The Twilight Sad It Won’t Be Like This All The Time Rock Action Records If you haven’t listened to the Scottish quintet called The Twilight Sad, now is the time to jump on the bandwagon. Its new album, It Won/t Be Like This All the Time is [...]
Alice Merton Mint Mom + Pop Music Somewhere in the shadows of modern rock is a netherworld where confessional singer-songwriters become alt-pop divas. If you visit this place, ask for Alice Merton. She is well-known to the inhabitants, for she [...]
Altitudes & Attitude Get It Out Megaforce Records Get It Out is the second release and first full-length album from Altitudes & Attitude, a collaboration between Frank Bello and David Ellefson, bassists for Anthrax and Megadeth [...]
Night Beats Myth Of A Man Heavenly Recordings Seattle’s Night Beats have recently released their fourth album, Myth of a Man. It was recorded by founding member Danny Billingsley and produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys. While it was [...]
Toro y Moi Outer Peace Carpark Records Since the release of his full-length debut, Causers of This, under the alias of Toro y Moi, Chaz Bundick has forged a career on bridging the gap between the progression of modern, radio-friendly dance music [...]
Sharon Van Etten Remind Me Tomorrow Jagjaguwar Given that Remind Me Tomorrow comes five years after Sharon Van Etten’s last album and was written during a time of significant personal change, it is no surprise that it is markedly different from [...]
Crane Like The Bird Crane Like The Bird Independent After years of stacking up his resume, Kyle Crane has the spotlight. After touring with artists such as Neko Case and M. Ward, as well as appearing in the film Whiplash as the drum double, [...]
Jugger Psyco Arc’y Boyz Jugger, who hails from Toronto, is an artist with a unique vibe to his music. He has a dark sound, with fairly simplistic one-liners, which he places throughout a track to create an aura. Due to this different [...]
Eric Schenkman Who Shot John? VizzTone Label Group Eric Schenkman of The Spin Doctors recently released his third solo album, Who Shot John?, which shows his diversity in varying genres. Schenkman often switches between Chicago Blues, Funk, Soul [...]
The Bad Dreamers Songs About People Including Myself FiXT Neon David Schuler (producer of P!nk, John Legend and The Backstreet Boys, to name just three) is The Bad Dreamers, that is to say, this is his project. He wrote, mixed and produced the [...]
Ariel Posen How Long Independent In 2013, two brothers from Winnipeg got together and decided to form a band. Just like that, The Bros. Landreth was formed, a folksy, alternative rock group responsible for hits like “Let It Lie” and “I Am the [...]
You Tell Me You Tell Me Memphis Industries You Tell Me, a brilliant duo that consists of Peter Brewis and Sarah Hayes, has released their magical self-titled debut album. Beginning the songwriting process as a collaboration and eventually [...]
Tallies Tallies Hand Drawn Dracula Toronto’s Tallies have released their new self-titled album. It is the second album for this late-80’s influenced indie pop band, led by singer-guitarist Sarah Cogan and guitarist Dylan Franklin. The 11 [...]
SINE INSOMNIÆ Independent SINE is a band, founded by drummer and vocalist Rona Rougeheart. In the press release for the debut album, INSOMNIÆ, she is quoted as saying she “wanted our debut album to be dark, sexy & stylish, with [...]
Jukebox The Ghost Let Live & Let Ghosts (10th Anniversary Edition) Yep Roc Records From Billy Joel to the keyboard kid in School of Rock, pianos haven’t always been considered the “cool” instrument in rock. No one told Jukebox the Ghost. [...]
Brave the calm | the storm Independent the Calm | the Storm is a solid effort from Washington, DC progressive rock veterans Brave. It is their first full-length studio release since 2008’s critically acclaimed Monuments. The album opens with a [...]
Sammy Johnson Moonlight Lovers Mensch House Records Sammy Johnson’s new EP, Moonlight Lovers, is a mixture of Reggae and R&B, and evokes the feeling of relaxing on the beach. Half Australian and half Polynesian, Johnson connected with his [...]
Bruce Springsteen Springsteen On Broadway Sony Music Paired with the release of his Netflix special, Bruce Springsteen has brought his highly acclaimed Broadway show to a recorded format. Featuring the songs and stories from Tony Award winner [...]
Wyatt Blair Inspirational Strawberries Lolipop Records Los Angeles-based Wyatt Blair’s second release of 2018 is an ear-pleasing, up-tempo, poppy offering of mostly ‘60s-inspired delights. Blair’s Inspirational Strawberries is ultimately a [...]
David McFarlane Fieldwork Independent David McFarlane is an artist based in Toronto. Fieldwork is his second album and since his debut, The Wreck That You Are (2010), he has learned a great deal about himself and music. And it is all reflected [...]
AFI The Missing Man Ex Noctem Nacimur AFI continues to deliver the goods with the Dec. 7 release of their EP The Missing Man. The well-established alt-rockers have managed to stay relevant over their 27 years, while remaining true to their core [...]
Hocico Shalom From Hell Aviv – Blasphemies In The Holy Land Part 2 Out Of Line Music In 2005, Hocico released a live album, Blasphemies In The Holy Land (Live in Israel), 13 years later they have released the sequel, and it is just as [...]
The Rolling Stones Voodoo Lounge Uncut Eagle Rock Entertainment After a slew of creative disasters in the mid to late ‘80s, The World’s Greatest Rock ‘N’ Roll Band dove back to their roots for their 1994 comeback, Voodoo Lounge. The newly [...]
Van Morrison The Prophet Speaks Caroline International Since 1974’s Veedon Fleece, Van Morrison has struggled to put out a consistent body of artistic work. There were a few triumphs in the ‘80s with Inarticulate Speech of the Heart and Irish [...]
