Barenaked Ladies Detour De Force Raisin’ Records Barenaked Ladies have been a consistent force since their beginnings in 1988, with the initial duet of friends Ed Robertson and Steven Page. With the current lineup of Robertson, Jim [...]
Acid Dad Take It From The Dead Greenway Records/The Reverberation Appreciation Society Following their 2018 self-titled debut, Acid Dad has returned with newly released LP Take It From the Dead, co-released by Greenway Records and The [...]
Chet Faker Hotel Surrender BMG “Music does something.” So begins Chet Faker’s opening monologue on his sophomore release Hotel Surrender. To call it his sophomore release is a bit if a misnomer – while this is technically the second Chet Faker [...]
John R. Miller Depreciated Rounder Records Yet another Americana/alt country album you would say? Maybe. That is a remark that you can encounter from anyone that isn’t too keen on the genre and takes only a cursory listen to Depreciated, [...]
A Place To Bury Strangers Hologram Dedstrange If you haven’t heard A Place to Bury Strangers (APTBS) since their arrival, making records about exploding heads and shows loud enough to do the same, not too much has changed. For fans of the [...]
Sylvia Sweet Stuff Wewantsounds The legacy of Sylvia Robinson is that as a hip-hop pioneer, she was the woman who pushed The Sugar Hill Gang into the studio to record “Rapper’s Delight”, the first ever recorded hip-hop track and mega hit – and [...]
Bryan Away Canyons To Sawdust Independent There are so many sounds around that have been dubbed as Baroque pop, that quite a few of those actually have no connection with either Baroque or pop. The phrase that was coined back in the second part [...]
The Wallflowers Exit Wounds New West Records Distance, patience, loss, and winning, and somewhere in between is Jakob Dylan, making choices. Over the decades, it seems he has been playing it safe enough not to fail. Whatever he does, however, [...]
Murray McLauchlan Hourglass True North Records/Linus Entertainment Murray McLauchlan’s debut album, Song From The Street was released 50 years ago. In all the years since that debut, McLauchlan has done pretty much what he wanted to do, and he [...]
Albino Bats Roots Pop Suicide Records Written, recorded, and performed entirely by himself, Roots is the creative work of Barrie, ON.’s Shane Heath. Furthermore, it is the debut album under the name of Heath’s latest project, Albino Bats. Roots [...]
Raymans Welcome To Gerrard Square Independent I guess it would have been a legal hassle to use anything connected with Rayman, the Ubisoft video game character, for your fledgling band. Just a few guys hanging on the street on a sunny day will [...]
Fox Run Distress Signals Tarantula Tapes Ontario-based melodic punk band, Fox Run, have released their debut EP, Distress Signals. The album follows a series of three singles, all released throughout 2020, making the six-track release highly [...]
Michael Cormier More Light!! Dear Life Records How do you survive in a music world as an artist these days? Unless you are a big name (and even then, it could be a problem), you have to take on a few musical roles, and then, that might not be [...]
Rose City Band Earth Trip Thrill Jockey Every discerning fan of modern-day psychedelia has encountered the name of guitarist Ripley Johnson. You see, Johnson is one of the driving forces behind some really accomplished psych that has come our [...]
Future Lives Spirit House Soft Magic Records Spirit House is the followup to Future Lives debut album, Mansions. One would think the latter would be very hard to top, but top it they did. Future Lives is a project that was started by former King [...]
Lacuna Coil Live From The Apocalypse Century Media Records Italian Goth metal rockers Lacuna Coil chose to respond to the global pandemic the best way they could. Live stream a full-on rock show to celebrate their recently released album Black [...]
Marc Almond Enchanted (Deluxe Expanded Edition) SFE/Cherry Red Enchanted was originally released in 1990 and was Marc Almond’s sixth solo outing after he took a break from Soft Cell. This album followed one of his most successful solo albums, [...]
Dynowaves Big Sun Tarantula Tapes Reminiscent of a simpler time – and a warmer coast – Dynowaves released their debut studio EP, Big Sun, in 2020. They have now partnered with Tarantula Tapes for a limited run of cassette. Hailing from the [...]
Whispering Sons Several Others PIAS It was only three years ago, in this very publication, that Belgium’s Whispering Sons were heralded as being the future of post-punk. This summer’s release of Several Others, their first full-length album [...]
Frank Zappa Zappa ‘88: The Last U.S. Show UMe/Zappa Records What can you say about Zappa that hasn’t been said before. He was a genius, an innovator, one of the best guitarists ever to grace the planet, funny, and passionate about what he was [...]
Ink Bomb/No Breakfast Goodbye Split Dental Records/Concrete Head Entertainment/Horn & Hoof Records Keeping with the punk tradition of splitting a release between two artists, Nijmegen, NL bands Ink Bomb and No Breakfast Goodbye have united [...]
Phantom Atlantic Your View Of A Former Me Indpendent Having made their debut in 2018 with a pair of singles, Toronto’s Phantom Atlantic have released their debut studio EP. Your View Of A Former Me follows the release of three singles since [...]
Tom Morello & The Bloody Beetroots The Catastrophists EP Independent Following the release of his 2020 solo EP, Comandante, Tom Morello has reunited with electronic outfit, The Bloody Beetroots for a collaborative release, The Catastrophists [...]
Mike Gale Twin Spirit Baboo Records Who can you call the UK version of a combination of Robert Pollard and R. Stevie Moore? Could be a hard choice to make, but here’s one proposal — Southampton’s Mike Gale. Not only is Gale as [...]
