BLUE ÖYSTER CULT 50th ANNIVERSARY LIVE – THIRD NIGHT FRONTIERS MUSIC From September 21 through to September 22, 2022, Blue Öyster Cult performed three very special shows at Sony Hall in New York City. They performed, in their entirety, [...]
CRACKER ALTERNATIVE HISTORY: A CRACKER RETROSPECTIVE COOKING VINYL Cracker’s new album, Alternative History: A Cracker Retrospective, is a boozy, bumpy and smoke-fueled ride through the band’s crazy career. It’s equal parts a tribute to [...]
LEON RAUM BASEMENT MEDITATION SONAR KOLLEKTIV It might be that Basement Meditation is Leon Raum’s official debut EP, but this prolific German producer, drummer, multi-instrumentalist has been around for a while and has worked with several [...]
SAINT ETIENNE THE NIGHT HEAVENLY RECORDINGS Saint Etienne, probably one of the best electro-pop bands around may have previously released 11 excellent albums, but as a band, they haven’t been heard of for a while. It seemed that Sarah [...]
MENNO VERSTEEG WHY WE RUN ROYAL MOUNTAIN RECORDS Menno Versteeg has plenty to be proud of. The Hollerado co-founder and front man, who also performs and records with Anyway Gang, has previously released music under the pseudonym Mav Karlo. Why [...]
THE NATIONAL ROME 4AD The National have had a busy few years, encompassing two albums, a well-received Glastonbury headline slot, and a much-needed return to the top table of indie rock. This, then, doubles as a celebration of that re-ascension [...]
HOLY VOID ALL WILL BE REVEALED IN TIME INDEPENDENT Hailing from Winnipeg, MB, Holy Void is a six-piece alternative rock band. All Will Be Revealed In Time is their second full-length album, following 2019’s Naught, and a previous pair of EP’s [...]
MOVIELAND THEN & NOW 604 RECORDS Vancouver’s Movieland made a name for themselves in the 1990s with their shoegaze style of music. They established themselves due to their music being quite different from the then popular world of grunge. [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS BEST OF JETHRO TULL (REDUX) MAGNETIC EYE RECORDS Best Of Jethro Tull (Redux) is the second of two Jethro Tull tribute albums from Magnetic Eye Records. Both albums feature ‘heavy metal’ interpretations of classic Jethro Tull [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS AQUALUNG (REDUX) MAGNETIC EYE RECORDS Jethro Tull has been classified as an art rock band, prog rock, folk rock, and just play rock. They have never been seen as a heavy metal band. Sure, guitarist Martin Barre could trade licks [...]
CIAO MALZ SAFE THEN SORRY INDEPENDENT Ciao Malz is the moniker of Brooklyn-based Filipino American Malia DelaCruz, who has been releasing some subtle combination of bedroom and twee pop from 2022, releasing an EP and three singles, that showed [...]
THE PSYCH FI’S CAN CON BOBO INTEGRAL When we think about psychedelic music, our thoughts typically go to the bygone era of the 1960s and bands such as early Pink Floyd, Jefferson Airplane, and Sgt. Pepper-Era Beatles. Psychedelic rock is [...]
RENE TROSSMAN FALL FROM GRACE HOLD IT! There is a long tradition of American blues artists relocating to Europe and making a decent go of it. Rene is one recent example of this, though traveling a slightly different path than most, moving from [...]
JETHRO TULL THE JETHRO TULL CHRISTMAS ALBUM – FRESH SNOW AT CHRISTMAS CENTURY MEDIA RECORDS/INSIDE OUT MUSIC Originally titled The Jethro Tull Christmas Album when it was released in 2003, this was Jethro Tull’s 21st studio album and the last to [...]
JONO McCLEERY RECONCILE SONAR KOLLEKTIV It is a bit of a misnomer to label Jono McCleery as a singer/songwriter, at least in that traditional early-70S sense. McCleery, who has been around for a while now, seems to have only one [...]
TODD RUNDGREN GLOBAL (REISSUE) CLEOPATRA RECORDS Global was originally released in 2015 and was Todd Rundgren’s 25th studio album. This was a particularly prolific time for Rundgren, who released two albums that year. This re-release, on [...]
RIVAL SONS A PAIR OF ACES: LIVE FROM SANTA CATALINA ISLAND (PART 1) SACRED TONGUE RECORDINGS In 2021, Rival Sons traveled to Catalina Island, California to record a pair of performances entirely live off the floor. The first of these, A Pair Of [...]
MARILYN MANSON ONE ASSASSINATION UNDER GOD – CHAPTER 1 NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS Are you ready to add some shock-provoking music to your playlists because the legendary Marilyn Manson is making a grand comeback? His 12th album, One Assassination [...]
CURRENT SWELL PEACEKEEPER BLUE HERON MUSIC Life itself has so many moments, that when it comes to films or stories, creators will utilize montages to skip through certain chunks of time. Current Swell’s newest EP, Peacekeeper, feels like a [...]
THE ANIX VOLTAGE FiXT MUSIC When one listens to The Anix, there is a type of magical transcendence that happens. For the past six albums, The Anix has always taken listeners to a place of darkness, yet that tenebrous journey is always coloured [...]
JOAN ARMATRADING HOW DID THIS HAPPEN AND WHAT DOES IT NOW MEAN BMG Joan Armatrading’s 21st studio album, How Did This Happen And What Does It Now Mean, is her first album since 2021’s Consequence, and her first new rock songs in three years. As [...]
MÖTLEY CRÜE DR. FEELGOOD (35th ANNIVERSARY 2024 REMASTER) BMG If you were around for the original release of Dr. Feelgood in 1989, you’d remember the seismic impact of its debut. It marked the peak of Mötley Crüe’s popularity, solidifying [...]
BUSH SIXTEEN STONE (30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION) CRAFT RECORDINGS One of the most inescapable rock records of the ‘90s was Bush’s 1994 debut album Sixteen Stone. Propelled by hit singles “Comedown”, “Glycerine”, and “Machinehead”, all of which [...]
KIM DEAL NOBODY LOVES YOU MORE 4AD When you hear the words “Kim Deal’s first solo album”, you’d be forgiven for expecting to hear more of the same clattering rhythms and incongruous lyricism that made her a behemoth of the alternative rock scene [...]
