The Heck Heck Yeah!! Soundflat Records Only two years after their debut release Who? The Heck!!!, this three-piece band from the North of the Netherlands is back with another album of 1960s-inspired garage rock: Heck Yeah!! Recorded [...]
Good Lovelies B-Sides Fontana North The Good Lovelies are Caroline Brooks, Kerri Ough & Susan Passmore, and they have been making music since 2007. B-Sides is their first E.P. of new music since their Christmas album, Evergreen (2019). [...]
Lisa Gerrard & Jules Maxwell Burn Atlantic Curve Dead Can Dance members Lisa Gerrard and Jules Maxwell have teamed up with producer James Chapman (MAPS) for a new album to be released this spring. Burn is a new project with London-based [...]
Sumo Cyco Initiation Napalm Records Canadian alternative-metal cult favourites Sumo Cyco have returned with not only their third album, but also, their label debut. Initiation follows 2017’s Opus Mar and builds on the distinctive sound of the [...]
Sufjan Stevens Convocations Asthmatic Kitty Sufjan Stevens never does the expected, never has, and no doubt never will. Following the success of his 2020 release The Ascension, he has followed it up with a five-album box set titled Convocations. [...]
This Twisted Wreckage Ei8ht Independent This Twisted Wreckage is the latest project from Luke “Skyscraper” James, former frontman and guitarist for the band Fàshiön, and more recently a member of The Pull Of Autumn. For This Twisted Wreckage, [...]
Tetrarch Unstable Napalm Records You better sit up and take notice of the Atlanta-turned-LA-based band, Tetrarch, as they have only begun to make themselves known. The highly anticipated, and well worth the wait sophomore album came out [...]
Phantom Handshakes No More Summer Songs Z Tapes It just might be that boundaries are going away, at least, as far as music is concerned. New York duo Matt Sklar and Federica Tassano that work as Phantom Handshakes, have released their second [...]
Nick Hudson Font Of Human Fractures Independent Modern music genres can really be strange constructs. They can be proclaimed on the basis of musical structures, lyrics or just simply the mood they create. Very often though, they overlap, and you [...]
Telex This Is Telex Mute Records The partnership of Belgian synth-pop pioneers Telex with Mute Records to re-issue the band’s back catalogue is a logical fit, and it launches with career retrospective This Is Telex. Rather than assimilating them [...]
Heavy Petter/Lightmares Heavy Petter/Lightmares Tarantula Tapes Teaming up for a split release is Barrie’s Heavy Petter and Sudbury’s Lightmares. The four-track cassette release – via Tarantula Tapes – is spilt between the two bands like a pair [...]
Royal Blood Typhoons Warner Music If neon had a sound, it would be the sleek grit of Royal Blood’s third album, Typhoons. Following the release of 2017’s How Did We Get So Dark?, the duo has seemingly traded in their rough and raw rock tone for [...]
Guided By Voices Earth Man Blues Rockathon Records “A collage of rejected songs” is how Guided by Voices’ Robert Pollard describes Earth Man Blues which sounds, y’know… not great, Bob. This humble, tongue-in-cheek sentiment runs the risk of [...]
Murray Acton Covid-19 Nervous Breakdown Independent On the subject of COVID-19, Murray “The Cretin” Acton has a lot to say on his debut solo album. For a guy who has been touring with Canadian punk legends Dayglo Abortions since 1979, it’s easy [...]
Beartaker Virtuous Signal Independent Canadian two-piece pandemic collaborators Jeremy Widerman (Monster Truck) and Theo McKibbon have reunited following the release of their debut EP, Total Disgrace, in April 2020. Their latest release, [...]
Peter Frampton Frampton Forgets The Words UMe/Universal Music Canada When a new album from an aging rock star is released, the fact is often received with a bit of an eye-roll. “Who do they think they are? Their best years are behind them…” – [...]
Cream Live At The Forum (Limited Blue Vinyl Edition) UMe/Polydor This is some heavy Cream. “Sitting On Top Of The World” was where the band once stood, and where they stood while recording this particular Los Angeles show, back in [...]
John Lennon John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band – The Ultimate Collection (Super Deluxe Box Set) Apple/Universal Music Reviewing a reissue or rerelease is never really easy. For me, there are a few considerations. Does the album deserve to find a [...]
Steve Cropper Fire It Up Provogue/Mascot Label Group Stax Records was one of the most revered labels of the 60s and 70s – at least where gritty, funky soul music is concerned. Steve Cropper was one of its leading architects; originally guitarist [...]
Motörhead Louder Than Noise… Live In Berlin Silver Lining Music Despite passing away in 2015, the legacies of Lemmy Kilmister and Motörhead have remained among rock and metal’s most revered of titans. Since his passing, Motörhead have released a [...]
Dirty Honey Dirty Honey LP Independent Among the most promising of the current u- and-coming rock bands to emerge from America is Dirty Honey. Returning with their first full-length album, and their follow-up to their debut studio EP that [...]
Gilby Clarke The Gospel Truth Golden Robot Records While best known as the rhythm guitarist for Guns N’ Roses on the Use Your Illusion tour, Gilby Clarke has enjoyed a small solo career through the ‘90s into the early 2000s. The guitarist has [...]
Various Artists Brown Acid: The Twelfth Trip RidingEasy Records How long can these people have this going on? Wasn’t the Brown Acid compilation(s) just a one or a few volumes thing? Or maybe it was a gimmick? Whatever the thing is, [...]
The Offspring Let The Bad Times Roll Concord Records/Universal Music Canada As one of the greatest selling punk band of all time, The Offspring have released their first album in nearly a decade. Let The Bad Times Roll, a record adorned with [...]
