girlongirl Take Independent Do yourself a favour and take a minute to check out this new alt-rock album. Girlongirl’s full-length debut, TAKE, is a cohesive weave of many audible influences, culminating in one polished and hard-hitting release. [...]
The Bombpops Death In Venice Beach Fat Wreck Chords This is a band who absolutely have found their moment. Check out the promotional poster for “Zero Remorse” and you will see a band that is ready to reach a far greater audience. Putting [...]
Jane Siberry A World Without Music Independent Jane Siberry is no stranger to live albums, A World Without Music being her fifth. You can be sure when she decides to release one, you know you are in for a treat. This is a solo Jane Siberry [...]
The Burrito Brother The Notorious Burrito Brothers The Store For Music The lineup of The Flying Burrito Brothers has changed and evolved regularly over the years. Their latest release, The Notorious Burrito Brothers, sees no members from the [...]
Bleach Day as if always Birdwatcher Vermont duo of Loui Kiley and Vinny Marksohn, aka Bleach Day released their sophomore album as if always when COVID-19 was still ‘something distant’ on some other shores. In other circumstances, this [...]
Rory Gallagher Check Shirt Wizard – Live In ’77 Universal Music With the critical praise that surrounded last year’s Blues, the Rory Gallagher estate has wasted no time in releasing this double-disc’s worth of live material. [...]
Swamp Dogg Sorry You Couldn’t Make It Joyful Noise/Pioneer Works Press Jerry “Swamp Dogg” Williams (Jr.) began recording at the age of 12 in 1954 and has gone on to record disco, country, rock, blues, and soul music. After dropping out of [...]
Impulsive Hearts Cry All The Time Midwest Action/Cavity Search Records Hailing out of Chicago, Illinois, Impulsive Hearts have released their second LP, Cry All the Time, a 10-track collection of beach-bubble ice-cream-sunset garage rock (new [...]
Blue Öyster Cult 40th Anniversary – Agents Of Fortune – Live 2016 Frontiers Music Recorded on Monday, April 18, 2016 for the Audience Music Network at Red Studios in Hollywood, Blue Oyster Cult took a turn at performing their classic [...]
Pears Pears Fat Wreck Chords New Orleans hardcore punks PEARS have released their third full-length. Established in 2014, the four-piece is known for its singular blend of hardcore punk that crosses all limitations of the genre. The result is a [...]
Silverstein A Beautiful Place to Drown UNFD Silverstein has long been at the forefront of bands in the scene when it comes to staying power. With their consistent versatile nature for each release to date, they have always kept the genre they [...]
Phantogram Ceremony Universal Music Lifelong friends Josh Carter and Sarah Barthel, otherwise known as Phantogram, have returned with their first album since 2016, Ceremony, and while it is largely heavy-hitting electronic pop with a few softer [...]
Bonnetta/Huizinga Dark Watchers Idea Of North Recordings Jonas Bonnetta of Evening Hymns, and violinist Edwin Huizinga of The Wooden Sky, wrote Dark Watchers in seclusion in Big Sur, in January 2018. Not sure why it took so long to reach record [...]
Quinn DeVeaux Book Of Soul QDV Records There are certain things that always exude familiarity, warmth, and just simply a good feeling. The first thing that could come to mind in that respect is a Sunday family lunch. Not time to eat, yet? Well [...]
Hanging Valleys Behind The Backs Of Houses Pedro Y El Lobo These days, it is not an uncommon thing that a relatively or completely unknown artist gets millions of streaming hits online. There could be many reasons why that happens. It often [...]
Kevin Krauter Full Hand Bayonet Records Singer-songwriter Kevin Krauter is back with his sophomore album, Full Hand, an album comprised of warm reverb-heavy tones, soft 808 drums, and holistic lyrics that simplify the different worries and [...]
Randy Holden Population II RidingEasy Records In 1969 Randy Holden parted ways with Blue Cheer, and by 1970 had recorded and released his debut solo album, the magnum opus Population II. Sadly, the album received very poor distribution at the [...]
Caribou Suddenly Merge Records Suddenly is his fifth studio album by Caribou. Although Dan Snaith plays all of the instruments on his recordings, he uses a band when he tours, which allows him to not only experiment in the studio, but to create [...]
Dark Fortress Spectres From The Old World Century Media Black metal is a genre far too overdone, however German veterans Dark Fortress understand that making a good record doesn’t need to reinvent the wheel, just push it further. This is made [...]
Gord Sinclair Taxi Dancers (Arte Humane Inc./Pheromone Recordings) Taxi Dancers, the first solo album from Gord Sinclair, who manned bass and joined in songwriting duties for 40 years as a member of The Tragically Hip, is at times an extension [...]
The Mystery Kindaichi Band The Adventures Of Kindaichi Kosuke (Reissue) We Want Sounds French reissue label We Want Sounds is one of the rare ones operating today that really makes an effort to do things properly. The motto is obviously pick [...]
Stars And Rabbit Rainbow Aisle Independent There are usually two trends with artists originating and working in those parts of the world that are not considered centers of modern music. They often walk (or play) in the footsteps of their [...]
The Franklin Electric In Your Heart Nettwerk Life goes on, and all is remembered in music. An incredibly personal album, In Your Heart is undeniably sorrowful, and yet hopeful at the same time. With a soft tone but conviction in his lyrics, [...]
Ozzy Osbourne Ordinary Man Sony Music/Epic Records After a year of cancelled tours and growing health concerns, Ozzy Osbourne makes a triumphant return with his latest album, Ordinary Man. Backed largely by producer and guitarist Andrew Watt, [...]
