Scone Cash Players As The Screw Turns Flamingo Time Bold and spirited organist Adam Scone has come back with another beautifully-crafted funk and soul jazz album which speaks volumes about his work as a musician. With five albums already under [...]
Hot Chip A Bath Full Of Ecstasy Domino Records A Bath Full of Ecstasy is Hot Chip’s stimulating seventh album and a new chapter in the band’s career. It’s fresh, exciting and the first time that the band is working with producers Philippe Zdar [...]
The Ocean Blue Kings and Queens/Knaves and Thieves Korda Records The Ocean Blue, who started back in 1986 from all places Hershey Pennsylvania, has always fit perfectly in place with Dream / British pop legends. They stood on their own with mega [...]
The Raconteurs Help Us Stranger Third Man Records Help Us Stranger, the latest ass-kicking record drop from The Raconteurs has finally landed and is exactly what you hoped for.With the classic Raconteurs riffs of co-band-leader Brendan Benson – [...]
Various Artists Dark Nouveau Metropolis Records Since 1993, Metropolis Records (based in Philadelphia) has kept the 1980’s dark, electronic music scene alive and quite well. Over the years they have signed bands and released some very [...]
Marshall Layers Ryan Marshall Entertainment Inc. Ever since Ryan Marshall and his band Walk Off the Earth’s video cover of Gotye & Kimbra’s “Somebody That I Used To Know” garnered over 180 million views on YouTube, they [...]
Hollywood Vampires Rise EarMUSIC Having released their self-titled debut in 2015, an album predominately made up of covers, save two originals, The Hollywood Vampires, a star-studded supergroup centered around Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp, and Joe [...]
Prince Originals Warner Music Sporting a visual aesthetic reminiscent of Dirty Mind, circa 1980, the latest posthumous release from the oasis that is the Prince vault takes the form of Originals, a 15-track collection of recordings Prince had [...]
Willie Nelson Ride Me Back Home Legacy Recordings Willie Nelson’s 13th studio album with Legacy Recordings, Ride Me Back Home, is a beautiful record in which Nelson explores such grand themes as time, succumbing to it, fighting against it, as [...]
Absolutely Free Geneva Freeport Idée Fixe Records The Toronto trio known as Absolutely Free have just released a new EP titled Geneva Freeport, and it is a hypnotic 21-minute followup to their self-titled debut album of 2014, which also happened [...]
Julia Shapiro Perfect Versions Hardly Art Perfect Versions is the debut solo album for Julia Shapiro, lead vocalist and guitarist of Chastity Belt. The 10-track album takes listeners on a journey of love, loss, pain and nostalgia as we listen to [...]
Oh Susanna Johnstown Continental Records My first foray into Suzie Ungerleider’s catalogue of pretty and dark country pop was her second full-length, Sleepy Little Sailor. I remember playing that album often, loving her tough-as-nails voice and [...]
X Ambassadors Orion KIDinaKORNER/Interscope/Universal Music X Ambassadors have released their long-awaited third album, Orion. It is filled with a variety of songs that show the complete range of the human experience. Sam Harris, the lead [...]
Cisco Adler Hippieland Bananabeat Records Hippieland is Cisco Adler’s fourth solo album, and his first since 2014’s Coastin’. Adler recorded the album in Malibu and it is very much a solo project in that he plays acoustic guitar, bass, drums, [...]
Keb’ Mo’ Oklahoma Concord Records It goes without saying that Keb’ Mo’s reputation as an influential and talented modern-day blues and Americana performer is well-established. He has four Grammy Award wins and almost 20 albums [...]
Historian Spiral Again Independent At some point at the beginning of this century (more or less) somebody came up with the term folktronica. It was supposed to designate basically gentle singer/songwriter fare embellished with electronics. A [...]
Mattiel Satis Factory ATO Records Atlanta’s Mattiel is a group based around Mattiel Brown, and Satis Factory is its second album. Working closely with Jonah Swilley (who co-produced the album with Randy Michael), Mattiel Brown has come up with [...]
Skyscraper Stan Golden Boy: Vol.I and Vol.II Independent This album was somewhat of a surprise. I truly did not know what to expect, but what I got was a brilliant album full of some dark stories about everyday people and life. Golden Boy is [...]
Various Artists Electronic Voyages: Early Moog Recordings 1964 – 1969 Waveshaper Media Electronic Voyages: Early Moog Recordings 1964 – 1969 is not a soundtrack, but a companion to the upcoming documentary about Robert [...]
Buzzcocks Singles Going Steady (2019 Remastered Version) Domino Records Singles Going Steady was originally released 40 years ago,the first Buzzcocks album released in North America. Basically it was a compilation of all of their singles, [...]
Bruce Springsteen Western Stars Sony Music Following an unprecedentedly successful residency on Broadway – culminating with Springsteen On Broadway, a live album and Netflix concert film, released last December – Bruce Springsteen is back. [...]
Bad Books III Loma Vista Recordings Not a single sound from Bad Books was dropped for almost six years. The last time fans heard of the band, consisting of Manchester Orchestra members Andy Hull, Kevin Devine, and Robert McDowell, was back in [...]
Chapell Penultimate Independent Making good pop music is probably one of the hardest things to do. You have all these prerequisite rules to abide by, coming up with a good and catchy melody, exercise almost perfect musicianship, and decide how [...]
Paul Doffing Running In The Dark Independent It is very easy for singer/songwriters to fall into the ‘my pains’ musical compartment. That is the one where the artist picks up his or her acoustic guitar, starts strumming it slowly, and starts [...]
