Creedence Clearwater Revival Live At Woodstock Craft Recordings As the 50th anniversary of the era-defining Woodstock Festival approaches, a handful of artists remain attached to pop culture’s memory of the event – Crosby, Stills, Nash & [...]
Spoon Everything Hits At Once: The Best of Spoon Matador Records Indie rock veterans Spoon have released their greatest hits album, Everything Hits at Once: The Best of Spoon. First formed in 1993 with nine albums under their belt, this will be [...]
Of Monsters And Men Fever Dream Universal Music The Icelandic juggernaut Of Monsters and Men return with their third studio album Fever Dream. While the album continues with the anthematic power pop elements that shot them to fame in 2011, it is [...]
Alex Haas & Bill Laswell Smoke + Glass Sonicontinuum Bill Laswell is a well-established name in the music world as the producer/bassist has worked with almost everybody in any music genre you can imagine. On the other hand, Alex Haas, a [...]
Soundgarden Live From The Artists Den Universal Music You’d be hard pressed to find anyone who didn’t agree that seeing their favourite band live, at one of their definite peaks, had stirred up feelings of sheer exhilaration, wonder, and [...]
Ummagma Compass Leonard Skully Records Compass is the perfect title for Ummagma’s new album, with visions of a caravan travelling the world – or even other worlds – gathering and trading. This is the sound of a band that has been travelling the [...]
Bus Stop Poets Leave It To The Kids Independent Combining Americana with the unabashed pop sounds of Fleetwod Mac actually sounds like a great combination. Anybody afraid of Fleetwood Mac? Or Americana for that matter? Based on Bust Stop Poets’ [...]
Mike McGear McGear (Remastered & Expanded Boxset Edition) Esoteric/Cherry Red Mike McGear’s real name is Peter Michael McCartney, but goes by Mike McCartney. He is the younger brother of Paul McCartney. But he has had his own fame and [...]
Shakespears Sister Singles Party London Records Singles Party is the long awaited return of Shakespears Sister. This is a reunion I never thought I would see. Marcella Detroit (Marcy Levy) and Siobhan Fahey (Bananarama) formed Shakespears Sister [...]
The Pull Of Autumn Afterglow RBM Records Second albums are difficult. The joke is you have years to complete your first and only one to write and record the second, and many second albums have disappointed. This is not the case with The Pull of [...]
Good Riddance Thoughts And Prayers Fat Wreck Chords “Now, you’re not naive enough to think we’re living in a democracy, are you, Buddy?” The sentiment uttered by Gordon Gecko, from the 1987 film Wall Street, could not be more [...]
Ecce Shnak Metamorphejawns Records, Man Records Metamorphejawns, the first full-length album from the seven-piece ensemble known as Ecce Shnak (pronounced eh-kay sh-knock), sounds exactly like what an album whose most easily digestible track [...]
Paul McCartney Amoeba Gig (Reissue) MPL/Universal Music Amoeba Gig is perhaps the most welcome of the four ‘live’ albums in this batch of re-releases from Paul McCartney. Although portions of this concert have been released in the past, this is [...]
Eli Raybon Supertoys Independent In the Eighties, a geekey teen (or any other) movis was always accompanied by some (usually exquisite) electro-pop. Human League, Orchestral Maneouvres In The Dark, Heaven 17, even A Flock of Seagulls (they had [...]
God Module Unsound Metropolis Records If you like dark, gothic, techno music then you’ll enjoy Seattle, Washington’s God Module’s eighth studio album Unsound. The band’s mastermind, Jasyn Bangert is said to have pulled the band’s known sounds [...]
Paul McCartney Choba B CCCP (Reissue) MPL/Universal Music Paul McCartney continues his re-release projects with four of his live albums. Choba B CCCP, is not so much live album as it is a ‘live in the studio’ recording. It is also one of the [...]
Paul McCartney Paul Is Live (Reissue) MPL/Universal Music Here we have Paul Is Live, one of four of Paul McCartney’s albums being re-released today. It was originally released in November 1993 and documents McCartney’s 1993 New World Tour. It [...]
Paul McCartney Wings Over America (Reissue) MPL/Universal Music Wings Over America is the one album in the set of four of Paul McCartney’s re-releases which is not so much a live album as it is a ‘live in the studio’ recording. Here we have the [...]
Drab Majesty Modern Mirror DAIS Records How can you improve upon something that is damn near perfection? If you are Drab Majesty, you simply release a new album, that’s how. As if 2017’s epic The Demonstration isn’t the definition of a [...]
Girlfriend Material Cool Car Dine Alone Records Girlfriend Material has released yet another uniquely jarring and lyrically delicious album Cool Car. Shaping out the sounds we previously heard from their last self-titled EP in 2017, it seems the [...]
Metz Automat Sub Pop Toronto’s elegant noise punk trio METZ are back with a new LP consisting of non-album singles, rarities, and B-sides. Automat brings all these songs together in one place for the first time and will surely be a delightful [...]
Tycho Weather Mom+Pop/Ninja Tune Turn on instant-summertime vibes with San Francisco-based Tycho’s new album Weather, released through Mom+Pop x Ninjatune. After taking a year-long hiatus from touring to work on the new album, Tycho (aka Scott [...]
K.Flay Solutions Night Street/Interscope Records/Universal Music Canada Pop music in the past few years has taken a serious and sparse bent. The dark depths of pop mined by the likes of Lorde and Lana del Ray have reflected the global [...]
Cave In Final Transmission Hydra Head Records Suffering is something we don’t often talk about, yet is something we all endure. Caleb Scofield, long time Cave In bassist and vocalist, passed away in March of 2018 after a fatal car accident, [...]
