NIGHT IN ATHENS WASTED REFLEKTIONS WAVE RECORDS Music is often the strongest identifier we have to document the passing of time and is the closest thing we currently have as humans to a time machine. Some songs can bring us back decades, [...]
SCENE QUEEN HOT SINGLES IN YOUR AREA HOPELESS RECORDS American singer and TikTok star, Scene Queen, released her debut full-length album Hot Singles In Your Area on June 28th. The term ‘Scene Queen’ comes from the scene subculture, it [...]
LAME DRIVERS BECOME AN ISLAND JIGSAW RECORDS/BLEEDING GOLD The famed NYC slacker-core indie-rock group Lame Drivers has just released a new 13-track album, Become an Island, a rock-centred body of work with a similar musical tone. Beginning with [...]
GUIDED BY VOICES STRUT OF KINGS ROCKATHON RECORDS Sometimes a band finds a sound that just works, a sound that acts almost as a fingerprint. Guided by Voices is a band that has solidified their trademark sound for the better part of 40 years, [...]
LUCY MacNEIL ANGELS WHISPER LUCY MacNEIL MUSIC Lucy MacNeil is one of the founding members of the band The Barra MacNeils, who are a Canadian institution. The family has been making music since they were children in Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia. [...]
NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS SOUTH OF HERE STAX RECORDS When Nathaniel Rateliff cropped up on the scene some four years and three albums ago, the brilliance and assuredness were evident from the get-go. It was Rateliff’s [...]
JOHNNY CASH SONGWRITER MERCURY NASHVILLE/UNIVERSAL MUSIC Johnny Cash passed away in 2003, and he has been missed. Any news of new music is always very exciting and very welcome. Since his passing there have been a few albums of previously [...]
MT. JOY LIVE AT THE SALT SHED DUALTONE A collection of Mt. Joy’s most prized pieces from throughout their career, Live At The Salt Shed takes one on a journey not too different from that of a road trip. Imagine a winding drive through the [...]