audiobooks Astro Tough Heavenly Recordings You’re at the wrong listening party if you’re anticipating London duo audiobooks will deliver songs with comprehensive narratives and linear structure. On Astro Tough, the languid reference points [...]
Erin Alissa Restless Independent Finding your place among notable singer songwriters working within the Americana/country pop genre can get harder day by day, particularly when artists like Kasey Musgraves have set the standard bar so high. You [...]
Cashavelly Morrison Metamorphosis Independent Artists often have a hit and miss affairs when they name their releases. Very few hit a title that truly explains the music contained in the grooves, or stream bits, if you will. In a way, North [...]
Maria Elena Silva Eros Big Ego Records Chris Schlarb, who produced, mixed and plays guitar on Eros, describes Maria Elena Silva’s debut album for his Big Ego Records label as “a delicate art-pop record with an improvisational-jazz [...]
Goodbye Honolulu Goodbye Honolulu Independent Toronto-based band Goodbye Honolulu has been together for a long time, honing its skills in local bars and curating its own concerts and festivals for several years. With that groundwork laid and the [...]
Ducks Ltd. Modern Fiction Royal Mountain Records Ducks Ltd., or Toronto duo Tom McGreevy and Evan Lewis, seem to be connecting dots across the globe with their latest album Modern Fiction, from Toronto, to Bristol, and from England to Dunedin, [...]
Stone Cold Crows Original Sin Pt. I Independent Perhaps the coolest musical project to emerge out of Ontario over the last year is Stone Cold Crows, from vocalist and guitarist Mitch Cuming and drummer Bryson Emmons. The two have released a [...]
Various Artists The Daptone Super Soul Revue Live At The Apollo Daptone Records The discussion of neo-soul and funk is incomplete without Daptone Records. The label has proven to be invaluable to furthering the genre for nearly 20 years. With a [...]
Infrared From The Black Swamp Inframental Records Infrared delivers vintage thrash metal with styles comparable to Slayer, Testament, and early Anthrax. All good things typically come back around and this old-school sound is a refreshing change [...]
Poppy Flux Sumerian Records When looking at Poppy’s career over the best few years, her musical style has been undeniably alluring, confident, and dynamic in her delivery. Her releases have proven that she can tackle a myriad of genres to [...]
Mac McCaughan The Sound Of Yourself Merge Records Knowing that Mac McCaughan has been the front man for both Superchunk and Portastatic, what kind of sound would you expect to her from his latest solo effort, The Sound of Yourself? Well, if you [...]
Blancmange Commercial Break Blanc Check Records Commercial Break is Blancmange’s 14th album, and their second 2021 release since (Nil By Mouth III was released in March). Blancmange is really Neil Arthur, working, once again, with Benge. Here, [...]
Angels & Airwaves Lifeforms Rise Records Angels & Airwaves, a band that front man Tom DeLonge, formerly of Blink-182 likes to describe as a multimedia project rather than a band, have just released their 6th studio album Lifeforms. Fans [...]
Caroline Marie Brooks Everything At The Same Time Outside Music It is always great to hear an artist who grew up in my home town of Whitby, which is where Caroline Marie Brooks spent her early years and got her start performing with her family [...]
Ringo Starr Change The World Ume/Universal Music Ringo Starr is back! Six months since his first official EP, here he is with another one, Change The World. Once again, Starr is working with his famous friends, and he knocks it out of the park. [...]
Andy Shauf Wilds Arts & Crafts Listening to an Andy Shauf album is similar to watching a Wes Anderson movie. Both present immaculately produced worlds, full of quirky characters and narratives that reflect reality, or at least reality [...]
Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine A Beginner’s Mind Asthmatic Kitty Records Sufjan Stevens has never been one to shy away from gimmicky concept albums. After all, his discography includes two 50+ song albums dedicated to Christmas, [...]
Mandoki Soulmates Utopia For Realists: Hungarian Pictures Century Media Records Leslie Mándoki (Mándoki László) was born in Budapest, Hungary and had to flee the country in 1975 to Munich, West Germany to avoid persecution from the Communist [...]
Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection Full Time Hobby If the last name Cullum rings a bell, to the disappointment of many, or to the delight of equally large group of listeners, this is another Englishman, [...]
Ryan James Brewer Tender Amphion Recordings How do you combine sunny, sunshine SoCal pop vibe, with something so serious as suicide and depression among musicians and artists in general? Even though something like that might sound as completely [...]
OF MONSTERS AND MEN MY HEAD IS AN ANIMAL (10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION) REPUBLIC RECORDS Icelandic band Of Monsters and Men have released a 10th Anniversary edition of their debut album My Head Is An Animal. This edition includes four tracks not on [...]
Ronnie Wood & The Ronnie Wood Band Mr. Luck – A Tribute To Jimmy Reed: Live At The Royal Albert Hall BMG Returning with his most recent live album with a tribute album to a blues legend, Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood has [...]
José González Local Valley Mute José González is back. Local Valley is the first new album by González in six years, following the 2015 release of Vestiges & Claws. This album also marks the first album featuring songs in all three of his [...]
Lizzie Loveless You Don’t Know Egghunt Records It is a long way from Halifax, NS to New York City. Whatever Lizzie Lieberson picked up on her way from her hometown beyond her nom de plume of Lizzie Loveless down seems to have worked [...]
