Daniel Romano’s Outfit How Ill Thy World Is Ordered You’ve Changed Records There are few artists as prolific in this day and age as Daniel Romano, and his latest record doesn’t disappoint. Featuring The Outfit, How Ill Thy World Is [...]
Vision Eternel For Farewell Of Nostalgia Somewhere Cold Records For Farewell Of Nostalgia is the latest release by Montréal’s Vision Eternel. A concept EP about, as he says, the emotional ”devastation of falling in love too quickly” and the [...]
The Death Wheelers Divine Filth RidingEasy Records If you’ve never heard of The Death Wheelers, they are a motley band of Canadian misfits who play a unique brand of doomy surf-rock. The band’s latest release, Divine Filth, is loaded with [...]
Marylin Manson We Are Chaos Loma Vista Recordings Coming off a pair of acclaimed records, Marilyn Manson is in the midst of a mid-career renascence as he returns with We Are Chaos. The album, written and produced by Shooter Jennings, sees Manson [...]
Blue Öyster Cult The Symbol Remains Frontiers Music Blue Öyster Cult is back–and in a big way! The Symbol Remains is their first studio album since 2001’s Curse Of The Hidden Mirror. Since then, the band have toured consistently, and have [...]
Marshall Holland Paper Airplane Mystery Lawn This fall saw the release of an excellent collection of songs by the San Francisco Bay Area artist, Marshall Holland. Paper Airplane is Holland’s first album of singer-songwriter baroque power pop [...]
Half Moon Run The Covideo Sessions Crystal Math/Glassnote Records Half Moon Run is at the top of their game. Formed in Montreal in 2009, they released the Juno Award-winning album A Blemish In The Great Light in 2019, easily their best music so [...]
Soundwalk Collective With Patti Smith Peradam Bella Union Peradam is the fourth release from Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith. In 2019, this collaboration explored the works of poets Antonin Artaud on The Peyote Dance, and Arthur Rimbaud [...]
Social Gravy A Different Kind Independent If you have any grievances with quality pop/rock akin to Coldplay or say, even Dawes, you may freely skip this review. You see, Belarusian musician Vee Bordukov & British producer/songwriter Brad [...]
Oh Susanna Sleepy Little Sailor (Deluxe Edition) MVKA Deception can be an art, and sometimes, that is for the best. This is particularly true of those artists/musicians that seemingly don’t come up with music that is strikingly new, but somehow, [...]
Fame On Fire LEVELS Hopeless Records Fame On Fire has consistently tested the genre waters with each project release they have set their minds to, showing the world they are more than your typical multi-genre band. So far, they have succeeded in [...]
Mark Egan & Danny Gottlieb Electric Blue Wavetone Records Mark Egan and Danny Gottlieb have been performing together for 49 years, whether it is with the Pat Metheny Group, or in their own band Elements, these two have worked together for a [...]
Mary Hopkin Another Road Mary Hopkin Music Mary Hopkin was one of the first artists signed by The Beatles to their Apple label, and in 1968 had a monster hit with “Those Were The Days”. She had many more hits, but there is more, so much more to [...]
STRFKR Ambient 1 Polyvinyl STRFKR’s Ambient 1 is an album unlike any of their other releases. Released just months after their most recent Future Past Life, it is definitely something very different. There are no vocals, no traditional song [...]
Powerman 5000 The Nobel Rot Cleopatra Records Powerman 5000’s 10th album takes you on a musical journey filled with retro and electronica tones throughout. A perfect example of this is lead single “Black Lipstick.” It has a strong Billy Idol [...]
GospelbeacH Once Upon A Time In London Curation Records Live albums are a tricky thing, you want to have the record sound good, while capturing the energy of the band and the crowd. GospelbeacH has successfully struck that balance with Once Upon [...]
Toots And The Maytals Got To Be Tough Trojan Jamaica For the first time in a decade, acclaimed reggae band Toots And The Maytals have returned with a brand new studio record, Got To Be Tough. The album, comprised of brand new material along with [...]
Stephen EvEns Employee Of The Month Onomatopoeia/Onophonic Sound London, U.K.’s Stephen EvEns has been performing for a number of years, and Employee Of The Month is his sophomore album. Also known as Stephen Gilchrist, he is a drummer of some [...]
Metallica S&M2 Blackened Recordings Given the success of 1999’s S&M and, more recently, 2019’s acoustic Helping Hands… Live & Acoustic At The Masonic, Metallica have returned with S&M2 a sequel to their 1999 live album which saw [...]
Aidan Knight Aidan Knight Next Door Records Since the release of his previous album, Each Other in 2016, Aidan Knight has undergone huge personal change: he moved to Berlin and back to Canada, celebrated the birth of his first child, and went [...]
Seether Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum Fantasy Records South African alternative rock band Seether is releasing its first album since Poison The Parish. This new project is baptized “Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum”, which translated from Latin means “If [...]
Haley Blais Below The Salt Tiny Kingdom Music Inc. With the release of her debut album Below the Salt, Haley Blais has set herself on the road to indie pop stardom. The Vancouver-based bedroom pop star has released a handful of EPs and singles [...]
The Wailers One World Sony Music The Wailers–indivisible from Bob Marley of course, but the band has always been about creative musicians, needing not only to make a living but also as an outlet for their own music-making. Of course, as [...]
Waxfeet Dream Independent Back in the late ‘90s and the beginning of the 2000s, those lucky enough to catch the brief run of Alan McGee’s Poptones label were able to marvel the musical wonders that were gnac and The Montgolfier Brothers, both [...]
