James Williamson And The Pink Hearts Behind The Shade Leopard Lady Records With an illustrious career as a songwriter and guitarist for nearly fifty years, most known for playing on The Stooges’ landmark 1973 release Raw Power, James Williamson [...]
Here Lies Man You Will Know Nothing RidingEasy Records Following a debut that captured the positive attention of several critics and garnered a not insignificant following, Here Lies Man’s sophomore album was always going to be a big test for [...]
Mad Caddies Punk Rocksteady Fat Wreck Chords The Mad Caddies’ new album is the summer album we’ve all been waiting for. A compilation of punk rock classics played with a beachy reggae style, this album boasts a series of perfect tunes to rock [...]
Wilko Johnson Blow Your Mind Chess Records/Universal In 2014, much to everyone’s surprise, Wilko Johnson, who was handed a death sentence of a year in 2013 due to terminal pancreatic cancer, released an album with Roger Daltrey (Going Back Home) [...]
Blushh Thx 4 Asking Yellow K Records “It’s not fine, it never was,” Shab Ferdowsi asserts in the first line of her latest EP as indie power-pop extraordinaire Blushh. This callout to her previous release, 2017’s It’s Fine, kick-starts Thx 4 [...]
Immersion Sleepless Swim~ The band, Immersion, consists of Colin Newman (from Wire) and Malka Spigel (Minimal Compact). Sleepless is their fourth studio album, and their first since 2016’s Analogue Creatures Living On An Island. Sleepless is an [...]
Colin Stetson Hereditary: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Milan Records Scoring a film is a difficult task, and quite frankly there are not a lot of artists who can compose and arrange music for a film. Writing for a horror film is an even [...]
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones While We’re At It Big Rig Records It is interesting for me that this is the second band this month that I have chosen to review that found the largest part of its fame in the 1990s, a decade now famous for being [...]
The English Beat Starring Dave Wakeling Here We Go Love Here We Go Records The Beat formed in 1978, and released their debut album in 1980, I Just Can’t Stop It. But the release of that album lead to some problems with their name in Australia [...]
Buddy Guy The Blues Is Alive And Well Silvertone/RCA Records Buddy Guy stands as one of the last true traditional blues legends of his time; an era that predated the rock ‘n’ roll explosion of the mid-1960s. Few remain, and even fewer are still [...]
Nick Lowe Tokyo Bay/Crying Inside Yep Roc Records It’s confession time. I have always been a bigger fan of Nick Lowe the rocker than I am of Nick Lowe the elder statesman artist – the main reason being that there was just so much energy and [...]
The Stayawakes Dogs and Cats/Living Together Surefire Discs/badHORROR Recordings/ShoveItUpYourCult Records Transporting listeners back to the beautiful indie-pop punk scene of the early 2000s, The Stayawakes latest release Dogs and Cats/Living [...]
Black Coffee Take One Independent On their debut album, Columbus, Ohio’s Black Coffee shine as potential stars to the growing rock revival that is sweeping North America. The independent release, Take One, harkens back to the 1970s – arguably [...]
The Beach Boys With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra The Beach Boys With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Capitol Records The past decade has been a very good time to be a Beach Boys fan, beginning with their 50th anniversary tour in 2012, which [...]
Thom Fekete Grow Joyful Noise Recordings Faced with his own encroaching and premature mortality, Thom Fekete never stopped writing music. His new album, Grow — released posthumously through Joyful Noise Recordings — is both a [...]
Dave Matthews Band Come Tomorrow RCA Records There is little, at this point in their long and storied careers, that the Dave Matthews Band do in terms of breaking new ground. Since launching themselves into the collective music consciousness in [...]
Jorja Smith Lost & Found ONE FAMM Jorja Smith, the 21-year-old from Walsall, England, has been making huge waves in the music industry after the recent release of her debut album, Lost & Found. Jorja Smith has strengths and weaknesses, [...]
Snail Mail Lush Matador Maryland-born Lindsey Jordan, the lead-singer and creative engine behind Snail Mail, must have had cool parents. Maybe an older sibling that was into grunge. Having only been born in 1999 herself, she has clearly been [...]
Rechorduroys Rechorduroys Five Kill Records Sometimes an ending is just the beginning of something else, and that was exactly the case when Rechorduroy’s singer and main songwriter Benjamin Garrett dissolved his band Party Boat and moved [...]
Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge The Midnight Hour Linear Labs When two production heavyweights like A Tribe Called Quest’s Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge collaborate, it’s something that’s worth paying attention to. That’s what [...]
Various Artists Eric Clapton: Life In 12 Bars (Original Soundtrack Recording) Universal Music Enterprises Soundtracks of documentaries about musicians are interesting things and excellent opportunities to collect well known songs as a ‘best of’ [...]
Poptone Poptone LP Cleopatra Records Poptone is one half of Bauhaus or two thirds of Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets, you can decide your reference point. The truth is Poptone is a new band featuring Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins (both from [...]
Lykke Li so sad so sexy RCA Records Lykke Li’s fourth and 2018 release so sad so sexy plays true to the title. This ten track album is perfect for crying at the club or dancing in slow-motion after a break-up. Though comedic, it is probably the [...]
Ian Burden Hey Hey Ho Hum Rutland Artspace Limited Ian Burden was a member of The Human League from 1980 until he left the band in 1987. Hey Hey Ho Hum is his second solo album (his debut solo album, Loot!, was released in 1990). Since then he [...]
