Supergrass In It For The Money (Remastered Expanded Edition) BMG With no better reason for Supergrass to reform in 2019 than the fact that playing in a million-selling band can be a decent job, the act of re-issuing an album called In It for the [...]
The Bronx The Bronx VI Cooking Vinyl LA punk outfit, The Bronx, has returned with their first new record since 2019’s Dead Tracks, Vol. 2. The Bronx VI follows the release of five singles throughout 2021 – “White Shadow”, “Superbloom”, “Watering [...]
Dakota Jones Black Light Lord Please Records When you love old-fashioned blues and soul and want to refresh them for the tastes that are prevalent today, you really have a problem ahead of you. You want to keep ‘that old stuff’ in [...]
One Way Out The Sun, The Moon, The Truth Independent Having released their debut EP, Black & White, in 2018 and the following Cosmic Beat album in 2019, DC rock band One Way Out have released their sophomore full length album, The Sun, The [...]
The Furious Seasons Home All Day, Home All Night Stonegarden Records David Steinhart has been one of the stalwarts of the Los Angeles indie folk scene since the 80s, either solo or as a member of Pop Art, Smart Brown Handbag, and now The Furious [...]
The Follow Ups/Dave Rocket And The Jobbers The Follow Ups/Dave Rocket And The Jobbers Tarantula Tapes Moncton, NB’s punk band The Follow Ups as well as Sarnia, ON’s Dave Rocket And The Jobbers have teamed up for a split album released on [...]
John Ford Life In A Foreign Town Whole Shot Records Life In A Foreign Town is John Ford’s first solo album since 2015’s A Better Day. It has been a while since we have heard from Mr. Ford, and he has been missed. He has been busy, performing [...]
Magnum Dopus Suburbanova Independent How do you characterize a rock music genre that goes under the title of goth, and where does it stem from? Of course, many would point to the 80s and bands that stemmed from the almighty New Wave, anybody [...]
Various Artists Almost Famous Soundtrack (Expanded Uber Box Set) Universal Music Involving personal experience and emotions in art can be quite a tricky proposition. You either fail miserably or you come up with something that has a timeless [...]
Rene Trossman Live In Prague Hold It! Guitarist and singer Rene Trossman cut his blues teeth in the small clubs of Chicago back in the ‘80s, which he sings about this on the fine shuffle “Down At Rosa’s”, before he settled in Prague in the Czech [...]
Anthony Leclair Whisky Moon: Live From The Floor Independent After years of writing about other artists and having spent the pandemic live streaming originals and covers, Deep River, Ont.- based singer-songwriter Anthony Leclair has released his [...]
Cigar Club Day, Now Snareguy Records Toronto’s Cigar Club have been following their 2019 debut self-titled studio EP with a series of singles released throughout the first half of the year. The five singles – “Swimin’ In Gold”, “…Aliens”, “From [...]
Blacktop Mojo Blacktop Mojo Independent Next to Dirty Honey, Blacktop Mojo may very well be America’s biggest independent rock band. Returning with their fourth full length album, Blacktop Mojo follows their 2020 EP, Static. Most noteworthy, [...]
Cots Disturbing Body Boiled Records How many Canadian artists do you know that spent time as bookkeepers in Brazil? If the answer is none, then here’s one — Steph Yates, who also goes by the name of Cots, and who just came up with a [...]
The Dreamboats Back To The Start Dreamboats Records A new release from The Dreamboats is long overdue, but it is so welcome. Back To The Start is, to borrow a phrase, pure pop for now people. It is their third release and it does demonstrate [...]
Various Artists Legends Play The Beatles Cleopatra Records Since The Beatles exploded on the scene in 1964, there have been tribute albums in many different genres. Chet Atkins, Count Basie, The Hollyridge Strings and so many more have taken [...]
Sparks ANNETTE (CANNES EDITION – SELECTIONS FROM THE ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) Milan Records Sparks have been very busy of late. In 2020 they released A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip, which was followed by a very interesting documentary [...]
John Jenkins If You Can’t Forgive, You Can’t Love Fretsore Records If You Can’t Forgive, You Can’t Love is John Jenkins seventh studio album, and he just keeps getting better and better. Building on the brilliant Growing Old – [...]
Night Ranger ATBPO Frontiers Music SRL ATBPO (which stands for And The Band Played On) is Night Ranger’s 13th studio album, and for this one, their first since 2017’s Don’t Let Up, they come out rocking hard. From the opening track to the last, [...]
George Harrison All Things Must Pass (50th Anniversary Edition) Apple/Universal All Things Must Pass was originally released in November, 1970. It was George Harrison’s third solo album, following 1968’s soundtrack, Wonderwall Music By George [...]
Steve Benjamins Volume 1 Independent Sometimes a musician comes along whose approach and delivery of their craft speaks volumes to the soul. Steve Benjamins has been one of those for me, with his music that speaks of faith, love, the beautiful [...]
Hipbone Slim And The Kneetremblers Tremblin’ Dirty Water Records Hipbone Slim’s universe collides with ours every so often. On the evidence of this 40-track double CD set, it’s probably happened around 1956, 1963, 1968, 1982 and, very [...]
mattlayn Songs I Play In The Dark Independent Over the past decade, Matthew Layne has been an important figure for the Toronto and Ontario musical community, working behind the scenes, having managed Crown Lands and The Jailbirds, and, [...]
1st Base Runner Seven Years Of Silence Universal There are two ways you can approach music in dark times like these. One is to make music as dark or even darker. The other is to do completely the opposite and come up with some light, fluffy [...]
