto indie rock band [...]
DAVID COLLIER – TOPP: PROMOTER GARY TOPP BROUGHT US THE WORLD CONUNDRUM PRESS BOOK REVIEW BY GERRY YOUNG Topp (Promoter Gary Topp Brought Us The World) by David Collier with Gary Topp, is the graphic novel biography of Gary Topp, one of [...]
Austra HiRUDiN Pink Fizz Katie Austra Stelmonis, who goes by the moniker Austra, has released her fourth album titled HiRUDin. Although her unique, high-pitched vocals and sparse arrangements on the new disc are not for everyone, there are [...]
JOHN BARROW – HOW NOT TO MAKE IT IN THE POP WORLD (DIARY OF AN ALMOST HAS-BEEN) TRAFFORD PUBLISHING (REPRINT EDITION) BOOK REVIEW BY GERRY YOUNG As a self-described “journeyman of pop,” John Barrow certainly fits the bill, being a former [...]
Big Sugar Eternity Now Universal Music Grammy nominated Big Sugar returns with new record Eternity Now, the first Big Sugar album in five years. Not surprisingly, it’s kind of a mixed bag, taking into account the trials and tribulations [...]
Caveboy Night In The Park, Kiss In The Dark Independent Coming out of Montreal, one of last year’s most hyped Canadian buzz bands was the alt-pop three-woman outfit known as Caveboy, whose debut album [...]
Beck Hyperspace Capitol Records/Universal Music Canada On his 14th and latest album Hyperspace, Beck picks up right where he left off in 2017 with his Grammy Award-winning release, Colors. Beck Hansen first came into the public eye in 1994 with [...]
Cold War Kids New Age Norms CWKTWA/AWAL There might be something to that old superstition about the number seven being lucky, because the seventh album by Los Angeles-based band Cold War Kids, the first of a three album trilogy, certainly hits [...]
Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! Polydor/Interscope On Lana Del Rey’s fifth major label studio album, Norman Fucking Rockwell!, she shows herself to be developing into one of America’s finest singer/songwriters, with both biting [...]
Wingtips Exposure Therapy Artoffact Records Chicago goth pop duo Vincent Segretario and Hannah Avalon, also known as Wingtips, has released its debut album Exposure Therapy, and it’s an eclectic mix of pop, synth, darkwave, and goth. If you [...]
Corey Hart Dreaming Time Again Rhino Records After a two-decade hiatus, pop icon Corey Hart returns with a new eight-song EP titled Dreaming Time Again, along with a full blown Canadian tour in May and June, with dates to follow in Japan in [...]
Cranberries In The End BMG Many bands aspire to be timeless, but The Cranberries are one of the few to have achieved that goal. On In The End, The Cranberries have possibly delivered their finest album in their 30-year and eight-album history, [...]
Band Of Skulls Love Is All You Love SO Recordings Formed in 2008, U.K. Southampton Indie Rock outfit Band Of Skulls release their fifth studio album Love Is All You Love, following 2016’s Default. Led by original members guitarist/vocalist [...]
Justus Proffit LA’s Got Me Down Bar/None Records For his previous work on various L.A. band EP’s and DIY solo projects, 26-year-old Justus Proffit has received startlingly good reviews from various respected outlets such as the New [...]
David Gray Gold In A Brass Age IHT Records/AWAL Recordings Over his 25-year career that includes 11 albums, David Gray has been incredibly successful, and has achieved three #1 U.K. records, been nominated for multiple Grammy Awards, and sold [...]
Prefab Sprout I Trawl The Megahertz Sony Music Though it originally appeared as a solo album in 2003 for leader and writer of ‘80s UK hit band Prefab Sprout Paddy McAloon, he decided to remaster the album, and rerelease I Trawl The Megahertz in [...]
