VARIOUS ARTISTS GODSPEED – A TRIBUTE TO PIERRE KEZDY BIG MINNOW RECORDS If you love the sound of punk rock that blasts your eardrums with raw energy and emotion, you will love Godspeed: A Tribute to Pierre Kezdy. This album is a homage to [...]
Strawberry Runners Strawberry Runners Duper Moon records Strawberry Runners is one Emi Night (they/them) whose musical project has been running for some ten years now. After a series of quite noticed releases and a move to Philadelphia, some [...]
Sea Lemon Stop At Nothing Luminelle Recordings When twee pop phrase was coined sometime during the heyday of Sarah Records, not many reviewers thought that such a sound would turn into a full-fledged genre, at least not into one that will stick [...]
ALICE COOPER ROAD earMUSIC Alice Cooper is a master of blending hard-driving songs with a sense of theatricality, and his newest album, Road, continues that tradition. The 13 tracks on the album were produced by Bob Ezrin, who has been a [...]
MARVIN GAYE LET’S GET IT ON (DELUXE EDITION) MOTOWN RECORDS When the news broke out back in 1973 that Marvin Gaye is to release a new album that was to follow What’s Goin’ On, an album that even then was considered as one of [...]
Nora Kelly Band Rodeo Clown Mint Records Nora Kelly Band’s Rodeo Clown is band’s debut that is being released into the more and more congested field of Americana/Canadiana music. This means that Kelly and her Montreal-based band [...]
Ora Cogan Formless Prism Tongue Records Ora Cogan is an interesting artist. She always has several tricks up her sleeve, and when one gets ready to listen to her new album, one never fully knows what to expect. Formless, for example, is a [...]
WILLIAM SHATNER PONDER THE MYSTERY REVISITED CLEOPATRA RECORDS William Shatner is known for his popular roles on television, including Captain Kirk (Star Trek), T.J. Hooker, and $#*! My Father Says. Since 1968, he has also been recording albums, [...]
BEBEL GILBERTO JOÃO [PIAS] Bebel Gilberto grew up surrounded by music. Her father was João Gilberto, one of the pioneers of Brazilian bossa nova, and her mother was famed Latin jazz singer Miúcha. This kind of pedigree can be both a blessing and [...]
THE LILAC TIME DANCE TILL ALL THE STARS COME DOWN ABSOLUTE LABEL SERVICES The Lilac Time features brothers Stephen and Nick Duffy, and Stephen’s wife, Claire. Dance Till All The Stars Come Down is their 12th album, and first since 2019’s Return [...]
THE HIVES THE DEATH OF RANDY FITZSIMMONS INDEPENDENT The Hives are back! Following a period of semi-hiatus and the departure of original bassist Dr. Matt Destruction, the Swedish punk outfit has returned with their first album since 2012’s Lex [...]
Stephen Steinbrink Disappearing Coin Western Vinyl Sure, it has been tried before. That is, combining Brian Wilson-like harmonies with meandering and subtly complex San Francisco psych vibes. Yet integrating the two into an artful combination [...]
Sloppy Heads Sometimes Just One Second Shrimper Records Brooklyn trio Sloppy Heads have been around since 2009 and have created their own underground scene that covers a wide musical palette seen through their seemingly sloppy, slop-rock [...]
Melodiesinfonie Softboi Independent You really have to be truly versed in music to be able to come up with an album that is basically all soft, funky, jazzy soul. Those elongated notes and spaces have to really work to have their effect and you [...]
McKenzie Stubbert Waiting Room Curious Music Making neo-classical music work as pop in a way, seems to be quite popular these days, what with the success of artist/composers like Ludovico Einaudi. Yet, very often, such artists/composers tend to [...]
Hozier Unreal Unearth Rubyworks Records Hozier’s third studio album, spanning a remarkable 1 hour and 2 minutes, is destined for a place in the archives of music history. Its raw emotional depth resonates profoundly with listeners, evoking [...]
GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV APPALOOSA BONES SUITCASE TOWN MUSIC Has it really been five years since Gregory Alan Isakov’s last studio album, Evening Machines? It has, and although Isakov has been busy with touring and taking care of his very active [...]
DIZZY DIZZY ROYAL MOUNTAIN RECORDS Dizzy’s third album, self-titled but with no hint of self-importance, would be easy to dismiss as simplistic pop, particularly when one hears the opener, “Birthmark”. Indeed, lead singer Katie Munshaw’s vocals [...]
SOFIA TALVIK CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE MAKAKI RECORDS Sofia Talvik hails from Sweden and released her first album in 2005, carving out her own distinct style of Americana/folk with a Nordic twist. Center Of The Universe is her eighth album and she [...]
Public Image Ltd. End Of World Cargo/Redeye For some, like me, it is hard to believe that Public Image Limited (PIL) is celebrating their 45th anniversary. After The Sex Pistols, who knew that John Lydon would form a band that would still be [...]
Killah Priest Mystery Channel 600 Block Records Wu-Tang Clan affiliate Killah Priest has dropped his fourth major release this year, following an instrumental version of his 2022 collaborative album with Jordan River Banks, Mr. Universe [...]
CORDOVAS THE ROSE OF ACES ATO RECORDS These days, Americana music space is getting crowded with artists coming up with some high-quality music that spreads across genres with quite some ease. Still, even with such quality around, for whatever [...]
HOLY WAVE FIVE OF CUPS SUICIDE SQUEEZE RECORDS Esoteric is the term that qualifies all somewhat special, often mystical things that are of interest to a very specific group of people. That surely includes Tarot cards and Tarot readings. It is [...]
Mammoth WVH Mammoth II BMG Wolfgang Van Halen returns with his follow-up album to his 2021 debut, Mammoth WVH. Mammoth II not only delivers a second offering of modern rock, but, quite impressively, establishes Wolfgang as a dynamic figure of [...]
