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. [...]
The New Pornographers In The Morse Code Of Brake Lights Concord Records Long-time purveyors of hook-filled, harmony-layered alternative jams, The New Pornographers celebrate their 22nd year in the music business with the release of the [...]
Temples Hot Motion ATO Records The much-coveted musical sweet spot is an elusive one for bands and musicians of all genres and time periods. The almost alchemical confluence of musical inspiration and urgency may end up presenting itself for [...]
Tegan And Sara Hey, I’m Just Like You Sire Records An album consisting of songs originally written by Tegan and Sara as teenagers had the potential to be too much of a throwback. Fans may have been expecting lo-fi recordings of songs that [...]
Brittany Howard Jaime ATO Records Brittany Howard dominates in her debut solo album Jaime. The guitarist and vocalist of Alabama Shakes simply can’t conform to any musical style on this creation, and the result is formidable. The album’s [...]
Blink 182 NINE Columbia Records NINE is the eighth studio album from legendary pop-punk trio Blink 182, in which the band emphasizes their pop over punk sensibilities. Like the rainbow neon tinge of its album cover, NINE is bright, it’s sleek, [...]
Midge Ure Soundtrack 1978-2019 Chrysalis Records Soundtrack 1978-2019 is not the first compilation to attempt to cover Midge Ure’s incredible career. But what it does do, besides having the hit singles, is provide an insight into his career via [...]
Madame Psychosis Survivor Independent While Survivor has a powerful sound, with strong vocal hooks, there is something missing that prevents this album from standing out and making a lasting impression. While there is nothing in Survivor that [...]
Kassogtha The Call Independent Switzerland is not known globally for Death Metal but there have been some influential bands for sure, we are looking at you Celtic Frost and Coroner. Kassogtha’s new EP The Call is the new wave that will make you [...]
Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators Living The Dream Tour (Live DVD/Blu-Ray/CD) Eagle Rock Entertainment Following a spectacular world tour in support of their 2018 album, Living The Dream, Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy And The [...]
Herb Alpert Over The Rainbow Herb Alpert Presents With his 41st studio recording, Herb Alpert returns to what he does best and with apparent ease: interpreting others’ songs and making them his own. The 84-year-old musician has never stood [...]
Robbie Robertson Sinematic Macrobiotic/Universal Robbie Robertson returns with his first album since 2011’s brilliant How To Be Clairvoyant. That is a tough album to top, but he has managed to do so with his sixth solo album, Sinematic. In the [...]
Noctorum The Afterdeath Schoolkids Records Noctorum consists of the duo Marty Willson-Piper (The Church, All About Eve, The Saints) and producer Dare Mason. In 2019, they released their fourth album, The Afterlife. To fund the album the band [...]
