Pearl Jam MTV Unplugged Sony Music MTV’s unplugged concert series spawned iconic performances throughout the ‘90s. While few, if any, will ever surpass the live albums from Nirvana and Alice In Chains’ respective sessions, Pearl Jam’s 1992 [...]
The Struts Strange Days Universal Music Critically acclaimed and fan favourites The Struts have returned with their latest album. Written and recorded with the band couch crashing at producer Jon Levine’s home studio during the pandemic, the [...]
Gord Downie Away Is Mine Arts & Crafts Traditionally, The Tragically Hip fans, over the past thirty-plus years, have become accustomed to hearing new material from the band every few years, including solo and side projects. In the spirit of [...]
Joey Molland Be True To Yourself Omnivore Recordings Joey Molland is the sole surviving member of Badfinger, and he tends to tour as Joey Molland’s Badfinger. Fair enough, given his incredible solo albums never took off and achieved the success [...]
Tom Petty Wildflowers & All The Rest Warner Records Three years ago, shortly before commencing his fortieth, and tragically his final tour, Tom Petty announced that his seminal 1994 album, Wildflowers, had an entire second half, written and [...]
The Vamps Cherry Blossom Virgin EMI The Vamps, aka Brad Simpson, Connor Ball, Tristan Evans and James McVey, with their own brand of commercial power pop are extremely popular in the UK. Their debut album was a platinum seller and they are a [...]
Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown Pressure Spinefarm Records For the last decade, Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown have been among the most promising up and coming rock bands making waves throughout the underground scene. Their latest album, [...]
Holy Motors Horse Wharf Cat “Hold your horses, cowboy, put your pickup in reverse,” drawls Holy Motors vocalist Eliann Tulve on “Country Church.” Tulve makes a conscious effort to enunciate on the Estonian rock band’s second album, Horse. The [...]
Black Sugar Transmission Dream Finisher Independent Three full albums in a year is an amazing achievement for any artist, and to have left the best for last is almost as remarkable. Andee Blacksugar is usually classed as post punk or electro [...]
Travis 10 Songs BMG The same melodic, emotional sincerity that made Scottish band Travis famous has also made the four-piece a music press target, patronizingly dismissed as a guilty pleasure. On ninth album 10 Songs, Travis alternates between [...]
Touché Amoré Lament Epitaph Records Los Angeles post-hardcore band, Touché Amoré, has come to lighten things up with their fifth studio release, Lament. Since their inception back in 2007, Touché Amoré has tackled a myriad of tough subjects such [...]
Bahamas Sad Hunk Brushfire Records With the release of Sad Hunk by Bahamas, Afie Jurvanen makes the transition from cool grooves to self-aware dad jams. It is a glorious transformation. The incredible 2018 album Earthtones saw Jurvanen exploring [...]
Garcia Peoples Nightcap At Wits’ End Beyond Beyond Is Beyond Have you been hiding all those faves you have from the psych/prog era, particularly those that have folkish tendencies and vocal harmonies that do not overtly show off their [...]
Future Islands As Long As You Are 4AD Nearly three years after releasing The Far Field (2017) and six years after their breakout album Singles (2014), Future Islands have returned with another beautiful new wave synth-pop album called As Long As [...]
John Lennon Gimme Some Truth. The Ultimate Mixes Apple/Universal Music Today, October 9, 2020, John Lennon would have turned 80, and perhaps the best way to celebrate his birthday is to release a retrospective of his music. Gimme Some Truth. The [...]
Anne Malin Waiting Song Independent How does a combination of Cowboy Junkies and Coco Rosie, both at their most imaginative, sound to you? If the answer to that question is an emphatic yes, then Waiting Song, the second album from Anne Malin, is [...]
METZ Atlas Vending Sub Pop Records “I woke up to hear the dial tone/And the sound gets stuck between my teeth”, utters Alex Edkins in “Pulse”, the opening track of Atlas Vending, the long-awaited fourth full-length from METZ. Those words, along [...]
Lupin Lupin Grand Jury Music After two triumphant LP’s as frontman for the indie outfit out of Minneapolis, Hippo Campus’s Jake Luppen is now launching his own solo career under the name Lupin. His self-titled debut is beautiful in a bizarre way [...]
Dawes Good Luck With Whatever Rounder Records Recorded in Nashville under the guidance of six-time Grammy-winner Dave Cobb, veteran rock band Dawes returns with their seventh album, Good Luck With Whatever, a 9-track collection of mellow, [...]
Working Men’s Club Working Men’s Club Heavenly Recordings The eponymous debut album from Working Men’s Club is addictive upon arrival, love at first sight. Emerging from England’s Yorkshire countryside near Manchester, the band is lead by the [...]
Peach Pit You And Your Friends (Deluxe Version) Columbia Records With the release of their sophomore album You and Your Friends, Vancouver-based indie darling Peach Pit cemented their reputation as upcoming indie rockstars. Building on the [...]
Eric C. Powell and Andrea Powell Fly Away Independent Fly Away is Eric C. Powell and Andrea Powell’s fifth album and their second for 2020 (Mute was released earlier this year). The sheer quantity of music would be cause for concern, in that, [...]
Queen + Adam Lambert Live Around the World EMI Records Queen and Adam Lambert have been touring around the World in recent years, and have put together a live album highlighting some of their shows. Live Around The World leads with the energetic [...]
Public Enemy What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down? Def Jam Recordings Despite kind-of-firing-kind-of-not-firing Flavor Flav in March of this year, east coast hip hop pioneers Public Enemy are back; perhaps better than they have been in the [...]
