BABE RAINBOW ACID AND HONEY EUREKA! MUSIC /AWAL If Acid and Honey were a person, it would be that charming Australian stoner you met at a festival, the one you went home with thinking it would just be a good time, but who turned out to have an [...]
TRICKY DIFFERENT WHEN IT’S SILENT FALSE IDOLS Different When It’s Silent is Tricky’s 15th studio album and first full-length release under his own name in six years, since 2020’s Fall To Pieces. He did release Fifteen Days (as [...]
TESLA HOMAGE FRONTIERS MUSIC SRL Homage is Tesla’s ninth studio album, and their first since 2019’s Shock. They have released a few live albums during the past few years, but fans can celebrate because the band finally got back into the studio. [...]
FEATURETTE MULTISTATE DIVISION 11 Featurette continues to move at an impressive pace that grows in momentum with every release. This year alone, the band dropped three singles in lead up to their newest EP, Multistate, their first record since [...]
DARRYL JENIFER THE WEATHER CHANNEL ORG MUSIC In 2010, Bad Brains’ bassist Darryl Jenifer released his debut solo album, In Search Of Black Jesus. The record felt like a natural offshoot of the sonic identity of Bad Brains, as Jenifer fused [...]
MAX SUBAR ANYTHING COULD BE MERGE RECORDS If by looking at the cover for Max Subar’s album, Anything Could Be, you get the impression that you are looking at (and possibly will listen to) a typical singer-songwriter album, you would be [...]
CR & THE WHITE LIGHTS MY OLD SELF MAGIC DOOR RECORDS If My Old Self would. be your first encounter with CR & The White Lights you could easily think that these guys are hiding somewhere in a Nashville suburb where alt Americana thrives [...]
LISA MOLINARO BLIND TRUST INDEPENDENT Lisa Molinaro has had a fascinating career in music. Beyond her own writing and performing, she has been part of The National (their touring band), The Decemberists (their touring band), Modest Mouse, and [...]
THE AMPLIFIER HEADS SUPER 8 RUM BAR RECORDS Sal Baglio is part of rock and roll history. In 1977, he was a founding member of the classic Boston-based band The Stompers (who are in the New England Music Hall Of Fame) and although they never [...]
SOME VELVET MORNING TELL THE SUMMER HANG ON INDEPENDENT When Londoners Some Velvet Morning came to the scene back in 2007, they made it immediately with their debut album Silence Will Kill You. The album itself was produced by Coldplay [...]
POST DEATH SOUNDTRACK BARREN MOTHER OF ALL INDEPENDENT Let’s face it, at some point, dark times deserve dark music. You may try to escape it, but they stare at our faces, and we have to do something about it. One way is to create some [...]
DENT MAY THE BIG ONE CARPARK RECORDS Dent May has been around for a while and has garnered quite a following among the fans of all things melodic in rock with his mostly bedroom pop take on power pop – less power and more melody and harmony, to [...]
HOLY WAVE I’M DADA SUICIDE SQUEEZE RECORDS As time passes by, the critics have come up with so many genres and sub-genres in modern music seemingly to make it simpler for audiences to pick up their preferences. Yet, more and more, current [...]
BRUNO BERLE SEM FRONTEIRAS FAR OUT RECORDINGS The title of Bruno Berle’s latest (third) album says it all: Sem Fronteiras, meaning ‘without Borders.’ While many listeners not so familiar with modern Brazilian music might think that it is [...]
THE PLOT IN YOU THE PLOT IN YOU FEARLESS RECORDS The Plot in You has always been a band that isn’t about labels. In a genre that has always been defined by its aggressive textures, bands like The Plot In You have always strived for more [...]
JACK WHITE FROZEN CHARLOTTE THIRD MAN RECORDS Jack White has just released his latest solo release, Frozen Charlotte. It is a 13-track, guitar-and-drums gauntlet, that proves no one has been able to cut out White’s adrenal glands or coax [...]
THE ROLLING STONES FOREIGN TONGUES UNIVERSAL MUSIC The Rolling Stones are back. While 2023’s Hackney Diamonds may have given the impression of a fitting conclusion to perhaps one of pop culture’s greatest sagas, and despite questioning if they [...]
SUNDAYCLUB SUNDAYCLUB PAPER BAG RECORDS sundayclub has been riding something of a wave of momentum among those lucky enough to have heard about them since 2025’s Bannatyne, and with good reason; their combination of modern production, honest, [...]
SHE’S GREEN SWALLOWTAIL PHOTO FINISH RECORDS With Swallowtail, she’s green has crafted an EP that feels less like a collection of songs and more like an immersive experience. Beautifully written and thoughtfully composed, every track flows [...]
JACK GRISHAM AND THE LIFE UNDONE JACK GRISHAM AND THE LIFE UNDONE LOST IN BERLIN RECORDS T.S.O.L.’s Jack Grisham has made a triumphant solo return with his new band, Jack Grisham And The Life Undone, with the release of their debut, eponymous [...]
SWEET THE ANSWER METALVILLE The Answer was originally released in 1992 under the name Andy Scott’s Sweet rather than just Sweet. It was also originally released with the title A and was originally Sweet’s 10th album. It was released only in [...]
RYAN HAMILTON HAUNTED BY AMERICAN DREAMS WICKED COOL RECORDS Whenever some music that has not been in the immediate focus of critics and audiences, pops up, they tend to call it ‘resurrected.’ Power pop is one of those, but it is [...]
DEEP PURPLE SPLAT! EARMUSIC Splat! is Deep Purple’s 24th studio album, and their first since 2024’s hugely successful =1. The band features three of the classic line-up of the band, Ian Paice (drums), Roger Glover (bass), and Ian Gillan [...]
TAXI GIRLS STATIC STOMP RECORDS/WILD HONEY RECORDS Having released two EPs – Coming Up Roses and Rainy in 2023 and 2024, respectively – Montreal’s Taxi Girls have released their debut, full-length album, Static. Championed by Iggy Pop, and [...]
