Church Of Trees New Bold Dawn Independent Church Of Dreams is the brainchild of musician/writer/producer extraordinaire, Bernard Frazer. Since their debut EP in 2017 (Primitive Creatures), he has consistently come up with some of the finest [...]
Local Natives Violet Street Remixes Loma Vista Recordings Listening to Local Natives’ holy trinity of vocals, Hahn, Rice, and Ayer, will soothe the soul of any listener. It’s been a decade and counting since the band completed and released their [...]
VibeByMelo And Travis Thickle THE HILLS HAVE WIFI Independent VibeByMelo is back with another quality album. Paired with Ottawa-based producer Travis Thickle, the two artists find their own lane creating a catchy project with conscious hip hop [...]
Daniel Romano’s Outfit Content To Point The Way You’ve Changed Records Content To Point The Way is Daniel Romano’s third full-length album release since the end of March. Prolific does not even begin to describe him. Even more [...]
Snog Lullabies For The Lithium Age Metropolis Australian David Thrussell aka Snog was already an enigma even before he came up with his latest album Lullabies For The Lithium Age. He has not been active in the music scene for quite a few years [...]
Philip Rambow Canadiana Fretsore Records When you listen to the new Philip Rambow album, Canadiana, the first thing you realize is that five years between albums is simply too long. His last album, 2015’s Whatever happened To Philip Rambow, was [...]
Indigo Girls Look Long Rounder Records Indigo Girls, composed of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, are a well-established outfit blending folk rock with a southern country sound, and when it works it really is damn good. It is shown at its best on [...]
Danzig Danzig Sings Elvis Cleopatra Records It’s no secret Glenn Danzig is greatly inspired by the pop music of the ‘50s. His new album, Danzig Sings Elvis, is a love letter to the era. The horror punk icon, commonly referred to as “Evil Elvis”, [...]
Ana Cristina Cash Shine Avondale Records Ana Cristina Cash has had a very diverse career up to this point. This album, Shine, is her first album since 2018’s My Christmas Collection, and her third entirely English language one. As Ana Cristina, [...]
Elmwood Underground These, Them’s And Those Independent Let us put everything on the table. There is a heavy and sad cloud hanging over this album. Sean Cunnington, guitarist for the band, passed away on March 18, 2020 due to COVID-19. So, [...]
X Alphabetland Fat Possum There is no doubt from the first few bars of album opener “Alphabetland” that Los Angeles icons X have never really left us. It’s surreal to think 35 years have passed since the original lineup recorded an album [...]
Beartaker Total Disgrace Independent Without warning, Beartaker formed and dropped their debut EP, Total Disgrace. The four-song release comes from Monster Truck’s Jeremy Widerman and Bad Ideas’ Theodore Mckibbon, a pair of friends who recently [...]
Shoemaker Levee Phase Of The Days 1013793 Records DK If I were asked “What Canadian band would you like to see play at Red Rocks Amphitheatre?”, my response would be Shoemaker Levee. The band’s latest album, Phase of the Days, brings their prog [...]
The White Buffalo On The Widow’s Walk Snakefarm Records The White Buffalo, persona of one Jake Smith, has returned with a new album On the Widow’s Walk, an impressive collection of songs about the passing of time and the search for [...]
Mick Harvey Waves Of ANZAC/The Journey Mute Mick Harvey has proven so far that he is an artist that is bound to surprise you, and in practically all cases, pleasantly. Not that some of his music is an easy listen, and he didn’t mean it to be. [...]
Well Yells We Mirror the Dead Independent Well Yells, the night-time name of Patrick Holbrook, has returned with his third album in the last few years We Mirror the Dead, a brooding, ominous set of tracks that thump along with a heaviness and [...]
The Pack A.D. It Was Fun While It Lasted Fontana North “It’s better to burn out than to fade away”, Neil Young sings in “My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)”. The Pack A.D. have announced that this will be their last album. Perhaps not forever, but [...]
Monks Road Social Humanism Monks Road Records Humanism is the third full album for the collective known as Monks Road Social. Featured artists on this album include: Mick Talbot (Style Council), Dr Robert (Blow Monkeys), Crispin Taylor [...]
Ron Sexsmith Hermitage Warner Music Canada Hermitage is proof that Ron Sexsmith can still turn a melody. After a move from Toronto and a full band on his previous album, The Last Rider, Sexsmith has switched gears completely. Setting up in his [...]
DownTown Mystic Better Day Sha-La Music Inc. Some albums have strange fates. They come, disappear without a trace and then magically reappear a few months, a few years, or a few decades later. New Jersey’s Robert Allen, aka DownTown Mystic, is [...]
Dave Smalley And The Bandoleros Ignited Little Rocket Records Dave Smalley and the Bandoleros have released their second album, a five-song EP of feel-good punk songs. Following the trend of their 2018 release, Join The Outsiders, they create a [...]
Datura4 West Coast Highway Cosmic Alive NaturalSound Records Although the world is in lockdown, and things are not looking up, Datura4 has released, what I consider to be, the first true great summer album. West Coast Highway Cosmic is the [...]
The Brains Satana Tarantula Cleopatra Records Montreal’s psychobilly trio The Brains have released their blood-pumping, toe-tapping ninth record, Satana Tarantula. Their signature sounds are all here: walking double bass, driving drums, [...]
The Strokes The New Abnormal Cult Records/RCA Records The New Abnormal, the highly anticipated sixth album from The Strokes, is the perfect culmination of all the elements of The Strokes at their best, while experimenting with new sounds.Long [...]
