Black Elephant Cosmic Blues Small Stone Records Black Elephant’s 2018 release of their second LP Cosmic Blues comes four years after their raw and far from mature debut Bifolchi Inside. In that time, the Italian Stoner Rock outfit have had [...]
Astari Nite Midnight Conversations Cleopatra Records Rock has always had the tendency for nostalgic retrospection and expressing modern concerns in a way that resonates with past musical cultures. This is especially true in recent years, where [...]
The Ophelias Almost Joyful Noise Recordings The Ophelia’s sophomore release, Almost, is an exquisite album that shows what real musicianship mixed with “writing about what you know” can do when a band gives all its members room to explore. The [...]
The Rolling Stones From The Vault: No Security – San Jose ‘99 Universal Music Group Hot off the heels of their recent European No Filter tour, The Rolling Stones, one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll bands to ever grace a stage, have turned [...]
The Jayhawks Back Roads And Abandoned Motels Sony Music For their follow-up to 2016’s Paging Mr. Proust, The Jayhawks have returned with country flair on Back Roads And Abandoned Motels. With the band’s tumultuous history, their 2016 release was [...]
Cowboy Junkies All That Reckoning Latent Recordings In their first new album since 2013, Cowboy Junkies’ latest release All That Reckoning is an entrancing piece of musical artistry. The intoxicating vocals of Margo Timmins bring to life [...]
Graham Bonnet Band Meanwhile, Back In The Garage Frontiers Music This is the second studio album from Graham Bonnet Band. Their first, The Book, was released in 2016 and was well received both critically and sales wise. They have issued a couple [...]
Smokescreens Used To Yesterday Slumberland Records LA-based New Zealand-esque band “Smokescreens” hit back with their second album review, Used to Yesterday. After a careful gleaning of the album title, it could be considered ironic, seeing as [...]
Bodega Endless Scroll What’s Your Rupture? Is there a punk revival, a renaissance afoot? Given the tumultuous social and Geo-political climate, it would make sense that the two genres with the most active history of lyrically cataloguing [...]
Searmanas Searmanas Cleopatra Records Searmanas is a word that is derived from Gaelic, and it means ceremony or ceremonial. It is the perfect name for this artist. The debut album, Searmanas, has a feeling of official ceremony, an album that is [...]
SMASH Fashion Rompus Pompous Electric Pudding Records Bringing rock ‘n’ roll back? You want some classic ’70s rock/power pop guitar hooks and fresh kicks? Come get some! This aptly titled fourth album from the LA rock ‘n’ roll band [...]
The Nude Party The Nude Party New West Records The Nude Party is the debut album from The Nude Party. They have released an EP, but The Nude Party is their first full length album, and for the most part, it lives up to expectations. Based in [...]
Yungblud 21st Century Liability Locomotion/Geffen Records/Universal Music Canada With thoughtful lyricism, poetic delivery and a mix of genres that create a chaotic beauty missing from most courageous efforts in music today, Yorkshire-born [...]
Bruce Dickinson Scream For Me Sarajevo: Music From The Motion Picture Sanctuary Records Not only is this album just a great hard rock album, but it is a story. A story about how terrible war is. A story about how powerful music is. A story that [...]
Nachtmahr Widerstand Trisol Music Group Austrian band Nachtmahr, headed by Thomas Rainer, has been described as “an industrial orgy” by critics. Within this world of heavy dance floor stomping beats, that is high praise. Upon exploring their [...]
Let’s Eat Grandma I’m All Ears Transgressive Let’s get it out of the way now and address this fact, as all Let’s Eat Grandma reviews seem almost contractually obligated to do – Jenny Hollingworth and Rosa Walton are young. Their 2016 debut I, [...]
Ray Davies Our Country: Americana Act II Sony Music Our Country: Americana Act II is not so much a sequel to the very successful 2017 release, Americana, as it is a continuation. Ray Davies has based both albums on his 2013 book Americana: The [...]
Gorillaz The Now Now Parlophone Records Limited Your favourite cartoon ensemble that makes up the Gorillaz is back at it again with a new album, The Now Now, and although it’s not as courageous as previous releases, it’s a much-needed collection [...]
Guns N’ Roses Appetite For Destruction Remastered Universal Music Group (Originally Geffen Records) It goes without saying that Guns N’ Roses’ seminal 1987 album, Appetite For Destruction, is a near flawless debut album that set the bar for rock [...]
Wild Moccassins Look Together New West Records Look Together is this generation’s Rumours. Co-written by the core members of Wild Moccasins, Zahira Gutierrez and Cody Swann, the album lyrically and musically documents the break-up of Swann and [...]
A Flock Of Seagulls with The Prague Philharmonic Orchestra Ascension August Day This seems to be a trend. A great many artists, alive and dead, are setting their music with an orchestra. The bands originating from the 1980s are not immune to [...]
Jim James Uniform Distortion ATO Records Uniform Distortion is the newest album by Jim James. He brings forth a soulful experience with an indie feel. James’ latest album will be a bit different than his last. He decided to drop the [...]
Florence + the Machine High As Hope Virgin EMI There are few, if any, voices more distinctive or powerful than that of Florence Welch. Famed for her ability to channel emotion through her shiver-inducing vocals, Florence’s vocal prowess has [...]
Claire Morales All That Wanting Independent Listening to Claire Morales’s second LP, All That Wanting, I can’t help but feel like I’ve heard this before. Don’t get me wrong, Morales’s voice is, by definition, beautiful. “Sybille” and “New [...]
