Bossie Not Pictured Culvert Music Young Toronto recording artist Bossie (Anne Douris) has release her debut album Not Pictured featuring a mix of catchy radio infused synth-pop tracks a-la Carly Rae Jepsen and Taylor Swift, with lyrics about [...]
Willie Nelson Last Man Standing Legacy Recordings A song writing legend who needs no introduction, Willie Nelson returns with his sixty-seventh solo record, Last Man Standing. In what is without a doubt a truly incredible and expansive [...]
Speedy Ortiz Twerp Verse Carpark Records Grunge-infused, indie-rock foursome Speedy Ortiz are a bit of an enigma, and not just in the attempt to place them in a genre that comes somewhere close to describing them. Sonically, they revel in [...]
Van Morrison And Joey DeFrancesco You’Re Driving Me Crazy Sony Music/Legacy Recordings Van Morrison fans are having a good year. You’re Driving me Crazy is Van Morrison’s third album since September, 2017. Quite a remarkable feat by [...]
Kid Koala Floor Kids (Original Video Game Soundtrack) Arts & Crafts It is no surprise, given his hard-to-contain talent and countless sources of artistic inspiration, that Eric San (aka Kid Koala) would get involved in the creation of a [...]
Post Malone Beerbongs and Bentleys Republic Records Post Malone sophomore album, Beerbongs and Bentleys, doesn’t fail to deliver. With 19 tracks on the album, and featuring guest artists ranging from Nicki Minaj, G-eazy, YG, and 21 Savage, [...]
Blossoms Cool Like You Universal Music/EMI Remember the Brighton-based foursome The Kooks? They were literally the soundtrack to the summer of 2006 with several singles taken from their debut Inside In/Inside Out. The British public loved them [...]
Cancer Bats The Spark That Moves Bat Skull Records/New Damage Records In celebration of 4/20 or in anticipation of Record Store Day, Cancer Bats have released their sixth album, The Spark That Moves. Released as a surprise, The Spark That Moves [...]
Donovan Woods Both Ways Meant Well Both Ways is the fifth album from Canadian singer-songwriter Donovan Woods. It is a strong collection of songs that defies genre labels. For those who are unfamiliar with Woods’ music, echoes of songwriters [...]
Drinks Hippo Lite Birth Records Hippo Lite is one of the most unique albums released this year. Simply put, it is brilliant. Drinks is made up of Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley (White Fence) and Hippo Lite is their second album as Drinks. It is [...]
Mother Mother O My Heart: Live Sessions Universal Music Canada Ten years after its release, Canadian indie rock group Mother Mother has decided to revisit their very first album, O My Heart. Rather than do a simple rerelease or tour alone, the [...]
Strvngers Amor/Noir Negative Gain Strvngers is a Canadian duo, and Armor/Noir is their third album, and perhaps their most accessible. Hailing from small town Alberta, Maria Joaquin (vocals) and KC (music) have honed their craft very well on [...]
Hyways Hyways Union Zero Hyways hail from Seattle, and Hyways is their self-titled debut album. The band consists of Mike Giacolino (lead vocal, guitar, harmonica), Nils Petersen (bass, keyboards, backing vocals), Jay Kardong (pedal steel, [...]
Andy Bassford The Harder They Strum Registered Alien Records The movie soundtrack has been an important part of the music business since the advent of the long playing disc, or LP, in the late 1940s. The LP was an excellent format for musical [...]
The Free Label This Some Kind Of Love Independent The Free Label is five piece band, based in Toronto. This Some Kind Of Love is their debut EP and although it contains only three songs, it does demonstrate a band on their way to creating their [...]
Young Valley Young Valley Dial Back Sound Young Valley is a group of young men with big dreams and a big southern sound. They recently released their self-titled second album. The group uses their unique power of three songwriters and vocalists [...]
Thievery Corporation Treasures From The Temple ESL Music American duo Rob Garza and Eric Hilton have been making genre-defying music as Thievery Corporation since the mid 1990s and have been doing so in the spotlight since 2005’s The Cosmic [...]
A Perfect Circle Eat The Elephant BMG The world has undergone almost immeasurable changes in the years between the releases of A Perfect Circle’s third and fourth albums. 14 years is easily quantifiable, but any attempt to qualify the scale of [...]
Lord Huron Vide Noir Republic Records Lord Huron not only survived “dreaded second album syndrome”, they seemed to have perfected their sound with their sophomore release, taking the alt-folk rock feel of their debut and raising it to all new [...]
Bishop Briggs Church Of Scars Island Records An album three years in the making, Church of Scars is the official full-length debut of Scottish-born, Los Angeles-based singer Bishop Briggs, who performs under the name of her hometown in [...]
Pete Townshend Who Came First – 45th Anniversary Expanded Edition Universal Music Enterprises Pete Townshend’s Who Came First was first issued in 1972 and followed The Who’s biggest success to that point, Who’s Next. Who Came First, which [...]
ANMLPLNET Fall Asleep Ba Da Bing Records If you’ve ever wondered what it feels like to engage in coitus with a cloud, this album was made for you. If not, there’s still some psychedelic bliss to be found. Through six delightful and ethereal [...]
Foliage III Z-Tapes Foliage is a young indie act but isn’t new to the scene. He just released his third album entitled III. Foliage’s musical style is similar to that of Alvvays, but with a male singer. Foliage consists of simply one 20-year-old [...]
The Who Live At The Fillmore East 1968 Geffen/Universal Music It seems an odd task, writing a review for a recording which has existed (as a bootleg) for almost fifty years. But when you’ve been rocking it out for as long as The Who have, the [...]
