TR/ST The Destroyer House Arrest/Grouch Spooky Canadian electropop project TR/ST is here again in 2019, with his usual ethereal take on club music. The new album, The Destroyer Part 1, is half of a new 2 part effort. The second part is rumored [...]
Waka Flocka Salute Me Or Shoot Me 6 Atlantic Records Waka Flocka has released his newest mixtape titled, Salute Me or Shoot Me 6. With eleven songs and features ranging from Lotto Savage, Comethazine, Prince Ink, and Jimmy Rocket, Waka Flocka is [...]
The Abyssmals Gospels, Hymns And Other Trash! Five Kill Records The Abyssmals first full-band album Gospels, Hymns, And Other Trash! has a lot going for it, including album art and the look of a band that has arrived through a portal from the [...]
Various Artists The Basketball Diaries – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Real Gone Music Soundtracks fall into two categories. There are the original soundtracks, which are usually instrumental music written specifically for the film, [...]
Marty Willson-Piper Hanging Out In Heaven Schoolkids Records Hanging Out In Heaven was Marty Willson-Piper’s fifth solo album, and originally released in 2000. Now keep in mind that he was still working with The Church at this time, as well as [...]
Kenny Roby And 6 String Drag The Jag Sessions: Rare And Unreleased 1996 – 1998 Schoolkids Records There are artists and bands that reach almost mythical status, and Kenny Roby And 6 String Drag is in that category. They released a handful [...]
David J Thoughts And Prayers (7″ Single) Schoolkids Records You can tell David J is pissed. You can see it from his announcement video concerning his new single which is to be released this coming Record Store Day (April 13) with backing [...]
Norah Jones Begin Again Blue Note Records Norah Jones just released her seventh studio album, Begin Again. Jones is a nine-time Grammy award-winning artist that is known for her sultry vocals and jazz lounge piano sound. Since the release of [...]
Lowly Hifalutin Bella Union Danish pop band Lowly initially garnered attention with their dreamy debut Heba, and in their sophomore album on Bella Union, Hifalutin. They further define their sound with all the ethereal textures, vocal overlays, [...]
The Chemical Brothers No Geography Virgin/Universal Music No Geography is The Chemical Brothers ninth studio album, and their first album of all new material since 2015’s Born in the Echoes. The Chemical Brothers are an electronic duo, based in [...]
The Last Bees The Last Bees Independent By the first few notes of his debut EP it becomes obvious that Milwaukee’s Ian Nash, or basically The Last Bees loves The Beatles, particularly their pre-Rubber Soul sound. Who doesn’t? But many might see [...]
88Glam 88Glam 2.5 Republic Records Derek Wise and 88 Camino have released the deluxe version of the original sophomore album, 88Glam2 with 88GLAM 2.5. With an additional two songs and features ranging from Nav and Gunna, Derek Wise and 88 [...]
Damien Jurado In The Shape Of A Storm Mama Bird Recording Company In The Shape Of A Storm is Damien Jurado’s 14th studio album since his debut in 1997. This alone is quite an accomplishment but when one hears the quality of music Jurado has [...]
2 Wolves Our Fault Inverse Records Five years since their previous release, 2 Wolves, the gothic metal band from Finland, are back to amaze us with their new studio album, Our Fault, which is a tremendous mix of rhythms. Our Fault is without a [...]
Badfinger So Fine – The Warner Bros. Rarities Real Gone Music Badfinger is best known for its hits on The Beatles’ Apple Records in the early 1970s, and perhaps for “Baby Blue”, which closed out the final episode of Breaking Bad. But [...]
Band Of Skulls Love Is All You Love SO Recordings Formed in 2008, U.K. Southampton Indie Rock outfit Band Of Skulls release their fifth studio album Love Is All You Love, following 2016’s Default. Led by original members guitarist/vocalist [...]
Streetheart Life.Legacy.Music Universal Music Life.Legacy.Music is the perfect summer compilation. Streetheart was a radio staple in the late 1970s throughout the 1980s on AM and FM radio, with a number of hits which continue to be radio staples [...]
Big Business The Beast You Are Joyful Noise Recordings Most doom metal songs are made to get lost in. 20-minute (or an hour) long epics aren’t a rarity. Big Business gets right to the point. Almost every track on their most recent The Beast You [...]
Bibio Ribbons Warp Records Few artists balance simplicity, experimentation and distinctiveness as well as Stephen Wilkinson, the man behind Bibio. Often relying on a handful of guitar licks to form the base of a short but sweet and dreamy [...]
Big Eyes Streets Of The Lost Greenway Records As the driving force behind Brooklyn-based rock ‘n’ roll stalwarts Big Eyes, Kait Eldridge is familiar with change. Over the course of ten years she has moved her musical project from New York to [...]
Datura4 Blessed Is The Boogie Alive NaturalSound Records The Australian based band Datura4 has recently kicked open the door to their third blues-based rock album entitled Blessed is the Boogie. This latest incarnation, a 10-song offering, [...]
Weyes Blood Titanic Rising Sub Pop Natalie Mering, aka Weyes Blood, makes time stand still. She doesn’t wave a magic wand or play distortion tricks with strobe lights. She emotes, and time stops for her. Titanic Rising, her fourth full-length [...]
Justin Wright Music For Staying Warm First Terrace Records Justin Wright is a cellist and composer who bridges experimental and classical music. Although Music For Staying Warm is the followup to his solo EP in 2017 (Pattern Seeker). He also [...]
Todd Rundgren’s Utopia Live At The Chicago Theatre Cleopatra Records In 2018, Todd Rundgren reunited with former members of Utopia and began a tour that took him and his band on the road for an extensive tour. The tour was a success, both [...]
