BENJAMIN RUSSELL AND ROB STUART SOMETHING IN F MINOR TCBE RECORDS This debut album, Something In F Minor by the duo of Benjamin Russel and Rob Stuart is an impressive affair. Although this is their debut album as a duo, both musicians/artists [...]
Wildes Other Words Fail Me AWAL Ella Walker, aka Wildes is just officially underway with her debut album Other Words Fail Me. Yet, she is coming as a fully formed artist, whose songwriting and presentation is so assured and full of excellent [...]
Whitehorse I’m Not Crying, You’re Crying Six Shooter Records OK, so with their latest album, I’m Not Crying, You’re Crying, Whitehorse, duo comprising Melissa McClelland and Luke Doucet, dispel two debatable things. [...]
Poolblood Mole Next Door Records Those not so familiar with Toronto’s Maryam Said and her moniker Poolblood, might think that the moniker itself indicates some sort of black metal or dark folk as her chosen musical style. Yet Mole, her [...]
Margo Price Strays Loma Vista Recordings With all the exceptions, high quality in music almost always registers with the audiences too, very often surpassing a specific genre within a certain artist works in. Margo Price definitely fits that [...]
UNI & The Urchins Simulator Chimera Music UNI & The Urchins were originally known as Uni, and under that name, they released several singles over the last couple of years. The band is composed of Jack James Busa (vocalist) and former [...]
Marlody I’m Not Sure At All Skep Wax British singer songwriter Marlody named her album I’m Not Sure at All. Ok, there’s elements within her lyrics here that you might consider that are elements of personal insecurity. Yet, [...]
Circa Waves Never Going Under Lower Third/[PIAS] With their sixth upcoming album Never Going Under, the English band Circa Waves achieve a euphoric alternative record at its best. Musically speaking, the eleven tracks have the presence of [...]
Nyte Skye Vanishing Sonic Ritual Northern California’s newest alt-rock band Nyte Skye has released its debut album, Vanishing. Consisting of just Nyles Lannon working closely with his then twelve-year-old son Skye, and the result is an [...]
Fighting Chance! Fighting Chance! Independent Is the world ready for a 1990s power punk revival? For James and Joe Flanagan, the answer would be a resounding “Yes!”. The brothers, who are founders of Toronto indie band Fighting Chance!, have [...]
Doom Flower Limestone Ritual ‘record label’ Chicago’s Doom Flower floats and exists between genres and sounds, and latest album Limestone Ritual is a true showcase on how to really do it and make good music at the same time. [...]
Frank Ene Cruel à l’amour Independent Late great Serge Gainsbourg was an excellent experimenter with genres and musical styles, yet he possibly didn’t have a chance to combine his key musical and lyrical elements with modern [...]
Iggy Pop Every Loser Gold Tooth Music/Atlantic Records Like a fine wine, Iggy Pop continues to age into a truly one-of-a-kind vintage. Despite decades of hard living, the original street walking cheetah’s bottle of creativity remains seemingly [...]
Deadbeat Superheroes Edmonton Independent In 2011, guitarist Vikas Sharma and vocalist Ayesha Adhami joined forces for what would become the musical collective Deadbeat Superheroes. Fast forward to 2023, and Deadbeat Superheroes continue to make [...]
Various Artists Artoffact Records 2022 Sampler Artoffact Records Toronto’s Artoffact Records is a Canadian independent record label, founded in 2001, that specializes in industrial, postpunk, heavy metal, and electronic music. Their [...]
Alex Southey Common Fantasies Independent Alex Southey is an extremely prolific writer/performer and Common Fantasies is another selection of songs from him to keep his audience on their toes and to keep them guessing. Although he is known to [...]
closetjudas entelechy Independent Mike Powell is closetjudas and entelechy is his most recent EP. It is the followup to 2019’s lunacy + the second naïveté. Since 2016 closejudas has released quite a bit of music and entelechy continues to show [...]
Kurt Uenala feat. Dave Gahan Manuscript hfn Music There was so much music created during the pandemic that reflects the isolation and desolation it created. Yet, some of this music really hit the mark in reflecting such feelings in us all. Kurt [...]
Nell & The Flaming Lips Where The Viaduct Looms Bella Union This collaboration of Nick Cave covers between 16-y-orld singer Nell Smith and seasoned veterans The Flaming Lips has quite an interesting story. Smith met Wayne Coyne when she [...]
Cheap Trick Live At The Whisky 1977 Real Gone Music Cheap Trick was not an overnight success. The band formed as Cheap Trick, in 1973 after having been together in one configuration or another since 1967. In 1975 Robin Zander joined the band [...]
Terry Draper Bread And Cirkus Terry Tunes Records Terry Draper is back with a new album, his best album to date. Bread And Cirkus is an album of 14 songs which are musically diverse. It is musically and lyrically a brilliant album. Klaatu, of [...]
Telex EP2 Mute Records Belgian new wave and synth-pop band Telex, Kraftwerk’s more accessible musical neighbour, was known for their unique blend of electronic and experimental music. Founded in 1978 and releasing several albums in the 1980s [...]
Shriekback Bowlahoola Shriekprods Shriekback was formed in 1981, and now in 2022 the band’s core is Barry Andrews (one of the founders of the band), Carl Marsh (who has been with the band since the beginning) and Martyn Barker (who joined the [...]
The Dead Milkmen Metaphysical Graffiti (Reissue) The Giving Groove When I was 14 years old, my dad joined some mail order record club where you’d get 10 to12 albums for mere pennies with the agreement being that you buy the same amount at [...]
