THE CINDYS THE CINDYS BREAKFAST RECORDS/RUINATION RECORD CO. Bristol England made a name itself with quite a few bands, and particularly with the Sarah Records roster at its prime. What would the latter mean? Melody at the forefront, chiming [...]
EDDIE SCHWARTZ FILM SCHOOL INDEPENDENT After 30 years of spending most of his time behind the scenes, Eddie Schwartz makes a welcome return, with his first original recordings since the 1995 release, Tour De Schwartz. This six-track EP is [...]
PORTUGAL. THE MAN SHISH KNIK RECORDS Shish-ka-laska!!!! Woven from the threads of his upbringing, John Baldwin Gourley exhales melodies that murmur the secrets of Alaskan life, twisting familiar rhythms into strange, luminous celebrations of the [...]
ALEXISONFIRE COPIES OF OLD MASTERS: VOLUME 1 DINE ALONE RECORDS Following a busy year that has seen the release of five live singles and the digital reissue of the acoustic Death Letter, Alexisonfire have released Copies of Old Masters: Volume [...]
COLEMAN WILLIAMS THE MAGNOLIA SESSIONS ANTI-CORP Anti-Corp records have launched a series of albums titled The Magnolia Sessions. These albums must be recorded in one take, no overdubs, just the artist and their instrument. It is a brilliant [...]
PAUL McCARTNEY WINGS MPL/UNIVERSAL For those of us who lived through the 1970s, we will remember that Paul McCartney and Wings were one of the biggest bands of that decade. Since their formation in 1971, until their split in 1979, every one of [...]
ANNE MURRAY GREATEST HITS (ANNEVERSARY EDITION) UNIVERSAL MUSIC CANADA Anne Murray has made a very welcome comeback in 2025. Not only did she release a chart-topping new album this year, Here You Are, but has been (finally!) honoured by the [...]
BRITTANY BINDRIM COUNTERPOISON INDEPENDENT Step into a world where sound and emotions create powerful energy. Brittany Bindrim, the goddess of gothic pop, has just released her electrifying album Counterpoison, and it’s nothing short of a [...]
DUKE & GOLDIE ROMANCE AND RAMBLIN’ INDEPENDENT Duke and Goldie are Vancouver’s Eric “The Duke” Duquette and Jena “Goldie” Gogo, who some might be familiar as longtime members of roots rockers Blue Sky Miners. As a duo, Duke and [...]
LOST SIGNAL LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS METROPOLIS RECORDS Light of Other Days is the fourth album of Charles Rehill and Lost Signal. It is a rather quick follow-up to 2024’s Anatomy of Melancholy. With Light of Other Days, Rehill takes a much sparser [...]
AMY JAY MNEMONICS INDEPENDENT For many listeners it might seem a somewhat easy thing to navigate the currently widening field of singer songwriter pop. All you have to do is come up with some good melodies, engage a stellar producer/arranger and [...]
DEVIN SHAFFER PATIENCE American Dreams Many artists these days start out by releasing music completely on their own, including recording their music wherever they could, without initially getting to a proper studio. That is exactly the way Devin [...]
LEVELLERS ZEITGEIST (30th ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION) WARNER MUSIC By the time The Levellers released their fourth studio album, Zeitgeist, the group had firmly established themselves, both as an excellent and exciting live band and craftsmen in the [...]
SLASH LIVE AT THE S.E.R.P.E.N.T. FESTIVAL EARMUSIC Last year saw the release of Slash’s highly collaborative studio album, Orgy of The Damned, which was a record of covers featuring Gary Clark Jr. Billy F Gibbons, Demi Lovato, and Iggy Pop, [...]
TOMO NAKAYAMA OCEAN PORCHLIGHT RECORDS Seattle via Japan musician Tomo Nakayama isn’t an artist that likes to stand still and tie himself to a certain genre or a specific musical setting. He’s been making music for over two decades, [...]
CATHERINE BROOKMAN IF A SONG FADES OUT, IT’S PLAYING FOREVER SOMEWHERE LONG ECHO RECORDS Brooklyn-based Catherine Brookman presents herself as a performer and composer, rather than going under the somewhat worn-out term of singer and songwriter, [...]
STRANGE PASSAGE A FOLDED SKY MERITORIO RECORDS Do you remember the heyday of the ‘80s guitar-driven indie rock where bands like R.E.M., Felt, The Feelies, The Church and the melody-oriented phase of Hüsker Dü were among those spearheading some [...]
THE DEARS LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL! LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL! LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL! NEXT DOOR RECORDS In contrast to Lovers Rock, the last release in 2020 from Montreal’s The Dears, which was shrouded in doom, newly minted LP Life is Beautiful! Life is [...]
COLLABS 3000 (CHRIS LIEBING & SPEEDY J) 2025 EP NOVAMUTE (MUTE RECORDS) Twenty years after the album Metalism, Collabs 3000 (Chris Liebing & Speedy J) return to the studio with four new tracks that are more continuation than reboot. What [...]
LIGHTHOUSE ONE FINE MORNING (ANNIVERSARY EDITION) ANTHEM RECORDS In 1969, keyboardist Paul Hoffert and drummer/vocalist Skip Prokop came together to form a band that would become one of Canada’s most successful and most loved rock bands, [...]
THE DONNAS GOLD MEDAL (GOLD SMOKE VINYL) REAL GONE MUSIC Get ready to crank up the volume because The Donnas are back. This fierce all-girl rock band, born from the spark of an eighth-grade talent show, is reissuing their 2004 album Gold Medal [...]
IRIS CALTWAIT AGAIN, FOR THE FIRST TIME INDEPENDENT Throughout the sprawling pop wavelengths and passionately performed tales of love and loss, Iris Caltwait spends the course of her 16-song debut LP reaffirming audiences about how powerful [...]
HÜSKER DÜ 1985: THE MIRACLE YEAR NUMERO GROUP The trailblazing and endlessly entrancing Hüsker Dü has returned to the limelight on your favourite streaming apps, in the form of a 43-song live compilation comprised of tracks recorded at various [...]
FRANK TURNER THE NEXT TEN YEARS UNIVERSAL/POLYDOR There’s a chance that something has got Frank Turner feeling nostalgic of late. Discontented with reforming his previous hardcore band, Million Dead, he’s now releasing another boxset compilation [...]
