TOKYO TEA ROOM FEEL FOREVER NICE GUY RECORDS No matter what anybody says, creating well crafted (or better) pop is an art in itself, particularly if you are able to abide by the rules and regulations, or more simply put, formulas that good, [...]
DAVID MYHR EVERYTHING IS ALL ABOUT YOU OGLIO ENTERTAINMENT It has now become a sort of tradition for artists from Sweden to come up with some high-quality to excellent power pop and pop rock. Is it something in the water, or something else, [...]
UNCLE ACID & THE DEADBEATS SHAPES OF MIDNIGHT KILLER CANDY RECORDS Uncle Acid is back at it, this time with a throwback to earlier tones and writing styles that Uncle Acid fans came to know and love from their first three albums. This one [...]
LARKK CINDERS (INSTRUMENTAL) INDEPENDENT/AWAL Danielle McTaggart is best known as the lead singer of Dear Rouge. But there is another side to her, Larkk. This is McTaggart by herself making peaceful and beautiful music that is so very much [...]
BECK RIDE LONESOME CAPITOL RECORDS Twelve years ago, Beck released his pivotal and critically acclaimed 12th album, Morning Phase. While not his most recent album, which was 2019’s Hyperspace, Beck has since reconvened with Smokey Hormel, Joey [...]
SON LUX OUT INTO THIS IS MERU/CITY SLANG Son Lux started out in 2007 as a solo project for Ryan Lott, but by 2015 Rafiq Bhatia (guitars) and Ian Chang (drums) joined the band, which took them in a new direction. The fact that both members [...]
ROGER TAYLOR VIOLENCE INSANE IN A BEAUTIFUL WORLD COLUMBIA RECORDS Ringo Starr, Phil Collins, and Don Henley are just a few examples of drummers who have had successful solo careers. You could add Roger Taylor of Queen to that list. He may not [...]
THE MARY WALLOPERS PADDYWHACKERY BC RECORDS The Mary Wallopers, the pride of Dundalk, Ireland are back with their third album, and first since 2023’s Irish Rock N Roll. A lot has changed since 2023, most notably, a founding member, Seán McKenna [...]
DRAGONFLIES DRAGONFLIES DARK HORSE RECORDS/BMG Dragonflies is the duo of Dhani Harrison and Nigel Godrich, who began working together after Harrison reached out to Godrich for guidance on what would become Harrison’s most recent solo album [...]
YOKO ONO IT’S ALRIGHT (I SEE RAINBOWS) SECRETLY CANADIAN It’s Alright (I See Rainbows) was originally released in 1982 and was Yoko Ono’s sixth solo studio album. It was also the second album following the murder of John Lennon. While her [...]
BRIAN FALLON NOT BAD FOR NEW JERSEY LESSER KNOWN RECORDS/NASH YORK RECORDS Brian Fallon’s in a golden age of songwriting right now – he churned out History Books with his band, The Gaslight Anthem, just two years ago, and now Not Bad For New [...]
DREADNOUGHT WARS OF SPIRIT // WARDS OF LIGHT VESPERIAN/METAL BLADE RECORDS To add two times more spice to the pumpkin spice season, Denver-originating symphonic progressive metal band Dreadnought returns with an epic vengeance. With an [...]
D.D.DANAHY D3 INDEPENDENT Darren Douglas Danahy, known as D.D.Danahy, now also known as D3 is a very talented musician and artist. He is a member of Keldari Station, The Amaretto Sours, and Hidden Frequency. He has also released several solo [...]
TWILARK NEVER LEARNED THE TIDE INDEPENDENT Moniker is a multi-purpose thing in music, one could be to make a distinction from other artists, particularly in a very crowded genre, and singer-songwriter one is possibly at the top of that list. Yet [...]
JOYER ON THE OTHER END OF THE LINE… (CROSSED LINES REMIXES) JULIA’S WAR RECORDS Remix albums share quit a few similarities, as well as questions with tribute ones – does the remixed artist and those given tribute albums deserve it, [...]
FUNKADELIC MAGGOT BRAIN (REMASTERED) ORG MUSIC Originally released in 1971, Funkadelic’s seminal album, Maggot Brain, is an essential classic that plays like Geroge Clinton’s response to The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin. In a [...]
STABBING WESTWARD WITHER REWIRED COP INTERNATIONAL Influential industrial rockers Stabbing Westward released their gold-certified sophomore album, Wither Blister Burn + Peel, 30 years ago. Founding members Christopher Hall and Walter Flakus have [...]
THE GENTRYS IT’S BEEN SO LONG SUN RECORDS The Gentrys were a rock band that made it very big in 1965 with their song “Keep On Dancing.” Other hits followed (“Everyday I Have To Cry” and “Spread It On Thick”) mainly in the UK, but the band [...]
SHOWING TEETH A FATE WORSE THAN LONELINESS SPINEFARM RECORDS A Fate Worse Than Loneliness, a debut EP from emerging artist Showing Teeth, is something uniquely volcanic and melodically special. A one-woman project helmed by Nashville’s Addison, [...]
AIRBOURNE AIRBOURNE SPINEFARM RECORDS Australia’s Airbourne are back with another injection of hard rawk adrenaline. This is Airbourne’s sixth album and the first one in seven years and they pick up exactly where they left off. Singer John [...]
УВБ-76 LEAN INTO THE SORROW HITACHI HOME VIDEO/INDEPENDENT УВБ-76 is Michael Mitchell and the name he records under, УВБ-76, is the Cyrillic spelling of UVB-76, the name of a mysterious shortwave signal known as ‘The Buzzer’, which has been [...]
ANGUS & JULIA STONE KARAOKE BAR VIRGIN MUSIC Angus & Julia Stone formed their musical partnership in 2006, and Karaoke Bar is their sixth studio album. The siblings hail from Australia, and in their native country they have had several [...]
BLACK PAINT BLACK PAINT INDEPENDENT For years, Black Paint has established themselves among the most exhilarating up and coming bands to emerge from the Greater Toronto Area. Blending aggressive blues rock with monstrous riffs, the power trio is [...]
MELISSA AUF DER MAUR BASS WOMB ROOM: MY ’90S 4-TRACK DEMOS X FIELD RECORDINGS ENVISION RECORDS Melissa Auf der Maur has been quite busy of late. Six months ago, she released Even the Good Girls Will Cry, her self-written memoir of her [...]
