GENE CHAMPAGNE TOO POP FOR PUNK…TOO PUNK TO CARE SIOUX RECORDS Gene Champagne has quite a history in rock ‘n’ roll, or rather punk. Besides making his own music (and by that, I mean he does everything), he is the drummer with Teenage Head, a [...]
NOFX 40 YEARS OF FUCKIN’ UP: SOUNDTRACK + SCORE FAT WRECK CHORDS The title of this album, 40 Years Of Fuckin’ Up, gives away the plot in some ways. NOFX has been around for 40 years, but their debut album, Liberal Animation was released in 1988, [...]
SPOONS NIGHTLIFE SPARKS MUSIC Spoons released their debut album, the brilliant Stick Figure Neighbourhood, in 1981, but it was their second album, Arias & Symphonies that launched them into a different stratosphere. The album contained the [...]
AYRIA 13 STITCHES ARTOFFACT RECORDS Jennifer Parkin is a Toronto artist who has performed and recorded under the name Ayria since 2003. 13 Stitches is her first full length album since 2022’s This Is my Battle Cry. Time has not made Ayria more [...]
FROM FIRST TO LAST WE WERE BLEEDING ANYWAY FEARLESS RECORDS From First to Last has always dared to bleed publicly for its fans, making music that connects with an audience seeking raw authenticity. Their music has never been about perfectionism [...]
BRANDON WOLFE SCOTT PRESSED FLOWERS VICTORY POOL RECORDS Those familiar with the band that goes by as Yukon Blonde will surely be familiar with Vancouver’s Brandon Wolfe Scott, a member of the band who has started coming up with solo [...]
THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION FREAK OUT! (60th ANNIVERSARY SUPER DELUXE EDITION) ZAPPA RECORDS/UMe Has it really been 60 years since Freak Out! by The Mothers Of Invention (led by Frank Zappa) made its debut? Yes, it has, and to celebrate a new box [...]
TERRY DRAPER THE ODYSSEY TERRY TUNES RECORDS Terry Draper loved to play music, in my conversations with him, he never saw creating music as work. It was what he did, and he enjoyed it. Perhaps his only problem, and this is not a bad problem, was [...]
THE KLITTENS HAVE A HEART THK/CARGO RECORDS How do you combine together as a relatively new artis/band so many strands of rock and still give it some sort of a unifying character? This might be an eternal question for new artists/bands and not [...]
SON LUX YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) WAXWORK RECORDS The second release by Son Lux in 2026, which comes very quickly (about one week) since their previous album, Out Into. But, as one can see, Your [...]
JULIA JACKLIN THE GEM 4AD Julia Jacklin is back with The Gem — her fourth studio release and first in four years. The Gem can safely be called a breakup record, and it shines with its sharp articulation of the grayer areas of breaking up. [...]
LEON BRIDGES HAPPINESS ANYTIME COLUMBIA RECORDS Texas-based neo soul and R&B singer Leon Bridges teams up with J Lloyd-Watson and Lydia Kitto of British soul collective Jungle in his fifth studio album, Happiness Anytime, where happiness [...]
KATHERINE PERKINS HELPLESS LOVE TWELVE | EIGHT RECORDS Maine’s Katherine Perkins is not the first and surely will not be the last singer and songwriter who is also a painter. In most cases, one artistic side takes a dominance over the [...]
THE REDS, PINKS AND PURPLES TRUE LOVE DAYDREAM FIRE RECORDS San Francisco’s Glenn Donaldson and his Reds, Pinks and Purples, have not only been around for a while, but their releases have been coming in a steady succession, enabling [...]
COCOLAROSA THE VALLEY OF TONGUES INDEPENDENT Ok, if you follow the singer songwriter scene closely, you might have noticed that recently there have not been that many so to say ‘classic’ singer songwriters, those that sit (or stand) [...]
THE COMPANY CAR THE RETURN OF INDEPENDENT If you know that a band is located in Nashville and that their music is characterized as psychedelia, there is quite some certainty there that it will be some musical connection with spaced-out folk or [...]
BLONDSHELL VIOLINS PARTISAN RECORDS Blondshell fans are going to eat well this fall season, because singer Sabrina Teitelbaum has just arrived with a fresh batch of music: her new album, Violins. This contemplative record oozes with [...]
EUROPE COME THIS MADNESS HELL & BACK RECORDINGS It has been far too long since we have had a new album from Europe. However, Come This Madness is well worth the wait, and may just be their best album. Come This Madness is the band’s 12th [...]
ORBITAL GLASTONBURY 1994 LONDON RECORDS Glastonbury is one of the most famous and popular music festivals in the world. As such, the performances are often recorded for and transmitted by the BBC TV and radio. These broadcasts are often [...]
SOFT CELL DANCETERIA REPUBLIC OF MUSIC Soft Cell’s latest album, Danceteria is a very bittersweet album. Listening to it, it seems very sad knowing that this is the last album by Soft Cell. Dave Ball (who provides the instrumentation for this [...]
THUNDER QUEENS DEEP BELOW VICTORY POOL In 2024, London, Ontario’s Thunder Queens released their debut album, Strike One. Since then, the teenage power trio has gone on to share the stage with the likes of Billy Talent, The Beaches, and The Dirty [...]
BLURRED CITY LIGHTS UNREST ELAB RECORDS Unrest is Blurred City Lights’ fifth album, and their first since 2024’s Overload. They make music that is best described as a form of shoegaze but also incorporates industrial, doom, death rock, and [...]
FREE UNDER FIRE GRAFFITI IN THE GARDEN RUNNING ON INSTINCT Free Under Fire is a band based in Ajax, Ontario, where Steppenwolf’s John Kay got his start with The Sparrows. Free Under Fire carries on the hard rock-heavy metal tradition of that [...]
ISHA FEEL AT HOME SIDEKICK MUSIC Dutch queer multi-instrumentalist, producer, and singer ISHA releases her debut album, Feel At Home, which encapsulates the ever-changing life at home. “Bottled” kicks off the record with an off-kilter acoustic [...]
