SOFT CELL DANCETERIA REPUBLIC OF MUSIC Soft Cell’s latest album, Danceteria is a very bittersweet album. Listening to it, it seems very sad knowing that this is the last album by Soft Cell. Dave Ball (who provides the instrumentation for this [...]
THUNDER QUEENS DEEP BELOW VICTORY POOL In 2024, London, Ontario’s Thunder Queens released their debut album, Strike One. Since then, the teenage power trio has gone on to share the stage with the likes of Billy Talent, The Beaches, and The Dirty [...]
BLURRED CITY LIGHTS UNREST ELAB RECORDS Blurred City Lights is a shoegaze band based in Japan. Unrest is their fifth album, and their first since 2024’s Overload. They make music that is best described as a form of shoegaze but also incorporates [...]
FREE UNDER FIRE GRAFFITI IN THE GARDEN RUNNING ON INSTINCT Free Under Fire is a band based in Ajax, Ontario, where Steppenwolf’s John Kay got his start with The Sparrows. Free Under Fire carries on the hard rock-heavy metal tradition of that [...]
ISHA FEEL AT HOME SIDEKICK MUSIC Dutch queer multi-instrumentalist, producer, and singer ISHA releases her debut album, Feel At Home, which encapsulates the ever-changing life at home. “Bottled” kicks off the record with an off-kilter acoustic [...]
WEATHERELL LONELY SOUL INDEPENDENT A deeply personal album, Lonely Soul is a departure for Sean Hackl (hence the unique name for the project). He explores new themes here, with grief and loss at the centre, which explain some of the [...]
STARLING PLEXUS BROKE RECORDS Just recently, music critics are starting to confirm that shoegaze in all of its shapes and forms is stronger that ever, and L.A. four-piece Starling are here to confirm that fact with their latest EP Plexus. The [...]
WARREN HAYNES DREAMS & SONGS: A SYMPHONIC JOURNEY EVIL TEEN RECORDS Warren Haynes has never been particularly interested in staying inside the lines. Throughout his remarkable career with Gov’t Mule, The Allman Brothers Band and as a solo [...]
