DIRTY HONEY CAN’T FIND THE BRAKES INDEPENDENT Dirty Honey continues to raise the bar for new rock and independent artists alike. Their latest album builds upon the sound delivered on 2021’s full length, self-titled album – not to be [...]
KELLY SLOAN INSIDES OUT VICTORY POOL RECORDS Kelly Sloan is back with her latest release, Insides Out. The Toronto-based singer/songwriter’s latest effort is an intensely personal affair, featuring Sloan on the piano for every track. Sloan is a [...]
MÖTLEY CRÜE YEAR OF THE DEVIL BMG Mötley Crüe commemorates the 40th Anniversary of their seminal album, Shout At The Devil with new release Year Of The Devil. It features a meticulously remastered version of the iconic Shout At The Devil album, [...]
JERRY LEGER DONLANDS LATENT RECORDINGS They say that the Americana/roots genre is getting crowded. Quite possibly so, but that just gives the opportunity to those artists that should stand out with the quality of their music do exactly that. [...]
Robert Finley Black Bayou Easy Eye Sound There are so few of those old-fashioned soul-roots artists around that whenever one of them releases an album you simply have to go out and grab it. That is exactly what needs to be done with Black Bayou, [...]
KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD THE SILVER CORD KGLW The best way to describe King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard is to compare them to that person who says they listen to all kinds of music. It is pretty hard to find a genre or style that [...]
THE KILLS GOD GAMES DOMINO RECORDS Since they broke into the garage rock scene in the early 2000s, The Kills have stood out from the crowd. Keep on Your Mean Side was one of the best rock debut albums of the 2000s due to its highly original and [...]
SEAN BURNS LOST COUNTRY DEPARTMENT STORE RECORDS If the title of the latest album by Winnipeg artist Sean Burns, is not a true giveaway of what you can hear within the grooves (or bits), Lost Country, I don’t know what is. And what Burns [...]
RYKARDA PARASOL TUESDAY MORNING INDEPENDENT How do you combine that mid to late 60s San Francisco style psych with French pop of the same period with touches of that Velvet Underground dark cool? Well, if you are Rykarda Parasol, you move from [...]
SIMPLE MINDS NEW GOLD DREAM – LIVE FROM PAISLEY ABBEY BMG Simple Minds are a complex band, and a band that makes choices that some may question, but in The Simple Minds World, it all makes sense. Their new album is a prime example. In [...]
DURAN DURAN DANSE MACABRE TAPE MODERN/BMG Halloween has come early this year, courtesy of Duran Duran. Danse Macabre, the latest album by the legendary band, is a Halloween concept album of 13 tracks (even the number of tracks has a sense of [...]
NOBRO SET YOUR PUSSY FREE DINE ALONE RECORDS Acclaimed Montreal punk outfit NOBRO have returned with their second full length album, Set Your Pussy Free. Follow the release of their debut, 2022’s Live Your Truth Shred Some Gnar, and, more [...]
NIRVANA IN UTERO (30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION) UNIVERSAL MUSIC For the past 30 years, Nirvana’s In Utero has always been an album that is meant to be taken in two parts. While we see a band that was on the cusp of primal musical growth and [...]
BRUCE HORNSBY SPIRIT TRAIL (25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION) ZAPPO PRODUCTIONS/THIRTY TIGERS Bruce Hornsby has been making great music for a long time, and 2023 marks the 25th anniversary of his Spirit Trail album, which was initially released in 1998. [...]
KING CRIMSON LARKS’ TONGUES IN ASPIC – THE COMPLETE RECORDING SESSIONS PANEGYRIC RECORDS Larks’ Tongues In Aspic was released in 1973 and was the fifth studio album by Robert Fripp’s King Crismon. It also marked the first album with an [...]
NIGHT RANGER 40 YEARS AND A NIGHT WITH CONTEMPORARY YOUTH ORCHESTRA FRONTIERS MUSIC SRL Night Ranger made its debut in 1982 with Dawn Patrol and the hit single “Don’t Tell Me You Love Me”, but it was their next album, Midnight Madness (1984) [...]
DHANI HARRISON INNERSTANDING H.O.T. RECORDS/BMG It has been far too long since Dhani Harrison has released a new solo album. In 2017 he released the brilliant In///Parallel, which firmly established him as a solo artist. Its official follow-up [...]
THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN MUNKI FUZZ CLUB Hot on the heels of surprise summer live release Sunset 666, Fuzz Club now bring us a 25th anniversary re-release of Munki, simultaneously The Jesus And Mary Chain’s most powerful album and their epitaph [...]
BERNIE WORRELL, CINDY BLACKMAN SANTANA & JOHN KING SPHERICAL INFREQUENT SEAMS The collaboration between guitarist John King, keyboardist Bernie Worrell (Parliament-Funkadelic, The Talking Heads), and drummer Cindy Blackman Santana (Pharoah [...]
RIVAL SONS LIGHTBRINGER ATLANTIC RECORDS For their second album of the year, Rival Sons have released Lightbringer, the companion to Darkfighter, released in June. Following an intensive year of touring – as both headliners and in support of The [...]
FRÄNDER FRÄNDER II NORDIC NOTES Fränder is an acoustic family band from Sweden and Estonia, who play traditionally-inspired songs in a modern context. Formed in 2015, they released their first album (Fränder) in 2019. That album introduced the [...]
SOFT CELL NON-STOP EROTIC CABARET (SUPER DELUXE EDITION) MERCURY/UNIVERSAL Soft Cell formed in 1978 when Dave Ball and Marc Almond met at Leeds Polytechnic in 1977. In 1980, Dave Ball’s mother fronted the duo 2000 pounds to record their debut [...]
MARE BERGER DREAMING BLUE INDEPENDENT PR people often plug their artists’ new releases by comparing them to some big or well-known names, for those artists only to fall a bit, or a bit shorter to those they are compared with. Now, Mare [...]
BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB MY BIG DAY ARTS & CRAFTS My Big Day, the latest release from Bombay Bicycle Club, is another fabulous record by the indie rockers, with its relaxing and warm vocals, expressive songwriting, and instrumentation ranging [...]
