Alabama Shakes Boys & Girls (10 Year Anniversary Deluxe Edition) ATO Records It can be hard to remember that it’s been ten full years since 2012, but this brand new and extended reissue of Alabama Shakes’ seminal debut album, Boys & [...]
David Crosby & The Lighthouse Band Live At The Capitol Theatre Three Blind Mice/BMG It is hard to believe that Live At The Capitol Theatre is David Crosby’s third solo live album. Why it is hard to believe is because Crosby has been more [...]
Little River Band Ultimate Hits/Masterpieces Universal Music A Little River Band revival is long overdue and therefore it is perfect timing for these collections to be released. Ultimate Hits and Masterpieces are two separate albums but should [...]
The Pull Of Autumn Beautiful Broken World RBM Records These days very often artists or bands are labelled with the term collective, without really being one. Yet, if there really is one around that deserves that term it is Boston and Rhode [...]
The Meters A Message From The Meters Real Gone Music The subtitle will tell many as much as they need to know before buying this release: The Complete Josie, Reprise and Warner Brothers Singles 1968 – 1977. It is a triple LP package, with the [...]
We Were Promised Jetpacks A Complete One-Eighty Big Scary Monsters Scottish rockers We Were Promised Jetpacks have done an interesting thing with their latest EP release A Complete One-Eighty. In it, they rework three of their strongest tracks [...]
apaull Sans Phobia Furnace Room Records Is it the future? Is it the present? Whatever it is, Dutch-Canadian electronic music producer apaull has seen it, and it ain’t pretty. With the release of the EP Sans Phobia, apaull compels us to look at [...]
Suss Suss Northern Spy Records Ambient country has become some sort of a buzz word during the past few years, but there isn’t much talk of when, where, and how did this recent fave come about. Actually, New York’s Suss (Bob Holmes, [...]
Uhl Channels Independent These days it is becoming quite a rarity that an artist that is coming with a debut release is at least attempting, let alone being able to express a hefty dose of individuality both in song writing and in case of singer [...]
Lipsticism Two Mirrors Facing Each Other Earth Libraries Alana Schachtel who works under the moniker Lipsticism seems not to be a big fan of social media. Sure, she does have an Instagram page, and we learn that she resides in Chicago, and we [...]
Elvis Presley Elvis On Tour RCA/Sony From January 1972 through to November 1972, Elvis Presley performed 96 concerts in 15 cities, which included his famous and quite frankly, triumphant shows at Madison Square Garden. Several of the shows were [...]
Nazz Lost Masters & Demos Purple Pyramid Records/Cleopatra Records Nazz exploded on the scene in 1967 with their debut single “Open My Eyes”, which was a commercial failure at the time but has gone on to legendary status. And rightfully so, [...]
Plastic Harpoons Modern World Lolipop Records You can call it Americana, or Americana-infused rock, after all, that sound these days encompasses so many things, it is turning into an ever-widening category. Whatever the case, the only [...]
Drop Top Alibi Anyways… Independent Following their 2017 debut, self-titled EP, and a string of singles released since then, Toronto hard rock outfit Drop Top Alibi has returned with Anyways…. The five-track EP sees the band trade in their [...]
Blue Twisted Steel Intro Independent Charleston, WV’s Blue Twisted Steel has just released Intro and it is something special. Imagine (if you will) a recording that is part blues-funk, part singer-songwriter, and all original, and you would be [...]
The Sword Apocryphon (10th Anniversary Edition) Craft Recordings Bands like The Sword have always confidently found themselves at the forefront of retro-metal. Colouring and successfully merging classic doom metal, 70’s psychedelic [...]
Ringo Starr And His All-Starr Band Live At The Greek Theatre 2019 Rocabella/BFD/Sony After The Beatles split up, all four of The Beatles talked about their love of playing in bands and each one joined bands, Paul McCartney had Wings, George [...]
Jean-Michel Jarre The Concerts In China (40th Anniversary Edition) Sony Music In 1981, Jean-Michel Jarre became the first western artist to tour China. He performed five concerts in Shanghai and Beijing. During the short tour, he recorded the [...]
Selina Martin Time Spent Swimming Independent “Got a hole in my heart/And I can’t fill it up” sings Selina Martin in the opening track, “Tangier” from her new album Time Spent Swimming. The music is electronic and sparse, and her voice comes in [...]
Soundwalk Collective With Patti Smith The Perfect Vision: Reworkings Bella Union In 2019, Soundwalk Collective began working with Patti Smith, and over the next two years, the band and Smith would release three brilliant albums. Each of the [...]
Silverstein Arrivals & Departures (15th Anniversary Edition) Craft Recordings Looking back on Silverstein’s Arrivals & Departures, it’s a listening experience met with mixed emotions but one that brought about an evolved [...]
Jimi Hendrix Experience Los Angeles Forum: April 26, 1969 Legacy Recordings In 1969, Jimi Hendrix was one of the most celebrated musicians in the world. Playing at the Forum in Inglewood, CA in the spring of 1969 with bassist Noel Redding and [...]
The Stone Foxes On The Other Side Symphonic Distribution After nearly six years without a new album, brothers Shannon and Spence Koehler of The Stone Foxes are back, and it was well worth the wait. Their latest LP, On The Other Side, was created [...]
Various Artists Ain’t Nothing But A House Party – 60’s And Early 70’s Club Soul Classics Cherry Red Records It just might be a mistake to name the popularity of 60s and early 70s soul a ‘soul revival.’ The [...]
