Mark Lanegan Straight Songs Of Sorrow Heavenly Recordings While seemingly keeping a low profile over the last decade, Mark Lanegan, of Screaming Trees, Queens Of The Stone Age, and countless other collaborative works, has simply refused to slow [...]
Choir Boy Gathering Swans DAIS Gathering Swans is Choir Boy’s second album following Passive with Desire, where the world got a chance to find out just how talented Adam Klopp and his distinct voice really are. Klopp could be the second wave of [...]
White Denim World As A Waiting Room Radio Milk Records In the midst of Austin’s stay-at-home order, the four members of White Denim devised a plan to record a full-length album, their 10th, in 30 days. After a week at the band’s Radio Milk [...]
Car Seat Headrest Making A Door Less Open Matador Records Such is the restless spirit and the waves of creative energy that accompany all of the Car Seat Headrest’s releases that for this album every song has been recorded twice separately: once [...]
Austra HiRUDiN Pink Fizz Katie Austra Stelmonis, who goes by the moniker Austra, has released her fourth album titled HiRUDin. Although her unique, high-pitched vocals and sparse arrangements on the new disc are not for everyone, there are [...]
Pharmacose Prescription Fiction, Pt. 1 Silent Majority Group Jacksonville, Florida-based alternative rock band, Pharmacose, have released their debut EP, Prescription Fiction, Pt. 1. The six-song release follows a string of five previous single [...]
The Sounds Things We Do For Love Arnioki Records This is slick, effective pop. It is powerful, radio-friendly, entertaining, and packed with energy. Swedish band The Sounds have two decades worth of experience to draw from, having formed in 1998 [...]
Ty Segall and Mikal Cronin Pop Song Goodbye Boozy Records Long-time collaborators Ty Segall and Mikal Cronin are captured here in their very early days banging out riffs with tenacious brutality. Limited to just 300 copies upon its release in [...]
Church Of Trees New Bold Dawn Independent Church Of Dreams is the brainchild of musician/writer/producer extraordinaire, Bernard Frazer. Since their debut EP in 2017 (Primitive Creatures), he has consistently come up with some of the finest [...]
Local Natives Violet Street Remixes Loma Vista Recordings Listening to Local Natives’ holy trinity of vocals, Hahn, Rice, and Ayer, will soothe the soul of any listener. It’s been a decade and counting since the band completed and released their [...]
VibeByMelo And Travis Thickle THE HILLS HAVE WIFI Independent VibeByMelo is back with another quality album. Paired with Ottawa-based producer Travis Thickle, the two artists find their own lane creating a catchy project with conscious hip hop [...]
Daniel Romano’s Outfit Content To Point The Way You’ve Changed Records Content To Point The Way is Daniel Romano’s third full-length album release since the end of March. Prolific does not even begin to describe him. Even more [...]
Snog Lullabies For The Lithium Age Metropolis Australian David Thrussell aka Snog was already an enigma even before he came up with his latest album Lullabies For The Lithium Age. He has not been active in the music scene for quite a few years [...]
Philip Rambow Canadiana Fretsore Records When you listen to the new Philip Rambow album, Canadiana, the first thing you realize is that five years between albums is simply too long. His last album, 2015’s Whatever happened To Philip Rambow, was [...]
Indigo Girls Look Long Rounder Records Indigo Girls, composed of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, are a well-established outfit blending folk rock with a southern country sound, and when it works it really is damn good. It is shown at its best on [...]
Danzig Danzig Sings Elvis Cleopatra Records It’s no secret Glenn Danzig is greatly inspired by the pop music of the ‘50s. His new album, Danzig Sings Elvis, is a love letter to the era. The horror punk icon, commonly referred to as “Evil Elvis”, [...]
Ana Cristina Cash Shine Avondale Records Ana Cristina Cash has had a very diverse career up to this point. This album, Shine, is her first album since 2018’s My Christmas Collection, and her third entirely English language one. As Ana Cristina, [...]
Elmwood Underground These, Them’s And Those Independent Let us put everything on the table. There is a heavy and sad cloud hanging over this album. Sean Cunnington, guitarist for the band, passed away on March 18, 2020 due to COVID-19. So, [...]
X Alphabetland Fat Possum There is no doubt from the first few bars of album opener “Alphabetland” that Los Angeles icons X have never really left us. It’s surreal to think 35 years have passed since the original lineup recorded an album [...]
Beartaker Total Disgrace Independent Without warning, Beartaker formed and dropped their debut EP, Total Disgrace. The four-song release comes from Monster Truck’s Jeremy Widerman and Bad Ideas’ Theodore Mckibbon, a pair of friends who recently [...]
Shoemaker Levee Phase Of The Days 1013793 Records DK If I were asked “What Canadian band would you like to see play at Red Rocks Amphitheatre?”, my response would be Shoemaker Levee. The band’s latest album, Phase of the Days, brings their prog [...]
The White Buffalo On The Widow’s Walk Snakefarm Records The White Buffalo, persona of one Jake Smith, has returned with a new album On the Widow’s Walk, an impressive collection of songs about the passing of time and the search for [...]
Mick Harvey Waves Of ANZAC/The Journey Mute Mick Harvey has proven so far that he is an artist that is bound to surprise you, and in practically all cases, pleasantly. Not that some of his music is an easy listen, and he didn’t mean it to be. [...]
Well Yells We Mirror the Dead Independent Well Yells, the night-time name of Patrick Holbrook, has returned with his third album in the last few years We Mirror the Dead, a brooding, ominous set of tracks that thump along with a heaviness and [...]
