VARIOUS ARTISTS NEW WAVE DONUT WAX DONUT RECORDS This is an intriguing idea, current punk and metal bands paying tribute to late 1970s and 1980s New Wave classics. Of course, New Wave came along and basically shoved punk to one side. Punk [...]
VIVABEAT PARTY IN THE WARZONE & THE HOUSE IS BURNING RUBELLAN REMASTERS Vivabeat is one of those bands that showed a great deal of promise in the 1980s but never really reached their commercial potential. That doesn’t mean their music wasn’t [...]
CHEMICAL WAVES THE END OF EVERYTHING – PART TWO WAVE RECORDS Chemical Waves is really Marco Cattani, from Rome, Italy. Under the name Chemical Waves, Cattani has been making music for over ten years. The End Of Everything – Part Two [...]
ROYAL TUSK ALTRUISTIC MNRK MUSIC GROUP Alberta’s rock trio Royal Tusk brings us their third full-length, self-produced album entitled Altruistic. Guitarist Quinn Cyrankiewicz, bassist Sandy MacKinnon, and vocalist Daniel Carriere spent nearly a [...]
TISH MELTON WHEN WE’RE OLDER CMND SHFT It seems Brandi Carlisle has an acute sense of where good musical values lie. A big name in her own right, she was recently involved in the revival of Joni Mitchell’s career, and is also working [...]
JULIEN CHANG HOME FOR THE MOMENT TRANSGRESSIVE RECORDS No, this is not the fashion designer some might be familiar with, but a singer songwriter who has two quite solid album from 2019 and 2022 behind him, coming up with this relatively brief, [...]
HANNAH FRANCES KEEPER OF THE SHEPHERD RUINATION RECORD CO. From the moment “Bronwyn” opens up on Keeper of The Shepherd, the new album by Hannah Frances, you realize she has been immersed with music since she can probably remember. [...]
FUR TRADER EXECUTIONLAND INDEPENDENT Andrew Pelletier isn’t exactly a fur trader, although he uses that moniker to release his music. On the other hand, he just might be, if you are replacing real furs with some cozy, fuzzy, truly melodic [...]
