John Foxx The Arcades Project Metamatic It seems hard to believe that after close to 50 years of making music, John Foxx has never recorded a solo piano album until now. The Arcades Project is his second release this year and although it is not [...]
Foghat Road Fever: The Complete Bearsville Recordings 1972-1975 HNE/Cherry Red Records I remember watching an MTV awards show, many, many years ago. Jim Carey, dressed as a hippie, made the joke “would it kill you to play some Foghat?” He was [...]
Peggy Lee I’m A Woman (60th Anniversary Edition) Capitol Records/UMe In 1963, Peggy Lee had a surprise hit with the song “I’m A Woman”. She had not been on the charts since 1958 with her classic “Fever”. Rock ‘n’ roll had a firm grip on [...]
Kilmore From The Inside Independent Kilmore’s latest release From The Inside hits all the marks on the Psych/Groove/Stoner Rock report card. Straight A’s here! This exceptionally talented Halifax-based band led by female vocalist [...]
Tara MacLean Sparrow Independent Sparrow is the latest album from Canadian singer-songwriter Tara MacLean. The music veteran has just released a memoir called Song of the Sparrow, and this album is the soundtrack to the book. Recorded in Lake [...]
City And Colour The Love Still Held Me Near Dine Alone Records Dallas Green, aka City and Colour has amassed quite a following behind his six albums so far, and his latest, The Love Still Held Me Near, will probably not only confirm that [...]
August Heaven’s Gate Independent Basing your music on philosopher’s ideas can not only be a tricky thing, but very often, quite indulgent and overbearing, and if that philosopher is Georges Bataille, whose main ideas revolve around [...]
Various Artists Cherry Stars Collide Cherry Red Records Actually, the full title of this 4-CD set is Cherry Stars Collide, Dream Pop, Shoegaze & Ethereal Rock 1986-1995. Cherry Red had quite a good reason for such a title, as there is quite [...]
