Jerry Leger Live From Paradise Latent Recordings Toronto singer-songwriter Jerry Leger is one of those artists who does not sit still for too long. With his solid motivation and work ethic, it’s little wonder that he is releasing some choice [...]
Bob Dylan Fragments – Time Out Of Mind Sessions (1996-1997) The Bootleg Series Vol. 17 Legacy/Colombia/Sony Bob Dylan continues his bootleg series with number 17. For this box set, Fragments – Time Out Of Mind Sessions (1996 – [...]
Marianne Faithfull Kissin’ Time (Reissue) BMG By 2002 Marianne Faithful was eager to return to a more contemporary sound following albums in which she focused on Kurt Weill. These include Weill recording and performing his opera The Seven [...]
Kevin Morby Music From Montana Story Dead Oceans If there’s an artist who can come up with a soundtrack for a neo-Western film today, Kevin Morby might not be the usual choice, but just might be a great one. Scott McGehee and David Siegel [...]
Benji Tranter Songs To Make You Happy Pear O’Legs Records Currently, it seems that bedroom pop as a specific genre started to include so many things, with one constant – excellent melody lines. If you accept such a definition, then [...]
Mac DeMarco Five Easy Hot Dogs Mac’s Record Label After having cancelled his tour indefinitely back in May from last year, Mac DeMarco suddenly returns with Five Easy Hot Dogs. This new instrumental album was the result of the musician’s [...]
Ladytron Time’s Arrow Cooking Vinyl Time’s Arrow is the seventh album release from the UK electronic pop band, Ladytron. Formed in Liverpool in 1999, the band has regularly released new music since their inception. The album leads off [...]
Siv Jakobsen Gardening The Nordic Mellow Norwegian singer songwriter Siv Jakobsen seems to love touring, as she spent most of her career so far on the road. Having that in mind, one would think that she shies away from the studio, or that is the [...]
July Talk Remember Never Before Six Shooter Records The polarity between lead vocalists Leah Fay Goldstein and Peter Dreimanis remains the core of July Talk’s appeal. Even with an expanded lineup, this remains true on their fourth album, [...]
BENJAMIN RUSSELL AND ROB STUART SOMETHING IN F MINOR TCBE RECORDS This debut album, Something In F Minor by the duo of Benjamin Russel and Rob Stuart is an impressive affair. Although this is their debut album as a duo, both musicians/artists [...]
Wildes Other Words Fail Me AWAL Ella Walker, aka Wildes is just officially underway with her debut album Other Words Fail Me. Yet, she is coming as a fully formed artist, whose songwriting and presentation is so assured and full of excellent [...]
Whitehorse I’m Not Crying, You’re Crying Six Shooter Records OK, so with their latest album, I’m Not Crying, You’re Crying, Whitehorse, duo comprising Melissa McClelland and Luke Doucet, dispel two debatable things. [...]
Poolblood Mole Next Door Records Those not so familiar with Toronto’s Maryam Said and her moniker Poolblood, might think that the moniker itself indicates some sort of black metal or dark folk as her chosen musical style. Yet Mole, her [...]
Margo Price Strays Loma Vista Recordings With all the exceptions, high quality in music almost always registers with the audiences too, very often surpassing a specific genre within a certain artist works in. Margo Price definitely fits that [...]
UNI & The Urchins Simulator Chimera Music UNI & The Urchins were originally known as Uni, and under that name, they released several singles over the last couple of years. The band is composed of Jack James Busa (vocalist) and former [...]
Marlody I’m Not Sure At All Skep Wax British singer songwriter Marlody named her album I’m Not Sure at All. Ok, there’s elements within her lyrics here that you might consider that are elements of personal insecurity. Yet, [...]
Circa Waves Never Going Under Lower Third/[PIAS] With their sixth upcoming album Never Going Under, the English band Circa Waves achieve a euphoric alternative record at its best. Musically speaking, the eleven tracks have the presence of [...]
Nyte Skye Vanishing Sonic Ritual Northern California’s newest alt-rock band Nyte Skye has released its debut album, Vanishing. Consisting of just Nyles Lannon working closely with his then twelve-year-old son Skye, and the result is an [...]
Fighting Chance! Fighting Chance! Independent Is the world ready for a 1990s power punk revival? For James and Joe Flanagan, the answer would be a resounding “Yes!”. The brothers, who are founders of Toronto indie band Fighting Chance!, have [...]
Doom Flower Limestone Ritual ‘record label’ Chicago’s Doom Flower floats and exists between genres and sounds, and latest album Limestone Ritual is a true showcase on how to really do it and make good music at the same time. [...]
Frank Ene Cruel à l’amour Independent Late great Serge Gainsbourg was an excellent experimenter with genres and musical styles, yet he possibly didn’t have a chance to combine his key musical and lyrical elements with modern [...]
Iggy Pop Every Loser Gold Tooth Music/Atlantic Records Like a fine wine, Iggy Pop continues to age into a truly one-of-a-kind vintage. Despite decades of hard living, the original street walking cheetah’s bottle of creativity remains seemingly [...]
Deadbeat Superheroes Edmonton Independent In 2011, guitarist Vikas Sharma and vocalist Ayesha Adhami joined forces for what would become the musical collective Deadbeat Superheroes. Fast forward to 2023, and Deadbeat Superheroes continue to make [...]
Various Artists Artoffact Records 2022 Sampler Artoffact Records Toronto’s Artoffact Records is a Canadian independent record label, founded in 2001, that specializes in industrial, postpunk, heavy metal, and electronic music. Their [...]
