SON LUX RISK OF MAKE BELIEVE CITY SLANG Risk Of Make Believe is the first new music from Son Lux since 2023’s very successful and Academy Award-nominated soundtrack for Everything Everywhere All At Once (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). The [...]
PHILIP RAMBOW I’M AN ARTIST INDEPENDENT It has been far too long since we had an album of new material from Philip Rambow. Here, on I’m An Artist, Rambow has returned with 11 songs of what he does best. These are personal and emotional songs set [...]
FRANZ FERDINAND THE HUMAN FEAR DOMINO RECORDS Franz Ferdinand’s first studio album in seven years (Always Ascending being 2018’s major effort) is instantly identifiable from its opening track “Audacious”. Alex Kapranos’s voice has lost none of [...]
LAMBRINI GIRLS WHO LET THE DOGS OUT CITY SLANG Self-described as “party music for gay angry sluts”, British punk duo Lambrini Girls have dropped their debut full-length album, Who Let The Dogs Out. Following a string of singles and 2023’s You’re [...]
RINGO STARR LOOK UP UNIVERSAL MUSIC Ringo Starr has always had a love of country music. With The Beatles he recorded a cover of Buck Owens’ “Act Naturally” and always spoke about his appreciation of that genre. Country music was always very [...]
AVI C. ENGEL NOCTURNE (SOUNDTRACK FOR AN INVISIBLE FILM) ELEPHANT SHREW EDITIONS Toronto’s Avi C. Engel is on a serious release streak. They already have a serious set of singles, EPs and albums under their belt, and after the Bestiary EP [...]
COHEED AND CAMBRIA CLAUDIO COVERS VIRGIN MUSIC GROUP Coheed And Cambria have released a surprise EP titled Claudio Covers. The album features eight songs that vocalist, primary song writer, and lead guitarist Claudio Sanchez reimagined, which [...]
RIVAL SONS A PAIR OF ACES: LIVE FROM SANTA CATALINA ISLAND (PART 2) SACRED TONGUE RECORDINGS Following last month’s release of A Pair Of Aces, Pt. 1, a live record which saw Rival Sons perform their debut album, Before The Fire, entirely live [...]
PROPAGANDA PLUS 5 BUREAU B Propaganda’s latest release, Plus 5, is a very interesting and well-constructed release, that is on one hand very techno, and on the other, quite chill and relaxing. Ralf Dörper (keyboards) and Michael Mertens [...]
BLUE ÖYSTER CULT 50th ANNIVERSARY LIVE – THIRD NIGHT FRONTIERS MUSIC From September 21 through to September 22, 2022, Blue Öyster Cult performed three very special shows at Sony Hall in New York City. They performed, in their entirety, [...]
CRACKER ALTERNATIVE HISTORY: A CRACKER RETROSPECTIVE COOKING VINYL Cracker’s new album, Alternative History: A Cracker Retrospective, is a boozy, bumpy and smoke-fueled ride through the band’s crazy career. It’s equal parts a tribute to [...]
LEON RAUM BASEMENT MEDITATION SONAR KOLLEKTIV It might be that Basement Meditation is Leon Raum’s official debut EP, but this prolific German producer, drummer, multi-instrumentalist has been around for a while and has worked with several [...]
SAINT ETIENNE THE NIGHT HEAVENLY RECORDINGS Saint Etienne, probably one of the best electro-pop bands around may have previously released 11 excellent albums, but as a band, they haven’t been heard of for a while. It seemed that Sarah [...]
MENNO VERSTEEG WHY WE RUN ROYAL MOUNTAIN RECORDS Menno Versteeg has plenty to be proud of. The Hollerado co-founder and front man, who also performs and records with Anyway Gang, has previously released music under the pseudonym Mav Karlo. Why [...]
THE NATIONAL ROME 4AD The National have had a busy few years, encompassing two albums, a well-received Glastonbury headline slot, and a much-needed return to the top table of indie rock. This, then, doubles as a celebration of that re-ascension [...]
HOLY VOID ALL WILL BE REVEALED IN TIME INDEPENDENT Hailing from Winnipeg, MB, Holy Void is a six-piece alternative rock band. All Will Be Revealed In Time is their second full-length album, following 2019’s Naught, and a previous pair of EP’s [...]
MOVIELAND THEN & NOW 604 RECORDS Vancouver’s Movieland made a name for themselves in the 1990s with their shoegaze style of music. They established themselves due to their music being quite different from the then popular world of grunge. [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS BEST OF JETHRO TULL (REDUX) MAGNETIC EYE RECORDS Best Of Jethro Tull (Redux) is the second of two Jethro Tull tribute albums from Magnetic Eye Records. Both albums feature ‘heavy metal’ interpretations of classic Jethro Tull [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS AQUALUNG (REDUX) MAGNETIC EYE RECORDS Jethro Tull has been classified as an art rock band, prog rock, folk rock, and just play rock. They have never been seen as a heavy metal band. Sure, guitarist Martin Barre could trade licks [...]
CIAO MALZ SAFE THEN SORRY INDEPENDENT Ciao Malz is the moniker of Brooklyn-based Filipino American Malia DelaCruz, who has been releasing some subtle combination of bedroom and twee pop from 2022, releasing an EP and three singles, that showed [...]
DOPE FELONS AND REVOLUTIONARIES (25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION) EPIC RECORDS The aggressive, rough-around-the-edges electro metal band known as Dope celebrated the 25th anniversary of their breakthrough debut album, Felons and Revolutionaries, by [...]
UNTIL I WAKE RENOVATE FEARLESS RECORDS Until I Wake is a blend of rock and metal influences, incorporating emotional and introspective themes into their lyrics. The band’s sound typically features powerful vocals, heavy guitar riffs, and [...]
THE PSYCH FI’S CAN CON BOBO INTEGRAL When we think about psychedelic music, our thoughts typically go to the bygone era of the 1960s and bands such as early Pink Floyd, Jefferson Airplane, and Sgt. Pepper-Era Beatles. Psychedelic rock is [...]
SKIN YARD SKIN YARD SELECT C/Z RECORDS Skin Yard has released a limited edition 7×7” vinyl curated box set, Skin Yard Select, with only 1,000 copies from the Seattle proto-grunge band. It includes previously released tracks, alternate [...]
