TREVOR BABAJACK DUO BOOTLEG BLUES: LIVE AT TEMPERANCE INDEPENDENT Trevor Babajack Steger has been performing his style of the blues in the U.K. for a while now and has built up quite a loyal and large following. Bootleg Blues: Live At Temperance [...]
The Northern Pikes Time To Time Independent In 1990, The Northern Pikes released their third album with Virgin Records, Snow In June. That album would go on to become their largest selling album, in fact, their only platinum album in Canada. It [...]
Milky Chance Living In A Haze Muggelig Records Milky Chance wants you to dance, and its latest album is an intriguing effort to capture what has made people dance throughout the 21st century. The German alt-rock outfit found fame across the [...]
Sivu Wild Horse Running Square Leg Records Working as a singer songwriter, being there practically all by yourself is a daunting task, and often, adding something more than just your voice, lyrics, and a single instrument can not only help, but [...]
Certain Times Desire Double Phantom Are there any new developments in synth-pop music? Well, it depends how you look at it, some might say that the genre is in a perpetuating mode, artist recycling older ideas, others might say that recycling [...]
GELD Currency // Castration Relapse Records Visceral, bare, aggressive, and dissonant are some of the key descriptors that come to mind when describing hardcore at the height of the scene, and while many bands keep the sound alive, they do so by [...]
Skydiggers Hide Your Light Latent Recordings Andy Maize and Josh Finlayson, collectively known as Skydiggers, are back with the first of two new EPs, Hide Your Light. Here, they are assisted by Joby Baker, who co-produced it with Maize and [...]
Amy Gabba & The Almost Famous Screaming At The Top Of My Lungs Independent Pop and punk – not necessarily pop-punk – collide in a unique fashion on Amy Gabba & The Almost Famous’ sophomore release, a debut full-length album, Screaming At [...]
Drew Holcomb And The Neighbors Strangers No More Magnolia Records With all the new artists/bands exploring Americana/roots music, there is always a chance that not all of them will reach the heights of those that have been working the genre for [...]
Cowboy Junkies Such Ferocious Beauty Latent Recordings The Cowboy Junkies are back with their first release of new material in five years, the much-anticipated Such Ferocious Beauty. Principal songwriter Michael Timmins had time to reflect and [...]
The Aquadolls Charmed Enci Records Charmed is Los Angeles-based femme-punks The Aquadolls’ third album, and from the start, it’s noticeably more punk than their previous efforts. This album also marks the first time the trio have written as a [...]
Foo Fighters But Here We Are RCA Writing and recording an album in the wake of two significant losses in one year is not easy, but Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters turned their pain into something beautiful. Their 11th album, But Here We Are [...]
Bob Dylan Shadow Kingdom Columbia Records It would be difficult to claim that any of the songs included on Bob Dylan’s latest album Shadow Kingdom weren’t some of the best of his early catalogue. With selections culled mainly from his first two [...]
Young The Giant Both Sides Awal/Jungle Youth Records Just under a year after the initial debuts of what would become their multi-movement fifth studio album American Bollywood, So-Cal band Young the Giant has released the four-track follow-up EP [...]
Rival Sons Darkfighter Atlantic Records The conversation about the great rock bands of our time is incomplete without mentioning Rival Sons. Among the strongest and most original bands to emerge from the influence of ‘70s classic rock, the [...]
BUCKCHERRY VOL. 10 CENTURY MEDIA The release of Buckcherry’s 10th studio album is truly one for the books. As the ultimate party-starting band, they never fail to bring the heat with their signature electric music styling, blended [...]
Girls Under Glass Backdraft Dependent Records The highly anticipated album from Girls Under Glass embodies a captivating fusion of sinister, dark, gothic, and metal musical stylings. What initially began as an EP turned into a fully realized [...]
DEATH AND MEMPHIS THE TIME BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF BYPOLAR RECORDS Death And Memphis, Chicago punk, are you ready? Here we go! EP, The Time Between Dog and Wolf, is precisely what this album is a critical twist on light and dark – ambiguous. The EP [...]
Passion Pit Gossamer Sony Music Canada For pop artists like Passion Pit, the ability to be undeniably honest in his art form has always been important to singer/songwriter Michael Angelakos, no matter how uncomfortable. When [...]
Callum Pitt In The Balance Kaleidoscope Music Very often, it is quite a challenge for artists releasing a debut album, not only to come up with right music, but also with a title that would describe that music the best. Newcastle, England [...]
Laura Wolf Shelf Life Whatever’s Clever Back in the late 90s folktronica was all the rage. But somehow, and for whatever reason, the whole shebang seemed to have been lost, with or without translation, with most of the artists going one [...]
Rory McBride Sonic Lullaby Independent Keeping things short and sweet just might be a perfect way for an artist to introduce themself and their music to the world. That is exactly the route 29-yr-old American singer/songwriter/poet Rory Mc Bride [...]
Niall Connolly The Patience Of Trees C.U. Records Niall Connolly was born in the suburbs of Cork, Ireland but is now based in New York City. Over the years he has made a career as a folk-rock artist. He is back with a new studio album, The [...]
Steve Forbert Streets Of This Town: Revisited Blue Rose Music Steve Forbert has been making records for a very long time, and in the 1970s, he shifted from his folk roots and incorporated more of a pop sound. He was once given the label ‘The New [...]
