NOBRO SET YOUR PUSSY FREE DINE ALONE RECORDS Acclaimed Montreal punk outfit NOBRO have returned with their second full length album, Set Your Pussy Free. Follow the release of their debut, 2022’s Live Your Truth Shred Some Gnar, and, more [...]
NIRVANA IN UTERO (30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION) UNIVERSAL MUSIC For the past 30 years, Nirvana’s In Utero has always been an album that is meant to be taken in two parts. While we see a band that was on the cusp of primal musical growth and [...]
BRUCE HORNSBY SPIRIT TRAIL (25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION) ZAPPO PRODUCTIONS/THIRTY TIGERS Bruce Hornsby has been making great music for a long time, and 2023 marks the 25th anniversary of his Spirit Trail album, which was initially released in 1998. [...]
KING CRIMSON LARKS’ TONGUES IN ASPIC – THE COMPLETE RECORDING SESSIONS PANEGYRIC RECORDS Larks’ Tongues In Aspic was released in 1973 and was the fifth studio album by Robert Fripp’s King Crismon. It also marked the first album with an [...]
NIGHT RANGER 40 YEARS AND A NIGHT WITH CONTEMPORARY YOUTH ORCHESTRA FRONTIERS MUSIC SRL Night Ranger made its debut in 1982 with Dawn Patrol and the hit single “Don’t Tell Me You Love Me”, but it was their next album, Midnight Madness (1984) [...]
DHANI HARRISON INNERSTANDING H.O.T. RECORDS/BMG It has been far too long since Dhani Harrison has released a new solo album. In 2017 he released the brilliant In///Parallel, which firmly established him as a solo artist. Its official follow-up [...]
THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN MUNKI FUZZ CLUB Hot on the heels of surprise summer live release Sunset 666, Fuzz Club now bring us a 25th anniversary re-release of Munki, simultaneously The Jesus And Mary Chain’s most powerful album and their epitaph [...]
BERNIE WORRELL, CINDY BLACKMAN SANTANA & JOHN KING SPHERICAL INFREQUENT SEAMS The collaboration between guitarist John King, keyboardist Bernie Worrell (Parliament-Funkadelic, The Talking Heads), and drummer Cindy Blackman Santana (Pharoah [...]
RIVAL SONS LIGHTBRINGER ATLANTIC RECORDS For their second album of the year, Rival Sons have released Lightbringer, the companion to Darkfighter, released in June. Following an intensive year of touring – as both headliners and in support of The [...]
FRÄNDER FRÄNDER II NORDIC NOTES Fränder is an acoustic family band from Sweden and Estonia, who play traditionally-inspired songs in a modern context. Formed in 2015, they released their first album (Fränder) in 2019. That album introduced the [...]
SOFT CELL NON-STOP EROTIC CABARET (SUPER DELUXE EDITION) MERCURY/UNIVERSAL Soft Cell formed in 1978 when Dave Ball and Marc Almond met at Leeds Polytechnic in 1977. In 1980, Dave Ball’s mother fronted the duo 2000 pounds to record their debut [...]
MARE BERGER DREAMING BLUE INDEPENDENT PR people often plug their artists’ new releases by comparing them to some big or well-known names, for those artists only to fall a bit, or a bit shorter to those they are compared with. Now, Mare [...]
BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB MY BIG DAY ARTS & CRAFTS My Big Day, the latest release from Bombay Bicycle Club, is another fabulous record by the indie rockers, with its relaxing and warm vocals, expressive songwriting, and instrumentation ranging [...]
THE ROLLING STONES HACKNEY DIAMONDS UNIVERSAL MUSIC The peak that The Rolling Stones summitted in the early ‘70s remains unparalleled; something that should be coveted as among the greatest eras of not only rock ‘n’ roll, but popular music as a [...]
CORDELIA STEPHENS THE PROTEST SONGS INDEPENDENT Cordelia Stephens grew up in England and in the early 2000s moved to New York City, a place she now calls home. She then wrote and recorded two full-length albums. She has just released a new EP, [...]
TERRA LIGHTFOOT HEALING POWER SONIC UNYON Is there anything wrong with some high energy, guitar-driven pop-rock, with or without other embellishments? Surely not, if it has a lot of good melodic hooks, and some strong vocals, it this case, as [...]
RINGO STARR REWIND FORWARD UME/UNIVERSAL MUSIC A couple of years ago Ringo Starr made the bold declaration that he was not releasing any further albums, but rather focusing on EPs. Rewind Forward is his fourth, and his best yet. Starr has called [...]
JOHNNY CASH JOHNNY CASH SINGS THE SONGS THAT MADE HIM FAMOUS VIRGIN MUSIC GROUP In the annals of music history, few artists command the reverence and influence ascribed to Johnny Cash, America’s foremost singing storyteller. His indelible [...]
ANDREW BIRD’S BOWL OF FIRE THRILLS/OH! THE GRANDEUR (25th ANNIVERSARY REISSUES) ORG MUSIC For those who need reminding of a little bit of history, Andrew Bird might not be the freshest face on the scene, but his musical development took a [...]
JENN CHAMPION LAST NIGHT OF SADNESS GAY FOREVER They used to call it gloomcore and one of the most prominent purveyors of such a sub-genre was Carissa’s Wierd, still ringing in the ears of that band’s fans. Now, Jenn Champion, their [...]
††† (CROSSES) GOODNIGHT, GOD BLESS, I LOVE U, DELETE. WARNER RECORDS By all means, Crosses should be considered more than a simple offshoot for Deftones’ vocalist, Chino Moreno’s creativity. Having formed in 2014 with their debut, eponymous [...]
SARAH MORRISON ATTACHMENT FIGURE RAMP LOCAL Tallahassee-based singer songwriter Sarah Morrison might not care much about social media (try finding her socials), but she sure cares about her music. Just take an even cursory listen to her latest [...]
SAGITTAIRE LUCIAN & CAROLINE INDEPENDENT Behind the Sagittaire moniker is one Ivan Mairesse, LA musician who, judging by his latest album Lucian & Caroline, has some deep and wide artistic interest that stretches beyond music. Mairesse [...]
boygenius the rest Interscope Earlier this year, supergroup boygenius, which consists of Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus, released their debut album, the record. Everything about the album was spectacular. The production and [...]
