I Prevail True Power Fearless Records Michigan’s I Prevail have emerged from a nearly two year break to deliver their third album, the highly anticipated follow up to 2019’s Trauma. True Power, their most aggressive album yet. In June, they [...]
Erasure Day-Glo (Based On A True Story) Mute Records Vince Clarke has been called “the Benjamin Franklin of synth music,” and his role as co-composer, arranger, and sound architect is unequivocal on Erasure’s experimental Day-Glo (Based On A [...]
Beastie Boys Check Your Head (4-LP Deluxe Edition) UMe In celebration of their seminal, multi-platinum record, the quintessential Check Your Head, the Beastie Boys have reissued the rare, 4-LP deluxe edition of the album. Check Your Head (4-LP [...]
Elaine Howley The Distance Between Heart And Mouth Touch Sensitive Records When singer songwriters decide to turn their written or recorded diaries into music, they are actually undertaking a very risky tactic. The results can be quite boring [...]
Danger Mouse & Black Thought Cheat Codes BMG Perhaps best known as the lead MC for acclaimed hip-hop band – and house band for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon – Black Thought has partnered with producer Danger Mouse (Red Hot Chili [...]
Ciao! Scary Haha Independent Usually, when an artist takes on a working alias, the public still gets a chance to learn his birth given name. At least, at some point. Still, New York artist Ciao! has decided to remain otherwise anonymous for his [...]
Amon Amarth The Great Heathen Army Metal Blade Records With a Viking pop cultural moment in Netflix’s Vikings: Valhalla series, it is an auspicious time for melodic death metal band Amon Amarth to release its 12th album. Plundering Norse [...]
The Cocktails Yippee F’in Hurray Independent Hot off of reaching the semi-finals of 97.7 HTZ FM’s annual Rocksearch competition, Niagara, Ontario’s The Cocktails are one of the provinces coolest punk outfits. Almost an exact year to the [...]
Bullet For My Valentine Bullet For My Valentine (Deluxe Edition) Spinefarm Records Bullet for My Valentine have just released a deluxe edition of their super intense, self-titled album Bullet For My Valentine. It includes the addition of 5 [...]
Roy Shakked Throwback Groove Gravy Records Since Steely Dan appeared in full force me 50 years ago, many other artists have tried to reach their almost inaccessible heights. They have sat with their combination of truly sophisticated infusion of [...]
Frances Chang Support Your Local Nihilist Independent It might be quite a task to locate New York artist Frances Chang on social media. One of the reasons might be that she is not a big fan of it. The other that so far, Chang has assumed and [...]
Paul Weller 22 Dreams (Vinyl Reissue) Island/Universal Records In June, 2008, Paul Weller released his ninth solo album, 22 Dreams. It was a massive album in the U.K. and Europe. In fact it made it to number one in the U.K., his third number one [...]
Spore Heretic Hamfuggi Records Spore is a duo composed of Deborah Fialkiewicz and John Koser. Both are established artists in the world of electronic music and both have created some incredible art in their careers. However, both artists take [...]
Danny Goo Butterflies Atoned Music For years solo pop-punk-rap artist Danny Goo has perfected the cocktail of mixing both music genres. When entering the scene with his first EP, Danny Goo showed a grasp of writing intimate lyrics while [...]
Maya Lucia miss girl world Independent New York via Minneapolis artist Maya Lucia has an attitude. It is an attitude that makes her garage-fuelled pop rock truly work, so easily heard on her latest, seven-song EP miss girl world. Some might [...]
iskwē And Tom Wilson Mother Love iskwē Music Inc Mother Love is the first long-awaited collaborative album released by award winning artists iskwē | ᐃᐢᑫᐧᐤ (Cree Métis from Treaty One Territory ) and Tom Wilson | Tehoh’ahake (Mohawk). Here, [...]
Bryan James Duffy The Red Brick Road Independent Guitarist, singer, and songwriter Bryan James Duffy has been a working musician since the age of 17, and his musical journey has taken him from North Bay, ON to Toronto, and finally to Las Vegas, [...]
Blutengel Demon Kiss (25th Anniversary Edition) Out Of Line Music What had originally begun as a side project after German band Seelenkrank parted ways is now a year away from celebrating their 25th anniversary – the Berlin-based dark pop band [...]
Ally Cribb Unbroken Independent Let’s be clear about Ally Cribb and her latest EP Unbroken – it is pop, pure and simple. Now there’s three facts about pop to keep in mind here. It has to follow a set formula of being either [...]
Ian Blurton’s Future Now Second Skin Seeing Red Records Canadian musician and producer Ian Blurton has returned with his debut album, Second Skin, from his current project Future Now. Consisting of Blurton on lead vocals and guitar, Future [...]
Alan Parsons From The New World Frontiers Music SRL From The New World is Alan Parson’s sixth studio album since disbanding The Alan Parsons Project, and it is probably the closest sounding album to The Alan Parsons Project in his solo career. [...]
Primal Fear Primal Fear (Deluxe Edition) Atomic Fire Records In October 1997 Ralf Scheepers (vocals) and Mat Sinner (bass) formed Primal Fear in Germany. Both were well known in the heavy metal scene in Germany and they came together to form a [...]
Queen Kwong Couples Only Sonic Ritual The moment The Cure stepped on the scene with their dark, gothic pop rock, that dark sound just kept on going, even when it was not fully in vogue. These days, such dark music seems to be in full favour [...]
Rich Jacques Everything Must Change Cousteau Records A note that an artist is a Grammy-winner should be sign of quality, but that sign might have lost its significance in recent years. L.A artist, singer-songwriter, and producer Rich Jacques is [...]
