Social Gravy A Different Kind Independent If you have any grievances with quality pop/rock akin to Coldplay or say, even Dawes, you may freely skip this review. You see, Belarusian musician Vee Bordukov & British producer/songwriter Brad [...]
Oh Susanna Sleepy Little Sailor (Deluxe Edition) MVKA Deception can be an art, and sometimes, that is for the best. This is particularly true of those artists/musicians that seemingly don’t come up with music that is strikingly new, but somehow, [...]
Fame On Fire LEVELS Hopeless Records Fame On Fire has consistently tested the genre waters with each project release they have set their minds to, showing the world they are more than your typical multi-genre band. So far, they have succeeded in [...]
Mark Egan & Danny Gottlieb Electric Blue Wavetone Records Mark Egan and Danny Gottlieb have been performing together for 49 years, whether it is with the Pat Metheny Group, or in their own band Elements, these two have worked together for a [...]
Mary Hopkin Another Road Mary Hopkin Music Mary Hopkin was one of the first artists signed by The Beatles to their Apple label, and in 1968 had a monster hit with “Those Were The Days”. She had many more hits, but there is more, so much more to [...]
STRFKR Ambient 1 Polyvinyl STRFKR’s Ambient 1 is an album unlike any of their other releases. Released just months after their most recent Future Past Life, it is definitely something very different. There are no vocals, no traditional song [...]
Powerman 5000 The Nobel Rot Cleopatra Records Powerman 5000’s 10th album takes you on a musical journey filled with retro and electronica tones throughout. A perfect example of this is lead single “Black Lipstick.” It has a strong Billy Idol [...]
GospelbeacH Once Upon A Time In London Curation Records Live albums are a tricky thing, you want to have the record sound good, while capturing the energy of the band and the crowd. GospelbeacH has successfully struck that balance with Once Upon [...]
Toots And The Maytals Got To Be Tough Trojan Jamaica For the first time in a decade, acclaimed reggae band Toots And The Maytals have returned with a brand new studio record, Got To Be Tough. The album, comprised of brand new material along with [...]
Stephen EvEns Employee Of The Month Onomatopoeia/Onophonic Sound London, U.K.’s Stephen EvEns has been performing for a number of years, and Employee Of The Month is his sophomore album. Also known as Stephen Gilchrist, he is a drummer of some [...]
Elliott Smith Elliott Smith (Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition) Kill Rock Stars No one sings like Elliott Smith. His vocal style, all whispered gravitas and unrestrained emotion, is without compare, but it is also the sheer depth of his [...]
Metallica S&M2 Blackened Recordings Given the success of 1999’s S&M and, more recently, 2019’s acoustic Helping Hands… Live & Acoustic At The Masonic, Metallica have returned with S&M2 a sequel to their 1999 live album which saw [...]
Aidan Knight Aidan Knight Next Door Records Since the release of his previous album, Each Other in 2016, Aidan Knight has undergone huge personal change: he moved to Berlin and back to Canada, celebrated the birth of his first child, and went [...]
Seether Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum Fantasy Records South African alternative rock band Seether is releasing its first album since Poison The Parish. This new project is baptized “Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum”, which translated from Latin means “If [...]
Haley Blais Below The Salt Tiny Kingdom Music Inc. With the release of her debut album Below the Salt, Haley Blais has set herself on the road to indie pop stardom. The Vancouver-based bedroom pop star has released a handful of EPs and singles [...]
The Wailers One World Sony Music The Wailers–indivisible from Bob Marley of course, but the band has always been about creative musicians, needing not only to make a living but also as an outlet for their own music-making. Of course, as [...]
Erasure The Neon Mute Records Erasure is the innovator of feel-good dance songs. Vince Clarke, one of the founders of Depeche Mode, Yazoo (known as Yaz in North America), and The Assembly, went on to create Erasure along with Andy Bell. Now on [...]
Waxfeet Dream Independent Back in the late ‘90s and the beginning of the 2000s, those lucky enough to catch the brief run of Alan McGee’s Poptones label were able to marvel the musical wonders that were gnac and The Montgolfier Brothers, both [...]
The Waterboys Good Luck, Seeker Cooking Vinyl The Waterboys’ Good Luck, Seeker comes one full year since their last album, Where The Action Is. Once again Mike Scott and company’s music defies categorization. Actually, that sums up the entire [...]
The Killers Imploding The Mirage Island Records The highly anticipated sixth studio album by The Killers titledImploding The Mirage was recorded in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Park City Utah, where lead vocalist and writer Brandon Flowers has [...]
The Cradle Laughing In My Sleep NNA Tapes How do you make a difference as a singer/songwriter? Well, you can start by creating music under a band moniker, but that certainly isn’t enough. The other possibility could be to make spontaneous [...]
The Lemon Twigs Songs For The General Public 4AD Returning after their previous release, ambitious rock opera Go to School, Long Island brothers Michael and Brian D’Addario get back to the basics with more straight-ahead pop songs. Songs for the [...]
South Of Eden The Talk Lava Records Previously known as Black Coffee, the newly-named South Of Eden have returned with The Talk. The four-track EP is not only their debut under the new moniker, but also marks their label debut since signing with [...]
Pat Keen Cells Remain Birdwatcher Records It has now become quite a common thing for an artist to move from one genre to another. This is particularly true, say, if you start out as a jazz experimentalist or an all-out rocker and, for whatever [...]
