Various Artists Canada Covers Tom Petty Independent Tom Petty departed this world on October 2, 2017. Just a little over a year later, Jadea Kelly has put together something special to honour Petty while promoting independent Canadian talent. [...]
Stove ‘s Favorite Friend Exploding In Sound Combining pop melodies with a wall of guitar noise is a trick as old as indie rock itself. It’s a style that Steve Hartlett has been working in for years now, first with Ovlov and now in Stove. Their [...]
Mitch Tones Band Mitch Tones Band EP Independent The new Mitch Tones Band EP is a solid effort that is best suited with an aged bourbon and a cigarette after the album is finished. This self-titled EP has a strong swagger and its heaviness at [...]
Various Artists Brown Acid: The Seventh Trip RidingEasy Records This album is a recompilation of tracks from the ‘60s and ‘70s that were never able to make it into the mainstream radio of those days. Daniel Hall and Lance Barresi once again [...]
Thom Yorke Suspiria XL Recordings When Dario Argento’s supernatural horror film Suspiria was released in 1977, the world’s artistic landscape stood in stark contrast to the one we find today just over 30 years later. Modern cinema was defined [...]
Allie X Super Sunset Allie X Canada Allie X (Alexandra Ashley Hughes) is a singer/songwriter from the Toronto area who grew up with an interest in classical piano, opera and mujsical theatre, and later went on to release a number of independent [...]
Anchorsong Cohesion Tru Thoughts Recordings Operating in the role of a producer, Anchorsong builds tracks as a DJ would live. He starts with a rhythm track, augments it with percussive elements, and introduces melodic counterparts, layer by [...]
The Struts Young & Dangerous Interscope Records English-Canadian rock outfit, The Struts, have had an amazing year. While busy with their own headlining tour across North America and Europe to promote the release of their single, “Body [...]
Roger Waters The Soldier’s Tale Sony In 1917, while the First World War continued, Igor Stravinsky composed the music for L’Histoire du soldat (The Soldier’s Tale) with the text being written by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz. It was [...]
Laura Gibson Goners Barsuk Records Goners, the sixth studio album by Laura Gibson, is unlike anything she’s ever released before. Gibson explains that her newest record is, “about grief, but more specifically, it’s about the ways we [...]
The Callas With Lee Ranaldo Trouble And Desire Inner Ear/Dirty Water Records Lee Ranaldo could not have found a better outfit to collaborate with than The Callas. I’m not sure about other releases they may have, but on Trouble and Desire they [...]
Blondie Heart Of Glass EP Numero Group/Universal Music 2019 promises to be a big year for Blondie fans. According to the band, Blondie are set to re-release their catalogue with many never before heard songs and versions of their hits. To whet [...]
STEREO in SOLO Somewhere Out There – The Xtended Versions EP M&S/Believe Earlier this year, the brilliant Thierry Noritop returned with his new project STEREO in SOLO and the album Somewhere Out There. Now he continues with new music [...]
Shad A Short Story About A War Secret City Records With the sporadic ramblings from pop stars and other notable lunatics controlling the climate of political reliability and social information, A Short Story About A War delivers the raw reality [...]
The Kinks The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society – 50th Anniversary Edition Sanctuary Records In November, 1968 The Kinks released The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society, an album that is now considered a [...]
Stew Hot Independent Hailing from Sweden, Stew very well may be among some of the most interesting rock revivalists around as they take classic rock from the late 1960s to mid ‘70s and blend it with a rich sense of the blues and early soul. The [...]
Brainoil Singularity To Extinction Tankcrimes There is a certain dissection of sounds that is integral to the core of many sludge metal acts, especially ones that incorporate the styling of doom and crust punk. Long-running Oakland outfit [...]
Handsome Jack Everything’s Gonna Be Alright Alive Naturalsound Records Handsome Jack is a blues rock trio from upstate New York and while their city of Lockport may be known more for the Erie Canal running through its center rather than sporting [...]
Yeses Yeses Independent Yeses’ debut self-titled EP dropped October 19 and offers a unique addition to the world of alternative music. Upon hearing it for the very first time, the extended play brings an unexplainable sense of nostalgia to the [...]
Whispering Sons Image Cleopatra Records It’s a handy little tag, to refer to a band using the statement, “If Joy Division were female-fronted and Belgian”. One certainly gets the concept right away, and the comparison is well founded. Image, the [...]
Jim Dan Dee Jim Dan Dee Independent Hailing from Toronto, but sounding like they come out of the deep south, Jim Dan Dee have created a distinct style of the blues that crosses over into several other genres. Jim Dan Dee is their first [...]
Disturbed Evolution Reprise Chicago-based metal icons Disturbed are back with their seventh studio album after a year long hiatus. Their album, aptly titled Evolution, takes the band to a new stage in their career. With their widely successful [...]
Big Bliss At Middle Distance Exit Stencil Recordings If there ever were to be a second post-punk revival, Big Bliss would be its standard-bearer. Anyone looking for a primer on post-punk have it all here on the Brooklyn band’s debut At Middle [...]
Yoko Ono Warzone Chimera Records Yoko Ono’s debut solo album Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band was released in November 1970, and since then she has astounded and sometimes confused rock audiences with her own style of music. Let me stress, it has [...]
