PETER FRAMPTON CARRY THE LIGHT UME It is a good idea to forget what you think you know about Peter Frampton before you listen to his new album, Carry The Light. This is an extremely important album for Peter Frampton. Not only is it his first [...]
SHAKEY GRAVES FONDNESS, ETC. DUALTONE RECORDS When you decide to go lo-fi, make a DIY record, and make it work, there has to be a set of very solid musical reasons (unless it is a question of being forced to go cheap) behind it, and those [...]
SHHE THALASSA ONE LITTLE INDEPENDENT RECORDS Your personal background comes into play at some point when you create music, and for the Scottish-Portuguese sound artist and producer Shhe (Su Shaw), for her new album Thalassa she references her [...]
CROWN LANDS APOCALYPSE CENTURY MEDIA Following a pair of experimental interludes released last year – Ritual I & II – Canadian progressive rock duo, Crown Lands, has returned. For their third studio record, and their first full album since [...]
RESTHAVEN PRELUDE DYSTOPOLIS ARTS Toronto is a place where local music can be found in abundance. Throughout the city, nearly every night, there’s a local performance or show that can be found if you know where to look. Metal music in particular [...]
THE WOGGLES STOP AND TAKE A MINUTE WICKED COOL RECORDS The Woggles’ debut album was released in 1993 (Teen Dance Party), since then they have released 11 studio albums and a number of singles. The singles are the stars of the show here, as a [...]
UNWED SAILOR HIGH REMEMBRANCE CURRENT TASTE I’m sitting at the park on a warm early spring evening, sun flirting and hiding behind sporadic cloud puffs, various walks of life grouped together with their beers in hand and joints passing, the [...]
AYRIA VICIOUS WORLD ARTOFFACT RECORDS Jennifer Parkin has been releasing music under the Ayria moniker since 2003 (Debris was Ayria’s debut album). Although she is the driving force behind the project, over the years she has had a number of [...]
