Lowly Hifalutin Bella Union Danish pop band Lowly initially garnered attention with their dreamy debut Heba, and in their sophomore album on Bella Union, Hifalutin. They further define their sound with all the ethereal textures, vocal overlays, [...]
Alice Phoebe Lou Paper Castles Independent/Motor Music On her second full-length release, fire dancer turned singer-songwriter Alice Phoebe Lou seamlessly combines cool jazz vibes and light indie tones to create a laidback yet intriguing album. [...]
Branford Marsalis Quartet The Secret Between The Shadow And The Soul OKeh Records/Marsalis Music The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul is the Branford Marsalis Quartets’ followup to 2012’s Four MFs Playin’ Tunes, their last [...]
Cochemea All My Relations Daptone Records With nearly fifteen years of experience touring the world as a saxophonist with Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, Cochemea Gastelum is no stranger to the musical world. Within his solo full-length All My [...]
Various Artists African Scream Contest 2 – Benin 1963-1980 Analog Africa In 2008 archival label Analog Africa introduced the wider world to the funk, rock, and psychedelic sounds of 60’s and 70’s Benin with African Scream [...]
Little Junior Hi Grand Jury Records While it has yet to be two decades since the start of the century many are already nostalgic for the early oughts. On their debut album, Hi, Toronto’s Little Junior reign in this nostalgia to create an [...]
Mien Mien Rocket Recordings Composed of The Black Angel’s Alex Maas, The Horror’s Tom Furse, Elephant Stone’s Rishi Dhir and The Earlies’ John-Mark Lapham, MIEN is something of a psychedelic supergroup. With the band’s members crossing [...]
Dear Rouge Phases Universal Music A few years have now passed since 2015’s Black to Gold garnered electronic rock duo Dear Rouge acclaim, accolades, and airplay. Now the Vancouver based band is taking a stab at the charts once again with [...]
Charlotte Day Wilson Stone Woman Independent Coming 18 months after her critically acclaimed debut EP, CDW, Stone Woman is the latest instalment in Charlotte Day Wilson’s vision of modern soul. Featuring Wilson’s signature smooth [...]
Milk & Bone Deception Bay Bonsound Milk & Bone, Laurence Lafond-Beaulne and Camille Poliquin, established their ability to craft emotionally-stirring, musically-sophisticated songs with their 2015 debut, Little Mourning. Now their [...]
Typhoon Offerings Roll Call Records It has felt like a long four years since White Lighter’s release, but Oregon’s Typhoon has finally returned with their latest offering, Offerings. Clocking in at an impressive seventy minutes stretched across [...]
STRFKR Vault Vol. 3 Polyvinyl Vault Vol. 3 is the third installment in STRFKR’s Vault series. Packed with previously unreleased tracks that have been salvaged from frontman Joshua Hodges’ dying laptop, the Vault series offers [...]
Silversun Pickups w/ Minus The Bear @ Union Hall, Edmonton October 29, 2017 With two veteran American Alternative Rock groups on the bill, Edmonton’s Union Hall had a busy Sunday night filled with grunge inflected guitars, ethereal [...]
Alvvays Antisocialites Polyvinyl Records Antisocialites is Alvvays’ highly anticipated follow-up to their 2014 self-titled debut. Within its 33 minutes are 10 songs of reckless romance, isolation, and loss that are draped in Alvvays’ [...]
Susto w/ Liza Anne & Troy Snaterse @ The Needle Vinyl Tavern August 9, 2017 Wednesday was a really chill night at The Needle Vinyl Tavern. Three acts were on the evening’s bill and a small crowd only numbering in the dozens had [...]
Dream Version Fight Fair Independent Punk is vague. It has always been vague. Ideologically, some punks are full-fledged antiestablishmentarians that veer into anarchism, while some are simply mad at “Big Pharma” and the American war [...]
The Darcys w/ Prairie Cat @ The Mercury Room, Edmonton June 15, 2017 The Darcys managed to bring energy and enthusiasm to their Edmonton show despite a last minute venue change, from the Starlight Room to the Mercury Room, and a smaller than [...]
Hollerado @ The Starlite Room, Edmonton June 3, 2017 I think that it would be within reason to say that Hollerado is a hard working band. Their extensive tour in support of their recent album, Born Yesterday, has already brought the Ottawa-based [...]
BONZIE Zone On Nine Beevine Records On Nina Ferraro’s latest release as BONZIE, we are given a glimpse into the next step in the evolution of a singer-songwriter. Zone on Nine is by far BONZIE’s most ambitious and eclectic release [...]
The Hearts w/ The Northern Beauties & Post Script @ The Needle Vinyl Tavern, Edmonton May 11, 2017 In a province such as Alberta, there is no shortage of talented bands and that was proven aptly by the three acts that graced the stage on a [...]
Said The Whale W/ The Fast Romantics @ The Starlite Room, Edmonton May 5, 2017 For Said The Whale the last few years have brought about significant change. Both the band as a whole and its individual members have dealt with losses, celebrated [...]
Sylvan Esso What Now Loma Vista/Concord It has only been a few short years since Sylvan Esso released their self-titled debut to an exceptionally warm response. The harmonious melding of Amelia Randall Meath’s ethereal vocals and Nick [...]
The White Reaper The World’s Best American Band Polyvinyl Records The World’s Best American Band is more than just the title of White Reaper’s latest release, it is also the band’s aspirational credo. While calling a band [...]
Whitney w/ Helena Deland @ The Needle Vinyl Tavern, Edmonton April 7, 2017 Whitney is a bit of a surprising band. At this time last year they hadn’t even released their debut album and now they are headlining sold out shows and festivals [...]
