girlongirl Take Independent Do yourself a favour and take a minute to check out this new alt-rock album. Girlongirl’s full-length debut, TAKE, is a cohesive weave of many audible influences, culminating in one polished and hard-hitting release. [...]
Placebo A Place For Us To Dream Elevator Lady Ltd A Place For Us To Dream is a fresh look back at 20 years of Placebo over 36 songs on two CDs or, if you have money to burn, a four-vinyl box set. Since this is a retrospective album, I’m going to [...]
Sleater-Kinney No Cities To Love Sub Pop Records There is a scientific theory that nothingness is inherently unstable. That something eventually must happen. As such, our universe — and the Big Bang — necessarily had to occur. Indeed, the past [...]
Alexisonfire Death Letter Dine Alone Records It was a sombre goodbye, for the record. Quite different from the farewell tour that graced the world, Toronto included, when the St. Catherines band played their last notes together. Death Letter, an [...]
Placebo B3 EP Vertigo Placebo is back – sort of. A new album is on its way (due in 2013), but for right now, the UK powerhouse is giving us B3 to snack on while we wait for the main course. Now, this five-track EP isn’t a taste of things to [...]
Antony and the Johnsons Cut the World Secretly Canadian Antony and the Johnsons know how to break hearts. They know the notes and timbre to strike a sense of sombre meaning into fabric of listeners’ minds. It is through Antony’s unique voice, [...]
The Everybody Marooned / Demon Oar Dyspepsidisc This is technically catchy. Technically, in that The Everybody’s musical technique is notably developed, what with its syncopated rhythms and experimental nature, yet welcoming and captivating. And [...]
El Rego El Rego Daptone Records It was only until recently that El Rego was released, a self-titled compilation from an artist long forgotten (though to many of us, simply unknown). El Rego, a Beninese musician who played in the ‘60s and ‘70s, [...]