Muse Simulation Theory Warner Music With an infamous distaste towards the notion of stylistic continuity across a career that has seen the band go from the depths of classically-inspired progressive metal to pop-fueled electronica and everything [...]
Various Artists A Life In Yes: The Chris Squire Tribute Cleopatra Records Sitting here, listening to prog rock and considering the redundancy in the phrase “self-indulgent wank-fest”. But wait – what’s that sound? How does a music producer [...]
Imagine Dragons Origins (Deluxe) KIDinaKORNER/Interscope Records/Universal Music Canada Imagine Dragons is back with their fourth studio album Origins. Considered a sister album to Evolve, which came out in June 2017, Origins features the [...]
Ulthar Cosmovore 20 Buck Spin The San Francisco Bay Area has produced no shortage of exceptional death metal acts in recent decades, with an annual three-day festival solidifying their place in extreme music history. One of the newest bands to [...]
The Beatles The Beatles (White Album): Super Deluxe Anniversary Edition Apple Corps Ltd./Universal Music 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were both assassinated, The Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia; France had the Winter Olympics [...]
Midnight Oil Armistice Day: Live At The Domain, Sydney Sony Music In February, 2017, Midnight Oil announced a world tour, their first tour in 15 years. The tour would eventually take in 16 countries over five continents, playing to thousands of [...]
Johnny Mafia Princes De L’Amour Dirty Water Records Returning with their first full length album since their 2016 debut, Michel-Michel Michel, Johnny Mafia have released Princes de l’Armour. Much like the rest of the Dirty Water Records [...]
Charles Bradley Black Velvet Daptone Records After his sudden and unexpected passing on September 23 of last year, the legacy of Charles Bradley has been one that embodies the sense of classic funk and soul music for the modern era. Much like [...]
Buildings And Food Quick Beat Save Number F Records Quick Beat Save is the debut album by Buildings and Food, a solo project by artist Jen K. Wilson. The LP offers a punchy soundtrack to a cyber-nostalgic universe. Instrumental music can often [...]
Dead Can Dance Dionysus [PIAS] Recordings Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry formed Dead Can Dance in Melbourne, Australia in 1981. At the time the band also included Paul Erikson (bass) and Simon Monroe (drums). They released their first album, [...]
Hoodooed Lotka-Volterra Independent For their fifth release, Quebec-based rock group Hoodooed have released Lotka-Volterra, an experimental, nine track album which revels in its own obscurity, quirks, creativity, and refusal to remain in one [...]
Marianne Faithfull Negative Capability BMG Marianne Faithfull will turn 72 in December, and, like many artists her age and of her generation, she continues to do what she does best while still pushing boundaries. Since her debut performance in [...]
Mother Mother Dance And Cry Universal Music Apathy is checked at the door on Mother Mother’s newest album release, Dance and Cry. Made up of twelve striking tracks written by lead singer Ryan Guldemond, this album is an emotional and profound [...]
Bob Dylan More Blood, More Tracks: The Bootleg Series Vol. 14 Sony Music When Blood On The Tracks was released in 1975, it was quickly acclaimed as one Dylan’s best albums, and it has only grown in stature of over time. Quite simply, it is one [...]
oh800 Character Building Infinite Jest Records “I’ve had it up to here with character building,” sings Eoin Rooney with backing from oh800 in their song “Character Building”, the opening song from their debut album of the same name. oh800 are [...]
Dan Mangan More Or Less Arts & Crafts The very best writing about this album was done by Dan Mangan himself via his publicity team on his website. As a description of the album, he explained its genesis as well as his own personal evolution [...]
Various Artists Canada Covers Tom Petty Independent Tom Petty departed this world on October 2, 2017. Just a little over a year later, Jadea Kelly has put together something special to honour Petty while promoting independent Canadian talent. [...]
Stove ‘s Favorite Friend Exploding In Sound Combining pop melodies with a wall of guitar noise is a trick as old as indie rock itself. It’s a style that Steve Hartlett has been working in for years now, first with Ovlov and now in Stove. Their [...]
Mitch Tones Band Mitch Tones Band EP Independent The new Mitch Tones Band EP is a solid effort that is best suited with an aged bourbon and a cigarette after the album is finished. This self-titled EP has a strong swagger and its heaviness at [...]
Various Artists Brown Acid: The Seventh Trip RidingEasy Records This album is a recompilation of tracks from the ‘60s and ‘70s that were never able to make it into the mainstream radio of those days. Daniel Hall and Lance Barresi once again [...]
Thom Yorke Suspiria XL Recordings When Dario Argento’s supernatural horror film Suspiria was released in 1977, the world’s artistic landscape stood in stark contrast to the one we find today just over 30 years later. Modern cinema was defined [...]
Allie X Super Sunset Allie X Canada Allie X (Alexandra Ashley Hughes) is a singer/songwriter from the Toronto area who grew up with an interest in classical piano, opera and mujsical theatre, and later went on to release a number of independent [...]
Anchorsong Cohesion Tru Thoughts Recordings Operating in the role of a producer, Anchorsong builds tracks as a DJ would live. He starts with a rhythm track, augments it with percussive elements, and introduces melodic counterparts, layer by [...]
The Struts Young & Dangerous Interscope Records English-Canadian rock outfit, The Struts, have had an amazing year. While busy with their own headlining tour across North America and Europe to promote the release of their single, “Body [...]
