PORCHES SHIRT EXPLODING IN SOUND RECORDS/DOMINO RECORDS Shirt serves as a brutal self-introspection in the form of an indie rock album equipped with piercing grunge tones and an eerie production style brought to you by Aaron Maine of Porches. [...]
COIN I’M NOT AFRAID OF MUSIC ANYMORE 10K PROJECTS Confidence is often referred to as a facade, and COIN’s newest album, I’m Not Afraid Of Music Anymore, hints at the vulnerability of the songs in this collection and how there is strength [...]
DEAR ROUGE LONESOME HIGH PHEROMONE RECORDINGS/CADENCE RECORDS Dear Rouge consists of husband-and-wife team of Drew and Danielle McTaggart. In the past 10 years they have established themselves as one of the best Canadian alternative rock bands [...]
PRINCE FAR I CRY TUFF CHANTS ON U ON-U SOUND Subtitled “Prince Far I At On-U Sound 1978 – 1984”, that may be as much as the reggae DJ’s fans need to know before they buy this. But if you’re not in that small select band (no pun intended), [...]
ALLYSHA JOY THE MAKING OF SILK FIRST WORD RECORDS An instantly recognizable voice is something that can make or break an artist’s work. If it works, it gives the music that specific touch that the listeners could attach to, even if the [...]
ROBYN HITCHCOCK 1967: VACATIONS IN THE PAST TINY GHOST RECORDS When you have been hailed as one of the key players in the neo-psychedelia for such a long time, at some point you have to go back and look at where, when, how, and surely why, you [...]
JOHN JENKINS WEARY INDEPENDENT John Jenkins has been making music for quite a while now, either as a solo artist or with his band. Weary is his brilliant new EP, and the only problem with it is that like a good meal you wish there was just a [...]
JOEL PLASKETT ONE REAL REVEAL SONGS FOR THE GANG Joel Plaskett is a singer songwriter based in Halifax, NS. Since going solo in 1999 as a member of Thrush Hermit, Plaskett has carved out his own style and, in many ways, developed his own [...]
