Valley Lost In Translation Universal Music Canada The latest album from Canadian indie pop group Valley, Lost in Translation, might not be their best work, but it is still somewhat enjoyable. The acoustic folk-driven songs are far superior to [...]
Dallas Burrow Blood Brothers Soundly Music Now if any images you see of Dallas Burrow indicate you are in the roots/Americana land, they might distract non-believers from the fact that Burrow and his latest album Blood Brothers are a true [...]
Killer Mike Michael Loma Vista Records Half of Run The Jewels and perhaps the most underrated and overlooked solo artist in hip-hop, Killer Mike has released what should, without a doubt, be considered his breakthrough solo album, Michael. [...]
Queens Of The Stone Age In Times New Roman Matador Records After six years, a messy public custody battle, and a recently revealed cancer diagnosis, Josh Homme has returned triumphantly with In Times New Roman, the first album from Queens Of The [...]
Pickle Darling Laundromat Father/Daughter Records Is it something in the water or air way down under in New Zealand, or do they simply just love their left field, gently (or not so gently) quirky pop rock in all its shapes and forms? After the [...]
Far From Saints Far From Saints Ignition Records Quite a few decades ago, Fleetwood Mac proved that coming up with sophisticated pop is a specific art in itself where the artist(s) has to abide by the strict rules and formulas of a pop song [...]
Clara Engel Sanguinaria Independent Toronto singer-songwriter Clara Engel (they/them) says that they are not writing the same song over and over so much as writing one long continuous song that will end when they die. Dark? Sure, but the point [...]
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard PetroDragonic Apocalypse; Or, Dawn Of Eternal Night: An Annihilation Of Planet Earth And The Beginning Of Merciless Damnation KGLW Here we go again. And again. And again. Here comes another King Gizzard & [...]
Peter Lewis Imagination OMAD Records San Francisco’s Moby Grape released their debut, self-titled album in 1967. They had formed in 1966, and what made the band unusual was that all five members, at that time, sang lead and wrote songs for the [...]
The Parlophonics Dying Of The Light Kool Kat Records Meet The Parlophonics, an interesting pop-rock band with a rather unique history. The Parlophonics are Robert Horvath (Guitars, Bass), Fernando Perdomo (Guitars, Drums), and Hugh Macdonald [...]
John Mellencamp Orpheus Descending Universal Music I am not sure that John Mellencamp has always received the credit and respect he deserves. He has a heavy body of work that has somehow not received the critical acclaim that is offered to [...]
Deer Tick Emotional Contracts ATO Records Deer Tick, the Providence, RI quartet, has released its first album since 2017. Emotional Contracts showcases a band at the peak of their songwriting and performing abilities, which isn’t surprising [...]
TREVOR BABAJACK DUO BOOTLEG BLUES: LIVE AT TEMPERANCE INDEPENDENT Trevor Babajack Steger has been performing his style of the blues in the U.K. for a while now and has built up quite a loyal and large following. Bootleg Blues: Live At Temperance [...]
The Northern Pikes Time To Time Independent In 1990, The Northern Pikes released their third album with Virgin Records, Snow In June. That album would go on to become their largest selling album, in fact, their only platinum album in Canada. It [...]
Milky Chance Living In A Haze Muggelig Records Milky Chance wants you to dance, and its latest album is an intriguing effort to capture what has made people dance throughout the 21st century. The German alt-rock outfit found fame across the [...]
Sivu Wild Horse Running Square Leg Records Working as a singer songwriter, being there practically all by yourself is a daunting task, and often, adding something more than just your voice, lyrics, and a single instrument can not only help, but [...]
Certain Times Desire Double Phantom Are there any new developments in synth-pop music? Well, it depends how you look at it, some might say that the genre is in a perpetuating mode, artist recycling older ideas, others might say that recycling [...]
GELD Currency // Castration Relapse Records Visceral, bare, aggressive, and dissonant are some of the key descriptors that come to mind when describing hardcore at the height of the scene, and while many bands keep the sound alive, they do so by [...]
Skydiggers Hide Your Light Latent Recordings Andy Maize and Josh Finlayson, collectively known as Skydiggers, are back with the first of two new EPs, Hide Your Light. Here, they are assisted by Joby Baker, who co-produced it with Maize and [...]
Amy Gabba & The Almost Famous Screaming At The Top Of My Lungs Independent Pop and punk – not necessarily pop-punk – collide in a unique fashion on Amy Gabba & The Almost Famous’ sophomore release, a debut full-length album, Screaming At [...]
Drew Holcomb And The Neighbors Strangers No More Magnolia Records With all the new artists/bands exploring Americana/roots music, there is always a chance that not all of them will reach the heights of those that have been working the genre for [...]
Cowboy Junkies Such Ferocious Beauty Latent Recordings The Cowboy Junkies are back with their first release of new material in five years, the much-anticipated Such Ferocious Beauty. Principal songwriter Michael Timmins had time to reflect and [...]
The Aquadolls Charmed Enci Records Charmed is Los Angeles-based femme-punks The Aquadolls’ third album, and from the start, it’s noticeably more punk than their previous efforts. This album also marks the first time the trio have written as a [...]
Foo Fighters But Here We Are RCA Writing and recording an album in the wake of two significant losses in one year is not easy, but Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters turned their pain into something beautiful. Their 11th album, But Here We Are [...]
