Bodega Shiny New Model What’s Your Rupture? New York-based Bodega’s have released a brand-new EP Shiny New Model. It is a worthy follow-up to the genre-fluid five-piece’s 2018’s Endless Scroll, which was relentlessly quirky and sarcastic. [...]
Lacuna Coil Black Anima Red Music With over 20 years as a powerhouse in the metal scene, eight studio records, and a few lineup changes, Italian gothic metal outfit Lacuna Coil are back with their ninth release,Black Anima. While many bands may [...]
Yuka Dreamscape Independent Dreamscape is the third album from Toronto based funk/soul outfit Yuka, and to be honest if this album was any smoother musically it would give a billiard ball a run for its money. Self-produced and originally [...]
Alright Spider Desolation Independent Relative newcomers to the rock scene Alright Spider have released their second album, Desolation. An album that is as much about interactions with people as it is about the lives we live around them, [...]
The Avett Brothers Closer Than Together Republic Records It will sound very intense when I state that these poets from North Carolina are making some the most important music of their careers right now. Now, The Avett Brothers have released [...]
Skydiggers Let’s Get Friendship Right Independent Let’s Get Friendship Right , the 15th album by The Skydiggers, is a magnificent album that deals with loss and love. Although dealing with deep and heavy subjects, the end result is an [...]
The Persian Leaps Electrical Living Land Ski Records The Persian Leaps have put something out each fall since 2013, and just as sure as the leaves will change and everything turns pumpkin-spiced,they are back with 2019’s offering, Electrical [...]
Daniel Martin Moore Never Look Away Sofaburn Records The release of Never Look Away will mark the ninth album from Cold Spring, Kentucky’s smooth singing Daniel Martin Moore. Self-proclaimed as the strongest album of his career, both avid fans [...]
Bedouin Soundclash Mass Easy Star/Mr. Bongo/Sony Canada Jay Malinowski and Eon Sinclair are back with the first Bedouin Soundclash album since 2010’s Light The Horizon. I’m not going to say it was worth the wait – a decade is a long [...]
Medicine Scarred For Life Drawing Room Records Scarred For Life is an album of covers of 1970’s songs by American noise pop band, Medicine . One look at the front sleeve and the K-Tel-like logo gives you an idea of the origins of the album. No [...]
GospelbeacH Let It Burn Alive Naturalsound Let It Burn, GospelbeacH’s highly-anticipated third album, marks the return of original member Neal Casal. Tragically, on August 26, 2019, Casal tragically left us. Besides the world losing a remarkably [...]
City And Colour A Pill For Loneliness Still Records After four years, City and Colour is back with his sixth studio album, A Pill for Loneliness. Featuring 11 tracks and coming in at 52 minutes, it is a sprawling album that retains the essential [...]
Lightning Dust Spectre Western Vinyl After a six-year hiatus, Vancouver-based duo Lightning Dust return with their fourth album, Spectre, a beautiful, haunting, dreamscape of songs. The opening track “Devoted To” is a swirling, [...]
WIVES So Removed City Slang Records So Removed is the first album for WIVES, the four-piece band based in Queens, New York, and it is an impressive debut. Here, they are trying to be gritty and to evoke the spirit of New York City in the 1980s, [...]
L CON Whatever Independent Lisa Conway, also known as L CON, has released a four-song EP called Whatever. This etherealized and otherworldly EP features artists such as Casey MQ (Zaki Ibrahim, TiKa the Creator), Pursuit Grooves (remixes for [...]
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Ghosteen Ghosteen Ltd. Last week, Nick Cave announced the surprise release of Ghosteen through his blog, The Red Hand Files. He ensured its significance was obvious,saying, “The songs on the first album are the [...]
Robert Glasper Fuck Yo Feelings Loma Vista Recordings Robert Glasper, legendary genre-bending, and multiple Grammy and Emmy-winning artist and producer, has released his newest project Fuck Yo Feelings, a collaboration with such top-tier [...]
Steel Panther Heavy Metal Rules Steel Panther Inc. If they hadn’t made it clear already, perhaps the one thing Steel Panther love more than their sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll mantra is heavy metal in the glorious, mega-blockbuster style of the [...]
Moon Duo Stars Are The Light Sacred Bones Moon Duo’s new record Stars Are The Light is a new direction for one of the more talked about psychedelic rock outfits. Coming off the well-received Occult Architecture releases, the new direction I [...]
John Lodge B Yond – The Very Best Of BMG I have to say, this is an odd one. John Lodge joined The Moody Blues in 1966 and has remained a member since. During the years, he has released two studio and one live album. He also released a few [...]
The Roots Things Fall Apart (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) Urban Legends While the younger generation may only know them as the band backing Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show, The Roots remain among the strongest all-star hiphop bands in the [...]
Various Artists Boyz N The Hood (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Qwest/UMe In 1991, John Singleton directed his first feature film Boyz N The Hood. It was a rare and truthful look into the chaotic world of south-central Los Angeles. The [...]
KMFDM Paradise Metropolis Records For the past 35 years, German industrial bandKMFDM have been defying rules of genre constraints and proudly giving the finger to authority. With their 21st studio album, Paradise, they have shown no signs of [...]
The Beatles Abbey Road: 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition Apple Corps Ltd./Universal Music For most millennials discovering the Beatles music for the first time, it was through their parent’s CD or, if they were lucky, vinyl collection. [...]
