GORILLAZ THE MOUNTAIN KONG The Mountain is the first Gorillaz album since 2023’s Cracker Island, and their ninth studio album overall. Gorillaz is really the brainchild of Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett and along with friends and like [...]
THE SHEEPDOGS KEEP OUT OF THE STORM RIGHT ON RECORDS Keep Out of The Storm marks the eighth full length record from The Sheepdogs, and their first since 2022’s Outta Sight. The album comes hot on the tails of an impressive 2025 that included the [...]
PAUL McCARTNEY MAN ON THE RUN – MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK MPL/UNIVERSAL Paul McCartney likes to keep busy. In 2025, he toured North America, toured his photographic exhibition (Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of The [...]
TODD RUNDGREN SABAN THEATRE 2016 CLEOPATRA RECORDS Thanks to Cleopatra Records, it is a good time in history to be a Todd Rundgren fan. Cleopatra Records continue with their deep dive and re-release of live recordings by Rundgren from the 2000s. [...]
AVALON STONE MEANT TO BREAK KNOWN ACCOMPLICE Hailing from Kitchener, ON, Avalon Stone has delivered her debut studio EP, Meant To Break. While following the release of singles “Into The Rain” and “Mirage,” released since last November, Stone has [...]
KEN PARK KEN PARK TODO If you were lucky enough to catch Liam Creamer rocking the banjo and pedal steel on tour with Jake Minch’s band this fall, you might be surprised to hear the occasionally maximalist grunge sounds on his latest EP. [...]
REPEATED VIEWING BREAK THE FAITH LIBRARY OF THE OCCULT RECORDS Alan Sinclair has been making fascinating, 80s style music under the name Repeated Viewing since 2009. Break The Faith is his latest release and once again he has produced an [...]
SUZANNE JARVIE MOTHER’S DAY WOLFE ISLAND RECORDS Is Toronto currently becoming one of the hotbeds of emerging singer-songwriters? Quite possibly, as that artistic field seems to be repeating the growth it had in the early to mid-70s. [...]
HEMI HEMINGWAY WINGS OF DESIRE PNKSLM New Zealand artists often tend to make musical combinations that on paper might seem quite incongruous, but when you listen to them, sound like they always belong together. In this specific case, we are [...]
MIRAH DEDICATION DOUBLE DOUBLE WHAMMY RECORDS Mirah, or more precisely, Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn, is no newcomer and it shows. Her latest album, simply titled Dedication, is her seventh release, and all the experience she has gathered so far as an [...]
MAX HOFFMAN LOOKING FOR THE LIGHT INDEPENDENT What can you expect from a singer-songwriter who wrote his first song at the age of six? Well, at least to show that there is talent there and the ability to craft songs that will pique interest [...]
MOBY FUTURE QUIET BMG Future Quiet stands out as the finest album of the year so far, despite it only being February. This release is a breathtaking, ethereal masterpiece that seamlessly blends symphonic elegance with the signature melancholy [...]
LUCID EXPRESS INSTANT COMFORT KANINE RECORDS Instant Comfort is the sophomore effort from Hong Kong-based shoegaze / dream-pop band Lucid Express. Their debut album was released back in 2021, so this album has been highly anticipated. Lucid [...]
DIRTY RICK DIRTY RICK INDEPENDENT Hamilton, ON’s very own Dirty Rick has returned with their debut, full-length, self-titled album. Following a pair of double singles, released over the last year, Dirty Rick marks the first collection of new [...]
BECK EVERYBODY’S GOTTA LEARN SOMETIME CAPITOL RECORDS Beck has made a career out of keeping a healthy distance from particular genres. Never quite alternative, flirting with country, hanging off the edges of mainstream, but wacky enough to not [...]
WRABEL UP ABOVE NETTWERK Being a long time on the music scene can often keep you in the shadows, or like in the case of Wrabel, it can gain you a serious following, as the singer songwriter so far has some 4 billion views on various streaming [...]
BOY GOLDEN BEST OF OUR POSSIBLE LIVES SIX SHOOTER RECORDS Cowboy hats and colorful shirts can be a deceiving thing for musicians. For a general set of listeners that rely on musical snippets it would immediately indicate that who they have in [...]
THE OLYMPIANS IN SEARCH OF A REVIVAL DAPTONE It’s been a decade since The Olympians, a New York-based R&B/soul instrumental group, released their titular debut album The Olympians. Their new record, In Search of a Revival, is a departure of [...]
SUNDECAY THE BLOOD LIVES AGAIN INDEPENDENT Sundecay’s sound is akin to a slow-forming bruise: a purplish-blue darkness that blooms around the skin until it becomes impossible to ignore. While the Toronto doom outfit has always embodied this [...]
LUCY KRUGER & THE LOST BOYS PALE BLOOM UNIQUE RECORDS Pale Bloom is the seventh album from Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys and their first since 2024’s A Human Home. Pale Bloom, in many ways, picks up where that album left off. It is not a [...]
GENUINE CONNECTION I SWEAR INDEPENDENT Based out of Brooklyn, NY, Genuine Connection have emerged with their debut EP, I Swear. The five-song record comes without the faintest warning of a preceding single giving their release a sense of urgency [...]
SYDNEY ROSS MITCHELL CYNTHIA DISRUPTOR RECORDS Born and raised in Lubbock, Texas (home of Buddy Holly and Natalie Maines of The Chicks), Sydney Ross Mitchell left home to find herself in the music scene of Los Angeles. This EP tells the story of [...]
THE GROWNUP NOISE NO STRAIGHT LINE IN THE UNIVERSE INDEPENDENT The Grownup Noise is an indie rock band that was formed in 2005 by songwriter Paul Hansen (guitar/vocals) and Adam Sankowski (bass/vocals). The group also includes Katie Franich [...]
ALICE COSTELLOE MOVE ON WITH THE YEAR MOSHI MOSHI RECORDS As is the case sometimes with solo debut albums, the key just might lie with that solo tag. It is usually a case of an artist that has already been in a band or has worked undercover, so [...]
