ANDREW BIRD’S BOWL OF FIRE THRILLS/OH! THE GRANDEUR (25th ANNIVERSARY REISSUES) ORG MUSIC For those who need reminding of a little bit of history, Andrew Bird might not be the freshest face on the scene, but his musical development took a [...]
JENN CHAMPION LAST NIGHT OF SADNESS GAY FOREVER They used to call it gloomcore and one of the most prominent purveyors of such a sub-genre was Carissa’s Wierd, still ringing in the ears of that band’s fans. Now, Jenn Champion, their [...]
SARAH MORRISON ATTACHMENT FIGURE RAMP LOCAL Tallahassee-based singer songwriter Sarah Morrison might not care much about social media (try finding her socials), but she sure cares about her music. Just take an even cursory listen to her latest [...]
SAGITTAIRE LUCIAN & CAROLINE INDEPENDENT Behind the Sagittaire moniker is one Ivan Mairesse, LA musician who, judging by his latest album Lucian & Caroline, has some deep and wide artistic interest that stretches beyond music. Mairesse [...]
CREATION REBEL HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT ON-U SOUND Adrian Sherwood is not only one of the stalwarts, but also one of the true dub innovators. Anywhere. Back in 1978, Creation Rebel, now a full-fledged trio, were first production project, and after [...]
MUTUAL BENEFIT GROWING AT THE EDGES [PIAS] New York’s Mutual Benefit, aka Jordan Lee, is no newbie. He’s been on the scene from 2009, and has garnered some rave reviews for his previous work. You can expect the same for his latest album [...]
JOHN DOUGLAS JOHN DOUGLAS REVEAL RECORDS Fans of Scottish pop/rockers Trashcan Sinatras will certainly be familiar with John Douglas. They will also be familiar with quite a number of songs on his self-titled solo album. Here, Douglas goes [...]
ART BERGMANN SHADOWWALK WEEWERK Maybe Art Bergmann is not catching the headlines outside of Canada, but he should certainly be, particularly after his latest album ShadowWalk. While he describes himself as “anti-hero-iconoclast of Canadian [...]
MIKE GALE THANKS FOR ALWAYS WAVING INDEPENDENT Mike Gale, singer-songwriter from Southampton, England has been making some seemingly unassuming and quiet, but at the same time excellent music for quite a while now. Actually, his latest album, [...]
THANKS FOR COMING WHAT IS MY CAPACITY TO LOVE? DANGER COLLECTIVE RECORDS Facts first – Thanks For Coming is the songwriting project of Rachel Brown (they/them), one half of the duo Water From Your Eyes. Her PR notes that Brown Started [...]
LUCIA STAVROS BURN YOU UP INDEPENDENT Lucia Stavros is not just your run of the mill singer songwriter, she is a composer and a vocalist, but also a multi-instrumentalist, with harp as her main instrument. If that is an indication of what you [...]
NATALIE PRICE NATALIE PRICE INDEPENDENT What can you fit within the Americana genre these days? Well, almost anything and everything, which probably inspired Texas singer-songwriter Natalie Price to label her latest self-titled, full-length [...]
JENNY OWEN YOUNGS AVALANCHE YEP ROC RECORDS There might not have been an album for a decade from Jenny Owen Youngs until Avalanche, her latest, but that doesn’t mean that she was standing still. In those ten years, she’s toured the world, [...]
THE MATINEE CHANGE OF SCENE INDEPENDENT After 15 years on the scene, sticking to your guns by remaining within a genre (in this case roots, Americana/Canadian), you might expect an artist or a band to show the signs of getting tired, or being [...]
PENELOPE ANTENA JAMES AND JUNE YOUNGBLOODS & PARAPENTE MUSIC If the excellence of James And June, the new album by Penelope Antena, comes as a bit of a shock to the uninitiated, it shouldn’t be. First of all, Antena is the [...]
CHARLIE KAPLAN COUNTRY LIFE IN AMERICA INDEPENDENT Don’t let the title of the latest Charlie Kaplan album fool you – Country Life in America. Well, ok, maybe just a little bit. You see, don’t expect that twangy Nashville sound [...]
HALEY BLAIS WISECRACK ARTS & CRAFTS Going for a theme or a concept in your music can be a double-edged sword for many artists, particularly singer-songwriters. Even though it is done in songs (chapters, if you will) the theme has to be [...]
SARAH JANE SCOUTEN TURNED TO GOLD LIGHT ORGAN RECORDS You just don’t get nominated for 4 Canadian Folk Music Awards, a Western Canadian Music Award and an International Folk Music Award for being simply good. You also don’t get to [...]
D.A. STERN DON’T TAKE YOUR HEARTACHE OUT ON THE WORLD SYMPHONIC/MISRA The art of good and/or excellent pop rock has not been lost in modern music, and New Jersey to Los Angeles singer songwriter D. A. Stern is here to prove it with his [...]
SERENE LIFE CAN PRODUCE EXCELLENT ART A CONVERSATION WITH JENN GRANT Slowly but surely, Jenn Grant has become a fixture of the Canadian music scene, with her quality music echoing not only down across the border but elsewhere. It was her assured [...]
Birthh Moonlanded Carosello Records Some artists go all out on their presence on social media. That rare minority, that includes Brooklyn-based, Italian singer songwriter Alice Bisi who works as Birthh, essentially don’t care. She has a [...]
Berkley Pueblo Big Secret Records For those who have missed our Berkley premiere recently, or those who might have doubted that Andrew Jones, aka Berkley can maintain such high quality throughout his latest album simply titled Pueblo, just a [...]
Strawberry Runners Strawberry Runners Duper Moon records Strawberry Runners is one Emi Night (they/them) whose musical project has been running for some ten years now. After a series of quite noticed releases and a move to Philadelphia, some [...]
Sea Lemon Stop At Nothing Luminelle Recordings When twee pop phrase was coined sometime during the heyday of Sarah Records, not many reviewers thought that such a sound would turn into a full-fledged genre, at least not into one that will stick [...]
