BOULDER FIELDS WITH ALL THE OTHER GHOSTS LET THERE BE NUMBERS Edinburgh, Scotland artist Cam Fraser has been around for a while, starting out as a punker with Cateran (supported Nirvana in UK back in 1989), then worked with Borrowed Books, and [...]
MOBY ALWAYS CENTERED AT NIGHT MUTE Moby’s Always Centered at Night, released on June 14, features collaborations with Lady Blackbird and Benjamin Zephaniah. The album showcases Moby’s signature style of glittery melodies and warm, [...]
EAMON FOGARTY I’M AN ANIMAL NOW ORPHEAN KIOSK RECORDS How much of the (for some dreaded) genre of prog rock has filtered through into another ‘dreaded’ genre of singer-songwriter? Quite a bit it seems, particularly as both [...]
TOPSY TURVY BUTT SORE SILUH RECORDS Reinventing the modern alternative music scene, Viennese indie rock darlings Topsy Turvy have released their debut album Butt Sore. The group, made up of guitarist Theresa Strohmer, drummer Lena Pöttinger, and [...]
BORED AT MY GRANDMAS HOUSE SHOW & TELL CLUE RECORDS Leeds-based musical project Bored At My Grandmas House has a new release, Show & Tell. The 12-song album has evoked many thoughts from myself upon my countless re-listens, and I have [...]
PAUL McCARTNEY & WINGS ONE HAND CLAPPING MPL/UNIVERSAL Paul McCartney recently turned 82, and he is as busy as ever. He is not slowing down one bit. Along with a sold-out tour of South America, Europe, and the U.K, he has been busy with [...]
THE LUSTRE THE LUSTRE INDEPENDENT Everyone loves a feel-good story, and the history of The Lustre is a great feel-good story of friends, music fans and a bunch of guys who got together to play music. The six-member band started with two friends, [...]
LOREENA McKENNITT THE MASK AND THE MIRROR LIVE QUINLAN ROAD In 1994, Loreena McKennitt released her fifth studio album, The Mask And The Mirror, and it became her breakthrough album. It went gold in the U.S., triple platinum in Canada, and she [...]
THE DECEMBERISTS AS IT EVER WAS, SO IT WILL BE AGAIN YABB RECORDS/THIRTY TIGERS It’s been six years since the seasoned veterans, The Decemberist, graced us with an album. The long-awaited project, As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again, will be [...]
JESSICA WILDE TEACH ME HOW TO LOVE ABSOLUTE LABEL SERVICES When critics aren’t sure where to neatly categorize a solo artist, they usually reach for that often clumsy one – singer songwriter. Yet, these days, quite a few artists [...]
CLAN OF XYMOX EXODUS METROPOLIS RECORDS Clan of Xymox emerged from the depths of the Netherlands in 1981, unleashing their darkwave prowess upon the world. Their album Exodus is a testament to their mastery of the genre. If you have a morbid [...]
EELS EELS TIME! E WORKS RECORDS/PIAS RECORDINGS Since the 90s, EELS have been a pivotal band to alternative and indie rock. Despite not reaching quite the huge popularity and fame as some of their contemporaries, their influence is undeniable [...]
LIZ LAWRENCE PEANUTS CHRYSALIS RECORDS Liz Lawrence, well-known to indie folk lovers for her 2019 album Pity Party, has crafted a delightful mix of ’00s indie and garage rock sounds in her fourth LP. It features a touch of Marika Hackman’s [...]
FRONT 242 ENDLESS RIDDANCE (40th ANNIVERSARY REISSUE) WAX TRAX! Front 242, the Belgian electro-maestros, burst onto the scene in 1981 like a disco ball on steroids. They’re the OGs of electronic body music (EBM), a genre that’s as [...]
SLOW JOY MI AMIGO SLOW JOY MICK MUSIC Slow Joy is Dallas via New Mexico artist Esteban Flores, who started out back in 2020 with a pair of singles that made quite some impact on TikTok, with kind of an indie rock sound that isn’t usually [...]
PSYCHIC GRAVEYARD WILTING ARTOFFACT RECORDS Psychic Graveyard is Eric Paul (vocals), Paul Vieria (guitar), Charles Ovett (drums) and Nathan Joyner (guitars and synthesizer) and Wilting is their fourth studio album. The music that these four guys [...]
LORI CULLEN THE THUNDER AND THE BAY INDEPENDENT With the release of The Thunder And The Bay, Toronto singer-songwriter Lori Cullen definitely has something to celebrate. The album is Cullen’s first full-length release since 2022’s Blood Wonder, [...]
HANK HERNANDEZ ME ON THE OTHER SIDE INDEPENDENT Hank Hernandez is the latest project from the very talented Bryan Binnema. Hank Hernandez has an interesting sound, and the EP is full of very catchy, well-written rock songs that tips its hat to [...]
THE BEATLES ABBEY ROAD APPLE CORPS LTD. ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 26, 1969 Abbey Road is The Beatles 11th studio album, their near-final album before they split up. It really feels like a conclusion, however, there’s room for [...]
THE WOGGLES TIME HAS COME WICKED COOL RECORDS The Woggles have been making music for over 30 years, and Time Has Come is their first full length album since 2017’s Tally Ho! The Woggles are not trying to reinvent themselves with Time Has Come. [...]
IDAHO LAPSE ARTS & CRAFTS Back in the 90s and on into the new century, Jeff Martin and Idaho were coming up with some of the best sounds within what was dubbed as slowcore. While all the sounds connected with slowcore slowly went into the [...]
THE BIRD CALLS OLD FAITHFUL RUINATION RECORD CO. Taking a similar route to the likes of Bill Callaghan and/or Will Oldham, often means that the artist in question is an individual that prefers solitude to create some delicate, well, [...]
ANASTASIA COOPE DARNING WOMAN JAGJAGUWAR Being labeled as a singer-songwriter and taking quite an experimental route with your music can be both a blessing and a curse for an artist. Doing that on your debut album, as Anastasia Coope does on [...]
RICHARD THOMPSON SHIP TO SHORE NEW WEST RECORDS Singer-songwriter-guitarist Richard Thompson is celebrating the release of new music with his album Ship To Shore. Thompson first made a name for himself in the 1960s as a pioneer of British [...]
