PHIL MANZANERA & ANDY MACKAY AM.PM SOHO LIVE EXPRESSION/BFD/THE ORCHARD When Phil Manzanera and Andy MacKay came together in 2023 and put together the brilliant AM.PM album, no one thought that they would perform live in this configuration, [...]
MAURA WEAVER STRANGE DEVOTION FEEL IT RECORDS To devoted fans of pop punk, the name Maura Weaver might sound familiar as she was a member of such an outfit that went under the name of Mixtapes. Weaver decided to leave and pursue a solo career, [...]
TEKE::TEKE HAGATA DELUX KILL ROCK STARS Labeling Montreal’s Teke::Teke can be a tricky thing. With seven members, it is more a musical collective than a band. On the other, most critics label them as a psych rock band, but with so many [...]
I PREVAIL VIOLENT NATURE FEARLESS RECORDS When I Prevail rose to prominence from Metro Detroit, Michigan, in 2013, from viral covers to Grammy nominations, the metalcore/post-hardcore band has seen a vast amount of success over the past 12 years [...]
YUKON BLONDE FRIENDSHIP & ROCK ‘N’ ROLL DINE ALONE RECORDS Yukon Blonde’s seventh full-length effort, Friendship & Rock ‘N’ Roll, is a short and sweet record which highlights the band’s ease in songwriting within their safe, [...]
WARREN HAYNES THE WHISPER SESSIONS FANTASY RECORDS The magical world of Warren Haynes, our visionary GRAMMY® Award-winning maestro, is buzzing yet again. This distinguished artist, celebrated as one of the finest guitarists and soulful vocalists [...]
TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND AND LEON RUSSELL PRESENT: MAD DOGS & ENGLISHMEN REVISITED LIVE AT LOCKN’ FANTASY RECORDS Reviving an original live show that captivated audiences some 50 years or so ago is an extremely tricky [...]
WHITNEY K BUBBLE FIRE RECORDS Sometimes, when an artist has a great voice, it just might not matter what they sing about or what the songs are like. Well, there should at least be a song there. But if the lyrics do have some substance and the [...]
LÉNA BARTELS THE BRIGHTEST SILVER FISH GLAMOUR GOWNS Does being a solo artist these days mean that you have to stick to the quieter, gentler realms of music? Not if you are Portland transplanted to NYC artist Léna Bartels, as her second album [...]
CARSON McHONE PENTIMENTO MERGE RECORDS Some intriguing music brewing over in Ontario when it comes to the very broad category of singer-songwriters these days. Carson McHone’s latest album Pentimento is here to show us why. The reason is [...]
SILVERSTEIN PINK MOON UNFD Silverstein has been one of those bands that, when you feel time has dulled their edge, comes roaring back to silence the doubters and prove their creative fire still burns as bright as it did two decades ago. When [...]
CHAMELEONS ARCTIC MOON METROPOLIS RECORDS A new album by Chameleons is big news. It has been 24 years since their last studio album, 2001’s Why Call It Anything, and although they have toured a great deal in the past quarter century, their [...]
ARJEN ANTHONY LUCASSEN SONGS NO ONE WILL HEAR INSIDE OUT MUSIC I love concept albums, especially when the music, story and lyrics all come together and tell a complete story. This is the case with Arjan Anthony Lucassen’s album Songs No One Will [...]
EMMA SWIFT THE RESSURECTION GAME TINY GHOST RECORDS In 2020, Emma Swift released her album. She had released her self-titled debut mini album in her native Australia in 2014 (she has since relocated to Nashville), but Blonde On The Tracks was [...]
DIE SPITZ SOMETHING TO CONSUME THIRD MAN RECORDS Following a pair of EPs – 2022’s The Revenge Of Evangeline and 2023’s Teeth, Die Spitz have returned with their debut, full-length album, Something to Consume. Hailing from Austin, TX, the [...]
IVY TRACES OF YOU BAR/NONE RECORDS After Adam Schlesinger passed away in 2020, Andy Chase and Dominique Durand assumed that Ivy was in the rearview mirror. However, after working on recent reissues of their back catalogue, Chase and Durand [...]
ANNE MURRAY HERE YOU ARE UNIVERSAL MUSIC I grew up in the 1970s, and to be honest I have always had a big soft spot for Anne Murray. I could never admit it at the time, but I always loved her voice and choice of songs. She was huge in the 1970s [...]
GRANDSON INERTIA XX RECORDS It’s been two years since the last release from Los Angeles-based singer, rocker, and rapper grandson (aka Jordan Benjamin). On his third album, INERTIA, he has plenty to say, delivering 10 politically charged tracks [...]
ALEXEI SHISHKIN GOOD TIMES RUE DEFENSE Artists dabbling with all the variants of lo-fi/bedroom pop and all closely connected musical forms, seem to be having a sort of a hard time these days for no apparent reason, as quite a few of them are [...]
GWENIFER RAYMOND LAST NIGHT I HEARD THE DOG STAR BARK WE ARE BUSY BODIES Making an instrumental album is a tough prospect to start with, when it is a solo instrument affair even harder, and you can triple that if that instrument is an acoustic [...]
SAINT ETIENNE INTERNATIONAL HEAVENLY RECORDINGS After 35 years of reshaping British pop with wit, warmth, and club-ready elegance, Saint Etienne, the trio of Bob Stanley, Pete Wiggs, and Sarah Cracknell, return with International, their 13th and [...]
YUSUF/CAT STEVENS ON THE ROAD TO FINDOUT: GREATEST HITS CAT-A-LOG RECORDS/A&M/UNIVERSAL Steven Demetre Georgiou, better known as Cat Stevens and now known as Yusuf Islam, released his first single in 1966 (“I Love My Dog”) and from that [...]
DAVID BYRNE WHO IS THE SKY? MATADOR RECORDS David Byrne is best known as the frontman of the legendary band Talking Heads, who helped shape the landscape of music in the ‘80s. He is also a prolific solo artist and, with his unique artistic [...]
RHYS FULBER MEMORY IMPULSE AUTONOMY ARTOFFACT RECORDS Memory Impulse Autonomy is Rhys Fulber’s eighth solo album since his solo self-titled debut album in 2018. He is, among other things, a member of Front Line Assembly and Delerium (both [...]
