STRANGE PASSAGE A FOLDED SKY MERITORIO RECORDS Do you remember the heyday of the ‘80s guitar-driven indie rock where bands like R.E.M., Felt, The Feelies, The Church and the melody-oriented phase of Hüsker Dü were among those spearheading some [...]
THE DEARS LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL! LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL! LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL! NEXT DOOR RECORDS In contrast to Lovers Rock, the last release in 2020 from Montreal’s The Dears, which was shrouded in doom, newly minted LP Life is Beautiful! Life is [...]
COLLABS 3000 (CHRIS LIEBING & SPEEDY J) 2025 EP NOVAMUTE (MUTE RECORDS) Twenty years after the album Metalism, Collabs 3000 (Chris Liebing & Speedy J) return to the studio with four new tracks that are more continuation than reboot. What [...]
LIGHTHOUSE ONE FINE MORNING (ANNIVERSARY EDITION) ANTHEM RECORDS In 1969, keyboardist Paul Hoffert and drummer/vocalist Skip Prokop came together to form a band that would become one of Canada’s most successful and most loved rock bands, [...]
THE DONNAS GOLD MEDAL (GOLD SMOKE VINYL) REAL GONE MUSIC Get ready to crank up the volume because The Donnas are back. This fierce all-girl rock band, born from the spark of an eighth-grade talent show, is reissuing their 2004 album Gold Medal [...]
IRIS CALTWAIT AGAIN, FOR THE FIRST TIME INDEPENDENT Throughout the sprawling pop wavelengths and passionately performed tales of love and loss, Iris Caltwait spends the course of her 16-song debut LP reaffirming audiences about how powerful [...]
HÜSKER DÜ 1985: THE MIRACLE YEAR NUMERO GROUP The trailblazing and endlessly entrancing Hüsker Dü has returned to the limelight on your favourite streaming apps, in the form of a 43-song live compilation comprised of tracks recorded at various [...]
FRANK TURNER THE NEXT TEN YEARS UNIVERSAL/POLYDOR There’s a chance that something has got Frank Turner feeling nostalgic of late. Discontented with reforming his previous hardcore band, Million Dead, he’s now releasing another boxset compilation [...]
