sTrès Oui Poised To Flourish Shrimper/Revolver The culmination of Nate Cardaci’s gestating creative energy showcases itself with an inspired and arresting full-length debut from Très Oui. What originally started as a side project has flourished [...]
Franz Ferdinand Always Ascending Domino Records Experimentation is the name of the game when it comes to Franz Ferdinand’s latest album release, Always Ascending. Combining the hip dance beats and loveable Bowie-esque vocals of their previous [...]
MGMT Little Dark Age Sony Music After meeting at Wesleyan University in the early 2000s, Brooklyn-based MGMT has returned with their fourth album, Little Dark Age, with highly-mixed results. Following their breakout debut, 2007’s [...]
Toto Greatest Hits: 40 Trips Around The Sun Legacy Recordings Toto was the Steely Dan of pop music. Top-notch session musicians who went the route of pop music when they formed a band. Very L.A. and very commercial and always very good. To [...]
Son Lux Brighter Wounds City Slang Brighter Wounds is the breakthrough album for Son Lux. Son Lux has been teetering towards the next level for a couple of years. Soundtracks, concerts, guest appearances, and now the long-awaited album Brighter [...]
Good Lovelies Shapeshifters Independent Kerri Ough, Caroline Brooks and Sue Passmore are the Good Lovelies. The group has been around since 2006 and issued their first EP in 2007 (Oh My!). Their first album was released in 2009 (Good Lovelies), [...]
Dashboard Confessional Crooked Shadows Dine Alone Records I have to be honest, I was a little surprised when I listened to the first Dashboard Confessional album in nine years (their last studio album was 2009’s Alter the Ending). I was [...]
AWOLNATION Here Come The Runts Red Bull Records Aaron Bruno comes back in a louder way since his 2015 release “Run.” The rustic and 70s inspired artwork might make listeners believe that AWOLNATION has taken a more organic route than his [...]
IAMX Alive In New Light Caroline/Universal Music IAMX is really Chris Corner, formerly of Sneaker Pimps. He has been recording and performing under the name IAMX since 2004 and Alive In New Light is IAMX’s eighth studio album. This is also being [...]
Milk & Bone Deception Bay Bonsound Milk & Bone, Laurence Lafond-Beaulne and Camille Poliquin, established their ability to craft emotionally-stirring, musically-sophisticated songs with their 2015 debut, Little Mourning. Now their [...]
Rhye Blood Last Gang The soulful R&B duo that is Rhye has never shied away from getting personal. The intimate subject matter and soothing qualities of Mike Milosh’s vocals are distinct factors that give Rhye its mesmerizing sound. [...]
The Sheepdogs Changing Colours Warner Music You’d be forgiven if the vision of Canada’s rolling plains, shoulder-high wheat, and farm country didn’t immediately send you to thoughts of southern rock. Canada’s prairies aren’t exactly Alabama or [...]
Simple Minds Walk Between Worlds BMG Led by singer Jim Kerr and guitarist Charlie Burchill, ’80s art-rock band Simple Minds has returned with its latest album since 2014’s well-received Big Music, produced by the band along with Andy Wright and [...]
CONFRONTING RACISM, PANTERA AND THE ILLEGALS A CONVERSATION WITH PHILIP H. ANSELMO Kind, well-spoken, genuine, and misunderstood. These are the words I would use to describe Philip H. Anselmo after speaking to the metal icon for over two hours. [...]
Fox Medicine Greetings From Mars Independent Oregon-based duo Fox Medicine follows up on their debut EP Based on Need with Greetings from Mars, a satisfying, sludge-induced haze of glittery fuzz rock and noise. The duo consisting of vocalist and [...]
The Cavemen The Cavemen Dirty Water Records Since their formation in 2013, The New Zealand punk outfit The Cavemen has released a string of singles, as well their debut self-titled record in 2015. Now, after relocating to London and signing with [...]
The Prefab Messiahs Psychsploitation . . . Today! Lolipop Records/Burger Records It was once said that Electric Light Orchestra picked up where The Beatles stopped at “Strawberry Fields Forever.” If that is true, then The Prefab Messiahs pick [...]
We Are Temporary Embers Trisol Music Group Brooklyn-based producer Mark Roberts returns with a record that captures a wide spectrum of human emotions under the veil of tightly-constructed electronic synth pop that refuses to stay in one place. [...]
Beechwood Songs From The Land Of Nod Alive Records With the nostalgic sting of 90’s glam punk and a hint of new age alt rock, Beechwood’s latest album Songs from the Land of Nod packs a great punch with its 10-track release. The trio of [...]
Long Neck Will This Do? Tiny Engines Long Neck, a project led by Lily Mastrodimos, returns with their sophomore effort Will This Do?, and have garnered a good amount of hype prior to this release. This album not only lives up to the hype but [...]
The Spook School Could It Be Different? Slumberland Records With Could It Be Different? The Spook School brings their theatrical brand of indie pop full circle. Following the release of 2015’s Try To Be Hopeful, the group finds themselves as [...]
Ampline Passion Relapse SofaBurn Records Pure energy from the first second to the last, Passion Relapse begins with the short-but-powerful “Shrunken Heads” and does not let up to the last few seconds of the last track, “Stab.” This is energetic [...]
Project Pitchfork Akkretion Trisol Music Group Project Pitchfork is an electronic band based out of Hamburg, Germany. Akkretion is their 17th studio album, and their first since 2016’s Look Up, I’m Down There. This is yet another album delving [...]
Jim Cuddy Constellation Warner Music Quiet and unassuming, Jim Cuddy’s fourth studio album released on January 26 is a poetic and easy listen that once again proves how Jim has entangled himself in the fabric of the Canadian sound. Combining [...]
