Mush Down Tools Memphis Industries Since their first release three years ago, Leeds quartet Mush have been pushing it hard, coming up with three albums in as many years, having just released Down Tools, being that third one. At the same time, [...]
Nate Paladino Drown With Me Independent If Drown with Me sounds like a bit of a dark, bleak title for an album, you are actually on the right track with the latest album by Orange County, CA singer songwriter Nate Paladino. But what does sunny, [...]
The Eighty Six Seas This Is Just A Simple Song Independent Brooklyn singer songwriter Nick Stevens, the man behind The Eighty Six Seas moniker, tries quite a bit to make sure that This Is Just a Simple Song, the title of his debut, six-song EP [...]
Alice Cohen Moonrising Styles Upon Styles Records/Dinosaur City Records Moonrising is Alice Cohen’s first album since 2019’s Artificial Fairytales. Cohen is known as a musician and fine artist who is never afraid to try new and exciting things [...]
Shinedown Planet Zero Atlantic Records Shinedown is returning with their seventh studio album, Planet Zero. This 20-track in-your-face album with 13 actual songs, comes at a time when it coincidentally feels as though a terrifying dystopian [...]
Teddy And The Rough Riders Teddy And The Rough Riders Appalachia Record Co. There’s quite a number of artists these days trying to recreate and combine the West Coast sounds of the late 60s and early to mid-70s. Some do or did it with more [...]
Alexisonfire Otherness Dine Alone Records Despite releasing a string of stellar singles throughout 2019 to 2020, Niagara, ON’s very own Alexisonfire have now made a proper return that is nothing short of triumphant with their latest album, [...]
Caleb Nichols Ramon Kill Rock Stars When the album starts with a song titled “Listen to The Beatles,” you can be sure which way things are going, at least, musically. And Caleb Nichols, a musician, writer, poet, and librarian [...]
The Tragically Hip Live At The Roxy Universal Music Canada 1991 was a momentous year for The Tragically Hip. The five-piece had months earlier released their sophomore album, Road Apples, the follow-up to their debut LP, Up To Here. On May 3rd, [...]
The Dreadnoughts Roll And Go Stomp Records The Dreadnoughts have been baptized with a variety of classifications, from “cluster folk” to “polka punk” to “ciderpunk”. Their new album, Roll and Go, pulls together all the genres they have [...]
Projected Hypoxia Rat Pak Records New York rock and metal band Projected has been called a supergroup not just because of members John Connolly (Sevendust), Eric Friedman (Tremonti), Vinnie Hornsby (Sevendust), and Scott Phillips (Alter Bridge) [...]
Various Artists Through The Soil II Independent Any compilation, and particularly those that are set up as benefits, are always laced with good intentions, but not always with a fully satisfying set of songs. Listeners and potential supporters [...]
Praises In This Year: Hierophant Hand Drawn Dracula Praises, aka Jesse Crowe, caused quite a stir with Spill Magazine back in 2018 with their debut album In This Year: Ten of Swords. Four years on, and they’re back with yet another Tarot [...]
London Plane Bright Black Declared Goods London Plane brings a marked evolution in their sound on their second album, Bright Black. The New York City six-piece brings on a darker, more complex, larger sounding, melancholic gothic rock feel on [...]
Dylan Moon Option Explore RVNG Intl. Anybody who had a chance to hear Dylan Moon’s initial album Only the Blues, from 2019 might be taken aback by what is in the grooves (or bits) of his follow-up, Option Explore. Instead of the Syd [...]
1st Base Runner Light Roars Independent Tim Husmann, aka 1st Base Runner has been on a hot streak for a few years now with his brand of dark, electronic modern gothic-oriented sounds, bringing the 80scool 40 years forward. Any changes on his [...]
The Dream Syndicate Ultraviolet Battle Hymns And True Confessions Fire Records The Dream Syndicate came, dropped a few brilliant modern psych albums (The Days of Wine and Roses, would be quite enough), including one of the best live albums [...]
Wardruna Kvitravn – First Flight Of The White Raven Music For Nations/Sony Music/Columbia Germany/Bynorse Einar Selvik is the storyteller and mastermind behind Wardruna, the Norwegian atmospheric musical group reviving ancient Nordic [...]
Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage: Live At The Palladium Metal Blade Records Killswitch Engage has stood the test of time by being one of the most accomplished bands in the metal scene today. For a band that has many record-breaking [...]
The Fixx Every Five Seconds The Orchard/BFD/JARC Records The Fixx made their debut in 1982 with their debut album Shuttered Room. Of course, they had formed earlier and paid their dues in the clubs in the U.K. but when they delivered their debut [...]
Prince And The Revolution Prince And The Revolution: Live Sony Music While released for a limited time in 2020 – a time when everyone was seemingly dropping new and archived live releases and streams – the Prince estate has officially released [...]
Max Roach Members, Don’t Git Weary Real Gone Music Despite passing in 2007, Max Roach remains a quintessential figure among modern jazz as not only an influential drummer, but as one of the musicians who led the shift in the genre in the [...]
S.G. Goodman Teeth Marks Verve Forecast One of the key reasons many listeners shy away from singer songwriters as a general music genre is lack of variation. The mention that, usually, it is just the artist and her/his guitar or piano, voice and [...]
Angel Olsen Big Time Jagjaguwar A country album by Angel Olsen is something I never knew I needed. But I did, and I got it… with a twist. “Out with the bangs, in with the twangs,” she declares. Olsen’s albums have all been different [...]
