Said The Whale Cascadia Arts & Crafts For me a favourite thing is listening to bands that share a strong kinship with one another as well as to their music. Vancouver, B.C trio, Said the Whale have been playing with a rich heartfelt woodsy [...]
Beirut Gallipoli 4AD Basically Beirut is Zach Condon, who keeps himself busy between albums with numerous EPs and side projects (Realpeople, 1971, and Soft Landing). Featured on this album, alongside Condon (who provides the vocals and plays [...]
Business Of Dreams Ripe For Anarchy Slumberland Records Ripe For Anarchy is the second production of Business of Dreams. Corey Cunningham, the multi-instrumentalist behind this project surprises us with a new release after his eponymous album [...]
Metallica Helping Hands… Live & Acoustic At The Masonic Blackened Recordings Metallica seems to be in a sort of career Renaissance. Its latest studio album, 2016’s Hardwired… to Self-Destruct, has been heralded as the band’s strongest [...]
White Lies Five [PIAS] Recordings White Lies is bringing the hooks on their fifth album, but this time without the naïve sense of live or die urgency of their first, To Lose My Life…, rather this is a more seasoned albeit subdued take on pop [...]
Within Temptation Resist Spinefarm Records Dutch metal powerhouse Within Temptation is back with their seventh studio album, Resist. The new release, its first since 2014’s Hydra, comes after a four-year hiatus that surprisingly almost led to [...]
Guided By Voices Zeppelin Over China Rockathon Records It seems like a wonderful time to be a Guided by Voices fan. Since 2016, kingpin Robert Pollard has been joined by longtime members Doug Gillard and Kevin March, alongside relative newcomers [...]
Abigail Lapell Getaway Coax Records In following up the award-winning Canadian folk of 2017’s Hide Nor Hair, Abigail Lapell had her work cut out for her. Fans will no doubt be more than content with the quality of Getaway. Lapell’s voice sounds [...]
Ron Wood & Ronnie Lane Mahoney’s Last Stand (Limited Green Vinyl Reissue) Real Gone Music While its 1972 film counterpart may not be very memorable – likely due to its Canadian origins and its lack of a theatrical release – Mahoney’s Last [...]
Balms Mirror Independent Reuniting 10 years after high school, Balms members Jared Padovani, Michael Ascunsion and John Kolesnikow started in a basement in San Francisco and have been cranking out music ever since. While their typical sound airs [...]
Len Mizzoni Better Days Independent Better Days is Len Mizzoni’s second full-length solo album. The first thing that strikes the listener is the confidence he exudes both in the songwriting and the performance. On Better Days, he adds more [...]
Prefab Sprout I Trawl The Megahertz Sony Music Though it originally appeared as a solo album in 2003 for leader and writer of ‘80s UK hit band Prefab Sprout Paddy McAloon, he decided to remaster the album, and rerelease I Trawl The Megahertz in [...]
Quiet Riot One Night In Milan Frontiers Music It may be hard to believe, but One Night in Milan, recorded in 2018, captures Quiet Riot at the first concert they have ever played in Italy. Even more astonishingly for a band that has been around [...]
Jailbirds The Black River Independent I need very little reminder of the vibrance of Toronto’s independent music scene. The amount of talent that has emerged in the last few years is nothing short of astounding. That being said, every now and [...]
Subjective (Goldie & James Davidson) Act One: Music For Inanimate Objects Sony Music Few names carry more weight in EDM circles than English musician and DJ Goldie, aka Clifford Joseph Price. Banging out drum-and-bass hits since the 1980s, [...]
Eerie Wanda Pet Town Joyful Noise Eerie Wanda, the moniker of Marina Tadic, offers personal compositions with her second LP, Pet Town. The songwriter, along with additional bandmates Jasper Verhulst and Jeroen de Heuvel, got creative for the [...]
Buzzcocks Another Music In A Different Kitchen (2018 Remastered Version) Domino Records As the 21st century decidedly moves on from its adolescence, the bands that once defined teenage rebellion and angst today serve fond memories, [...]
The Dandy Warhols Why You So Crazy Dine Alone Records Celebrating their 25th anniversary as a band, The Dandy Warhols release their tenth studio album Why You So Crazy, that illustrates perfectly why the band remains an enigma after all these [...]
Royal Canoe Waver Paper Bag Records Hailing from Winnipeg and Steinbach, Ontario, Royal Canoe is an indie pop band that’s been gracing the stage since 2010. Band members Matt Peters, Bucky Driedger, Matt Schellenberg, Brendan Berg, Derek Allard [...]
Watermelon Slim Church Of The Blues NorthernBlues Music Church Of Blues is the new album by Bill Homans, also known in the blues community as Watermelon Slim. The album, which is out today, features seven of Watermelon Slim’s original songs as [...]
Jaye P. Morgan Jaye P. Morgan (Reissue) WeWantSounds In what should have been a landmark moment for soul and disco music, Jaye P. Morgan released her self-titled album, Jaye P. Morgan, in 1976. Rather than being a watershed moment for both her [...]
Mozes And The Firstborn Dadcore Burger Records On their third album, Dadcore, Dutch alt-rockers Mozes and the Firstborn diversify their sound even further than on 2016’s Great Pile of Nothing. Lead single “If I” is a perfectly produced [...]
FIDLAR Almost Free Mom + Pop California skate punk band FIDLAR release today their highly anticipated third album Almost Free. The pre-released singles kept fans guessing what to expect: “Alcohol” sticks to the in-your-face FIDLAR party [...]
Balthazar Fever [PIAS] Recordings With the release of their fourth album, Fever, on the horizon, Balthazar seeks to broaden their creativity and crank up the dial to an already strong discography. Previous members, Simon Casier and Michiel [...]
