Corey Hart Dreaming Time Again Rhino Records After a two-decade hiatus, pop icon Corey Hart returns with a new eight-song EP titled Dreaming Time Again, along with a full blown Canadian tour in May and June, with dates to follow in Japan in [...]
Lucy Spraggan Today Was A Good Day Cooking Vinyl Naming your album Today Was A Good Day is certainly a good indication of how the artist feels at the moment. And with her fifth album, UK singer/songwriter Lucy Spraggan obviously feels in a good [...]
Tacocat This Mess Is A Place Sub Pop Tacocat’s fourth full-length album This Mess is a Place is their first release on Sub Pop, and full of feminist pop-punk that will have you dancing into the Spring. The album’s opening song “Hologram” speaks [...]
Simon Bonney Past, Present, Future Mute Records Simon Bonney is a genius, just not a prolific one. Since leaving Crime and The City Solution in 1992, he has released two solo albums. Crime and The City Solution released five studio albums. This [...]
New Berlin Magnet Goodbye Boozy Records New Berlin’s second album Magnet shows promise and a tremendous growth since 2016’s Basic Function. The Texas three-piece is firing on all cylinders driving home a powerful punk sound that will leave you [...]
The Jins Death Wish 604 Records There’s no question Ben Larsen, guitarist/vocalist for Vancouver three-piece The Jins, owns underwear with Kurt Cobain’s face on them. On The Jins’ new EP, Death Wish, Larsen proudly sports his Cobain drawers over [...]
Catfish And The Bottlemen The Balance Island Records After the 3-year-long brutal wait, fans finally get to hear the newest addition to the Catfish roster. The Balance is the third studio album from the Wales-based artists and does not [...]
Various Artists For the Throne (Music Inspired By The HBO Series Game Of Thrones) Columbia Records HBO’s Game of Thrones fans will be excited to hear the new music released on the album, For the Throne (Music Inspired by the HBO Series Game of [...]
Guided By Voices Warp And Woof Rockathon Records Guided By Voices new album, Warp and Woof, consists of 24 songs in 37 minutes. This is a clear indication Guided By Voices continue to do what they do best. Warp and Woof is their 27th studio [...]
Local Natives Violet Street Loma Vista Recordings Local Natives have evolved throughout each album. Their debut LP, Gorilla Manor, featured the rough-around-the-edges energy of a young band letting loose, while Hummingbird introduced a more [...]
Dub Trio The Shape Of Dub To Come New Damage Records Dub Trio has been blurring genres with their music for over a decade now, and their newest album, The Shape of Dub to Come, is an admirably unique experience, but a bit too indecisive. The [...]
Alan Parsons The Secret Frontiers Music SRL The Secret is Alan Parsons first studio album in 15 years. His last album, A Valid Path, was released in 2004. Since then he has toured and released several live albums, and also oversaw the reissue of [...]
St. Lucia Acoustic Vol. 1 Columbia Records On topic with Marie Kondo’s 2019, St. Lucia has truly decluttered and ridden themselves of everything that doesn’t give them joy, and Acoustic Vol.1 takes on a new, raw sound. Acoustic Vol.1 is a [...]
Cokie The Clown You’re Welcome Fat Wreck Chords There was a time when it would have been impossible to believe that Fat Mike could make you cry. “Fat Mike” Burkett, often-controversial frontman of longstanding punk band NOFX, has an outlet [...]
Cranberries In The End BMG Many bands aspire to be timeless, but The Cranberries are one of the few to have achieved that goal. On In The End, The Cranberries have possibly delivered their finest album in their 30-year and eight-album history, [...]
Josh Ritter Fever Breaks V2 Records Benelux Recorded down in Nashville, Fever Breaks may be Josh Ritter’s most obviously country album. From the instrumentation and lyrics to the vocal inflections Ritter uses as he sings phrases like “y’all [...]
Various Artists Brown Acid: The Eighth Trip RidingEasy Records Brown Acid: The Eighth Trip is a time capsule which has concealed the secluded and otherworldly Woodstock spirit in a vacuum of proto-metal and stoner-rock absolute gems! The [...]
Oumi Kapila Fix Independent I have come to the point of never being surprised by anything Oumi Kapila does, I just accept that he does as he pleases whether or not it fits in your preconceived notion about him. Fix is his second solo album, and [...]
Nuclear Revenge Let The Tyrants Rise Evil Spell Records/Undercover When listening to Nuclear Revenge’s debut full-length album you are instantly transported back in time back to 1986-87 when black metal and hardcore thrash was truly a [...]
The Rolling Stones Honk Universal Music The Rolling Stones are no strangers to the “best of” compilation, having piled up a whopping 25 since Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass), their first singles collection in 1966. Since then we have seen [...]
Cage The Elephant Social Cues RCA Records Cage the Elephant are of a rare breed. They’ve been at it for over decade and have still found a niche where they can be a commercially successful rock band in the streaming era, a rare feat. Like their [...]
We Are Scientists Megaplex: Rise of the Lycans Grönland Records Powerpop duo, We Are Scientists, released the deluxe version of their 2018 album Megaplex, under the name, Megaplex: Rise of the Lycans, on April 19. Let it be noted that We Are [...]
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Music From The Motion Picture: The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford Mute Records Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have re-released their critically-acclaimed soundtrack Music from the Motion Picture: [...]
Joyous Wolf Place In Time Roadrunner Records Joyous Wolf is a band in a very curious position. While they don’t quite seem to have the mainstream attention as say Greta Van Fleet for their role in the growing rock revival that is sweeping North [...]
