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 [...]
Unknown Mortal Orchestra Sex & Food Jagjaguwar It would seem that there are two ways to divide music listeners – those that like falsetto, and those that don’t. I am of the latter opinion. Ruban Nielson, lead singer of New Zealand [...]
Lucy Wise Winter Sun Independent If Joni Mitchell and Sandy Denny had a child together, she might sound a lot like Lucy Wise. Wise is an Australian singer/songwriter in the folk tradition and Winter Sun is her solo debut album. She has issued [...]
Eels The Deconstruction E Works/PIAS The Deconstruction, Eels’ twelfth album, manages to maintain a laid-back, mellow sound while simultaneously evoking vocalist Mark Oliver Everett’s deep soulfulness through a series of impassioned laments and [...]
Mien Mien Rocket Recordings Composed of The Black Angel’s Alex Maas, The Horror’s Tom Furse, Elephant Stone’s Rishi Dhir and The Earlies’ John-Mark Lapham, MIEN is something of a psychedelic supergroup. With the band’s members crossing [...]
King Ropes Green Wolverine Independent Most modern rock is inoffensive, for better or for worse. Bands like Wilco, Franz Ferdinand, and Cold War Kids trade the angst of the ’90s and the chauvinism of the ’80s for more introspective [...]
The Vaccines Combat Sports Sony Music With punchy melodies on top of their signature sound, The Vaccines fourth full length album Combat Sports gives new meaning to the phrase if it isn’t broken, don’t bother fixing it. The 5-man indie rock [...]
The Voidz Virtue Cult Records This is an album more than any other that I have experienced recently that forces the listener to consider their filters. The kneejerk, traditional subjective thinking of “I like this” or “I dislike this” is [...]
Craig Finn & Kevin Devine Devinyl Splits No. 7 Bad Timing Records/Devinyl Records Kevin Devine has been doing an interesting series of vinyl records called “Devinyl Splits.” These are a series where he pairs with an artist and records two [...]
deadmau5 where’s the drop? mau5trap There is something about both the music that deadmau5, aka Joel Zimmerman, makes and the opinionated, and at times combative, persona that he has created that is hard to nail down; he and his music are equally [...]
Echo Collective Echo Collective Plays Amnesiac 7K! Music Echo Collective is a band based in Brussels, Belgium, formed by classically trained musicians Neil Leiter (viola) and Margaret Hermant (violin/harp). Recently they paired up with Erasure [...]
Mark Peters 24 Years Audio Heart Records Each artist who mixes pop, folk, and rock together has their own recipe. John Mayer favors the pop ingredient, Ben Howard’s focus is on being technically proficient in his hybrid folk guitar playing, and [...]
Paul Maged The Glass River Independent It won’t take long for listeners to pick out all of the ingredients in Paul Maged’s latest album, The Glass River. There’s a little bit of Queen, a little bit of Nick Cave, a little bit of Father John [...]
The Tillers The Tillers Sofaburn It has been about five years since the Tillers released an album. Their last album, 2013’s Hand On The Plow, was well received and had the band poised for an even bigger audience. Since 2008, The Tillers have [...]
…And We All Die Modern Day Privateers (Remixes) + Outtakes Independent …And We All Die is a collective of musicians organized by Raymond Burton Estes. He formed …And We All Die in 2000, and by my count they have issued a number [...]
Field Report Summertime Songs Verve Label Group The opening lyric of “Summertime”, mid-way into folk-rock band Field Report’s third album Summertime Songs, is almost a dare: “She said ‘Why don’t you try summertime songs?” In his own particular [...]
The Claudettes Dance Scandal At The Gymnasium! Yellow Dog Records The Claudettes are a very special group. They’re putting out music that sounds unlike like anything out there now. The group consists of Johnny Iguana on piano and as chief [...]
