Sam Roberts We Were Born In a Flame (Expanded Edition) Universal Music This album will always hold a special place for me; not only is it one of my favourite albums ever made (top twenty at least), it was also originally released in 2003, the [...]
Tokyo Police Club TPC Dine Alone Records Having been together since 2005, members of Tokyo Police Club felt it was time to stop making music. Lead singer Dave Monks, convinced them otherwise. Now, they’re back with their fourth studio album, [...]
Martin Barre Road Less Travelled Cleopatra Records Martin Barre was the lead guitarist for Jethro Tull from 1968 until 2003, with The Jethro Tull Christmas Album being the last studio album he worked on for Jethro Tull, even though he only [...]
Electric Six Bride Of The Devil Metropolis Electric Six have been making albums since 2003 (Fire, being their debut), and Bride Of The Devil is their 17th studio album. Not bad, considering how much this band tours. Basically, they are one of [...]
Viagra Boys Street Worms YEAR0001 From the capital of Sweden comes a post-punk act called Viagra Boys, having just released their debut album Street Worms. This release is quite intense and in-your-face with an alcohol and drug-infused setup. [...]
THE CROOKED First Place Silver EP Independent The Crooked is the brain child of guitarist and lead vocalist J.C. Sandoval (Die Mannequin/Secret Broadcast/Savanah) and Anthony Dell’Orso (The Joy Arson). Forming a little over a year ago with the [...]
3 Headed Snake 3 Headed Snake Independent Old school metal fans will love 3 Headed Snake’s self-titled album. Fans of industrial metal band Ministry will instantly recognize Sin Quirin’s face-melting guitar, but those who enjoy the epic vocals [...]
Christian And The Sinners The Perversion Of Something Good (Live At CIUT) Independent Their press release calls their music post-punk noir. I call it dark and dangerous. The Perversion of Something Good is the first release from Christian and [...]
Ex-poets Too Much Future Text Me Records Adeptly fusing rock, soul, jazz, and R&B on Too Much Future, the debut album from Ex-poets sounds like nothing else. The studied eclecticism of the duo, who met as music students at The New School in [...]
Lizard Pool Spark Out Of Line Finding a dark harmony between the frenetic melodies of indie rock and the depressive tones of post-punk is the artistic drive behind Lizard Pool’s second LP Spark. Through the employment of heavily synthesized [...]
Joe Symes And The Loving Kind Phase II Truly Independent Records Joe Symes and the Loving Kind is a three-piece alternative rock outfit from Liverpool, UK. They first emerged on the British music scene with the release of their debut album, the [...]
Anti-Flag American Reckoning Spinefarm Anti-Flag have spent the last several years reflecting on the state of American politics and the moral values that underlie the country’s society itself. While 2015’s American Spring saw the band focus on [...]
Nile Rodgers & Chic It’s About Time Virgin EMI Records For the first time in a quarter of a century, Nile Rodgers & Chic have released a new album. It’s About Time follows their 1992 album, Chic-ism. While the band has remained a [...]
Church Of Trees The Dark And The Light Independent Church Of Trees is more of a concept and project than it is a traditional band. The brainchild of the remarkably talent writer, musician and producer Bernard Frazer. The Dark and The Light is [...]
Colin Stetson The First: Original Soundtrack Vol. 1 New Deal/Record Collection Colin Stetson’s trademark whale-sound bass saxophone swells have screamed ‘movie soundtrack’ ever since he first started releasing music under his own name over a [...]
Loretta Lynn Woudn’t It Be Great Sony Music If country is the storyteller of music genres, Loretta Lynn has always been one of its most captivating memoirists. Lynn continues weaving her personal narrative on Wouldn’t It Be Great, her 41st [...]
Paul Collins Out Of My Head Alive Naturalsound Records From the opening power chord, to the last perfect harmony, this album was an extreme listening pleasure. It is brilliant and a welcome return of Paul Collins. It has been four years since we [...]
Thus Owls The Mountain That We Live Upon For The Living And The Dead Swedish-Canadian duo Erika and Simon Angell have been steadily traveling into the depths of sound possibilities for nearly a decade, reaching out to incorporate unconventional [...]
Thelonious Monk Mønk Gearbox Records Often considered to be among the greatest of contemporary jazz musicians, Thelonious Monk is an artist in every sense of the word who, needless to say, has truly earned his status as a legendary icon of the [...]
The Crystal Method The Trip Home Tiny E Records For over 20 years The Crystal Method has been at the forefront of the dance music scene of the electronica movement of the nineties. Starting out as a duo, alongside retired founding member Ken [...]
Beauty In Chaos Finding Beauty In Chaos 33.3 Records Beauty In Chaos is more a concept than a band. For those old enough to remember, they are kind of like This Mortal Coil, but with Beauty in Chaos, it is all organized and orchestrated by [...]
John Scofield Combo 66 Universal Music Acclaimed jazz guitarist John Scofield has returned with Combo 66, his latest full-length album following 2016’s Country For Old Men – his previous album as a band leader – and last year’s collaborative [...]
Edward And Jane Too Early To Tell Independent Edward and Jane are Edward and Jane Carpenter, a married couple from Chattanooga, Tennessee and Edward and Jane is also the name of their six piece band. Too Early To Tell is their sophomore [...]
All Them Witches ATW New West Records There is no question that Nashville-based quartet All Them Witches are capable of producing music for the genre that they are frequently pigeon-holed into – psychedelic/stoner rock – but it does them no [...]
