Fire Fight IDENTITY Silent Majority Group Let me be clear: Fire Fight is not your average rock or alternative band. They pull multiple genres together, including hip hop, to create their own unique sound, Nowhere is it more apparent than on [...]
Iggy Pop Free Loma Vista Recordings “He’s the last of the one-and-only’s” Josh Homme once said, regarding his collaboration with Iggy Pop on 2016’s Post Pop Depression. The brilliant record was supposedly Pop’s recorded swan song, however I [...]
Rheostatics Here Come the Wolves Six Shooter Records The new Rheostatics album, Here Come the Wolves, their first new album since 2004’s 2067, is a joyful and pleasant surprise. Their new offering from Six Shooter Records is a 53-minute affair [...]
Strung Out Songs Of Armor And Devotion Fat Wreck Chords Strung Out is back with their latest album, Songs of Armor and Devotion. Here, the band returns with intensity and high energy. The tension is high on this album. The title, Songs of Armor [...]
Tool Fear Inoculum Sony Music 13 years ago, Barack Obama had yet to be elected as the President of The United States, Twitter had only just launched, and the first generation of iPhones was over a year away. It was also the year that 10,000 [...]
Ezra Furman Twelve Nudes Bella Union I will be honest and say that I was totally unprepared for this singular fact – that on the day that Tool finally introduced us to their first album in 13 years, theirs would not be the most urgent, [...]
Parsnip When The Tree Bears Fruit Trouble In Mind Records When The Tree Bears Fruit is the first full-length album by Melbourne four-piece Parsnip. The record’s title, inspired by the ideas of guru and poet Sri Chinmoy, refers to the idea that [...]
Brother Oliver Well, Hell Independent Bands with the term “brothers” in their name often are neither brothers, nor is the last name they mention connected with any of the members. Well, not this time around, as far as the South Carolina duo [...]
DZ Deathrays Positive Rising: Part 1 I Oh You Australian band DZ Deathrays has released their fourth studio album, Positive Rising: Part 1. This time around, they are joined by Lachlan Ewbank on vocals and lead guitar, growing from duo to a trio [...]
Two Year Break Sell Me Fate Independent One of the U.K.’s best and brightest up and coming pop punk bands Two Year Break has released yet another wonderful album, Sell Me Fate. From the very beginning of this well-produced piece of music, Sell [...]
Common Let Love Loma Vista Recordings Actor, author, motivational speaker, and rapper Common showcases his positive attitude by examining all kinds of love on Let Love. Formerly known as Common Sense, this is the Chicago rapper’s first album in [...]
Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! Polydor/Interscope On Lana Del Rey’s fifth major label studio album, Norman Fucking Rockwell!, she shows herself to be developing into one of America’s finest singer/songwriters, with both biting [...]
Bodywash Comforter Luminelle Records Canadian musical geniuses Bodywash have done it yet again with another LP that seems to transcend reality with Comforter released via Luminelle Records. From the jump one doesn’t even feel like they are [...]
Cabaret Voltaire 1974-76 Mute Anyone in love with classic electronic and/or industrial music will no doubt know Cabaret Voltaire. This may be a side that casual fans of the band may have never heard, but die-hard acolytes will no doubt be [...]
Cabaret Voltaire Chance Versus Causality Mute Cabaret Voltaire fans rejoice! You get two releases in one day (this plus a re-issue for the first time on vinyl of early recordings entitled 1974 – 76)! None of us thought this would ever see the [...]
Bon Iver i,i Jagjaguwar Justin Vernon is an artist. Having established himself as an indie-alternative legend, his influence in the music world stretches from Kanye West and Chance the Rapper to James Blake, The National and beyond. He has [...]
The Last Titan Violence Speaks Volumes Independent Sacramento-bred metal band The Last Titan has come out firing with all cylinders with their new EP Violence Speaks Volumes. Coming out from the gate, we get an onslaught of chaotic guitar bliss [...]
Silkworm In The West (Reissue) C/Z Records/Comedy Minus One Originally released in 1994, Silkworm’s album In The West will be reissued on vinyl for the first time in celebration of its 25th anniversary, as well as including all sorts of extra [...]
Oh, Rose While My Father Sleeps Park The Van Records One of the joys of music is experiencing another human’s emotions through lyric and song, then figuring out where that fits in your life and how you identify with that art. This album from [...]
Wingtips Exposure Therapy Artoffact Records Chicago goth pop duo Vincent Segretario and Hannah Avalon, also known as Wingtips, has released its debut album Exposure Therapy, and it’s an eclectic mix of pop, synth, darkwave, and goth. If you [...]
Eilen Jewell Gypsy Signature Sounds American songwriter Eilen Jewell, returns with her latest album “Gypsy”, which she claims this to be her best project yet. Pushing the limits of personal and political, Jewell’s latest album [...]
R.W. Roldan Can You Feel This Allswell Records With Americana, Country, or however you want to label that genre or genres, one of the key things that keeps coming up as a key ingredient in producing real, deep, and meaningful music is life [...]
Killswitch Engage Atonement Metal Blade Records When it comes to the metal scene, Killswitch Engage is by no means a small name. The two decades their career has spanned over has consisted of solid records that are considered foundational to [...]
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Infest The Rats’ Nest ATO Records/Flightless Records King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are difficult to describe. Constantly mutating, always evolving, and never repeating the same concept twice. [...]
