BLACKWATER HOLYLIGHT NOT HERE NOT GONE SUICIDE SQUEEZE RECORDS Blackwater Holylight is a hard rocking trio, originally from Portland, OR, but now based in Los Angeles. The band consists of Allison “Sunny” Faris (guitars, bass and vocals), Eliese [...]
SOFTCULT WHEN A FLOWER DOESN’T GROW EASY LIFE RECORDS Softcult’s debut album arrives after a run of EPs that never felt disposable but fully realized on their own, Year of the Snake especially pointing toward something larger. Self-produced by [...]
WARREN HAYNES TALES OF ORDINARY MADNESS (2026 REMIX) MEGAFORCE RECORDS Warren Haynes, Grammy Award-winning member of the Allman Brothers and frontman of Gov’t Mule, steps back into the spotlight with a revitalized release of his solo album Tales [...]
JOYCE MANOR I USED TO GO TO THIS BAR EPITAPH RECORDS Joyce Manor’s sixth studio album, I Used To Go To This Bar, arrives in classic Joyce Manor fashion. Coming in at 9 tracks and 19 minutes long, Barry Johnson, Chase Knobbe, and Matt Ebert spend [...]
THE MOLOTOVS WASTED ON YOUTH MARSHALL RECORDS The Molotovs look like being 2026’s ‘chosen’ band, with the hype burning like a petrol fire as Wasted On Youth gets set to come down the pike. So, having finally got hold of it, does it live up to [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS LOUDER THAN YOU THINK: A LO-FI HISTORY OF GARY YOUNG & PAVEMENT (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) INDEPENDENT PROJECT RECORDS In 2023, Gary Young passed away. The original drummer of Pavement has since been the subject of [...]
BUZZCOCKS ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT CHERRY RED RECORDS Attitude Adjustment, the new album from the Buzzcocks, shows that Steve Diggle and company are very serious about keeping the legendary Buzzcocks name and music alive and kicking. As with the [...]
URNE SETTING FIRE TO THE SKY SPINEFARM RECORDS When it comes to URNE’s sound, such textures thrive on the tension between emotional weight and the wonder that embodies their diverse melodies, which have come to make up the firestorm of grit, [...]
HOWARD JONES LIVE AT THE MARQUEE CHERRY RED RECORDS I was lucky to see Howard Jones on his first Canadian tour in 1984. It was just following the release of his first solo album, Human’s Lib, and he was brilliant and energetic. He put on a great [...]
GOLDFINGER NINE LIVES BIG NOISE Goldfinger is back in action, delivering another infectious dose of ska-punk with their aptly titled album, Nine Lives. The album’s name resonates, considering Goldfinger’s remarkable 33-year history since their [...]
JULIAN TAYLOR ANTHOLOGY VOL. II BOWLING TURTLE With over 25 years in the game, Julian Taylor remains among Toronto’s most prolific songwriters. Contrary to 2023’s Anthology Vol. 1, which focused primarily on his work with the Julian Taylor Band, [...]
LESS THAN JAKE BORDERS & BOUNDARIES (25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION) FAT WRECK CHORDS I really wish pop-punk bands would stop making me feel old. The latest in what seems to be a raft of anniversary releases, Borders & Boundaries is a portrait [...]
T. GOLD LIFE IS A WONDER AND IT’S CRUEL SLEEPY CAT RECORDS No, this is not a somewhat melancholic, soul-inflected singer songwriter behind a name or a moniker of T. Gold, but a core duo of Saman Khoujinian and Gabe Anderson, supported by a [...]
SYKOFANT LEAVES SYCOPHANTASTIC RECORDS Sykofant is a progressive rock band from Oslo, Norway, consisting of Emil Moen (guitar, vocals), Melvin Treider (drums), Per Semb (guitar), and Sindre Haugen (bass). Their new EP, Leaves, is actually part [...]
YĪN YĪN YATTA! GLITTERBEAT Dutch-based psychedelic band YĪN YĪN embraces the perfect imbalance in their fourth record, Yatta!, which translates to ‘We did it!’ in Japanese. YĪN YĪN is known for their blend of Southeast Asian influences, disco, [...]
THE JACK RUBIES VISIONS IN THE BOWLING ALLEY BIG STIR RECORDS The London-based band The Jack Rubies debuted in 1986 featuring Ian Wright (lead vocals, guitar), SD Ineson (backing vocals, guitar), Steve Brockway (bass), Lawrence Giltnane [...]
THE EAST POINTERS SCHOONERTOWN NETTWERK The East Pointers emerged from the East Coast modern folk music scene in 2015 with their debut album, Secret Victory, which went on to win the Juno for Traditional Roots Album of the Year. Schoonertown is [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS MUSIK MUSIC MUSIQUE 1979 – THE ROOTS OF SYNTHPOP CHERRY RED RECORDS The punk explosion of 1976 sent shock waves across the music world. One may not think of punk and electronic music, but there was a connection. A number of [...]
THE DAMNED NOT LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE EARMUSIC The Damned formed in 1976 and featured Dave Vanian (vocals), Brian James (guitar), Raymond Ian “Captain Sensible” Burns (bass), and Christopher “Rat Scabies” Millar (drums). [...]
KATIE TUPPER GREYHOUND ARTS & CRAFTS Katie Tupper’s new album is the kind of project that doesn’t ask for your attention, it earns it. If I could describe this album in one word, it would be raw. There’s an unmistakable honesty threaded [...]
DELANEY BAILEY CONCAVE AWAL These days the term singer songwriter has grown in its scope from just a solo artist with an acoustic instrument and introspective lyrics to a solo artist that basically has a mind of their own and goes anywhere where [...]
OV SULFUR ENDLESS CENTURY MEDIA Sometimes in a band’s career, spicing things up a bit is what gets the creative juices flowing. Since their debut album, The Burden Ov Faith, much of their material has focused on anti-religious fury. With the [...]
WESTSIDE COWBOY SO MUCH COUNTRY ‘TILL WE GET THERE ISLAND RECORDS Four-piece English indie band Westside Cowboy has been described as “college rock”, which couldn’t be a more accurate way of describing its sound or ethos. So Much Country ‘Till [...]
JULIANNA BARWICK & MARY LATTIMORE TRAGIC MAGIC INFINÉ RECORDS It seems to be the time for the successful combination of modern classical and other modern (or not so modern) musical forms, and Tragic Magic, a debut joint album by [...]
