Diana Panton A Cheerful Little Earful Little Things There is absolutely nothing not to like about this album. Canadian Diana Panton sings to me that I’m adorable any time at all. This girl has such a voice, jazz trained and as sweet as honey [...]
Dave Monks On A Wave Dine Alone Records After spending some time in the limelight with Tokyo Police Club, Dave Monks has finally spread his wings and released his first solo full-length album, On a Wave. While the album itself is simple and [...]
Alter Bridge Walk The Sky Napalm Records Alter Bridge has found themselves in a precarious position with their latest release, Walk The Sky. Over the past three years, the band has cemented themselves as one of the most premier modern rock bands [...]
Blackwater Holylight Veils Of Winter RidingEasy Records Veils of Winter is the band’s tenth album. From a technical standpoint the tracks on “Veils of Winter” are expertly mixed using every trick in the book to pump out consistently impressive [...]
Life Of Agony The Sound Of Scars Napalm Records Since the beginning of its career, Life Of Agony has merged hard rock elements with influences of the prominent New York hardcore scene and quickly developed a distinguished sonic aesthetic. As a [...]
The Gerry Hatricks The Gerry Hatricks Independent Hailing from the quickly growing – and truly diverse – music scene of Winnipeg, Manitoba are The Gerry Hatricks, an acoustic, folk-rock-meet- punk four-piece outfit that evolved out of [...]
Starcrawler Devour You Rough Trade Starcrawler, called by some ‘the saviours of rock’ — even though I’m not at all sure they’d want to be — emerged as a high school band in 2017 and quickly came to prominence in the LA grunge/punk [...]
Kim Gordon No Home Record Matador Records Kim Gordon’s first solo album has effectively distinguished her sound from ‘80s No Wave engineers, Sonic Youth. Despite her years of various artistry since the band’s demise in 2011, being a co-founder [...]
elbow Giants Of All Sizes Polydor Records/Verve Label Group Manchester-based quartet elbow have been crafting songs and soundscapes of such warmth, honesty, and poetry as to be almost beyond description for two decades. Built around both the [...]
Bodega Shiny New Model What’s Your Rupture? New York-based Bodega’s have released a brand-new EP Shiny New Model. It is a worthy follow-up to the genre-fluid five-piece’s 2018’s Endless Scroll, which was relentlessly quirky and sarcastic. [...]
Lacuna Coil Black Anima Red Music With over 20 years as a powerhouse in the metal scene, eight studio records, and a few lineup changes, Italian gothic metal outfit Lacuna Coil are back with their ninth release,Black Anima. While many bands may [...]
Yuka Dreamscape Independent Dreamscape is the third album from Toronto based funk/soul outfit Yuka, and to be honest if this album was any smoother musically it would give a billiard ball a run for its money. Self-produced and originally [...]
Alright Spider Desolation Independent Relative newcomers to the rock scene Alright Spider have released their second album, Desolation. An album that is as much about interactions with people as it is about the lives we live around them, [...]
The Avett Brothers Closer Than Together Republic Records It will sound very intense when I state that these poets from North Carolina are making some the most important music of their careers right now. Now, The Avett Brothers have released [...]
Skydiggers Let’s Get Friendship Right Independent Let’s Get Friendship Right , the 15th album by The Skydiggers, is a magnificent album that deals with loss and love. Although dealing with deep and heavy subjects, the end result is an [...]
The Persian Leaps Electrical Living Land Ski Records The Persian Leaps have put something out each fall since 2013, and just as sure as the leaves will change and everything turns pumpkin-spiced,they are back with 2019’s offering, Electrical [...]
Daniel Martin Moore Never Look Away Sofaburn Records The release of Never Look Away will mark the ninth album from Cold Spring, Kentucky’s smooth singing Daniel Martin Moore. Self-proclaimed as the strongest album of his career, both avid fans [...]
Bedouin Soundclash Mass Easy Star/Mr. Bongo/Sony Canada Jay Malinowski and Eon Sinclair are back with the first Bedouin Soundclash album since 2010’s Light The Horizon. I’m not going to say it was worth the wait – a decade is a long [...]
Medicine Scarred For Life Drawing Room Records Scarred For Life is an album of covers of 1970’s songs by American noise pop band, Medicine . One look at the front sleeve and the K-Tel-like logo gives you an idea of the origins of the album. No [...]
GospelbeacH Let It Burn Alive Naturalsound Let It Burn, GospelbeacH’s highly-anticipated third album, marks the return of original member Neal Casal. Tragically, on August 26, 2019, Casal tragically left us. Besides the world losing a remarkably [...]
City And Colour A Pill For Loneliness Still Records After four years, City and Colour is back with his sixth studio album, A Pill for Loneliness. Featuring 11 tracks and coming in at 52 minutes, it is a sprawling album that retains the essential [...]
Lightning Dust Spectre Western Vinyl After a six-year hiatus, Vancouver-based duo Lightning Dust return with their fourth album, Spectre, a beautiful, haunting, dreamscape of songs. The opening track “Devoted To” is a swirling, [...]
WIVES So Removed City Slang Records So Removed is the first album for WIVES, the four-piece band based in Queens, New York, and it is an impressive debut. Here, they are trying to be gritty and to evoke the spirit of New York City in the 1980s, [...]
L CON Whatever Independent Lisa Conway, also known as L CON, has released a four-song EP called Whatever. This etherealized and otherworldly EP features artists such as Casey MQ (Zaki Ibrahim, TiKa the Creator), Pursuit Grooves (remixes for [...]
