Alex Southey Common Fantasies Independent Alex Southey is an extremely prolific writer/performer and Common Fantasies is another selection of songs from him to keep his audience on their toes and to keep them guessing. Although he is known to [...]
closetjudas entelechy Independent Mike Powell is closetjudas and entelechy is his most recent EP. It is the followup to 2019’s lunacy + the second naïveté. Since 2016 closejudas has released quite a bit of music and entelechy continues to show [...]
Kurt Uenala feat. Dave Gahan Manuscript hfn Music There was so much music created during the pandemic that reflects the isolation and desolation it created. Yet, some of this music really hit the mark in reflecting such feelings in us all. Kurt [...]
Nell & The Flaming Lips Where The Viaduct Looms Bella Union This collaboration of Nick Cave covers between 16-y-orld singer Nell Smith and seasoned veterans The Flaming Lips has quite an interesting story. Smith met Wayne Coyne when she [...]
Cheap Trick Live At The Whisky 1977 Real Gone Music Cheap Trick was not an overnight success. The band formed as Cheap Trick, in 1973 after having been together in one configuration or another since 1967. In 1975 Robin Zander joined the band [...]
Terry Draper Bread And Cirkus Terry Tunes Records Terry Draper is back with a new album, his best album to date. Bread And Cirkus is an album of 14 songs which are musically diverse. It is musically and lyrically a brilliant album. Klaatu, of [...]
Telex EP2 Mute Records Belgian new wave and synth-pop band Telex, Kraftwerk’s more accessible musical neighbour, was known for their unique blend of electronic and experimental music. Founded in 1978 and releasing several albums in the 1980s [...]
Shriekback Bowlahoola Shriekprods Shriekback was formed in 1981, and now in 2022 the band’s core is Barry Andrews (one of the founders of the band), Carl Marsh (who has been with the band since the beginning) and Martyn Barker (who joined the [...]
The Dead Milkmen Metaphysical Graffiti (Reissue) The Giving Groove When I was 14 years old, my dad joined some mail order record club where you’d get 10 to12 albums for mere pennies with the agreement being that you buy the same amount at [...]
Alabama Shakes Boys & Girls (10 Year Anniversary Deluxe Edition) ATO Records It can be hard to remember that it’s been ten full years since 2012, but this brand new and extended reissue of Alabama Shakes’ seminal debut album, Boys & [...]
David Crosby & The Lighthouse Band Live At The Capitol Theatre Three Blind Mice/BMG It is hard to believe that Live At The Capitol Theatre is David Crosby’s third solo live album. Why it is hard to believe is because Crosby has been more [...]
Little River Band Ultimate Hits/Masterpieces Universal Music A Little River Band revival is long overdue and therefore it is perfect timing for these collections to be released. Ultimate Hits and Masterpieces are two separate albums but should [...]
The Pull Of Autumn Beautiful Broken World RBM Records These days very often artists or bands are labelled with the term collective, without really being one. Yet, if there really is one around that deserves that term it is Boston and Rhode [...]
The Meters A Message From The Meters Real Gone Music The subtitle will tell many as much as they need to know before buying this release: The Complete Josie, Reprise and Warner Brothers Singles 1968 – 1977. It is a triple LP package, with the [...]
We Were Promised Jetpacks A Complete One-Eighty Big Scary Monsters Scottish rockers We Were Promised Jetpacks have done an interesting thing with their latest EP release A Complete One-Eighty. In it, they rework three of their strongest tracks [...]
apaull Sans Phobia Furnace Room Records Is it the future? Is it the present? Whatever it is, Dutch-Canadian electronic music producer apaull has seen it, and it ain’t pretty. With the release of the EP Sans Phobia, apaull compels us to look at [...]
Suss Suss Northern Spy Records Ambient country has become some sort of a buzz word during the past few years, but there isn’t much talk of when, where, and how did this recent fave come about. Actually, New York’s Suss (Bob Holmes, [...]
Uhl Channels Independent These days it is becoming quite a rarity that an artist that is coming with a debut release is at least attempting, let alone being able to express a hefty dose of individuality both in song writing and in case of singer [...]
Lipsticism Two Mirrors Facing Each Other Earth Libraries Alana Schachtel who works under the moniker Lipsticism seems not to be a big fan of social media. Sure, she does have an Instagram page, and we learn that she resides in Chicago, and we [...]
Elvis Presley Elvis On Tour RCA/Sony From January 1972 through to November 1972, Elvis Presley performed 96 concerts in 15 cities, which included his famous and quite frankly, triumphant shows at Madison Square Garden. Several of the shows were [...]
Nazz Lost Masters & Demos Purple Pyramid Records/Cleopatra Records Nazz exploded on the scene in 1967 with their debut single “Open My Eyes”, which was a commercial failure at the time but has gone on to legendary status. And rightfully so, [...]
Plastic Harpoons Modern World Lolipop Records You can call it Americana, or Americana-infused rock, after all, that sound these days encompasses so many things, it is turning into an ever-widening category. Whatever the case, the only [...]
Drop Top Alibi Anyways… Independent Following their 2017 debut, self-titled EP, and a string of singles released since then, Toronto hard rock outfit Drop Top Alibi has returned with Anyways…. The five-track EP sees the band trade in their [...]
Blue Twisted Steel Intro Independent Charleston, WV’s Blue Twisted Steel has just released Intro and it is something special. Imagine (if you will) a recording that is part blues-funk, part singer-songwriter, and all original, and you would be [...]
