Guns N’ Roses Appetite For Destruction Remastered Universal Music Group (Originally Geffen Records) It goes without saying that Guns N’ Roses’ seminal 1987 album, Appetite For Destruction, is a near flawless debut album that set the bar for rock [...]
Wild Moccassins Look Together New West Records Look Together is this generation’s Rumours. Co-written by the core members of Wild Moccasins, Zahira Gutierrez and Cody Swann, the album lyrically and musically documents the break-up of Swann and [...]
A Flock Of Seagulls with The Prague Philharmonic Orchestra Ascension August Day This seems to be a trend. A great many artists, alive and dead, are setting their music with an orchestra. The bands originating from the 1980s are not immune to [...]
Jim James Uniform Distortion ATO Records Uniform Distortion is the newest album by Jim James. He brings forth a soulful experience with an indie feel. James’ latest album will be a bit different than his last. He decided to drop the [...]
Florence + the Machine High As Hope Virgin EMI There are few, if any, voices more distinctive or powerful than that of Florence Welch. Famed for her ability to channel emotion through her shiver-inducing vocals, Florence’s vocal prowess has [...]
Claire Morales All That Wanting Independent Listening to Claire Morales’s second LP, All That Wanting, I can’t help but feel like I’ve heard this before. Don’t get me wrong, Morales’s voice is, by definition, beautiful. “Sybille” and “New [...]
The Turbo A.C.’s Radiation Concrete Jungle Records The Turbo A.C.’s kicked off the July 22 release of their newest album Radiation with a proclamation that “radiation will sweep the land, the kids will be infected” – and honestly, the kids don’t [...]
Nine Inch Nails Bad Witch The Null Corporation There is little that I could say about Trent Reznor or Nine Inch Nails that has not already been said; the man is a musical omnivore with an incredible ear for both emotion and atmosphere, who finds [...]
Dumb Seeing Green Mint Records Only a band with music that is decidedly smart would call themselves “Dumb”. With clever, snarky lyrics woven into a mockery of the conventions of money-obsessed modern life, Seeing Green is both the album’s name [...]
David Clayton-Thomas Mobius Independent Label Services/Universal Music The temptation for many artists from the classic rock era is to hit the nostalgia concert circuit, dragging out their greatest hits. Though touring was quite lucrative, [...]
Yukon Blonde Critical Hit Dine Alone Records Critical Hit is Yukon’s fourth album, and their first since 2015’s On Blonde. For this album, they employed the services of Tony Hoffer (Beck, Air, The Kooks) to produce, and it was a very wise [...]
Susie Scurry The Elvis Hour Independent Melbourne, Australia’s artist Susie Scurry released her debut album under the name The Grand Magoozi, and the self-titled album was released in 2016. Here she is, writing and recording under her own [...]
The Orb No Sounds Are Out Of Bounds Cooking Vinyl Alex Paterson is back with his friends under the banner of The Orb. Once again he is working with Thomas Fehlmann, and as duo they take the title of this album, No Sounds Are Out Of Bounds, [...]
Front Line Assembly WarMech Artoffact Records This is the first new music from Front Line Assembly since 2013’s Echogenetic, which was a brilliant and very successful album for the band. WarMech is not a follow-up to that album, but it is a [...]
Here Lies Man You Will Know Nothing RidingEasy Records Following a debut that captured the positive attention of several critics and garnered a not insignificant following, Here Lies Man’s sophomore album was always going to be a big test for [...]
Mad Caddies Punk Rocksteady Fat Wreck Chords The Mad Caddies’ new album is the summer album we’ve all been waiting for. A compilation of punk rock classics played with a beachy reggae style, this album boasts a series of perfect tunes to rock [...]
Wilko Johnson Blow Your Mind Chess Records/Universal In 2014, much to everyone’s surprise, Wilko Johnson, who was handed a death sentence of a year in 2013 due to terminal pancreatic cancer, released an album with Roger Daltrey (Going Back Home) [...]
Blushh Thx 4 Asking Yellow K Records “It’s not fine, it never was,” Shab Ferdowsi asserts in the first line of her latest EP as indie power-pop extraordinaire Blushh. This callout to her previous release, 2017’s It’s Fine, kick-starts Thx 4 [...]
Immersion Sleepless Swim~ The band, Immersion, consists of Colin Newman (from Wire) and Malka Spigel (Minimal Compact). Sleepless is their fourth studio album, and their first since 2016’s Analogue Creatures Living On An Island. Sleepless is an [...]
Colin Stetson Hereditary: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Milan Records Scoring a film is a difficult task, and quite frankly there are not a lot of artists who can compose and arrange music for a film. Writing for a horror film is an even [...]
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones While We’re At It Big Rig Records It is interesting for me that this is the second band this month that I have chosen to review that found the largest part of its fame in the 1990s, a decade now famous for being [...]
The English Beat Starring Dave Wakeling Here We Go Love Here We Go Records The Beat formed in 1978, and released their debut album in 1980, I Just Can’t Stop It. But the release of that album lead to some problems with their name in Australia [...]
Buddy Guy The Blues Is Alive And Well Silvertone/RCA Records Buddy Guy stands as one of the last true traditional blues legends of his time; an era that predated the rock ‘n’ roll explosion of the mid-1960s. Few remain, and even fewer are still [...]
Nick Lowe Tokyo Bay/Crying Inside Yep Roc Records It’s confession time. I have always been a bigger fan of Nick Lowe the rocker than I am of Nick Lowe the elder statesman artist – the main reason being that there was just so much energy and [...]
