THE CRIBS SELLING A VIBE PLAY IT AGAIN SAM Twenty years on the music scene as a band, you are bound to have both ups and downs, and Gary, Ryan and Ross Jarman, trio of brother collectivelly known as The Cribs, have certainly had quite a few of [...]
CLÉMENTINE MARCH POWDER KEG PRAH RECORDINGS Clémentine March is a French British singer and multi-instrumentalist based in London, and if a first thing that comes to your mind is a possible connection to Stereolab, formally there isn’t [...]
STILL EIGHTEEN SCARRED INDEPENDENT Still Eighteen is a family band, consisting of Mom, Dad, and their daughter. To be clear, they are not anything like the Trapp Family, but instead, a powerhouse trio who write and produce very emotional and [...]
ALTER BRIDGE ALTER BRIDGE NAPALM RECORDS Alter Bridge has returned with their eighth studio album, the eponymous Alter Bridge. Following 2022’s Pawns & Kings – and a period which saw the reunion of Creed and the release of solo material [...]
DIANE COLL STRANGELY IN TUNE INDEPENDENT So far, Atlanta-based singer songwriter Diane Coll has been making music under the motto “therapy through music.” Quite a few songwriters have a similar idea, for some it works, for others, not so [...]
MELANIE THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A RAINBOW: THE NY FOLK SESSIONS 1963-1965 CLEOPATRA RECORDS Melanie Safka, who spent most of her professional life performing as simply Melanie, got her start in New York City around the time that Bob Dylan’s [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS YACHT METAL CLEOPATRA RECORDS Once, Yacht Rock was known as ‘Adult Contemporary’ or even ‘Middle of the Road’ (MOR for short). For some reason, that name has been switched to Yacht Rock. This album features various heavy metal [...]
TODD RUNDGREN SOLO IN CLEARWATER CLEOPATRA RECORDS In 2003, Todd Rundgren embarked on a lengthy tour. These three dozen shows were different, in that Rundgren was going out on his own, with just his guitar, piano, and foot pedals. Of course, the [...]
MICHAEL HAMPTON INTO THE PUBLIC DOMAIN INDEPENDENT Longtime Parliament-Funkadelic guitarist Michael Hampton has released his latest solo album. Into the Public Domain marks the first release from Hampton as a part of his current project that [...]
JIM PETERIK & WORLD STAGE RIVER OF MUSIC: THE POWER OF DUETS VOLUME ONE FRONTIERS MUSIC Jim Peterik is a legend in the world of rock ‘n’ roll. Beginning in 1964 with the classic band Ides of March, to the 1980s Survivor, through to 38 [...]
JULIANA HATFIELD LIGHTNING MIGHT STRIKE AMERICAN LAUNDROMAT RECORDS Juliana Hatfield, founding member of Blake Babies and the front of The Juliana Hatfield Three, creates her 20th solo album in her 30+ year-long career, Lightning Might Strike. [...]
HEALTH CONFLICT DLC LOMA VISTA RECORDINGS Prominent and adventurous industrial/noise veterans, HEALTH, return to the scene with a fresh spread of a dozen tracks. Seeing as the group is no stranger to critical acclaim and possesses a strong [...]
I’M WITH HER SONGS FROM THE STAGE: KANSAS CITY (HI RES) ROUNDER Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan, and Sara Watkins made a name for themselves both as solo artists and as a trio that goes under the banner, I’m With Her. Their album Wild and [...]
NATE VICKERS DON’T LOOK DOWN EP OXIDE RECORDS When making an EP, the creative challenge lies in turning a few songs into a unified experience. For solo artist Nate Vickers, his new EP shows his talent for transforming a confined creative space [...]
NICK & JUNE NEW YEAR’S FACE INDEPENDENT It has been something like two years since we last heard from Berlin duo Nick & June. This time, they have gone to the United States to record an album, one that adds new touches to their [...]
SAM FENDER PEOPLE WATCHING (DELUXE VERSION) POLYDOR Was the world really crying out for a deluxe version of an album that only came out in the early knockings of 2025? Initially I felt not, perhaps because I didn’t really like the initial cut of [...]
NOFX A TO H HOPELESS RECORDS After wrapping up their final tour in 2024, NOFX has put together a triple album collection entitled A to Z, the first of which features eight tracks, A to H. The album is a delightful mish-mash of rarities, demos, [...]
THE DIRTY NIL LIVE AT THE DINE ALONE STORE DINE ALONE RECORDS Having wrapped up their Canadian tour in support of their sixth full-length studio EP, The Lash, The Dirty Nil is closing out their 2025 with Live At The Dine Alone Store. The live [...]
KIRA METCALF LESSONS IN MAJESTIC HUMILIATION SYMPHONIC Has the singer-songwriter categorization, as a genre, lost its meaning? If you think of it solely in the sense of its origins (a solo artist with an acoustic instrument, such as an acoustic [...]
THE WATERBOYS THE WATERBOYS PRESENT: RIPS FROM THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR SUN RECORDS The Waterboys, in particular Mike Scott, the founder and only original member from 1981, have never done what was expected of them. For example, in April 2025, [...]
FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS FYC40 LONDON RECORDS It seems unusual for a band that was only active for a few years to get a deluxe 40th-anniversary treatment, but Fine Young Cannibals is a band with a long and storied history that reads like a who’s who [...]
SINGER. MATTRESS. CAT. SUBTROPICAL PERSONALITY INDEPENDENT There’s one question that might be looming among the melody-oriented indie rock fans; is bedroom pop a dying breed, or are they going into a sort of merger? If you ask Australian [...]
NICOLA CONTE VIAGGIO BLUE NOTE/SCHEMA/FAR OUT RECORDINGS With compilations, particularly curated ones, there’s almost never a middle ground; they are either great or they are simply bad. To come up with a great one is a painstaking [...]
ALEXISONFIRE HOUSE OF STROMBO (LIVE IN TORONTO, ON 2019) DINE ALONE RECORDS Hot off the release of their most recent studio EP, Copies of Old Masters Vol. 1, Alexisonfire has returned, just weeks later, with their newest release. As a part of [...]
