Eckhardt And The House Why Don’t You Dance This Could Be Your Music Label Why don’t you kids dance? It’s a question begging for an answer. Maybe it’s because we’ve been pushed too far into our screens, more [...]
Belle And Sebastian How To Solve Our Human Problems – Part 1 Matador Records A 1970s back beat isn’t all the latest album from Belle and Sebastian has to offer. The six-piece band from Scotland is currently in the works of putting out [...]
Wild Evel & The Trashbones Digging My Grave Dirty Water Records To the mainstream public, punk rock was a style of music birthed in 1976 by The Sex Pistols after a seemingly outrageous live television interview. To those who were actually [...]
Van Morrison Versatile Legacy Recordings/Sony Music Versatile is Van Morrison’s 38th studio album, and his second album this year. In September Roll With The Punches was released, and now in December Morrison has yet another release. Who would [...]
SPC ECO Calm Tapete Records Shoegazers rejoice; SPC ECO is back at it again. It’s been ten years since the release of their debut album, 3D, and the duo consisting of Rose Berlin (vocals and lyrics) and Dean Garcia (multiple instruments and [...]
Intervals The Way Forward Basick Records Local Toronto instrumental, progressive metal band Intervals recently came out with yet another beautiful album at the beginning of the month. After Aaron Marshall (Guitarist) recorded and released his [...]
Neil Young & The Promise Of The Real The Visitor Reprise Records Neil Young’s latest album The Visitor, created with Promise of the Real, acts as a preservation of Neil’s overarching political messages. There’s no subtlety here — this is an [...]
The Rolling Stones On Air Polydor Few artists have had such a profound and rich impact on pop culture, the music industry, and the world as The Rolling Stones. Even as the band enters into the latter half of its fifty years together, they stand [...]
Yes Topographic Drama – Live Across America Rhino Records Formed in 1968, Yes is a band that interestingly has no original members left in the band. For Topographic Drama – Live Across America, guitarist Steve Howe (who joined the [...]
STRFKR Vault Vol. 3 Polyvinyl Vault Vol. 3 is the third installment in STRFKR’s Vault series. Packed with previously unreleased tracks that have been salvaged from frontman Joshua Hodges’ dying laptop, the Vault series offers [...]
DBA (Downes Braide Association) Skyscraper Souls X2X Records/Cherry Red Downes Braide Association ( DBA) are here to teleport you right back to the ’80s with their new album, Skyscraper Souls. As a collaboration between Geoff Downes (The [...]
Teenage Head Fun Comes Fast Warner Music For a punk growing up in Canada in the 1970’s and 80’s, Teenage Head was as essential to the genre as were The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, and The Stooges. The band captured Canadian punk rock and [...]
The Stephen Stanley Band Jimmy & The Moon Wolfe Island Records Former frontman of iconic Canadian nineties alt-rock band Lowest of the Low, Stephen Stanley, returns with a new group, The Stephen Stanley Band, and a new album, Jimmy & the [...]
Here Lies Man Animal Noises RidingEasy Records What if Black Sabbath played Afrobeat?— a question and curiosity that we never thought we’d have but that one was still nonetheless perfectly satisfied in Here Lies Man’s work and latest EP, Animal [...]
Björk Utopia One Little Indian Records Björk’s latest and ninth studio album, Utopia, is an audible journey into her whimsical and sonic dream world. Undoubtedly one of her best releases, flutes and bird songs carry you throughout the [...]
Great Lake Swimmers They Don’t Make Them Like That Anymore Nettwerk Great Lake Swimmers return after 2016’s EP Swimming Away, with the ever appropriately titled EP, They Don’t Make Them Like That Anymore. This one is a four track Christmas [...]
Sufjan Stevens The Greatest Gift: Mixtape Asthmatic Kitty Don’t get it twisted, Sufjan Stevens’ The Greatest Gift: Mixtape is not a Christmas album, nor is it is it something thrown together in time for the Christmas market. This is a well-mixed [...]
Bee Bee Sea Sonic Boomerang Dirty Water Records/Wild Honey Records Blasting out of the industrial town of Castel Goffredo, Italy, comes Bee Bee Sea – an exuberant surge of happy surf garage rock. Having published a self-titled album on [...]
Charlotte Gainsbourg Rest Because Music/Warner Music Known mainly as an actress, Charlotte Gainsbourg began her singing career at the age of 12, when she sang with her father, Serge Gainsbourg, on his 1983 single “Lemon Incest”. Since then she [...]
Diana Ross Diamond Diana: The Legacy Collection Motown Records Ain’t no stoppin’ Ms. Ross As the recipient of this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the American Music Awards, Diana Ross proves her talent and elegance stand the test of time. [...]
The Country Liners Mary Jane Dunphe & Chris McDonnell In The County Liners Warf Cat Records “Way out west,” to quote Big Star, they love to “roll & tumble” with their country rock. And Olympia, Washington quartet The County Liners with [...]
Jeff Lynne’s ELO Wembley Or Bust Sony Music Formed in 1970, and seemingly as popular as ever, Jeff Lynne’s Electric Light Orchestra have always been known for their epic live shows, that bring together pop, rock and classical music [...]
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings Soul Of A Woman Daptone Records After her passing on November 18th, 2016 following a fierce battle with pancreatic cancer, the album that Sharon Jones’ had been working on was shelved. Now, one day shy of the [...]
Lauren Strange Salt Stay Strange Records Lauren Strange’s highly personal breakup album, Salt, demonstrates vulnerable truths of pain and losing someone. This uncensored album takes the listener through a journey channeled from anger and hurt. [...]
