LUCY DREAMS LIVE AT WIENER KONZERTHAUS SONICWAVEARTPOP Before Lucy Dreams released their most recent studio album, VVVVV, they performed it, in its entirety in concert. This live album, which was released with absolutely no fanfare or publicity, [...]
ANN WILSON & TRIPSITTER CONSECRATED GROUND LABEL LOGIC There comes a point in a rock legend’s career when the temptation is to look backwards—to revisit the songs, sounds, and moments that made the artist famous. Ann Wilson has never seemed [...]
REUBEN AND THE DARK IF YOU KNOW ME, YOU KNOW MY BROTHER PULLING UP ARROWS RECORDS Calgary’s Reuben Bullock and his Reuben and The Dark have never been easy to categorize, even though quite a number of critics have been comparing them with [...]
TEENAGE FANCLUB DO NOT DARE TO DREAM MERGE RECORDS Being decades on the music scene, with fans needing extra fingers to count your albums, your music is bound to change, with one question being essential there – is the quality changing for [...]
GROWING PAINS DANIEL LOVES MANDY FOREVER PHOTO FINISH RECORDS Labeling band’s music has become a very hard job for PR people, as artists and bands these days keep crossing the strictly formulated terms that are supposed to describe the [...]
TWIN TEMPLE DOOMED LOVERS PENTAGRAMMATON RECORDS Roy Orbison never dabbled in demon worship… as far as we know. But if he did, it’d sound like Twin Temple’s latest album Doomed Lovers. The husband-and-wife duo are no strangers to controversy. [...]
DEATH VALLEY GIRLS WELCOME TO EARTH SUICIDE SQUEEZE RECORDS Death Valley Girls’ Welcome to Earth isn’t your typical grief record. It’s like Hanna-Barbera’s Josie and the Pussycats having an existential crisis. The album was born from the ashes [...]
GENESIS FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION ESOTERIC RECORDINGS/CHERRY RED RECORDS It is March 1969, and an album from a new band appears in record stores. The band is Genesis and the album is From Genesis to Revelation. It is a clever title, but sadly [...]
