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 [...]
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, [...]
