JERRY LEGER DONLANDS LATENT RECORDINGS They say that the Americana/roots genre is getting crowded. Quite possibly so, but that just gives the opportunity to those artists that should stand out with the quality of their music do exactly that. [...]
Robert Finley Black Bayou Easy Eye Sound There are so few of those old-fashioned soul-roots artists around that whenever one of them releases an album you simply have to go out and grab it. That is exactly what needs to be done with Black Bayou, [...]
KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD THE SILVER CORD KGLW The best way to describe King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard is to compare them to that person who says they listen to all kinds of music. It is pretty hard to find a genre or style that [...]
THE KILLS GOD GAMES DOMINO RECORDS Since they broke into the garage rock scene in the early 2000s, The Kills have stood out from the crowd. Keep on Your Mean Side was one of the best rock debut albums of the 2000s due to its highly original and [...]
SEAN BURNS LOST COUNTRY DEPARTMENT STORE RECORDS If the title of the latest album by Winnipeg artist Sean Burns, is not a true giveaway of what you can hear within the grooves (or bits), Lost Country, I don’t know what is. And what Burns [...]
RYKARDA PARASOL TUESDAY MORNING INDEPENDENT How do you combine that mid to late 60s San Francisco style psych with French pop of the same period with touches of that Velvet Underground dark cool? Well, if you are Rykarda Parasol, you move from [...]
SIMPLE MINDS NEW GOLD DREAM – LIVE FROM PAISLEY ABBEY BMG Simple Minds are a complex band, and a band that makes choices that some may question, but in The Simple Minds World, it all makes sense. Their new album is a prime example. In [...]
DURAN DURAN DANSE MACABRE TAPE MODERN/BMG Halloween has come early this year, courtesy of Duran Duran. Danse Macabre, the latest album by the legendary band, is a Halloween concept album of 13 tracks (even the number of tracks has a sense of [...]
