Death Party Playground Little Joy Independent “Sounds like” is probably the most common comment you’ll hear about music. Any music. Expect no exceptions with Kitchener Waterloo, Ontario quartet Death Party Playground and Little Joy, [...]
Øzwald Born In A State Allswell Records Albums released mid-December of any year are usually by big name artists, or are some form of a lavish rerelease serving as a ‘perfect gift’. Nothing wrong with those, it is just that practically all the [...]
Be-Bop Deluxe Modern Music (Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set) Esoteric From hero to zero and back again, yet just another of those standard rock stories. Bill Nelson and his Be-Bop Deluxe were originally hailed as saviours of what is now called [...]
Various Artists Brown Acid: The Ninth Trip RidingEasy Records Riding Easy Records are obviously doing well with their Brown Acid series, now in its ninth incarnation. It is probably time again for all fans of late ’60s, early ’70s [...]
Coco Love Alcorn Rebirth Independent Coco Love Alcorn has been around for a while, and if you haven’t heard of her, you might want to take notice. She has an incredibly versatile voice which you might want to check out on one of her previous [...]
Scizzorman SCHIZoPHoNiC Independent Scizzorman is Terry J Vinci, drummer and producer from Perth, Australia, who like many other acts from ‘down under’ shows a penchant for quirky, off-kilter musical combinations. SCHIZoPHoNiC is actually two [...]
Mike Patton & Jean Claude Vannier Corpse Flower Ipecac Recordings There are many names for the incarnations of the musical mind of Faith No More’s Mike Patton, Mr. Bungle being one of many. But there are two things you can’t call his music [...]
Brother Oliver Well, Hell Independent Bands with the term “brothers” in their name often are neither brothers, nor is the last name they mention connected with any of the members. Well, not this time around, as far as the South Carolina duo [...]
R.W. Roldan Can You Feel This Allswell Records With Americana, Country, or however you want to label that genre or genres, one of the key things that keeps coming up as a key ingredient in producing real, deep, and meaningful music is life [...]
Alex Haas & Bill Laswell Smoke + Glass Sonicontinuum Bill Laswell is a well-established name in the music world as the producer/bassist has worked with almost everybody in any music genre you can imagine. On the other hand, Alex Haas, a [...]
Bus Stop Poets Leave It To The Kids Independent Combining Americana with the unabashed pop sounds of Fleetwod Mac actually sounds like a great combination. Anybody afraid of Fleetwood Mac? Or Americana for that matter? Based on Bust Stop Poets’ [...]
Eli Raybon Supertoys Independent In the Eighties, a geekey teen (or any other) movis was always accompanied by some (usually exquisite) electro-pop. Human League, Orchestral Maneouvres In The Dark, Heaven 17, even A Flock of Seagulls (they had [...]
Historian Spiral Again Independent At some point at the beginning of this century (more or less) somebody came up with the term folktronica. It was supposed to designate basically gentle singer/songwriter fare embellished with electronics. A [...]
Chapell Penultimate Independent Making good pop music is probably one of the hardest things to do. You have all these prerequisite rules to abide by, coming up with a good and catchy melody, exercise almost perfect musicianship, and decide how [...]
Paul Doffing Running In The Dark Independent It is very easy for singer/songwriters to fall into the ‘my pains’ musical compartment. That is the one where the artist picks up his or her acoustic guitar, starts strumming it slowly, and starts [...]
Alejandra O’Leary Everest Independent Have you been missing those twisted pop Throwing Muses albums from the the Nineties? Well, while you wait for something new from them, you just might find the needed refuge in Everest, the latest album [...]
Akiko Yano Iroha Ni Konpeitou (Reissue) We Want Sounds Akiko Yano is one of those artists that is able to cross the usual English language barrier and make a name for herself outside her native Japan. One of the reasons for this is that she has [...]
Genuine Leather 2011-2019 Singles, Demos and Live Independent Once listeners got hooked on songs like The Kinks’ “You Really Got Me” or The Who’s “Substitute”, it became obvious that what is called power pop, a phrase coined by The Who’s Pete [...]
Lucy Spraggan Today Was A Good Day Cooking Vinyl Naming your album Today Was A Good Day is certainly a good indication of how the artist feels at the moment. And with her fifth album, UK singer/songwriter Lucy Spraggan obviously feels in a good [...]
The Last Bees The Last Bees Independent By the first few notes of his debut EP it becomes obvious that Milwaukee’s Ian Nash, or basically The Last Bees loves The Beatles, particularly their pre-Rubber Soul sound. Who doesn’t? But many might see [...]
James Parm Oh My Darling Independent How do you reconcile with personal breakup? One way is to take a long trip far away, and James Parm left Montreal for South East Asia after his breakup. When he returned, he had not lost his girlfriend, but [...]
Ashley Wilson Paint The Sky Independent For artists who are just starting to gain some notoriety, the natural tendency is to compare them to more familiar names. Though categorizing music can provide a sense of order for listeners trying to [...]
Gordon Lightfoot The Complete Singles 1970-1980 Real Gone Music Gordon Lightfoot is a legend in the fullest sense of the word, an honour that few musicians can claim, especially those who are still alive and active, as Lightfoot fortunately is. [...]
THE MUSIC SOUNDS BETTER WITH WHOM? GRACIE MANAGEMENT PRODUCTIONS JANUARY 26, 2019 “As artificial intelligence continues to impact our human lives, many questions still remain… How will artificial intelligence impact one of the most human things [...]
