Les Bof! Voila! Dirty Water Records Worshipping at the altar of proto-garage rock and yé-yé, Franco-Scottish quartet Les Bof!, have returned from an eight-year hiatus with Voila!, their second full-length through the London-based Dirty Water [...]
The Soft Cavalry The Soft Cavalry Bella Union It’s not very often that a debut album comes along that upon first listen, you know it is destined for greatness. Meet The Soft Cavalry. This is one album that has such an effect upon the first [...]
Ex Ømerta Ex Ømerta Independent Hailing from what very well may be one of the least likely places, your next favourite alternative rock band, Ex Ømerta, are ready to burst straight out of Winnipeg with their explosive self-titled debut album. [...]
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib Bandana Keep Cool/RCA Records The long-awaited followup to Freddie Gibbs & Madlib’s Piñata collab album released in 2014 is finally here. After five long years, we can once again bask in the undeniable chemistry [...]
Those Darn Gnomes Calling Whitetails To A Tuned Bow Nefarious Industries Those Darn Gnomes might be on to something. That something is a beautiful mix of all genres, instruments, noise, singing., and production all wrapped up on an EP that runs [...]
Hank Marvin Gold Crimson Records Hank Marvin is a living legend. There is no question or debate to this statement. He is held in high regard by Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Brian May and so many more. McCartney even parodied him [...]
Griffin House Rising Star Evening Records After 13 studio albums, Nashville-by-way-of-Ohio singer-songwriter Griffin House is more “old hat” than “rising star” yet his latest album is titled just that. Paradoxical? Maybe—but Rising Star is shot [...]
Kete Bowers Paper Ships Current Records Paper Ships is a fantastic album from an artist that deserves a great deal of attention. Kete Bowers has written and released an album of folk/Americana/rock songs that will not only resonate but impact [...]
The Black Keys Let’s Rock Nonesuch Records Respected, loved, and downright heralded, The Black Keys have won over most of the music industry with a riveting career that dominated the early 2010s. Released on the cusp of the latter half of [...]
Heather Nova Pearl Saltwater Records Heather Nova’s 10th Studio album, Pearl, is a positive-feeling collection of all the little bits and pieces that are her heart. Rocking the studio in the mountains of Spain, Nova has regrouped after a broken [...]
Thom Yorke Anima XL Recordings Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, who has sold millions of records and won his fair share of awards, is back with another solo release entitled Anima, his first since 2014’s Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes. Teaming up with [...]
Travis Live At Glastonbury ’99 Craft Recordings “Why does it always rain on me/Is it because I lied when I was seventeen?” These lyrics echoed in the heads of many Britpop listeners in the late nineties. This year, Travis celebrates the [...]
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 [...]
