Parent Parent Independent Similar to Glen Hansard and Marketa Iglova’s The Swell Season, Parent consists of two artists colliding to produce soft-spoken acoustic lullabies. The kind of territory this ventures into comes fraught with dreary [...]
Fitz And The Tantrums Fitz And The Tantrums Elektra Records Fitz and the Tantrums have lost it. The vibrant artistry found on their debut record, Pickin Up the Pieces, slowly faded on the sophomore release, More Than Just a Dream, which was [...]
Gregory Alan Isakov Gregory Alan Isakov With The Colorado Symphony Suitcase Town Records Seldom do artists take compilation records as an opportunity to get creative with their work. After their time on the road with different symphony groups, [...]
Kiefer Sutherland Down In A Hole Warner Bros If you were wondering what came of Jack Bauer after he finished dismantling terrorist threats for six consecutive days on the critically acclaimed 24, the answer is not what you’d expect. The [...]
FEWS Means Play It Again Sam With its debut album Means, Alt-Rock band FEWS bares its teeth with 10 tracks inspired by various genres of music but huddled beneath the safety of Indie Rock. It’s no surprise that the band has a unique feel to it. [...]
My Morning Jacket It Still Moves (Reissue) ATO Records Back in 2003, It Still Moves marked a turning point for My Morning Jacket as their first highly budgeted, major release. The record survived this hurdle, as the boys of My Morning Jacket [...]
Maths And The Moon Familiar Strange Inellipse Records (Independent) Whoever said ‘90s rock is dead was mistaken. That garage grunge so feverishly attached to the memory of Kurt Cobain has somehow been revived by this British outfit, Maths and [...]
Plants And Animals Waltzed In From The Rumbling Secret City Records Canadian indie alternative outfit Plants and Animals meanders around folky vibes caught up on dreamy, Radiohead-like soundscapes with Waltzed in from the Rumbling – an 11-piece [...]
Weezer Weezer (The White Album) Crush Music/Atlantic Records Weezer’s presence in the music industry has been an up-and-down success story of pop-punk fluctuation. Their original body of work (including their first two records, released in the [...]
Jeff Buckley You And I Legacy Recordings It has become ubiquitous for the music industry to unearth the works of household name artists and compile these “new findings” into something marketable. The motive is as transparent as any real [...]
Lucius Good Grief Dine Alone Records Lucius’s initial effort Wildewoman turned heads with its gospel-influenced, country sounding, clap-along tunes. Bubblegum pop was redefined with their bright, vocally driven arrangements. And when they [...]
Run River North Drinking From a Salt Pond Nettwerk Music Group It hasn’t been a very long time since we last heard from Run River North – a Korean-American indie band, formerly known as Monsters Calling Home. Their 2014 debut self-titled [...]
Living Hour Living Hour Lefse Records Winnipeg five-some Living Hour introduces its mix of swinging guitars, lush dreamy soundscapes and heavy bass rolls on their eight-track, self-titled debut. On Living Hour, the band wrangles with ambient [...]
Basia Bulat Good Advice Secret City Records On Basia Bulat’s fourth record, she finds her vulnerable place. Amidst the percussion-driven ballads Bulat sounds her best, crooning above wounds that have seemingly become scars. Good Advice is the [...]
St. Lucia Matter Neon Gold Records St. Lucia’s initial success came from his 2013 hit single “Elevate,” an electronic indie-dance piece of pure pop hooks and beaming videogame-like effects. His first record When the Night was consistent in this [...]
Seafret Tell Me It’s Real Sweet Jane Recordings/Sony Music UK British acoustic duo Seafret has been building steady momentum overseas, where their two EPs have garnered a significant UK fan base. Riding off the success of Ed Sheeran and [...]
Savages Adore Life Matador Records If Evanescence and Muse baked a cake but missed a few ingredients, it would taste like Savages sounds. Their collaboration of dark metal influence over indie pop is undoubtedly unique, but doesn’t quite fire on [...]
Tindersticks The Waiting Room City Slang Ambient music is risky business. The genre’s key players tend to find themselves stuffed into film soundtracks or humbly playing in the low recesses of a dinner party. Tindersticks, however, find a medium [...]
Panic! At The Disco Death Of A Bachelor Warner Music Canada In all of their weirdness, Panic! At the Disco have hit their stride multiple times. Since “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” had its time in the sun, the band has fluctuated throughout a [...]
Peru The Band Ordinary People EP Independent Peru the Band get eclectic on their debut EP, rifling through various levels of modern blues not atypical from the likes of The Black Keys. It’s the symphony backing that truly gives life to Ordinary [...]
PALMAS To The Valley EP Lost Colony Music On their swinging debut, Philadelphia indie band PALMAS shake and shimmy to their inventive blend of sunny Californian rock with some modern, alternative rhythm. The six-track release starts off with a [...]
Library Voices Lovish Nevado Music If you’ve familiarized yourself with the typical pop melodies of Library Voices, you’ll know that their formula has proven to be fairly limited at times. Their tracks, such as “Generation Handclap”, remain [...]
The Neighbourhood Wiped Out! Columbia Records When “Sweater Weather” hit radio two years back, The Neighbourhood’s concoction of hip-hop, pop, R&B and indie rock fueled fire to their popularity as a genre-bent band capable of producing [...]
Yukon Blonde On Blonde Dine Alone Records Once again brandishing their energetic brand of indie rock, Yukon Blonde take a head-first dive into a synth-infested ocean on their follow up to 2012’s Tiger Talk. On Blonde has all the glitz and energy [...]
