Pere Ubu Nuke The Whales 2006-2014 Fire Records Nuke The Whales 2006 – 2014 is the latest installment of Fire Records’ re-release of the Pere Ubu catalogue. For this set, they are focusing on four albums released between 2006 and 2014. The [...]
Marvin Gaye What’s Going On: 50th Anniversary 2LP Edition Motown/Universal Originally released in May of 1971, What’s Going On was Marvin Gaye’s 11th studio album. Not only was it a departure from the music he had been making up to 1970 [...]
Daryl Hall BeforeAfter Legacy Recordings Daryl Hall and John Oates have had hits from the early 1970s until quite recently. They are one of the most popular duos of all time. What is often forgotten, however, is that both of them have [...]
Lights Pep Fueled By Ramen Few artists in the pop arena are as unique or as adventurous when it comes to electro-rock artists like Lights. Throughout her career, her music is hardly what you would call mainstream alternative pop music. Looking [...]
Meshuggah Immutable Atomic Fire Records Fans of the Swedish metal band Meshuggah have waited six years for an album, and the band is now ready to deliver. Their ninth studio album, Immutable, is the follow-up to 2016’s The Violent Sleep of [...]
Suzi Moon Animal Pirates Press Records Rising punk sensation Suzi Moon has returned with her second EP, Animal. Not only is this her first collection of music since her 2021 debut, Call The Shots, but the three-track EP also follows recent [...]
Dream Widow Dream Widow Roswell Records Following the release of the slasher comedy film, Studio 666, Dave Grohl has released his death metal debut via a project titled Dream Widow. Those who watched Studio 666 will recognize the name as the [...]
Jules Maxwell Cycles Ghost Palace Composer and Dead Can Dance keyboardist, Jules Maxwell, is back with his new album Cycles. A contemplative collection of instrumental offerings, this album is definitive of the word ‘soothing’. It is a departure [...]
Raven King Veni Vedi Verti Independent Although Raven King declares itself as having grunge tendencies, the new album Veni Vedi Verti is far from that genre. In fact, it’s unorthodox and to be honest, has a sound of its very own. The LP begins [...]
Harry Chapin Story Book: The Elektra Albums (1972-1978) Cherry Red Records This one is for the fans. Reissue and box set specialists Cherry Red Records have blessed the world with an expansive six-disc collection of the music of Harry Chapin. [...]
Killing Joke Lord Of Chaos Spinefarm Records How lucky we are. Killing Joke are recording their 16th or 17th album overall, the fourth since the original lineup of Jaz Coleman, Geordie Walker, Paul Ferguson, and Youth reunited in 2010. Lord of [...]
Your Crush Strawberry Sheets Independent Even the most hardened fans of what they consider complex music have some sort of a soft spot for some sort of, what some would call ‘pop confection.’ It could be anything – from an old [...]
Cannons Fever Dream Columbia Records In a world of division and unrest there are music projects that shine through and remind listeners that it’s okay to want to escape. Fever Dream is one such album. In their aptly named third studio [...]
Telefís a hAon Dimple Discs Calling your new project television using the English language would definitely imply you are copying the Tom Verlaine and co. legendary outfit, even though the project is made up of two quite well-known artists. So, [...]
VR Sex Rough Dimension Dais Andrew Clinco, the man behind the mythical Drab Majesty, is back with his post punk/anti-pop release, Rough Dimension. Recorded again with Ben Greenberg of Uniform fame, it checks all of the right boxes that one has [...]
Dawn Of Ashes Scars Of The Broken Artoffact Records Some say the best albums take listeners on a journey. That’s exactly what Dawn of Ashes latest album Scars of the Broken is. However, it’s not a journey to a good place. It’s a downward spiral [...]
Howard Jones The 12″ Album + 12″ers Vol. 2 Cherry Red Records Cherry Red continues to mine the Howard Jones catalogue and has come up with another brilliant release. This time they have taken the album The 12” Album, originally released in 1984 [...]
Stabbing Westward Chasing Ghosts COP International It’s been 21 years since Stabbing Westward’s last full length album, and fans have been craving new music from them for years. Fans rejoice, for the wait is finally over! Chasing Ghosts has ten [...]
John Mayall Road Show Blues (Reissue) Cleopatra Records This album has been reissued a goodly number of times since it saw the light of day in 1980, something of a fallow period for the Godfather Of British Blues following a decade when his [...]
Jerry Leger Nothing Pressing Latent Recordings It could be something in the water or having too much time to spend alone when it gets really cold so you can’t do much else but come up with some music, yet it seems that Toronto very often [...]
Widowspeak The Jacket Captured Tracks Widowspeaks’ fifth album The Jacket feels as though it’s a peek into the heart of the band, filled with a dreamy vulnerability. Molly Hamilton’s gentle and soothing vocals carry within them stories of [...]
Junk Drawer The Dust Has Come To Stay Art For Blind Records These days, it seems that the sort of guitar-driven alternative art rock is on a back burner, not many new artists taking the quite tricky road Television and/or Galaxie 500 took in [...]
Men Without Hats Again (Part 2) Sonic Envy Last year, Men Without Hats resurfaced after a nine-year absence. Although they had toured, there had not been new music from them since 2012’s Love In The Age Of War. But in 2021, they released Again [...]
Boring Girls Fuck You So Much Tarantula Tapes Hot off the heels of their third record since 2020, Montreal-based punk outfit Boring Girls have released Fuck You So Much. Released on cassette, via Ontario’s Tarantula Tapes, the five-track EP [...]
