VARIOUS ARTISTS JUST LOOK INSIDE THE COVER – SONGS OF PETE HAM Y&T MUSIC Over the past two years, Y&T Music has done an incredible job honouring the memory and legacy of Pete Ham and Badfinger. They released two albums of his demos [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS STANZE FREDDE VOL. 3 STANZE FREDDE RECORDS Stanze Fredde is an independent label based in Turin, Italy, and this particular album, Stanze Fredde Vol. 3, is a sampler featuring some of the artists who release music on the label. [...]
BANDITS ON THE RUN ROUGH MAGIC INDEPENDENT It is almost 10 years that the trio of Adrian Blake Enscoe, Sydney Shepherd, and Regina Strayhorn, known to those that have already caught up with them as Bandits on the Run, have been operating, with [...]
ST. DIVINE THE DEVIL YOU KNOW REEL TO REEL RECORDS Whether some genres or sub-genres are supposed to go together or not is often a moot point, and in more cases or not, depends on whether a band or an artist have the ability and inventiveness to [...]
DEVON PARKIN NEW BELIEFS ON LAYAWAY MYSTERYBOX RECORDS Vancouver-based producer, Devon Parkin, has returned with his second full-length album, New Beliefs On Layaway. The album follows a string of singles and the 2023 release of his debut, Sit [...]
SHANNON JAE RIDOUT TWO BUSTED BOOTS AND A BROKEN HEART ANTI-CORP MUSIC Back in the mid-s60s, when Vanguard Records were all the rage on the folk scene, it was practically an honour to get a chance to record a solo folk/singer-songwriter album [...]
BIG BRAVE IN GRIEF OR IN HOPE THRILL JOCKEY The emotional element was never missing from BIG|BRAVE’s music, but for its latest album, in grief or in hope, the Montreal/Berlin trio turn that emotional level a few notches further up (or more [...]
SISTER GEMINI SCREAMING CRYING LAUGHING SIGHING DANGER COLLECTIVE RECORDS Sister Gemini is one Remy Jean, supported on her debut album Screaming Crying Laughing Sighing by a quite select collaborative crew, with musicians and producers that have [...]
AMELIA DAY EGO TRIP INDEPENDENT It is true that the number of artists covering that currently popular ground between Americana and pop/rock. Yet the key there is how distinctive their music is – whether they separate themselves from the rest and [...]
AUDIOSLAVE OUT OF EXILE (REMASTERED) UNIVERSAL In 2024, Audioslave, the collaboration between Chris Cornell and Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello, Brad Wilk, and Tim Commerford, returned with their second album, Out Of Exile. The album [...]
KIT MAJOR MISS EGO FUTURELESS With an abundance of singles to her name, Kit Major has returned with her third EP, Miss Ego. Led by singles “Not As Witty As I Used To Be” and “Punk Rock Boyfriend,” the latter of which features some exceptional [...]
PUBLIC IMAGE LTD ALIVE A WAY WITH MEDIA Following 2023’s brilliant Public Image Ltd. album, End Of World, Johnny Lydon lost his wife, Nora (with whom he had been since 1979), and his longtime manager, John Rambo Stevens. No one knew what Lydon [...]
ANGINE DE POITRINE VOL. II INDEPENDENT Angine de Poitrine seemingly emerged out of nowhere. Upon achieving viral status earlier this year, the masked Montreal-based duo has become inescapable as they became the subject of an onslaught of memes [...]
YES AURORA INSIDEOUT Aurora is the second Yes album featuring the lineup of Jon Davison (lead vocals acoustic guitars), Steve Howe (guitars banjo guitar, mandolin, autoharp and vocals), Geoff Downes (organ, synthesizers, piano, keyboards, [...]
JON SPENCER SONGS OF PERSONAL LOSS AND PROTEST SHOVE RECORDS Jon Spencer is back with his first album since 2024’s Sick Of Being Sick!. With this album, Songs Of Personal Loss And Protest, Spencer is joined by his touring trio, Kendall Wind [...]
SWEET LIVE AT THE CAPITOL (HANNOVER 1991) METALVILLE Sweet continues to mine their archives for another (re) release of live material from the early 1990s. And this is an extremely good thing. Sweet is usually lumped in with ‘glam’ bands or AM [...]
MIDGE URE A MAN OF TWO WORLDS CHRYSALIS It has been 12 years since Midge Ure released a studio album of new material (in 2024 he did release The Sessions (Backstage Lockdown Club) which was a studio album of him revisiting older songs recorded [...]
KALEO A/B (10th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION) RHINO RECORDS Kaleo formed in Mosfellsbær, Iceland in 2012 and is still going strong. In 2016 they released a landmark album that earned them numerous accolades, awards and high chart placements. When [...]
LEE “SCRATCH” PERRY & MOUSE ON MARS SPATIAL, NO PROBLEM DOMINO RECORDS Lee “Scratch” Perry passed away on August 29, 2021. The music world lost a true original and an artist who had worked with just about everyone. But that didn’t mean he [...]
FUCKED UP YEAR OF THE MONKEY TANKCRIMES As the second chapter in Fucked Up’s ambitious Grass Can Move Stones trilogy, Year of the Monkey uses a sprawling mythological framework to explore themes of identity, growth, purpose, and [...]
FIREBUG DUST AND ECHOES BUDDHA BELT RECORDS FireBug has been making music since 2017. The core of FireBug is Juliette Tworsey (lead vocal, guitar, slide guitar, piano, organ) and Jules Shapiro (lead guitar, synthesizer, bass). This EP, Dust and [...]
JALEN NGONDA DOCTRINE OF LOVE DAPTONE RECORDS Jalen Ngonda burst on the scene in 2023 with his debut album, Come Around And Love Me, and justifiably earned critical acclaim for his own style of soul music that owes a great deal of debt to Motown [...]
THROTTLE BODY M/C ALL THAT WAS GREEN MONKEY RECORDS Throttle Body M/C is really a project for Jerry Hammack, a well-known engineer, producer, writer, and musician. Hammack played all the instruments, produced, wrote, and engineered the album, so [...]
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE I BUILT YOU A TOWER ANTI- RECORDS Indie rock veterans Death Cab for Cutie are back, more than 20 years removed from their iconic Transatlanticism release and are settling into the latter half of their career with I Built You [...]
