Mr! Mouray Bats In Disguise Bullseye Records Of Canada One of the “good time rock ‘n’ roll” and timely albums of the season, Bats In Disguise by newly formed but veteran Canadian band Mr! Mouray. Available only digitally for [...]
Steven Page Discipline: Heal Thyself, Pt. II Fresh Baked Goods/Warner Music Canada Steven Page is one of those musicians who walks the line between “entertainer” and “artist”. A self-described record nerd who cut his teeth on pop music, and [...]
The Guess Who The Future Is What It Used To Be Cleopatra Records The Guess Who IS still the Guess Who only because this 2.0 version has drummer Garry Peterson, the only founding member. Perhaps for a moment, before passing judgment, one must [...]
We Were Promised Jetpacks The More I Sleep The Less I Dream Big Scary Monsters Scottish indie rock band, We Were Promised Jetpacks, is back with a new album for the first time in four years. After touring in 2014, the band took a well- deserved [...]
Jean-Michel Jarre Planet Jarre Sony Music It is hard to believe that Jean-Michel Jarre has been making music for 50 years, but the truth is he just celebrated his 50th Anniversary and he is still going strong. As part of the 50th anniversary [...]
Fuzz Evil High On You Independent Arizona stoner, desert psych-rock band Fuzz Evil has returned with their sophomore album, High On You. As a followup to their 2016 self-titled debut, the power trio aren’t messing around as the album was [...]
The Trews Civilianaires Cadence Music The Nova Scotia-bred, Hamilton, Ontario-based band The Trews return with their sixth studio album, Civilianaires, and certainly one of their best to date. Led by singer/guitarist Colin MacDonald, along with [...]
illiterates Makeout Mountain Baby Robot Records Within the first five seconds of Makeout Mountain, I want and need to be front row center at an illiterates show with a beer in my hand. This isn’t your everyday punk rock album, it’s loud and [...]
Milo Greene Adult Contemporary Nettwerk Milo Greene started out as an indie-folk four-piece, constantly switching instruments during their shows and blending their four unique voices into one hypnotizing, harmonic hush. Two records later and one [...]
Valerie Renay Your Own Shadow Independent Your Own Shadow is Valerie Renay’s debut solo album. She has released a couple of singles in the past two years but is better known as one half of Noblesse Oblige. For Your Own Shadow, she goes it [...]
Alter Bridge Live At The Royal Albert Hall Napalm Records The last few years have proven to be both incredibly busy and fulfilling for the members of Alter Bridge. In 2016, the band released their most recent studio album, The Last Hero, and [...]
Laffey Looking At The Sky Laffey Records Looking At The Sky is Lofi Laffey’s third album this year. One of the advantages of being totally independent is that an artist can release the music he or she decides. Laffey records and releases music [...]
La Force La Force Arts & Crafts Ariel Engle, aka La Force, is a dynamic performer with oodles of talent who has, in less than two years, become a permanent member of the Canadian indie collective Broken Social Scene, toured in support of [...]
David J Crocodile Tears And The Velvet Cosh (Reissue) Glass Modern David J. Haskins has been in a couple of bands with his brother, Kevin. Bauhaus, and Love And Rockets. But what many people have forgotten, over time, is that David J released [...]
Paul McCartney Egypt Station MPL/Capitol Records Egypt Station is Paul McCartney’s first album of all new material since 2013’s New. He has issued other music, a retrospective collection (Pure McCartney), a couple of one off singles, and he was [...]
The Heck “For Cryin’ Out Loud”/”Panic Attack” Dirty Water Records Hailing from Drenthe in the Netherlands, comes the latest vintage rock outfit from the Dirty Water Records roster, The Heck. Led by Henri Keefman (De [...]
Lil Berete Icebreaker New Gen/XL Recordings Things are moving fast for young Toronto rapper Lil Berete, with some strong singles over the last year or so now followed by his debut album, the eight-track mixtape Icebreaker, mostly just down to [...]
Hozier Nina Cried Power Sony Music It’s been four years since the release of Hozier’s debut self-titled album, save for a single cinematic track, “Better Love,” penned for the 2016’s “The Legend of Tarzan”. Now, Hozier has finally and mercifully [...]
IDLES Joy As An Act Of Resistance Partisan Records 2016’s Brutalism was a thundering debut full of urgency and action but what sets 2018’s Joy as an Act of Resistance apart is the more measured, intuitive approach the band have taken. There is [...]
Burning Codes Liberator Coded Recordings Burning Codes is really Belfast-based musician and artist, Paul Archer. Archer has released five albums under that name, and Liberator is album six. And, to be honest, Liberator is the best Burning Codes [...]
Iron & Wine Weed Garden Sub Pop Sam Beam wrote a lot of material for his last album with Iron and Wine, the Grammy nominated Beast Epic. So much actually, that six songs now come out as an EP entitled Weed Garden, which is quite a title. It [...]
The Pineapple Thief Dissolution Kscope It is a terrifying image, the thought of a group hanging out while each one of them has their eyes glued to their phones. We have all become zombified by that bright blue light, the screens of our cellular [...]
The Kooks Let’s Go Sunshine Sony Music The Kooks have done it again with their fifth studio album, Let’s Go Sunshine. The band has been together since the early 2000s, so they are no stranger to the music scene. Over the years, they have [...]
Neil & Liam Finn Lightsleeper Inertia Music/[PIAS] Neil Finn is constantly full of surprises. Just as he announces that he is joining Fleetwood Mac and preparing for that huge stadium tour, he releases this album with his son, Liam. [...]
