The Dandy Warhols Why You So Crazy Dine Alone Records Celebrating their 25th anniversary as a band, The Dandy Warhols release their tenth studio album Why You So Crazy, that illustrates perfectly why the band remains an enigma after all these [...]
The PepTides Galápagos Vol. I Independent One of early 2019’s pleasant musical surprises is Galápagos Vol. 1, the new album from Ottawa’s The PepTides. Galápagos Vol. 1 is a salute to Kurt Vonnegut’s 1985 novel Galapagos, and over the [...]
Mark Knopfler Down The Road Wherever (Deluxe) British Grove/Universal Music With his ninth studio album Down The Road Wherever, Mark Knopfler, former leader and founder of the ‘80s U.K. band Dire Straits, delivers 14 unhurried and (typically for [...]
Allie X Super Sunset Allie X Canada Allie X (Alexandra Ashley Hughes) is a singer/songwriter from the Toronto area who grew up with an interest in classical piano, opera and mujsical theatre, and later went on to release a number of independent [...]
The Crystal Method The Trip Home Tiny E Records For over 20 years The Crystal Method has been at the forefront of the dance music scene of the electronica movement of the nineties. Starting out as a duo, alongside retired founding member Ken [...]
Tony Bennett & Diana Krall Love Is Here To Stay Verve/Columbia Records/Universal Music With a shared love of two of the 20th Century’s greatest songwriters — George and Ira Gershwin — two of jazz’s all time great [...]
Mr! Mouray Bats In Disguise Bullseye Records Of Canada One of the “good time rock ‘n’ roll” and timely albums of the season, Bats In Disguise by newly formed but veteran Canadian band Mr! Mouray. Available only digitally for [...]
The Trews Civilianaires Cadence Music The Nova Scotia-bred, Hamilton, Ontario-based band The Trews return with their sixth studio album, Civilianaires, and certainly one of their best to date. Led by singer/guitarist Colin MacDonald, along with [...]
Venetian Snares & Daniel Lanois Venetian Snares X Daniel Lanois Planet Mu Records In 1982 I first met a young record producer named Daniel Lanois at his Grant Avenue Recording Studio in Hamilton, Ontario. At the time he was co-producing, [...]
Bossie Not Pictured Culvert Music Young Toronto recording artist Bossie (Anne Douris) has release her debut album Not Pictured featuring a mix of catchy radio infused synth-pop tracks a-la Carly Rae Jepsen and Taylor Swift, with lyrics about [...]
Sloan 12 Murderecords/Universal Music Sloan is one of those Canadian bands I’ve always liked, so I was looking forward to hearing their 12th album, fittingly titled 12, and featuring 12 new songs by the band. Each of the four founding [...]
Moby Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt Arts & Crafts American electronic DJ/producer/singer-songwriter Moby’s latest album Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt isn’t anything like his fifth and breakthrough album [...]
MGMT Little Dark Age Sony Music After meeting at Wesleyan University in the early 2000s, Brooklyn-based MGMT has returned with their fourth album, Little Dark Age, with highly-mixed results. Following their breakout debut, 2007’s [...]
GREAT ASPIRATIONS FOR TC&I A CONVERSATION WITH COLIN MOULDING I hadn’t seen or spoken to TC&I’s Colin Moulding since 1979, when he was co-leader of England’s alt-rock sensation XTC, who had chart-topping hits such as “Making Plans [...]
Simple Minds Walk Between Worlds BMG Led by singer Jim Kerr and guitarist Charlie Burchill, ’80s art-rock band Simple Minds has returned with its latest album since 2014’s well-received Big Music, produced by the band along with Andy Wright and [...]
The Stephen Stanley Band Jimmy & The Moon Wolfe Island Records Former frontman of iconic Canadian nineties alt-rock band Lowest of the Low, Stephen Stanley, returns with a new group, The Stephen Stanley Band, and a new album, Jimmy & the [...]
Björk Utopia One Little Indian Records Björk’s latest and ninth studio album, Utopia, is an audible journey into her whimsical and sonic dream world. Undoubtedly one of her best releases, flutes and bird songs carry you throughout the [...]
Jeff Lynne’s ELO Wembley Or Bust Sony Music Formed in 1970, and seemingly as popular as ever, Jeff Lynne’s Electric Light Orchestra have always been known for their epic live shows, that bring together pop, rock and classical music [...]
The Reed Effect A Strange Curiosity Independent The Toronto psychedelic metal-rock trio The Reed Effect, featuring brothers Kirk Reed and Chris Reed, along with Bryan Fontez, bring their stink-face inducing rock to us with their new six-song EP [...]
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Who Built The Moon? Universal Music Following a two-year collaboration with renowned producer, DJ and composer David Holmes in both his Belfast and London studios, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds [...]
Banners Empires On Fire Island Records/Universal Music Liverpool UK singer/songwriter Banners is fascinated by dreams, life, death, hope and despair. Following his single “Start A Riot” in 2015, which has over 50 million global Spotify streams, [...]
The Cooper Brothers Radio Silence Independent Legendary Canadian Country/Rock band The Cooper Brothers have returned with their eighth studio album, and perhaps one of their best, called Radio Silence. Long known for their superb writing and [...]
Stars There Is No Love In Fluorescent Light Last Gang Records The prolific “cool rock” Montreal band Stars, led by Torquil Campbell and Amy Millan, have released their latest album, the 12-song opus There is no Love in Fluorescent Light. [...]
St. Vincent Masseduction Loma Vista Recordings/Universal Music St. Vincent (Annie Clark), originally from Dallas, Texas, has teamed up with producer Jack Antonoff for an interesting follow up to her 2014 Grammy Award winning Alternative Album of [...]
