Alive Alone Therapy Independent Following the release of their debut single, “Safe Sinner”, earlier this year, Alive Alone has released their debut studio EP, Therapy. The rough, hard-hitting, and abrasive six-track release marks a strong and [...]
Evening Hymns Heavy Nights Shuffling Feet Records Heavy Nights is the first album Jonas Bonetta has released under the Evening Hymns name in five years. The last Evening Hymns album was the brilliant Quiet Energies, and for a lot of artists, it [...]
Various Artists Brown Acid: The Tenth Trip RidingEasy Records You’ve got to hand it to RidingEasy Records! To be able to come up with 10 editions of Brown Acid, their heavy, psych, fuzz, proto-metal series in less than five years) is a feat in [...]
The Manvils Reaction Arrow Manvils Music Toronto-based indie power trio The Manvils have gifted us with their exciting new album, Reaction Arrow, and it is nothing short of great. Recorded over a three-year period in California and Toronto, [...]
Stuck On Planet Earth Beautiful Nowhere Anthem Entertainment After a number of years as a staple of the Toronto live music community and a handful of singles and EPs, Stuck On Planet Earth have released their long-awaited debut full-length [...]
Kidsmoke A Vision In The Dark Libertino Records Welsh quartet Kidsmoke debut their new album, A Vision in the Dark, and at first listen, this gorgeously-layered record is anything but dark. It is a dream pop record with the best elements of Real [...]
Japandroids Massey Fucking Hall Arts & Crafts If you saw Japandroids live prior to 2017, chances are it would have been in a modestly-sized, yet uncomfortably rammed room, and you probably left having lost 10 lbs in sweat alone. In the five [...]
Julian Taylor The Ridge Independent Few Toronto artists get me as excited with the news of new music as Julian Taylor does. A musical chameleon, Taylor’s work has come in the shape of rock, funk, pop, and soul, written and performed with an [...]
Wire 10:20 Pinkflag Records You could call Wire’s 10:20 a B-sides album. Released through the English band’s own label Pinkflag, they refer to the tracks on 10:20 as ‘strays’ — songs that had no place on their previous 17 studio [...]
The Killer Wails The Killer Wails Independent Toronto’s The Killer Wails offer something refreshing this summer with their first self-titled full-length. Described as “weirdo punks”, they have created an album which is undeniably punk-influenced [...]
Edward McCormack Astral/Aphotic Eyedear Productions Ambient music is much like rock’n’roll, in that, within that genre there are many different styles and sub genres. Edward McCormack is one artist who releases music under this banner, but his [...]
Blue Öyster Cult iHeart Radio Theatre N.Y.C. 2012 Frontiers Music Frontiers Music, along with Blue Öyster Cult, continue their release of archival material of this classic rock band. Some of the music has been released before, and some, as with [...]
Iggy Pop The Idiot (Deluxe Edition) Virgin Records Hot on the heels of the Lust For Life re-release two weeks ago, Iggy Pop has gone back to his roots to produce a deluxe edition reissue of his debut solo record, The Idiot. After the breakup of [...]
Norah Jones Pick Me Up Off The Floor Blue Note Records Many listeners who consider themselves serious fans will instantly disregard the new Norah Jones album Pick Me Up Off the Floor. The reasons – she has sold bundles of albums, particularly [...]
Bibio Sleep On The Wing Warp Records To “sleep on the wing” is a reference to a bird called a swift that is capable of flying incredible distances without ever touching ground, sometimes for months at a time, and can apparently sleep while [...]
Kelly Miller & Kyle Burnett Vague Complaints Tunecore Kelly Miller and Kyle Burnett met in 2018 in Monterrey, California while studying in a master’s program for international environmental policy, and their fast friendship has lead to a [...]
Betty Moon Translucent Evolver Music Betty Moon has led a very creative, and highly productive, musical career. Before her major label album debut for A&M Records in 1990, she was also the frontwoman for cutting-edge Toronto indie rock band [...]
Crown Lands Wayward Flyers Vol. 1 Universal Music Despite the electrifying and driving rock pulse of their recent singles “Howlin’ Back” and “Spit It Out”, Canada’s most promising up and coming rock band, Crown Lands, has returned with Wayward [...]
Babbling April Days Of Retreat Independent How do you get out of the shadow of a band you are most compared with? Washington D.C. trio Babbling April are doing just that. Those who heard their previous singles and two EPs as well as Days of [...]
Muzz Muzz Matador Records There is something, a feeling or perhaps even a perception, that goes beyond most reviewers’ abilities to explain adequately when an album resonates deeply, emotionally, with the listener. The self-titled debut by Muzz, [...]
Used Cassettes Used Cassettes Loose Union We tend to look at many different regions across the globe, primarily within the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and Japan when it comes to rock bands that stick out in the industry. However, [...]
Blancmange Mindset Blanc Check Records The new Blancmange album opens with the title track, “Mindset”, and following a minute-long musical introduction, the unmistakable voice of Neil Arthur sings “Unlike Wednesday this day is focused/There [...]
Run The Jewels RTJ4 BMG After promising their highly anticipated fourth album, RTJ4, would be available for free download in response to those in need due to the global pandemic and the recent racial protests in America, hip-hop duo Run The [...]
Black Sugar Transmission The Flowering Independent Even though this is the second album in a trilogy to be released in 2020, there is no sense of being stuck in the middle here, no sense of preparing for highlights to come. The almost insanely [...]
