Phosphorescent C’est La Vie Dead Oceans Phosphorescent is really one person, Matthew Houck. Originally from Alabama, now based out of Nashville by way of Brooklyn. He has been performing and recording under the name Phosphorescent since [...]
Coheed And Cambria Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures Roadrunner Records With their ninth studio album, Coheed and Cambria has succeeded in taking quintessential progressive rock, sticking it in a blender and creating something heavy, [...]
Daggerplay Subterranean Reality Independent Subterranean Reality is the newest release from Finland’s pop punk heroes Daggerplay, and one can only imagine that it was every bit as fun to record as it is to listen to. Imagine the Pogues meets the [...]
Pardans Spit And Image Tambourhinoceros Out of the Mayhem Collective, which catapulted Iceage a few years ago, now comes Pardans. Pardans means something similar to ballroom dancing, though there isn’t much of that sound on their second release [...]
John Lennon Imagine: The Ultimate Collection Universal Music Imagine was originally released in 1971 and was credited to John Lennon and Plastic Ono Band, but in actual fact it was John Lennon’s second solo album, his first being Plastic Ono [...]
Nitzer Ebb 1982-2010 Box Set Pylon Records The title for this expansive box set says it all. Ten albums (vinyl) featuring all five of the albums they originally released on Geffen (North America) and Mute (U.K./Europe). Those albums are: That [...]
Anthrax State of Euphoria Deluxe Edition Island Records As one of biggest names in thrash metal, Anthrax has established a major fanbase over a career of 37 years. As a commemoration of their groundbreaking record State of Euphoria’s 30th [...]
We Are The City At Night Light Organ Records We Are the City’s fourth full-length album, At Night, is a fundamentally experimental album, entirely written, recorded, and self-produced in less than two weeks. This raw and unpolished creative [...]
Psychic Temple Houses Of The Holy Vol. 1 Joyful Noise Chris Schlarb formed Psychic Temple in 2010 and since then they have released five studio albums, each one different from the last. For this EP, Houses Of The Holy, Vol. 1, the band decided [...]
Gregory Alan Isakov Evening Machines Dualtone There is something very old and natural that Gregory Alan Isakov is able to tap into each time he goes to the well of inspiration for his music; instantly, the listener is able to ease into Isakov’s [...]
Twenty One Pilots Trench Fueled By Ramen The band with the unidentifiable genre is back. Twenty One Pilots have released their fourth LP Trench after the mainstream success of their 2015 release Blurryface. Introductory track [...]
Hugh Cornwell Monster Sony Music Hugh Cornwell’s mother, Winifred, is 98 years old, which is quite an achievement. Over the years Cornwell has heard various accounts about his mother, which, for him, formed two views of her, one positive (from [...]
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 [...]
