The Black Tones Cobain And Cornbread Independent If albums were judged just on their covers, Cobain and Cornbread would be on every year-end list. It’s over-the-top goofiness in the best way possible. The Black Tones, Seattle-based twins Eva [...]
Steve Earle & The Dukes Guy New West Records Most cover albums are pretty low-stakes affairs, especially when the creator is an aging legend whose legacy is secure. Not so for Steve Earle. “No way I could get out of doing this record”, said [...]
Julian Taylor Band Avalanche Gypsy Soul Records As pioneers of what they call funk, soul, and roll, The Julian Taylor Band has returned with its first album since 2017’s Live At Lee’s Palace and its first set of new material since 2016’s Desert [...]
Wintersleep In The Land Of Dine Alone Records Wintersleep have developed an interesting trend over the past sixteen years since their 2003 debut, self-titled album. Though they are now, with 2019’s In the Land Of, seven albums deep, they have [...]
Devin Townsend Empath Inside Out/Sony Music There can be no debating the musical genius of Canada’s own Devin Townsend. For his 18th studio studio album and arguably his first solo one, Townsend has already given fans a unique glimpse into the [...]
Lefty And The Hatman Déjà Blue Independent Lefty and The Hatman are actually Marc ‘The Hatman’ Mann and Jeffrey ‘Lefty’ Levine. Both have extensive and rather impressive histories in music. Mann, working with Jeff Lynne, Electric Light [...]
London Stone Just How High Independent “Just need those dancing shoes.” The London Stone cries these five words, as the drums bash away, the crunchy guitar riff repeats, and the echoey vocalist announces “and on, and on, and on.” Dance you will, [...]
The Sh-Booms The Blurred Odyssey Limited Fanfare Records The Sh-Booms’ new full-length, The Blurred Odyssey, will move you… in every sense of the word. With its live-off-the-floor feel, it’s almost as if the band recorded in a garage… in which [...]
Goresoerd Kain Independent Goresoerd is a death metal band from Estonia that formed in 2004. In a short span of time, they became known for its onstage energy and hilarious songs. Their most recent album, Kain, is inspired by the Bible’s [...]
Good Tiger Redux Metal Blade Good Tiger’s 2018 sophomore effort We Will All Be Gone was one of the stronger efforts released last year and the band’s live performance met this reviewer’s every expectation for a tight show when he saw the band in [...]
John Lennon & Yoko Ono Wedding Album (Reissue) Secretly Canadian/Chimera Music Secretly Canadian and Chimera Music continue their ambitious Yoko Ono reissue project with this landmark album. Wedding Album was released to commemorate Lennon [...]
Avey Tare Cows On The Hourglass Pond Domino Records Animal Collective’s Avey Tare is back with a psychedelic and aquatic new take on Americana, folk music, and everything of their ilk. His third studio album, Cows on Hourglass Pond, is one of my [...]
NO WIN downey Dangerbird Records With only a short discography behind them, NO WIN has released their first full-length album titled downey. Most listeners may initially be drawn to the band when they hear Fidlar’s ex-drummer, Danny Nogueiras, [...]
Bonnie Tyler Between The Earth And The Stars earMUSIC/Edel Between The Earth And The Stars is Bonnie Tyler’s 17th studio album, and her first since 2013’s Rocks and Honey. All that to say that this is an artist who has a fantastic catalogue [...]
Mötley Crüe The Dirt Soundtrack Sony Music Despite concluding their notoriously jaw dropping The Final Tour back in 2015, Mötley Crüe are more relevant than they’ve been in years with the release of The Dirt. The Netflix film is an adaptation of [...]
Megadeth Warheads On Foreheads Tradecraft/Universal Warheads on Foreheads is the new anthology album from Megadeth, spanning the thrash metal giant’s 35-year career. Famous for being in the “Big Four of Thrash” and considered one of the most [...]
These New Puritans Inside The Rose BMG The more I listen to this album, the harder it gets to describe. Inside The Rose transcends its own material existence as an album, proving itself an experience of its own. Inside The Rose carries a [...]
Beat Circus These Wicked Thinks Innova Records Ten years following the release of Boy From Black Mountain, Beat Circus has re-emerged from the depths of a hiatus to bring the third and final instalment of the so-called ‘Weird American Gothic’ [...]
Crash Vegas Brave New Waves Session Artoffact The clubs of Toronto’s Queen Street West were a hotbed of folk, rock, and country music fusion in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Springing from that scene, Crash Vegas – founded by Michelle [...]
Shlohmo The End Friends Of Friends Music LA musician and entrepreneurial collective founder Shlohmo, an absolute titan of Witch-House, Ambient, and Industrial Hip-Hop, is back with a reflective musing on the apocalypse, aptly entitled The End. [...]
Burna Boy & DJDS Steel & Copper Atlantic Records Nigerian rapper Burna Boy has teamed up with DJDS to surprise us with a four-track EP titled Steel & Copper. The Atlantic Records signed rapper previously gave us Outside, released [...]
Terry Draper In My Garden Terrytunes Klaatu disbanded in 1982, following the release of their last studio album, Magentalane (1981) and since then writer, drummer and vocalist Terry Draper has released a number of solo albums. In My Garden is a [...]
Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission Coldwater DFU Bloodlines Music Weddings, Parties, Anything called it a day, for all intents and purposes in 2012, but in terms of new music, their last studio album was released in 1997. Since then, Mick [...]
Chughey My Two Cents Is Free Chef Chop Records Born in Rock, Michigan, rapper Chughey is back at it again with another project. Having previously released his debut album Pivotal in August 2017, we are now left with a four-track project titled [...]
