The Dreadnoughts Into The North Stomp Records Vancouver folk-punks The Dreadnoughts set sail on an ocean of booze with their latest release, Into The North. An album of reworked sea shanties and originals, it captures the heritage of a century [...]
Underworld And Ø [Phase] Border Country (The Remixes) Smith Hyde Productions/Caroline Records “Border Country” is a song from Underworld’s most recent album, Drift Series One. It is a track co-written by Underworld and Ø [Phase], who is actually [...]
Elovet 4.5 Days In New York Independent It is hard to put Elovet’s music into a category. While many categorize it as Hip Hop, I would argue that that does not do the music justice. It reminds me of the old joke — there are two kinds of [...]
Brass Against Brass Against II Footnote Records Cover bands are a tricky thing in nowadays. While most remain in the pubs or corporate events playing to nostalgic audiences, some have found a way through social media and the internet to truly [...]
Juliana Hatfield Juliana Hatfield Sings The Police American Laundromat Records I think that to do an album completely devoted to another artist, you really have to be able to bring something fresh to the table, something that allows the audience [...]
Margaux More Brilliant Is The Hand That Throws The Coin Massif Records Seattle-born and Brooklyn-based artist Margaux has managed to gain major traction for her latest release More Brilliant is the Hand That Throws the Coin. The five-song EP [...]
Black Suit Devil A Matter Of Time Independent Of the vast, rich, and diverse Toronto music scene, few artists get me as excited as Black Suit Devil. Following his incredible 2017 debut, The Freedom Sessions, the singer-songwriter has reconvened [...]
Ronnie Wood With His Wild Five Mad Lad: A Live Tribute To Chuck Berry BMG Back in the early to mid ‘60s, Chuck Berry was virtually deified in Britain. There were long debates about whether he was “rhythm and blues” or “rock ‘n’ roll” – these [...]
Fen Wilson Ghost Heroin Independent Ghost Heroin is Fenn Wilson’s debut album, following on the heels of 2015’s EP, Tales Of The Black Dog. Produced by acclaimed blues guitarist Shannon Bourne, Wilson has created a deeply personal and unique [...]
Russian Baths Deepfake Good Eye Records First albums are always difficult, bands are finding their way and don’t always get things right their first time in studio. The interestingly-named Russian Bath hails from New York, and provide for their [...]
Various Artists Too Late to Pray: Defiant Chicago Roots Bloodshot Records Bloodshot Records emerged on the scene 25 years ago, aiming to be a bridge. What is soul is bluegrass, what is punk is folk, what is pub rock is rockabilly. The sounds [...]
Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders Get The Money RCA Records For their third record – and their first is nearly a decade – Taylor Hawkins, yes, of the Foo Fighters, has reunited his solo band, The Coattail Riders. Get The Money sees not [...]
Bishop Briggs Champion Island Records/Universal Music Canada After a rocket-like ascent into worldwide pop stardom fueled by her breakout hit “Rivers,” Bishop Briggs’ debut album, 2018’s Church of Scars, soon climbed into Billboard’s Top 10 [...]
Dave East Survival Def Jam Dave East’s highly anticipated debut album, Survival, has finally dropped. With 20 tracks and features ranging from Nas, Mozzy, E-40, Teyana Taylor, Gunna, Rick Ross, The Dream, Fabolous, Ash Leone, Jacquees, and Lil [...]
Soundwalk Collective With Patti Smith Mummer Love Bella Union Mummer Love is the second album in the Perfect Vision triptych collaboration between Soundwalk Collective and Patti Smith. Inspired by poet Arthur Rimbaud,the group is an experimental [...]
Quiet Riot Hollywood Cowboys Frontiers Music SRL Hollywood Cowboys is the first studio album from Quiet Riot since 2017’s Road Rage, and the second studio album featuring vocalist James Durbin. Whereas Durbin was a last-minute replacement on [...]
Atlantæum Flood One Day Schoolkids Records Instrumental albums can be tricky things. They can become bland where all the songs kinda meld into one. This is clearly not the case with One Day. Atlantæum Flood have created very visual pieces with [...]
FKA Twigs Magdalene Young Turks An endowed mystical creature, a gentle sensory eargasm, and a wholesome spirit: this is the talented artist FKA twigs. Renowned for her otherworldly voice and totally idiosyncratic identity, this is the second [...]
Gene Clark No Other (Deluxe Boxset) 4AD 4AD has remastered late American singer/songwriter Gene Clark’s 1974 solo album No Other. But the question is, did they really need to? Every instrument originally used can be heard on the remastered [...]
Snow Patrol Reworked Universal Music/Polydor Records Snow Patrol’s latest release, Reworked, is just that. It is a collection of reworked classics, in essence much different and many better in some ways. “Chocolate” is a classic which we all [...]
The Joy Formidable A Balloon Called Moaning (10th Anniversary Edition) Hassle Records The Joy Formidable have released a double-album edition of their successful debut release A Balloon Called Moaning through Hassle Records.The album includes [...]
Hunting Whatever You Need Nevado Music Five years ago, Hunting was the solo project of one Bradley Ferguson, putting out wistful, melancholy folk music. In the years since, with the addition of two new band members in Vancouver, vocalist [...]
Cold War Kids New Age Norms CWKTWA/AWAL There might be something to that old superstition about the number seven being lucky, because the seventh album by Los Angeles-based band Cold War Kids, the first of a three album trilogy, certainly hits [...]
King Crimson In The Court Of The Crimson King (50th Anniversary Edition) Panegyric/DGM When analyzing history, 50 years is a glimpse of time barely long enough for historians to make any solid conclusions. On the other hand, when talking about [...]
