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, [...]
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 [...]
