Fucked Up Oberon Tankcrimes Toronto’s very own punk veterans Fucked up are back with Oberon, their new EP out on Tankcrimes, which is a very fitting home considering the heavier direction the band has gone on this record. Named after the king of [...]
HamsandwicH Magnify Route 109 Picking up cues in pop music is seemingly easy, you find an artist or artists, remodel, combine, and presto you’ve got your song or set of songs. For some pop that indeed does not have to be hard, if you know how to [...]
Kolb Tyrannical Vibes Ramp Local What do you do if you are a classically trained opera singer that has serious love for sophisticated pop that is a cross between Fleetwood Mac and latter-day Doobie Brothers, sprinkled with touches of Steely Dan [...]
Office Culture Big Time Things Northern Spy Trying to swim in the waters of complex, sophisticated pop that spreads into rock, jazz, and elsewhere is something quite a few artists with good musical taste will try, but not that many will succeed [...]
Monster Truck Warriors BMG Hamilton, On-based rock ‘n’ roll outfit, Monster Truck, has released their first full-length album since 2018’s True Rockers. Their latest record, Warriors, follows the release of singles “Golden Woman”, “Get My Things [...]
Nebular Wave A Polarized Planetoid Flashback Records Nebular Wave, the psychedelic prog-synth rock band from Edmonton, AB, has released their third album, A Polarized Planetoid, and at six instrumental tracks total, four of which go over the [...]
Blancmange Private View London Records Over 40 years ago Neil Arthur and Stephen Luscombe came together to form Blancmange and released their debut album Happy Families of London Records. In 1985, after three albums, the duo split and reunited [...]
Fergus Hambleton All The Right Noises Axe Records In the 1960s, Fergus Hambleton was a member of a folk/rock band in Toronto, A Passing Fancy, that had several hits, especially in Toronto on the CHUM charts. But by 1969, the band called it a [...]
Suzi Moon Dumb & In Luv Pirates Press Records Punk rocker Suzi Moon’s debut album sees the raspy, riot-grrrl singer blending the hard-hitting visceral punk sound of her first EP, Call The Shots, with the slightly more melodic sound of her [...]
Tim Burgess Typical Music Bella Union Imaginative music made as an antidote for typical days, Typical Music is the sixth solo album from Tim Burgess, frontman of English band The Charlatans. This one is a double set of 22 progressive indie pop [...]
Venus Child The God’s Design Hamfuggi Records Venus Child is a collaboration between Deborah Fialkiewicz and EL ZOMBIE ESPACIAL (also known as Maximilano Martirania, and they have created a remarkable EP. Fialkiewicz has carved out her own [...]
Izzy Oram Brown Mess Independent The influence late Elliott Smith left on quite a number of artists that started out after him seems to be much greater than can be gauged just by cursory listen. Often, it is just closely following in [...]
Motörhead Iron Fist (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) BMG Iron Fist, the last studio album featuring what is considered the classic Motörhead incarnation with Ian Kilmister (Lemmy), Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor and “Fast” Eddie Clarke gets a [...]
Ben Pagano Exploring Dreams Independent Ben Pagano is a New York City based writer/musician/actor who has been releasing music since 2014 (Robot Jazz being his debut album). His music and lyrics are definitely his own and he has carved out his [...]
Dr. John Things Happen That Way Rounder/Universal Malcolm John “Mac” Rebennack, Jr., better known as Dr. John, passed away in 2019. He had a very distinguished and successful career, popularizing Cajun-style music from New Orleans. He surprised [...]
Alphaville Eternally Yours BFD (Bob Frank Distribution)/The Orchard Eternally Yours is Alphaville’s first studio album since 2017’s underrated Strange Attractor. The band formed in 1982 and has been making excellent albums since 1984 and have [...]
Marianne Faithfull Songs Of Innocence And Experience: 1965-1995 Universal Music Marianne Faithfull made her debut in 1965 with “As Tears Go By”, a year before The Rolling Stones released their version. The single was an instant worldwide hit. [...]
The Mars Volta The Mars Volta Clouds Hill Despite collaborating regularly together over the course of the last decade via At The Drive-In and Antemasque – among other side and solo projects – guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López and singer Cedric [...]
Horace Andy Midnight Scorchers On-U Sound Jamaican singer Horace Andy is known to the world in general for his work with UK trip-hoppers Massive Attack (there is a remake of “Safe From Harm” here); reggae lovers know him for a string of high [...]
Dan Lyons & The Tenants Shuttered Dreams Shaker Records Margate is one of those English seaside towns that really comes alive when the summer season is on with musicians confined to themselves most of the time and being able to either work [...]
Ringo Starr EP3 Ume/Universal Music It may be hard to believe, but since The Beatles called it a day in 1970, Ringo Starr has released 20 studio albums and 11 live albums. This is quite an accomplishment for the member of the band that few had [...]
Creedence Clearwater Revival Creedence Clearwater Revival At The Royal Albert Hall Craft Recordings It turns out that revival was always the key word with Creedence Clearwater Revival and John Fogerty, the band’s mastermind. And it is not [...]
Maeve Steele Overland Independent The number of artists doing their music the way they want is growing exponentially, which makes it exponentially hard for them to reach a wider audience, without something to make them stand out. Very often, [...]
Dead Cosmetics Was Tust Du Tarantula Tapes Dead Cosmetics have released their first ever, full-length album, Was Tust Du. The independent, ON-based supergroup consists of members Daniel Allen (Indian Handcrafts, Grale, Colonizor), Sarah Hull [...]
