Keane Cause And Effect Island Records Keane comes at us with no surprises here, and remain keyboard heavy, which is good news for fans. On Cause and Effect, their first full-length album since 2012’s Strangeland, the band still has its [...]
Sofi Tukker Dancing On The People Ultra Music If you’re looking to dance, or looking for an album that has all different kinds of groove, from geometric to slow burn, to a bouncing house beat….you’ve found it. Dancing On The People opens with [...]
Trentemøller Obverse Independent Returning after three years with his new album, Obverse. To put it simply, it’s very Trentemøller, with his indie-electric style of composition, so if you’re a fan of his previous work, then you’ll very much be a [...]
LIFE A Picture Of Good Health Afghan Moon/[PIAS] With the release of new album A Picture of Good Health, it seems like LIFE is trying to make a statement with a personal yet political message they want the world to hear. Standout moments on this [...]
M83 DSVII Mute Records M83 brings us its newest and much-anticipated release, the instrumental DSVII (Digital Shades, Vol. 2). Its follow-up to 2007’s Digital Shades, Vol. 1 is decidedly richer and fuller in sound and substance, giving evidence [...]
Gary Daly Gone From Here Remixed Independent In the 1980’s, many ‘new wave’ bands released both 45’s and 12-inch singles featuring remixes of the same song. Among those who did were China Crisis, and some of their remixes are some of the best of [...]
Mike Patton & Jean Claude Vannier Corpse Flower Ipecac Recordings There are many names for the incarnations of the musical mind of Faith No More’s Mike Patton, Mr. Bungle being one of many. But there are two things you can’t call his music [...]
The Anti-Queens The Anti-Queens Stomp Records Having recently signed with the Montreal-based Stomp Records, The Anti-Queens have almost immediately demonstrated – and rightfully so – that they are more than simply being a staple among Toronto’s [...]
Warish Down In Flames RidingEasy Records Tony Hawk’s Underground – yes, the 2003 video game – turned a whole generation of those too young to fully enjoy the ‘90s onto a wave of alternative rock and underground punk music. It comes as no [...]
Blacktop Mojo Under The Sun Independent Two years ago, Texas’ very own Blacktop Mojo made waves among the growing rock ‘n’ roll revival which seems to be sweeping the world with the release of their sophomore album, Burn The Ships. The album [...]
Bat Lips Bat Lips II Independent Emerging from a genre where you’d be hard pressed to see evolution and growth, Bat Lips take it upon themselves to change things up. Where Bat Lips I was a statement that put the band well onto the map, Bat Lips [...]
Lower Dens The Competition Ribbon Music Baltimore’s Lower Dens exists on the cusp. In 2010 frontman and folk eccentric Jana Huntertired of touring as a solo artist and hired a backup band for the last tour before his planned hiatus. The [...]
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 [...]
