The Stayawakes Dogs and Cats/Living Together Surefire Discs/badHORROR Recordings/ShoveItUpYourCult Records Transporting listeners back to the beautiful indie-pop punk scene of the early 2000s, The Stayawakes latest release Dogs and Cats/Living [...]
Black Coffee Take One Independent On their debut album, Columbus, Ohio’s Black Coffee shine as potential stars to the growing rock revival that is sweeping North America. The independent release, Take One, harkens back to the 1970s – arguably [...]
The Beach Boys With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra The Beach Boys With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Capitol Records The past decade has been a very good time to be a Beach Boys fan, beginning with their 50th anniversary tour in 2012, which [...]
Thom Fekete Grow Joyful Noise Recordings Faced with his own encroaching and premature mortality, Thom Fekete never stopped writing music. His new album, Grow — released posthumously through Joyful Noise Recordings — is both a [...]
Dave Matthews Band Come Tomorrow RCA Records There is little, at this point in their long and storied careers, that the Dave Matthews Band do in terms of breaking new ground. Since launching themselves into the collective music consciousness in [...]
Jorja Smith Lost & Found ONE FAMM Jorja Smith, the 21-year-old from Walsall, England, has been making huge waves in the music industry after the recent release of her debut album, Lost & Found. Jorja Smith has strengths and weaknesses, [...]
Snail Mail Lush Matador Maryland-born Lindsey Jordan, the lead-singer and creative engine behind Snail Mail, must have had cool parents. Maybe an older sibling that was into grunge. Having only been born in 1999 herself, she has clearly been [...]
Rechorduroys Rechorduroys Five Kill Records Sometimes an ending is just the beginning of something else, and that was exactly the case when Rechorduroy’s singer and main songwriter Benjamin Garrett dissolved his band Party Boat and moved [...]
Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge The Midnight Hour Linear Labs When two production heavyweights like A Tribe Called Quest’s Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge collaborate, it’s something that’s worth paying attention to. That’s what [...]
Various Artists Eric Clapton: Life In 12 Bars (Original Soundtrack Recording) Universal Music Enterprises Soundtracks of documentaries about musicians are interesting things and excellent opportunities to collect well known songs as a ‘best of’ [...]
Poptone Poptone LP Cleopatra Records Poptone is one half of Bauhaus or two thirds of Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets, you can decide your reference point. The truth is Poptone is a new band featuring Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins (both from [...]
Lykke Li so sad so sexy RCA Records Lykke Li’s fourth and 2018 release so sad so sexy plays true to the title. This ten track album is perfect for crying at the club or dancing in slow-motion after a break-up. Though comedic, it is probably the [...]
Ian Burden Hey Hey Ho Hum Rutland Artspace Limited Ian Burden was a member of The Human League from 1980 until he left the band in 1987. Hey Hey Ho Hum is his second solo album (his debut solo album, Loot!, was released in 1990). Since then he [...]
Fetty Wap Bruce Wayne 300 Entertainment New Jersey artist Fetty Wap has released his second project of 2018. Following the E.P release of, “For My Fans 3″ in January, Fetty Wap has decided to drop the mixtape Bruce Wayne in time for [...]
Eamon McGrath Tantramar Saved By Vinyl Tantramar is Eamon McGrath’s sixth studio album. In between albums he keeps himself busy with Julie and The Wrong Guys as well as other studio work. But it is on his solo albums where he is able to shine [...]
Neko Case Hell-On Anti Records Call it hyperbole, call it what you will, but Neko Case is a national treasure. Though likely made known through her work with the New Pornographers, it has been her work as a solo artist that has set Case apart [...]
Tancred Nightstand Polyvinyl Records With Tancred’s 2016 Out of the Garden, primary songwriter Jess Abbott gave us an outright honest album about her personal experiences with femininity. Expressing those experiences brought out a harsher sound [...]
Beach Skulls Las Dunas PNKSLM (Punk Slime Recordings) From start to finish, Beach Skulls new album Las Dunas is a mellow, psychedelic masterpiece. You can guess by looking at the album title that it means “the dunes” when translated to English, [...]
The Coathangers Live Suicide Squeeze There is a hectic, chaotic energy to live music that studio recordings simply cannot capture, and punk band The Coathangers want to remedy this with their latest album, Live, released June 1 of this year. [...]
Black Thought Streams of Thought, Vol. 1 Human Re Sources If you drop Black Thought’s name (born Tariq Trotter) anywhere within most musical circles, the most common descriptor that follows is “underrated”. The most important thing that you’ll [...]
MONOWHALES Control Freak Independent MONOWHALES new album Control Freak has officially hit the spotify playlists of the masses. They have a very interesting sound that is a beautiful blend of indie rock and pop stylings. This allows them to use [...]
Nils Frahm Encores 1 Erased Tapes Nils Frahm has released the extended 5-track player Encores 1, the first companion release to his universally acclaimed and currently touring seventh album, All Melody. For those who found All Melody lacking in [...]
Roger Daltrey As Long As I Have You Polydor Records Roger Daltrey is well known as the voice of the legendary rock band The Who. He has had some solo success as well, and has finally released his first solo album in almost 25 years, As Long As I [...]
Various Artists African Scream Contest 2 – Benin 1963-1980 Analog Africa In 2008 archival label Analog Africa introduced the wider world to the funk, rock, and psychedelic sounds of 60’s and 70’s Benin with African Scream [...]
