THE JACK RUBIES VISIONS IN THE BOWLING ALLEY BIG STIR RECORDS The London-based band The Jack Rubies debuted in 1986 featuring Ian Wright (lead vocals, guitar), SD Ineson (backing vocals, guitar), Steve Brockway (bass), Lawrence Giltnane [...]
THE EAST POINTERS SCHOONERTOWN NETTWERK The East Pointers emerged from the East Coast modern folk music scene in 2015 with their debut album, Secret Victory, which went on to win the Juno for Traditional Roots Album of the Year. Schoonertown is [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS MUSIK MUSIC MUSIQUE 1979 – THE ROOTS OF SYNTHPOP CHERRY RED RECORDS The punk explosion of 1976 sent shock waves across the music world. One may not think of punk and electronic music, but there was a connection. A number of [...]
THE DAMNED NOT LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE EARMUSIC The Damned formed in 1976 and featured Dave Vanian (vocals), Brian James (guitar), Raymond Ian “Captain Sensible” Burns (bass), and Christopher “Rat Scabies” Millar (drums). [...]
KATIE TUPPER GREYHOUND ARTS & CRAFTS Katie Tupper’s new album is the kind of project that doesn’t ask for your attention, it earns it. If I could describe this album in one word, it would be raw. There’s an unmistakable honesty threaded [...]
DELANEY BAILEY CONCAVE AWAL These days the term singer songwriter has grown in its scope from just a solo artist with an acoustic instrument and introspective lyrics to a solo artist that basically has a mind of their own and goes anywhere where [...]
OV SULFUR ENDLESS CENTURY MEDIA Sometimes in a band’s career, spicing things up a bit is what gets the creative juices flowing. Since their debut album, The Burden Ov Faith, much of their material has focused on anti-religious fury. With the [...]
WESTSIDE COWBOY SO MUCH COUNTRY ‘TILL WE GET THERE ISLAND RECORDS Four-piece English indie band Westside Cowboy has been described as “college rock”, which couldn’t be a more accurate way of describing its sound or ethos. So Much Country ‘Till [...]
JULIANNA BARWICK & MARY LATTIMORE TRAGIC MAGIC INFINÉ RECORDS It seems to be the time for the successful combination of modern classical and other modern (or not so modern) musical forms, and Tragic Magic, a debut joint album by [...]
ALEV LENZ 4 IN A CYCLE OF THIRDS INDEPENDENT If you think it is a straightforward process to combine a song form with classical music compositional structure, you could be way off, with so many such experiments, remaining just that – [...]
MICHAEL PAUL BINZ LET ME BE BINZ RECORDS LLC Very often, the independent road in music has many more thorns than roses. You can come up with music that deserves to be heard, but reaching a wider audience needs time, patience and strong will. And [...]
THE SHA LA DAS YOUR PICTURE DIAMOND WEST RECORDS The Sha La Das is an inherently perfect name for a group that methodically creates tracks with such a profound combination of sentimentality and easy-listening sensibilities; the album tends to [...]
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS EYEBALL IDLEWILD RECORDINGS They Might Be Giants are back with a new EP, which is in fact a taster if you will of a forthcoming album. However, even if this was just a standalone EP, it is well worth your time. All three [...]
THE CRIBS SELLING A VIBE PLAY IT AGAIN SAM Twenty years on the music scene as a band, you are bound to have both ups and downs, and Gary, Ryan and Ross Jarman, trio of brother collectivelly known as The Cribs, have certainly had quite a few of [...]
CLÉMENTINE MARCH POWDER KEG PRAH RECORDINGS Clémentine March is a French British singer and multi-instrumentalist based in London, and if a first thing that comes to your mind is a possible connection to Stereolab, formally there isn’t [...]
STILL EIGHTEEN SCARRED INDEPENDENT Still Eighteen is a family band, consisting of Mom, Dad, and their daughter. To be clear, they are not anything like the Trapp Family, but instead, a powerhouse trio who write and produce very emotional and [...]
ALTER BRIDGE ALTER BRIDGE NAPALM RECORDS Alter Bridge has returned with their eighth studio album, the eponymous Alter Bridge. Following 2022’s Pawns & Kings – and a period which saw the reunion of Creed and the release of solo material [...]
DIANE COLL STRANGELY IN TUNE INDEPENDENT So far, Atlanta-based singer songwriter Diane Coll has been making music under the motto “therapy through music.” Quite a few songwriters have a similar idea, for some it works, for others, not so [...]
MELANIE THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A RAINBOW: THE NY FOLK SESSIONS 1963-1965 CLEOPATRA RECORDS Melanie Safka, who spent most of her professional life performing as simply Melanie, got her start in New York City around the time that Bob Dylan’s [...]
DOPAMINE DREAM DOPAMINE DREAM SON DOWN RECORDS Dopamine Dream is the second album from the Toronto-based band. Dopamine Dream debuted in 2023 with the album Unknown, and during the last two years, the band grew and expanded their sound. This [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS YACHT METAL CLEOPATRA RECORDS Once, Yacht Rock was known as ‘Adult Contemporary’ or even ‘Middle of the Road’ (MOR for short). For some reason, that name has been switched to Yacht Rock. This album features various heavy metal [...]
TODD RUNDGREN SOLO IN CLEARWATER CLEOPATRA RECORDS In 2003, Todd Rundgren embarked on a lengthy tour. These three dozen shows were different, in that Rundgren was going out on his own, with just his guitar, piano, and foot pedals. Of course, the [...]
MICHAEL HAMPTON INTO THE PUBLIC DOMAIN INDEPENDENT Longtime Parliament-Funkadelic guitarist Michael Hampton has released his latest solo album. Into the Public Domain marks the first release from Hampton as a part of his current project that [...]
JIM PETERIK & WORLD STAGE RIVER OF MUSIC: THE POWER OF DUETS VOLUME ONE FRONTIERS MUSIC Jim Peterik is a legend in the world of rock ‘n’ roll. Beginning in 1964 with the classic band Ides of March, to the 1980s Survivor, through to 38 [...]
