Vilivant Running On Empty Independent Following a series of singles released over the course of 2022 (“Running On Empty” and “Drown”), Toronto’s Vilivant has returned with their debut full-length album, Running On Empty. Led by singer Julia [...]
Willie Nelson I Don’t Know A Thing About Love Legacy Recordings Some artists can only do a good job with their own songs. Others work much better when they interpret somebody else’s material. Yet, when you have a true legend like [...]
The Heck On Your Nerves Soundflat Records Netherlands’ garage punk band The Heck are still knocking out the tunes, with their third full-length album release, On Your Nerves. With this offering, the power trio of Henri Keefman, René Katerbarg [...]
The South Side Movement The South Side Movement (50th Anniversary Edition) Real Gone Music The latest reissue to come from Real Gone Music is the debut album from the short-lived funk ensemble The South Side Movement. As the backing band for [...]
Paddy Goodwin & The Holy Ghosts The Church Of The Here And Now Independent The Irish music scene has always been vibrant and diverse. There are many different genres and artists in Ireland as in any other place. And there is a lot of [...]
Gorillaz Cracker Island Parlophone Records When it comes to collaborations, Gorillaz is probably the best match for an artist to make new music with. This year, the famous virtual band surprised us with Cracker Island, a 10-track album featuring [...]
Neutral Milk Hotel The Collected Works Of Neutral Milk Hotel Merge Records There is always an exception to the rule. Whether that exception proves the rule is besides the point here, because that exception here is a cherished one, not the one to [...]
Philip Selway Strange Dance Bella Union Radiohead drummer Philip Selway has released his third solo album Strange Dance. Every track on the album is magnificent and gets better with every listen. Selway is working with many different sounds in [...]
The Slow Readers Club Knowledge Freedom Power Velveteen Records It is not very often that you come across an album that features great song after great song with no skips. The Slow Readers Club’s latest album, Knowledge Freedom Power, is the [...]
Nicholas Merz American Classic Independent If you haven’t encountered Seattle singer-songwriter Nicholas Merz before, either with his band Darto or solo, American Classic, the title of his third chapter of The Duvall Sound, as he calls it, [...]
Dawn Sev Tart Independent Dawn Sev’s debut EP, Tart, features four diverse songs that showcase her distinct talent and her love of various forms of music. In less than 15 minutes, Sev explores various forms of music and she does it [...]
Godsmack Lighting Up The Sky BMG As a 30-yr chapter of writing music is closing for the American rock band Godsmack, they release their 8th album, Lighting Up The Sky. The band’s vocalist Sully Erna announced last year that this would be their [...]
The Strokes The Singles – Volume 01 Sony Music Canada Several terms have been used to describe the sound of The Strokes, including ‘indie rock’, ‘garage rock revival’, and ‘post-punk revival’. Whichever term you choose, the inescapable [...]
John Foxx Avenham Metamatic John Foxx has always been a bit of a mystery. One is never sure what he will release next. Last year, he released The Marvelous Notebook, which is a reading of his 2020 novel. Prior to that, he recorded a pretty [...]
Asia Fantasia – Live In Tokyo 2007 BMG Fantasia – Live In Tokyo 2007 was originally released in 2007 and features the classic and original Asia line-up of John Wetton (bass/lead vocals), Geoff Downes (keyboards/vocals), Steve Howe [...]
The Alan Parsons Project The Turn Of A Friendly Card (Deluxe Edition) Cherry Red Records Alan Parsons continues to re-release the classic (and hugely successful) Alan Parsons Project albums. The Turn Of A Friendly Card was originally released in [...]
Gabrielle Shonk Across The Room Arts & Crafts Some record labels just have a great sense what fits into their artist roster and what level of music quality passes the muster. That’s a sure way to make as few misses as possible, if any. [...]
John Lee Hooker Burnin’ (60th Anniversary Reissue) Craft Recordings For all rock and other modern music fans it is good to know, if they don’t already, that 80% of the stuff they hear or listen to today is based on what this legend [...]
Steel Panther On The Prowl Steel Panther Inc. Few artists, if any, have paired audacious humor with the masterfully precise and technical musicianship of rock ‘n’ roll’s hair metal era of the ‘80s as Steel Panther has. Their sixth studio album, [...]
Death Valley Girls Islands In The Sky Suicide Squeeze Records As they continue to grow as a band, Death Valley Girls are back, with 11 mystical tracks on Islands In The Sky. The concept of this record and main themes are based on the experience [...]
Agony Street Italian Whisky FHEBRE Records/Silverton Agony Street was the Swedish duo which consisted of Gudmundur Bragason and the late Klas Qvist, who recorded under the name Citizen K. Sadly, Qvist passed away in 2021, but he left quite a [...]
Various Artists Bottle Music For Broken People Bottles To The Ground Bottles To The Ground, the latest imprint to emerge from Fat Mike (NOFX) and Fat Wreck Chords has launched their first release, Bottle Music For Broken People. The compilation [...]
Laure Briard Ne Pas Trop Rester Bleue Midnight Special Records Usually, when record labels sign a new artist, they come out with some serious hype, comparing the new artists to some big, or cult names to boot. So, when signing singer songwriter [...]
MF Tomlinson We Are Still Wild Horses PRAH Recordings Working within the psych rock and psych folk genres these days means that as an artist you actually have to digest as many other genres as possible you can and include them within either (or [...]
