Danielle Durack No Place Undertow Music “Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.” ~Rumi Writing an album can be pretty [...]
Sting The Soul Cages (Expanded Edition) Universal Music Thirty years ago, Sting released his third solo album, The Soul Cages. Written largely in response to the passing of his father, it was a critical favourite that would net Sting his first [...]
Front Line Assembly Mechanical Soul Metropolis Records After over three decades of music from industrial greats Front Line Assembly, they’ve now released their 17th album, Mechanical Soul. 10 tracks, plus a remix of “Hatevol” from their [...]
Grievous Angels Summer Before The Storm Jimmy Boyle Records The Grievous Angels made their debut in 1986, and The Summer Before The Storm, their eighth album, is their strongest to date. The band has help here from special guest, Skydigger’s [...]
USS Einsteins Of Consciousness Coalition Music/Warner Music Canada On January 8, 2021, Toronto’s Ubiquitous Synergy Seekers, lovingly known as USS, are gearing up to release their sixth and final album Einsteins of Consciousness. One thing is [...]
Artificial Dissemination Modern Day Peasants Tarantula Tapes Hailing from Toronto and Hamilton, Artificial Dissemination has released their latest album, Modern Day Peasants. The album is the fifth release from the two-piece band to be released [...]
The Dirty Nil Fuck Art Dine Alone Records Fuck Art is the third studio album from the Hamilton, Ont.-based The Dirty Nil, in which they reaffirm their commitment to keeping the spirit of rock ‘n’ roll alive. Partially recorded in Toronto’s Union [...]
Shawn Benfield The Shorter It Gets, The Harder It Hits... Shotgunn Records There must be something in the drinking water in The Appalachians, as here we have yet another artist from that region making his debut with the EP The Shorter It [...]
George Thorogood And The Destroyers Live In Boston, 1982: The Complete Concert Craft Recordings George Thorogood has been making music since the early 1970s, with his roots firmly grounded in the Delta Blues. However, when he formed The Delaware [...]
Paul McCartney McCartney III MPL/Capitol Paul McCartney has always used music to get through difficult times. In 1970, when the Beatles split, he came out with the classic McCartney in 1980. As Wings were falling apart, McCartney gave us [...]
The Kinks Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround, Part One: 50th Anniversary Edition Box-Set BMG Originally released in the winter of 1970, Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround gave The Kinks their biggest hit single in five years, [...]
Splinter Never Went Back Gonzo Multimedia British duo Splinter’s first three albums were released on George Harrison’s Dark Horse Records label between 1974 and 1977. Although they were never able to match the success of their debut, they [...]
Belle And Sebastian What To Look For In Summer Matador Records Those that did not have the chance to see Belle and Sebastian live might question how both their musically and lyrically intricate material would transfer to a live performance. [...]
Guided By Voices Styles We Paid For Rockathon Records The new Guided By Voices album wasn’t supposed to be like this. At the beginning of the year, band mastermind Robert Pollard was plotting an album recorded entirely with analog equipment, [...]
Chris Cornell No One Sings Like You Anymore Universal Music Few, if any, can take a cover and adapt it in a manner quite like Chris Cornell could. This was previously apparent through his 2007 transformation of Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean”, [...]
Coco Reilly Coco Reilly Golden Wheel Records The number of current artists trying to channel music from the bygone years of rock grows by the day. In most cases, they try to mimic certain genre or genres concentrating more on style than [...]
Mary Hopkin A Christmas Chorale Mary Hopkin Music Mary Hopkin made a welcome and surprising return to the music world in 2020 with Another Road. Now, she is back with A Christmas Chorale. Here, Hopkin works with her two children, Morgan [...]
Lee Fields & The Expressions Big Crown Vaults Vol. 1 Big Crown Records “Genre: Soul/ Funk” this download states, and ain’t that the truth. Field’s soul roots go back to the classic era of the ‘60s, and it is apparent on this “from the [...]
The White Stripes The White Stripes Greatest Hits Third Man Records/Columbia Records It happens to the best of the best of them–and the dynamic Detroit duo of Jack and Meg White, who performed under the moniker of The White Stripes, [...]
Edward McCormack Rest In Place Independent Rest In Place is McCormack’s follow-up to Astral/Aphotic, released in June 2020. With McCormack quantity does not affect quality, quite the reverse actually. He presents a collection of 15 moving [...]
The Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Outtakes Brubeck Editions If ever there was a single album that acted as a gateway to the genre for generations of jazz school students while also managing to push the style forward, so much so that it’s lasting [...]
Bastille Goosebumps Republic Records/ Universal Music Bastille continues to push the possibilities for electro-pop music on its surprise EP Goosebumps. While the title track is a perfect single to entice listeners, “survivin’” is actually better [...]
Nils Frahm Tripping With Nils Frahm Erased Tapes Saying these days that the music of an artist belongs to the category of modern classical doesn’t mean much, mainly because the word ‘category’ sticks out. Many of such artists, [...]
Audio Visceral Gnu Two Ewe Tarantula Tapes Hailing from Vankleek Hill, Ont., Audio Visceral, is a three-piece punk outfit of beer drinking deviants. They have just released Gnu Two Ewe, after having partnered with Tarantula Tapes. The album is [...]
