VNV Nation Electric Sun Metropolis Records VNV Nation is back with its 11th studio album Electric Sun. Lead by Ronan Harris, the project is a pinnacle in the world of EBM, futurepop, and industrial dance since 1990 and its presence is still [...]
Cradle Of Filth Trouble And Their Double Lives Napalm Records For their first live album in 20 years, Cradle Of Filth knew that fans would crave something more sinister than the usual affair that makes up a project such as this. Eschewing the [...]
Jerry Leger The Time Flew By Latent Recordings “There’s no rest for the wicked,” or so the saying goes. If that is true, singer-songwriter Jerry Leger is a ‘wicked’ man, indeed! Currently touring Europe and the UK, the Toronto-based roots rocker [...]
Butch Bastard Las Vegas Salvation Big Cartel Butch Bastard is the pseudonym of Seattle-raised, LA-based singer-songwriter Ian Murray, formerly of Poor Moon, and Las Vegas Salvation is his second album. Although he has had some help here, it is [...]
Annie Blackman Bug Father/Daughter Records Being vulnerable and introspective is often one of the qualities many listeners look out for in singer songwriters. The problem can be that sometimes such artists go a bit too far in ‘barring the [...]
Djabe &Steve Hackett Live In Gyor Cherry Red Records This is a very interesting and perhaps perceived as an odd release. Djabe has made its name as a top notch jazz band from Hungary and Steve Hackett, of course, is famous as the guitarist [...]
Glen Matlock Consequences Coming Cooking Vinyl Glen Matlock has had quite a career. He was the original bassist for The Sex Pistols, a member of Rich Kids, s icurrent touring member of Blondie, and his own solo records. Consequences Coming is [...]
The Damned Darkadelic earMUSIC It is hard to believe that The Damned’s debut album, the classic Damned Damned Damned was released 46 years ago and here I am reviewing their new album! Remember, they also have rights to the claim they released [...]
Scott Matthews Restless Lullabies Shedio Records With any process, there has to be a reverse process. Still, a key question remains there, particularly with music, which is the better one for the artist? In the case of singers songwriters, they [...]
Taj Mahal Savoy Stony Plain Records If there ever was a musical archivist (or a few of them) that actually was able to transfer his knowledge into music, then Taj Mahal is certainly one of those. Like Ry Cooder, his buddy from their early (and [...]
Be-Bop Deluxe Sunburst Finish (Vinyl Reissue) Cherry Red Records Going retrospect and missing the point can be quite harmful for an artist, but getting it right, picking a right artist and/or album to feature, can shed a new light not only on [...]
You Said Strange Thousand Shadows Vol. 2 EXAG’ Records/Le Cèpe Records If you want a new band to fall in love with, this is it. You Said Strange’s latest LP, Thousand Shadows Vol. 2, is brilliant and versatile. The guitar riffs on their [...]
Raised On TV Strangers In Pictures Sell The Heart Records The latest album, Strangers In Pictures from Raised On TV, is a very calm and relaxing listen. It has some great moments, but there is nothing that remarkable about the album. Many [...]
The National First Two Pages Of Frankenstein 4AD With its latest album First Two Pages of Frankenstein, The National continues to prove why it is one of the best alternative rock bands working today. First Two Pages of Frankenstein features [...]
Benjamin Russell Frontier TCBE Records Benjamin Russell has been around for a while and he has certainly proven himself to be one of the biggest talents in this, or any other, country. In 1984 he had a very big hit “Miracle (Miracle Of Love)”, [...]
Paul McCartney And Wings Red Rose Speedway (50th Anniversary) MPL/Capitol As part of Record Store Day, Paul McCartney decided to remaster the second Wings album, Red Rose Speedway and release it as 50th Anniversary edition. It has been [...]
Pearl Jam Give Way (Record Store Day Release) Epic Records In 1998, Pearl Jam toured Australia in support of their new record, Yield. Their Melbourne date would be among the final shows with then drummer, Jack Irons and recordings of the [...]
Brian Eno FOREVER VOICELESS Verve/UMC Brian Eno released FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE in October of 2022. It was the first album to feature him singing in 17 years, since 2005’s Another Day on Earth which was his last vocal album. Now, he has removed [...]
Bourbon House The Fourth Album Independent Up-and-coming rock outfit, Bourbon House, have returned with their latest release, The Fourth Album. Following their 2021 record, Into The Red, their new album continues to see the band work classic [...]
Jah Wobble Dark Luminosity – The 21st Century Collection Cherry Red Records Jah Wobble (born John Joseph Wardle) began his musical career as an original member of Public Image Limited (PIL), a band John Lydon formed after he left The Sex [...]
Electric Bird Noise derek roddy 8-10-22 Silber Records/Broken Sound Tapes Ambient and metal clash on the latest release from Electric Bird Noise. The three-song, collaborative EP sees guitarist and songwriter Brian McKenzie join forces with [...]
Louise Burns Element Independent Vancouver’s Louise Burns has released her fifth solo album, Element, which she describes as a “sonic daydream” that was written to help her deal with the incredible amount of change that has occurred over the [...]
Easy Star All-Stars Ziggy Stardub Easy Star Records The name of the collective involved in recording this album, a reggae tribute to David Bowie’s legendary album Ziggy Stardust, might include the word easy in its name, but recording a [...]
Rose City Band Garden Party Thrill Jockey Is it really a bad thing that a band or an artist follows in the footsteps of other artists or bands? Of course not, particularly if the music they make is as good as the music of the bands or artists in [...]
