Various Artists Live At Massey Hall – Vol. 1 Arts & Crafts Live At Massey Hall – Vol. 1, released on Nov. 28 for Record Store Day Black Friday, is available on vinyl at various independent record stores across North America. It is a [...]
Calexico The Black Light: 20th Anniversary Edition Quarterstick Calexico, based in Tucson, Arizona, is essentially Joey Burns (vocals, guitars, bass, cello, piano, keyboards, accordion, percussion, vibraphone) and John Convertino (drums). The [...]
Roy Buchanan Live At Town Hall 1974 Real Gone Music Roy Buchanan is one of those artists who seemed to just excel in front of a live audience. A true guitarists’ guitarist, he never had a strong desire to be a studio maverick. Buchanan just [...]
Honey Beard Reverie EP Independent Today, the dance-driven four-track Reverie is released to the world. Recorded in Toronto and mixed and mastered in London, England, the EP follows Toronto-based synth duo, Honey Beard’s full albums: Dreamless [...]
Andy Mackay 3 Psalms Good Deeds Music It has been almost ten years since Andy Mackay has released a solo album (his last solo offering being London! New York! Paris! Rome! credited to Andy Mackay + The Metaphors was released in 2009). Now with [...]
Cheap Trick The Epic Archive Vol. 2 (1980-1983) Real Gone Music Although Cheap Trick has had numerous hit singles and albums, I still think that it is unjustly overlooked. This is a shame, as it is one of the most original bands to emerge from [...]
The Mamas And The Papas The Complete Singles: 50th Anniversary Collection Real Gone Music The Mamas and The Papas were a sensation in the 1960s, scoring 11 top forty singles, seven of which went into the top ten, and of course their sole number [...]
Equador Tribal War Pegdoll Records London-based Equador is producer Henry Binns of Zero 7 and vocalist Bo Bruce of The Voice UK fame. Equador’s new EP Tribal War follows up their 2016 debut Bones of Man with warm, downtempo electronica that’s [...]
The Camino Side Project Of Movement & Music Paul Farran Music Montreal’s Paul Farran has quite an interesting story, and instead of picking up a pen, paintbrush, or mobile camera, he has decided to tell it in the form of a musical [...]
Smashing Pumpkins Shiny And Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun. Napalm Records “We’re gonna make this happen,” begins “Knights of Malta,” the first track of the widely awaited new release from Smashing Pumpkins. 18 years since [...]
Rush Hemispheres: 40th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition UMe While Rush may be done recording new music and touring as a band, their catalogue lives on with their recent 40th anniversary celebrations as they remaster and repackage their [...]
Mark Knopfler Down The Road Wherever (Deluxe) British Grove/Universal Music With his ninth studio album Down The Road Wherever, Mark Knopfler, former leader and founder of the ‘80s U.K. band Dire Straits, delivers 14 unhurried and (typically for [...]
Roy Orbison Unchained Melodies: Roy Orbison With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Legacy Recordings/Sony Music How do you add a greater sentimental feel to music already fraught with emotion? By adding an orchestra, of course! A recent addition [...]
88Glam 88Glam2 Republic Records Derek Wise and 88 Camino have released their sophomore album, 88Glam2. Following the impact of 88Glam1, the duo returns with more of its signature dark bangers. The album contains 14 solid songs, and features a [...]
Chris Cornell Chris Cornell Universal Music Few artists, if any, could successfully go from the unrelenting heaviness of “Jesus Christ Pose” to the warm gentleness of “Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart” with an equal amount of quality, integrity, [...]
Humans Going Late Haven Sounds Vancouver-based Humans are an “electropop” (seriously, who comes up with these genre names?) duo made up of Robbie Slade and Peter Ricq. As a genre, EDM is tremendously varied, but Slade and Ricq clearly favour and [...]
Tyler, The Creator Music Inspired By Illumination & Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch Columbia Records If you have ever woken up on a Christmas morning wishing you had a rap album your 5-year-could enjoy as well as you, Tyler The Creator has got your [...]
Mumford & Sons Delta Gentlemen Of The Road/Glassnote Records November 16 marks the fourth LP release Delta from beloved indie rockers Mumford & Sons. It is also the first date of the band’s biggest tour, with 60 arena dates booked in [...]
Jean-Michel Jarre Equinoxe Infinity Sony Music Perhaps it is their age, perhaps it is their level of confidence, but there are a number of established artists releasing albums in which they do what they do best. They are not trying to compete [...]
We Are The City Above Club Boompa Records On their third full-length release, Above Club, We Are the city continue to push musical boundaries with their extremely interesting pop-rock music. Above Club features more electronic elements than the [...]
Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Legacy Recordings Few albums stand the test of time the way Electric Ladyland has, much like few artists stand the test of time the way Jimi Hendrix himself has. This is despite the [...]
Spiritualized Fucked Up Inside Glass Redux Records Following the release of their debut album, Lazer Guided Melodies, Spiritualized released a live album, Fucked Up Inside, which was only sold, for a limited time, via mail order. The live album [...]
Jon Spencer Spencer Sings The Hits In The Red Records Jon Spencer has always been known for his bombastic and some would say arrogant style. Confidence and swagger can be misunderstood as arrogance so take that with a grain of salt. That being [...]
Holygram Modern Cults Cleopatra Records Holygram formed in 2015 and consists of Patrick Blümel (vocals), Sebastian Heer (drums), Marius Lansing (guitars), Pilo Lenger (synthesizers) and Bennett Reimann (bass). Modern Cults is their debut album, [...]
