THE CLAUDETTES GARAGE GLAMOUR PRAVDA RECORDS Garage Glamour is the new album from the Chicago-based blues, rock, and pop band The Claudettes, and it is pretty incredible. This is the band’s sixth album, and their first with lead vocalist Rachel [...]
SKYDIGGERS WEST MONTROSE INDEPENDENT The new album from Skydiggers, West Montrose, is a collection of songs from albums past and old favourites, from Canada’s preeminent roots rock band. Presented simply and with a skeleton crew of the band on [...]
MODEST MOUSE AN ERASER AND A MAZE GLACIAL PACE/VIRGIN RECORDS “Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.” ~ Charles Bukowski It was the beginning of Summer 2000, and Portland’s Modest Mouse had recently released The [...]
AUGUST BURNS RED SEASON OF SURRENDER FEARLESS RECORDS For the past 20 years, August Burns Red has never concerned themselves with rewriting the soundscapes they helped bring to metalcore. As they have braved the changes in the genre’s [...]
BOARDS OF CANADA INFERNO WARP Boards of Canada have never come up short when it comes to tape-warped, ominous music, and 2026’s latest release, Inferno, may be their heaviest collection of tracks to date. This long-awaited fifth studio LP [...]
SHINEDOWN EI8HT ATLANTIC RECORDS Hard-hitting Florida rockers Shinedown have released their eighth studio album appropriately titled Ei8ht, and it packs just as much of a punch as over the past two decades with the band has. “Safe and Sound,” [...]
VIOLET GROHL BE SWEET TO ME AURORA RECORDS/REPUBLIC RECORDS Having sung backup vocals for Foo Fighters for nearly a decade, even making appearances on 2021’s Medicine at Midnight and 2023’s But Here We Are, Violet Grohl has emerged with her own [...]
PAUL McCARTNEY THE BOYS OF DUNGEON LANE MPL/UNIVERSAL It has been over five years since Paul McCartney’s last studio album, McCartney III, and McCartney has noted that during those years, he took his time with what became The Boys of Dungeon [...]
