Black Sugar Transmission Wandering Into The Bullseye Independent For the uninitiated, Black Sugar Transmission has existed for around a decade now, and they are about to enter an almost ridiculously prolific year, with three album releases all [...]
Olivia Henry Expectations Independent On Expectations, her second release, Los Angeles singer Olivia Henry tries one of the harder things in modern pop – give her alt-pop some jazz/soul overtones. To make it work, she would have to make it as [...]
Gil Scott-Heron & Makaya McCraven We’re New Again: A Reimagining By Makaya McCraven XL Recordings 10 years ago, Gil Scott-Heron released I’m New Here. It was not only his 13th studio album, but it was also his first album of new music [...]
Bryan Ferry Live At The Royal Albert Hall 1974 BMG Times have changed. For the most part, today’s artists are not like the artists of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. I know, I sound like an old guy but it is true. Take Bryan Ferry, for example. In [...]
Green Day Father Of All Motherfuckers Reprise If records were rated on titles alone, then Green Day would win album of the century with Father Of All Motherfuckers. Unfortunately for us and the veteran punk band, that simply is not the case as [...]
Stone Temple Pilots Perdida Rhino Channelling the beauty and melancholy that is the band’s legacy, Stone Temple Pilots have emerged with Perdida. This is a band, after all, despite being among the greatest alternative rock outfits of the ‘90s, [...]
Bobby Patterson It’s Just A Matter Of Time Real Gone Music There’s plenty to celebrate with It’s Just a Matter of Time, the 1972 collection by Texas soul man Bobby Patterson. Despite its vintage, there is a freshness in the throwback sound [...]
BisonBison Hover Zozaya Records BisonBison is collaborative project that consists of producers Dani Ramez and Chad Skinner, alongside drummer Brad Weber of Caribou, harpist Sinéad Bermingham, and vocalist Sophia Alexandra. It is a talented [...]
Len Mizzoni Forever Independent The first thing you will notice when Forever kicks off, is just how much Len Mizzoni continues to grow with each release. Forever is extremely well-produced pop music. The sound of an accomplished artist, who is [...]
Caveboy Night In The Park, Kiss In The Dark Independent Coming out of Montreal, one of last year’s most hyped Canadian buzz bands was the alt-pop three-woman outfit known as Caveboy, whose debut album [...]
Another Day Dawns Stranger Independent Among a growing scene of emerging hard rock bands that has been sweeping across America over the past few years, a number of independent bands have come to stand out for their musical output. Another Day [...]
Destroyer Have We Met Merge Records Since the release of Streethawk: Seduction in 2001, Dan Bejar has been coming up with one great album after another. Destroyer’s Rubies from 2006 Poison Season from 2015 can certainly end up on many, ‘best of [...]
Don Dokken Solitary (Expanded Reissue) Deadline Music It was 2008 when Don Dokken first released Solitary. A decline in music sales and distribution were in full swing shifting markets. Perhaps that is why it was first decided to have the CD [...]
Wayne Shorter The Music Of Wayne Shorter Blue Engine Records Wayne Shorter is among the few remaining musicians from the golden age of jazz. At the age of 86, the legendary saxophone player and songwriter has returned with his first album since [...]
Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band Express Yourself Real Gone Music While Charles Wright may not necessarily be a household name, everybody – everybody – knows the quintessential soul track “Express Yourself”. Whether it’s [...]
Drive-By Truckers The Unraveling ATO Records This is the twelfth album by southern country rock band Drive By Truckers. They are one of the hardest working bands on the circuit with a devoted following and hit the road to deliver their blend of [...]
Blossoms Foolish Loving Spaces Virgin/EMI Blossoms are a young British guitar-based band hailing from Manchester who have already a number one album in the UK tucked into their back pocket. They have a serious desire to take the interest they [...]
Alex Southey You’re Not Just A Body To Me Oh Marlene Records Alex Southey is a newcomer to the indie folk scene in Toronto. Actually, according to his bio, he has only been playing for two years. Given the quality of music and lyrics on [...]
Katie Burden Edge Of Sleep Cautionary Tail It is really hard to be surprised by any ‘new’ sounds these days. Somehow you just get the feeling you’ve heard it all before. Too much of it. The influences are not only worn on a sleeve, they’re [...]
We Are The City RIP Light Organ Records RIP is We Are The City’s long-awaited fifth album, combining musical and lyrical themes from their entire discography into one cohesive art piece. Though the back half drags a bit and there are the [...]
Dandy Lyon Wine Stilled Independent I remember being immediately captivated by Oshawa, Ontario’s Dandy Lyon Wine upon first seeing them live at Revival, a College Street club in Toronto. The trio took the stage with a raw and rootsy sense of [...]
Breaking Benjamin Aurora Hollywood Records Pennsylvanian band Breaking Benjamin have long since been one of the major influences that continue to shape the hard-rock/alternative scene. Having been quiet for some time since August 2017’s release [...]
Blue Öyster Cult Hard Rock Cleveland 2014 Frontiers Music Blue Oyster Cult, along with the fine folks at Frontiers Music are very seriously and methodically rereleasing the Blue Oyster Cult catalogue , along with some new material, such as this [...]
Blue Öyster Cult Cult Classic (Reissue) Frontiers Music This is the third rerelease of Cult Classic, the 12th studio album for Blue Öyster Cult, originally released in 1994. For this album, Blue Öyster Cult consisted of Eric Bloom (vocals, stun [...]
