DAVY JONES | MICKY DOLENZ LET ME ENTERTAIN YOU: ON THE ROAD WITH DAVY | TIMELESS 7a RECORDS | FRIDAY RIGHTS Although he has been gone since 2012, there is still some music by Davy Jones the world has yet to hear. 7a Records have established [...]
THE GENTRYS IT’S BEEN SO LONG SUN RECORDS The Gentrys were a rock band that made it very big in 1965 with their song “Keep On Dancing.” Other hits followed (“Everyday I Have To Cry” and “Spread It On Thick”) mainly in the UK, but the band [...]
SHOWING TEETH A FATE WORSE THAN LONELINESS SPINEFARM RECORDS A Fate Worse Than Loneliness, a debut EP from emerging artist Showing Teeth, is something uniquely volcanic and melodically special. A one-woman project helmed by Nashville’s Addison, [...]
AIRBOURNE AIRBOURNE SPINEFARM RECORDS Australia’s Airbourne are back with another injection of hard rawk adrenaline. This is Airbourne’s sixth album and the first one in seven years and they pick up exactly where they left off. Singer John [...]
УВБ-76 LEAN INTO THE SORROW HITACHI HOME VIDEO/INDEPENDENT УВБ-76 is Michael Mitchell and the name he records under, УВБ-76, is the Cyrillic spelling of UVB-76, the name of a mysterious shortwave signal known as ‘The Buzzer’, which has been [...]
ANGUS & JULIA STONE KARAOKE BAR VIRGIN MUSIC Angus & Julia Stone formed their musical partnership in 2006, and Karaoke Bar is their sixth studio album. The siblings hail from Australia, and in their native country they have had several [...]
BLACK PAINT BLACK PAINT INDEPENDENT For years, Black Paint has established themselves among the most exhilarating up and coming bands to emerge from the Greater Toronto Area. Blending aggressive blues rock with monstrous riffs, the power trio is [...]
MELISSA AUF DER MAUR BASS WOMB ROOM: MY ’90S 4-TRACK DEMOS X FIELD RECORDINGS ENVISION RECORDS Melissa Auf der Maur has been quite busy of late. Six months ago, she released Even the Good Girls Will Cry, her self-written memoir of her [...]
A. LEE EDWARDS INTERPRETING HEART SOUNDS VOL. II YOU KNOW WHAT…? RECORDS When you are a true songwriter (in both heart and mind) it is something, any discerning listener can hear instantly. It says that Interpreting Heart Sounds Vol. II [...]
DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS LOVE HEAVENLY RECORDINGS Kevin Rowland and his Dexys Midnight Runners have been around for decades now, and have gone through quite a number of changes, both in musical styles covered, as well as the number of members in [...]
SOFT LOFT THROW THE DICE PIAS Quite a few listeners will shy away from any type of music that has that pop label somewhere in its description. Yet, there should be no shying away from it, particularly if such an epithet is actually suitable. [...]
THE CRANBERRIES LIVE AT THE LONDON ASTORIA II, 1994 ISLAND RECORDS I’ve already spoken about the peculiar happiness and melancholy that pervades any Cranberries release in 2026 in my recent take on their anniversary release, and this is another [...]
MOVEMENTS HAPPIER NOW FEARLESS RECORDS Scene leaders Movements have always built music around the raw emotional tides of youth, heartbreak, self-doubt, and the dormant terror that finally awakens when you realize you can’t run from aging, [...]
BEN FOLDS FIVE BEN FOLDS FIVE (30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION) UNIVERSAL MUSIC It was always surprising, to me anyway, that Ben Folds Five’s self-titled debut album did as well as it did when it was first released in 1996. The combination of [...]
SLEEP HEMPISPHERES THIRD MAN RECORDS Sleep is often referred to as the “ultimate” stoner metal band. With doomy and psychedelic vibes, the giant of a band was formed in 1990 and began putting out records in 1991. In June of this year, the [...]
MIKE D THANK YOU CAPITOL RECORDS/UNIVERSAL MUSIC CANADA Since the untimely 2012 passing of Adam Yauch, perhaps better known as MCA, things have been relatively quiet among the Beastie Boys camp. While surviving members, Mike D and Ad-Rock have [...]
BLACK LIPS BEBOP ARMAGEDDON (DETOURS & OFFCUTS FROM SEASON OF THE PEACH) FIRE RECORDS Black Lips are one of those bands where the distance between a finished song and a demo can be surprisingly small. Bebop Armageddon makes a record out of [...]
ASHER WHITE LOVE AGGREGATES JOYFUL NOISE RECORDINGS It just might be that as an artistic soul that dabbles in a number of art forms, musical, visual, and other, you would pour an emotional outburst through seemingly disparate modern music [...]
ALABAMA SHAKES I MUST BE DREAMING ISLAND RECORDS Alabama Shakes, an Athens, Alabama-based blues rock band, released their 3rd studio album I Must Be Dreaming. The LP was produced by the group in collaboration with Grammy Award-winning producer [...]
THE WARNING EVERYTHING’S FALLING LAVA/REPUBLIC RECORDS Everything’s Falling is the kind of album that comes from a band that not only knows who they are, but also draws power from consistently staying on its own unique track. They don’t [...]
BEARTOOTH PURE ECSTASY FEARLESS RECORDS Beartooth is back with their sixth studio album, their first with Fearless Records, Pure Ecstasy. Frontman Caleb Shomo has no doubt written the most unashamed and open record Beartooth has done yet. He is [...]
DINOSAUR JR. THERE NEAR JAGJAGUWAR Dinosaur Jr. is a band with a long history. Originally formed in 1984, this American rock band has previously released a total of 12 albums, and is now gearing up to release their 13th project, There Near. [...]
PULP LIVE! ROUGH TRADE RECORDS When Pulp and Jarvis Cocker (the band’s soul and brain) appeared back in the 90s, quite a few critics, even with all the praise, didn’t expect either to last long on the music scene, tying Pulp and [...]
THE JAYHAWKS SANCTUARY PARK THIRTY TIGERS When The Jayhawks initially appeared exactly four decades ago, nobody really expected that this band, then led by Gary Louris and Marc Olson, would make such an impact on country rock with their [...]
