SIGUR RÓS TAKK. . . (20th ANNIVERSARY REMASTER) KRUNK RECORDS It was the scorching summer of 1997 in Etobicoke (pronounced eh•tow•bee•ko), ON, when my buddy Grant insisted I had to hear this new, up-and-coming Icelandic band. At the time, I [...]
JR. THOMAS & ERASERHOOD SOUND JR. THOMAS IN THE ERASERHOOD DEEPMATTER RECORDS Jr. Thomas pairs up with the Eraserhood Sound duo, Maxwell Perla and Vincent John, to bring us their combination of soul music that one cannot help but visualize [...]
GEESE GETTING KILLED PARTISAN RECORDS/[PIAS] Geese is based in New York City. Getting Killed is their fourth studio album and their best. Over the years the band has worked on establishing their own distinct sound. On Getting Killed, they [...]
SLOAN BASED ON THE BEST SELLER YEP ROC RECORDS/MURDERECORDS Sloan, the iconic band consisting of Andrew Scott, Chris Murphy, Jay Ferguson, and Patrick Pentland, was a dominant force on Canadian radio and television in the 1990s and early 2000s. [...]
COCHEMEA VOL. III: ANCESTROS FUTUROS DAPTONE RECORDS Over the course of 25 years, Cochemea has built a distinctive career as a modern avant-garde jazz artist of prolific status through a wide range of collaborators that includes Sharon Jones and [...]
DAVID PALFREYMAN OPENING TIME FOR THE BATTERED DITELI RECORDS David Palfreyman has been making music since 1980. He made his debut when he provided trombone for the 1980 album, The Sound of Rhodian Brass. Like Paul McCartney who put down his [...]
PROFESSOR YAFFLE EVERYONE WANTS TO DREAM VIOLETTE RECORDS Lucky accidents happen, those moments when I stumble across a band I’ve never heard of and unexpectedly fall for them. I actively pursue such situations, usually drawn in by a band’s name [...]
IMMERSION WTF?? SWIM~ Immersion consists of Wire’s Colin Newman, and his wife Malka Spigel (Minimal Compact), and WTF?? is their fourth studio and first full-length album since 2016’s Analogue Creatures Living On An Island. Matt Schulz (Holy [...]