Alex Southey My Nights On The Island Independent There are two things you need to know about Alex Southey. First, the man is remarkably prolific. My Nights On The Island follows his last album, …And The Country Stirred which was released [...]
Sweet Nobody We’re Trying Our Best Daydream Records After initially being scheduled for release in summer 2020, the indie rock/pop band Sweet Nobody has at long last released their sophomore full-length album We’re Trying Our Best. Written by [...]
Crown Lands White Buffalo Universal Music With its upcoming Canadian tour with opener Skye Wallace kicking off in October, Canada’s most in-demand duo, Crown Lands, has returned with its latest EP, White Buffalo. It is a four-track EP, [...]
Annie Neeley Big Old Moon Independent One can never be certain when receiving advice from friends. “I’m sure that crab meat at the back of the fridge is fine to eat!” comes to mind. However, when the friend is Sarah Rudy (of West Virginia band [...]
Cancer Bats You’ll Never Break Us: Separation Sessions Vol. 2 New Damage Records Following the successful release of last year’s You’ll Never Break Us: Separation Sessions, veteran Canadian metal outfit Cancer Bats have returned with [...]
Gordie Tentrees Mean Old World Buckaroo Records Mean Old World is Yukon-based Gordie Tentrees seventh album, and is his first since 2018’s GRIT. With a title like Mean Old World, one would think this is a depressing folk album. Don’t let the [...]
Space Summit Life This Way Schoolkids Records Marty Willson-Piper is one hard working artist. He is currently in a number of bands (Anekdoten, Noctorum and MOAT), his own solo music, and now he introduces Space Summit, his latest project. It is [...]
Matthew Fowler The Grief We Gave Our Mother Signature Sounds For each and every artist that goes the singer songwriter route, there is always one, almost gigantic hurdle they have to jump over. That hurdle is at the same time a very complex one. [...]
Amyl And The Sniffers Comfort To Me Rough Trade Records Straight out of the gate, Comfort To Me, the second full release from Australia’s garage punk quartet, Amyl and the Sniffers, grabs you roughly by the collar and throws you into a [...]
Elvis Costello & The Attractions Spanish Model UMe This Year’s Girl was Elvis Costello’s first of many masterpieces to be released with his band, The Attractions. When remixing the record earlier this year for its extensive deluxe release, [...]
The Bevis Frond Little Eden Fire Records Many listeners who are not so familiar with Nick Saloman, aka The Bevis Frond, may wonder why he has such a staunch and unwavering following, whatever the size of that following is. The answer might be [...]
Andrew W.K. God Is Partying Napalm Records Ever since exploding onto the music scene in 2001 with monster party anthems that were heard worldwide and beyond, Andrew W.K. has been a champion of positivity, hard rock, and partying. 2018 marked a [...]
Saint Etienne I’ve Been Trying To Tell You Heavenly Recordings If you’ve ever taken Saint Etienne at face value, a very good electro pop band, you would be greatly mistaken. Behind every one of their releases, the trio has always had an [...]
The Used Heartwork (Deluxe Edition) Big Noise Music Group The Used have had nothing short of a spectacular run of a career since they first began to trailblaze the scene in the early 2000s with their 2002 release of their self-titled album. They [...]
Whitehorse Strike Me Down Six Shooter Records Inc. Whitehorse has maximized its musical prowess with Strike Me Down, its second full-length album release of this year, since early 2021’s Modern Love. The chemistry-laden Juno Awar-winning, [...]
Krista Hartman Transcend Independent Transcend is Krista Hartman’s fourth album, and her first since 2015’s Constellations. Her new album is a mixture of Canadiana, pop, and rock with hints of psychedelia. It is a fascinating and interesting [...]
Nico Hedley Painterly Whatever’s Clever Records How do you combine the countrified ramblings of one George Jones and wide excursions everywhere, particularly into jazzy plains of one and only Destroyer? If that is a question you need [...]
The Artisanals Zia Artisanals Records The Artisanals hail from Charleston, SC, and Zia is their second full-length album. It comes three years after their self-titled debut. The Artisanals are Johnny Delaware, Clay Houle, Eric Mixon and Eric [...]
The Northern Belle The Women In Me Die With Your Boots On Records Well, along with Americana, we’ve certainly got Canadiana, and a few other -ianas, to which we can certainly add Nordicana, as there is definitely a take on North [...]
Jinjer Wallflowers Napalm Records When looking at metal bands in the scene currently, some float to the top of the pool almost instantaneously. Jinjer is one of them. One of the hardest working bands in the scene, Jinjer has worked undoubtedly [...]
The Beach Boys Feel Flows: The Sunflower & Surf’s Up Sessions 1969-1971 (Super Deluxe) UMe/Capitol Records The post-Smile era Beach Boys is one that is often overlooked by the general public. Albums like Friends & 20/20, both lo-fi [...]
Gordon Downie Coke Machine Glow: Songwriters’ Cabal Arts & Crafts It is not an easy task to spin words about an album that was released 20 years ago, penned by one of this country’s most beloved characters, musicians, ambassadors for a [...]
Opus Orange Object Lessons Emoto Music Opus Orange is one Paul Bessenbacher and the ‘indie-rock’ Santa Monica, CA collective gathered around his ideas. That indie-rock categorization these days is usually something that denotes [...]
Chris Roberts Lost And Found Independent Many listeners shy away from artists that seemingly work with a set-out formula connected with any given musical genre. Just by sticking to the formula doesn’t get you very far, particularly in the [...]
