The Vandals Hitler Bad, Vandals Good (25th Anniversary Edition) Craft Recordings Hitler Bad, Vandals Good is the latest record from SoCal punk veterans, The Vandals, to receive a special anniversary reissue from Craft Recordings. Originally [...]
Ravi Shankar Shankar Family & Friends Dark Horse/BMG George Harrison formed Dark Horse Records in 1974, while Apple was collapsing with lawsuits and the official end of The Beatles. His goal was simple, to have a small label where he could [...]
The Remainder Evensong Blanc Check Records Even though this is The Remainder’s debut, the three members have fairly extensive histories in electronic music. Neil Arthur, who sings, plays guitar, and keyboards, is from Blancmange, Fader, and Near [...]
Various Artists Abbey Road Reimagined – A Tribute To The Beatles Cleopatra Records When The Beatles released Abbey Road in October of 1969, the album became an instant classic. Everything about it was perfect. They were still together [...]
Strawbs The Magic Of It All Esoteric Recordings The Magic Of It All is the first Strawbs album since 2021’s Settlement, and their 24th studio recording since their 1969 self-titled debut. It is full of great classic Strawbs songs. Listen to the [...]
Being Dead When Horses Would Run Bayonet Records Powerful storytelling, dreamy vocals, styles ranging from stoner rock to psychedelia to garage rock, and intriguing instrumentation make When Horses Would Run by Being Dead a pure delight. When [...]
John Coltrane Evenings At The Village Gate: John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy Impulse! Records Recently discovered at The New York Public Library For The Performing Arts – how original masters of this caliber get lost we’ll never know – Evenings At [...]
Jackie Wilson Higher and Higher Org Music Higher and Higher was an iconic album released by Jackie Wilson, also known as “Mr. Excitement”, in 1967. It was originally on the Brunswick Records label, and has been reissued by Org Music, using the [...]
MisterWives Nosebleeds Photo Finish Records MisterWives have revamped their style and feel like an entirely new band. Their latest album Nosebleeds is much more aggressive, loud, and dark compared to their debut album, Our Own House. Nosebleeds [...]
12 Rods If We Stayed Alive Husky Pants Records Yes, there is a sensible meaning in naming the new 12 Rods album If We Stayed Alive. It is the first in 21 years from these Minneapolis indies stalwarts, who always seemed to have a passion for that [...]
Penguin Cafe Rain Before Seven Erased Tapes Back in the 80s, they were Penguin Cafe Orchestra, and Simon Jeffes and his crew made a series of utterly charming albums that had the sound of a string band playing on a patio, always on the edge of [...]
Fred Abbott & The Wild Unknown Shining Under The Soot lojinx Fred Abbott might be now playing with a band named The Wild Unknown, but he certainly isn’t an unknown quantity, whether he’s wild could be discussed. After all, Abbott [...]
John Jenkins Tuebrook John Jenkins Music Tuebrook is John Jenkins’ first album since 2021’s If You Can’t Forgive, You Can’t Love album. While If You Can’t Forgive, You Can’t Love is a fantastic album, Jenkins goes deeper and has delivered one [...]
African Head Charge A Trip To Bolgatanga On-U Sound This is African Head Charge’s first new album in a dozen years. Although they have always employed “world” sounds within their psychedelic dub, the focus here is most definitely on West African [...]
Local Natives Time Will Wait For No One Loma Vista Recordings Time Will Wait For No One, the fifth album from Los Angeles band Local Natives, might not be the most memorable or the best indie rock has to offer, but there are some great moments [...]
MOBIUS RADIO MOBIUS RADIO INDEPENDENT When not making viral videos about speaking French while ordering at a Québec drive-through or spoofing Eminem, Dylan Hennessy plays guitar, sings, and writes for Mobius Radio. The Toronto- based duo is [...]
Anberlin Convinced Equal Vision Records Florida-based rock band Anberlin have released their latest EP, Convinced, a six-track follow-up to 2022’s Silverline, and the second release since returning from their four-year hiatus. Convinced proves [...]
Charlie Watts Anthology BMG Legend has it that The Rolling Stones knew they needed Charlie Watts if they wanted to make it to the next level in their local scene, they just couldn’t afford him. Watts, an in-demand session musician, eventually [...]
Frank Zappa Funky Nothingness Zappa/Universal Music In 1969, Frank Zappa released his second solo album, Hot Rats. Over time, the album has become a landmark, a classic, and one of Zappa’s most loved. Hot Rats was also the first album to be [...]
Danny Michel Ghost Town Independent Toronto singer-songwriter Danny Michel hasn’t been heard from in a while, at least as far as official recordings go. Actually, it has been five years to be exact, but now he’s back with his latest, [...]
JD Pinkus & Tall Tall Trees Ponder Machine Shimmy Disc Telling you that this is a collaboration between Butthole Surfer’s bassist, JD Pinkus, and Tall Tall Trees (Mike Savino) is only scratching the surface of this collaboration titled [...]
Erin K Sink To Swim Independent Singer-songwriter has become such a broad category these days, even though that with quite a few listeners the first thing that comes to mind is a single artist with an acoustic guitar or behind a piano. Does [...]
SLIP~ons Heavy Machinery Scamindy Records Punk or post-punk, if you consider the more modern form of the genre, even in its primal form in the 60s, always touched on another genre or two, even if you were the Ramones, Vancouver’s SLIP~ons [...]
Estrella Del Sol Figura De Cristal Felte Records Dream pop has become such a musical phenomenon that you can find (or stumble upon) a great release within the genre from practically any corner of the world. So it is not a great surprise that the [...]
