Manic Street Preachers Resistance Is Futile Sony Music Deviating ever so slightly from their signature sound, Manic Street Preacher’s release of their 13th studio album, Resistance is Futile, is a decent collection of courageous lyricism and [...]
Josh Rouse Love In The Modern Age Yep Roc Records Josh Rouse released a very deep album in 2015 called The Embers of Time. He then decided to release an album that was more dedicated to the likes of early ’80s pop icons such as The Blue [...]
Laura Veirs The Lookout Raven Marching Band By the time an artist puts out their tenth album, they’ve usually either flattened out creatively, or they produce a record that allows them to explore their musical interestsbut is too idiosyncratic [...]
Say Sue Me Where We Were Together Damnably There is something decidedly timeless about surf-rock, especially when it melds with the classic washed-out vocals of its genre cousin shoe-gaze; in general, it is a sound that would fit as easily on a [...]
Rival Consoles Persona Erased Tapes Records The true wonder of this album is that you learn everything that you need to know about the following 12 tracks in the first minute of the first song – there will be relentlessly-crafted tension, there [...]
The Damned Evil Spirits Search And Destroy/Spinefarm Records The Damned formed in London in 1976 and many would argue they released the first U.K. ‘punk’ single that year, “New Rose” — a very influential record and band. They went on to [...]
Juliana Hatfield Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John American Laundromat Records Juliana Hatfield has been around a while. Her resume is quite extensive and impressive: The Blake Babies, The Lemonheads, The Juliana Hatfield Three and her [...]
John Prine The Tree Of Forgiveness Oh Boy/Sony Music A new album from John Prine is always reason to celebrate, but an album in which he wrote or co-wrote all the songs is an even bigger reason to rejoice. The Tree of Forgiveness is the first [...]
Rebel ACA & The French Monkey Wrench Sunday’s Cool Buttercuts Records Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewitt take note, this is a duo that you need to work with in your search for a return to relevance; so Gorillaz-friendly is this album that [...]
Benjamin Dean Wilson The Smartest Person In The Room Independent Songwriters who focus on storytelling have a mountain to climb in every song. To effectively weave a tale writers need descriptive language, effective imagery, and novel concepts. [...]
Maff Melaniña Independent Maff is a quartet, originally from and still based in Chile. Melaniña is their second release, following their debut album Maff (2014). The band consists of Ricardo Gomez (vocals, guitars) and Nicolas Colombres [...]
Daniel Avery Song For Alpha Mute Records/Phantasy Sound It is very clear that in the five years that have passed since Daniel Avery’s critically-acclaimed album debut Drone Logic, he has been anything but idle. Not content with simply making his [...]
Kississippi Sunset Blush Alcopop! Records Kississippi’s Sunset Blush is an album that, should you be so lucky as to count yourself a member of its ideal audience (I am), will have you simultaneously crying and dancing. If this is your jam (it’s [...]
Megan Bonnell Separate Rooms Cadence Music Group Three albums into her musical career and Megan Bonnell is ready to become a name that is recognizable beyond Canadian borders. While her previous two albums, Hunts and Chase and Magnolia, have [...]
Famous Dex Dex Meets Dexter 300 Entertainment Famous Dex, a well known Chicago rapper, has always been able to deliver fun filled music. Whether it be through multiple mixtapes and collaborations with his labelmates Rich the Kid and Jay Critch, [...]
Hop Along Bark Your Head Off, Dog Saddle Creek Hop Along is releasing their third studio album that is completely self produced. Hop Along consists of Frances Quinlan on vocals and guitar, Mark Quinlan on the drums, Tyler Long driving the bass, [...]
Maker Dead Ends & Avenues Kidda Records Maker is a four piece band based in Kent, England. Alessandro Marinelli (vocals), Andrew Donaldson (guitar), his brother Gavin Donaldson (drums), and John Astin (bass) make up the band, and [...]
The Cavemen Nuke Earth Slovenly Records New Zeland punk outfit The Cavemen are back and “ready to drink, fight, fuck and play some goddamn rock and roll”, on their latest full length record, Nuke Earth. Their third album quickly follows the [...]
Sloan 12 Murderecords/Universal Music Sloan is one of those Canadian bands I’ve always liked, so I was looking forward to hearing their 12th album, fittingly titled 12, and featuring 12 new songs by the band. Each of the four founding [...]
BlackWater HolyLight BlackWater HolyLight RidingEasy Records Hailing from Portland, Oregon comes BlackWater HolyLight, a slow droning psychedelic trip that blends elements of metal and noise rock on their self-titled debut record. Consisting of [...]
Various Artists Johnny Cash: Forever Words Legacy Recordings Sixty-three years after the release of his debut single, “Cry! Cry! Cry!”, and fifteen years since his passing, Johnny Cash remains as relevant as ever with the release of Johnny Cash: [...]
The Golden Grass Absolutely Listenable Records Brooklyn’s The Golden Grass – a psychedelic blues rock trio consisting of guitarist and vocalist Professor Plum Brandy, drummer and vocalist The Golden Goose, and on bass, The Fireball – have [...]
Kamelot The Shadow Theory Napalm Records Euro-American rockers Kamelot are back at it again with their latest release The Shadow Theory. The highly anticipated follow-up to their previous release Haven delivers a more polished collection that is [...]
Wye Oak The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs Merge Records Such is the breadth of the change their sound has undergone, it may not be even possible to compare this Wye Oak album, their fifth, to their previous offerings. While vocally, the band [...]
