Alter Bridge Pawns & Kings Napalm Records After taking a year off which saw both Myles Kennedy and Mark Tremonti release solo records – Kennedy’s The Ides Of March and Tremonti’s Marching In Time and Mark Tremonti Sings Frank Sinatra – Alter [...]
Honey & The Bees Love Real Gone Music In 1970, when Arctic Records owner Jimmy Bishop met and heard Jean Davis, Gwen Oliver, and Cassandra Wooten, they were known as The Yum Yums. He added Nadine Felder as their new lead vocalist and The Yum [...]
Barrett Davis The Ballad Of Aesop Fin Independent Being an artist that wants to explore all the aspects of a certain genre that very often operates within strict rules and music formulas can be a tall order even for seasoned musicians, let alone [...]
Ev Bird Puff Piece Royal Mountain Records If you are an artist/musician based in Montreal, you may be tempted to retreat indoors when the winter takes its hold. One of those is take an extensive listen to your record collection, something that [...]
Lamb Of God Omens Epic Records America’s premier modern metal outfit, Lamb Of God, has returned with its latest album, Omens. The new record is the band’s first collection of new music since 2020’s self-titled release – their first with Art Cruz [...]
Various Artists Listen To The Red Rock Vast Horizons Music Inc. Gigi Love, the key artist behind this compilation, is from Utah herself, so it is no wonder that she knows exactly why she needed to organize a group of like-minded artists to [...]
Broken Bells Into The Blue AWAL Broken Bells’ third album, Into The Blue, is one of those records that make it worth the wait required to finally hear them. Coming a good eight years after its immediate predecessor, it shows all the hallmarks of [...]
Chico Romano Vol. 5 Ramp Local It seems to be a fact that artists who change their monikers once in a while have very wide musical taste and interests, and want to keep those tastes and interests distinct. Yet, very often, thy merge and seep [...]
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 [...]
