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 [...]
Electric Citizen Helltown RidingEasy Records Hailing from Cincinnati, Ohio, Electric Citizen have returned with their third full-length album, Helltown. It was named after their hometown – Northside was commonly referred to as Helltown in the [...]
Mini Mansions Works Every Time Fiction Records For their first release since 2015’s full length album, The Great Pretenders, Mini Mansions have returned with Works Every Time, a four track EP released with the purpose of ushering in a new sound [...]
This Will Destroy You New Others Part One Dark Operative It can be difficult to stand out as an artist in the world of post-rock, not least because of how easy it is to fall into the clichés of repeated arpeggios and delayed tremolos that [...]
Android Lust Shores Unknown Independent Shores Unknown is a new and somewhat short release from Shikee, known as Android Lust. It is her first release since last year’s remarkable Berlin album. This EP is really three songs (there are also two [...]
One In The Chamber I’ve Got Something To Say… Independent I’ve Got Something to Say… is One In The Chamber’s debut studio EP. They have released a live mini album (Live At The Rockpile) and an EP of demos (The Boston Session: [...]
Frontperson Frontrunner Oscar St. Records Frontperson sees Mark Andrew Hamilton (Woodpigeon) and Kathryn Calder (Immaculate Machine, The New Pornographers) intertwining their misty and sombre sensibilities into a dark, but ultimately hopeful [...]
Sluff On Debris Siluh Records Drowsily miming in a deserted natatorium for the video to “Deep Blue,” Sluff may want you to think they’re not trying very hard, but there’s nothing lackadaisical about debut album On Debris. Production-wise, the [...]
SVIN Virgin Cuts Momeatdadrecords From a Scandinavian record player in the middle of Copenhagen, this record reaches out to you. In the same furious manner as Pardans comes another avant garde rock band from Copenhagen called SVIN. SVIN is the [...]
Abby Zotz Local Honey Independent Abby Zotz has been making music for most of her life. Music has taken her on paths she may not have imagined, but it has been a big part of her life. She has formed and participated in several bands since the [...]
Ben Pirani How Do I Talk To My Brother Colemine Records Ben Pirani has been making music for a while, and comes from a musical family. His father, Leonard was a professional musician, his parents were also the music directors at a Pentecostal [...]
Macy Gray Ruby Mack Avenue Records Macy Gray’s voice reminds one of being wrapped up in a blanket of sunlight. Soulful, warm, and iconic, Gray’s vocal magic has made sweet love to our ears yet again in her tenth studio album, Ruby. Calling Ms. [...]
Villagers The Art Of Pretending To Swim Domino Records Listening to the new Villagers album The Art Of Pretending To Swim, Ireland’s Conor O’Brien’s absolutely adorable voice once again stands out. This time O’Brien has written nine new songs [...]
