Sills And Smith Maps – Burned Or Lost Independent Maps – Burned or Lost is the sixth studio album from Sills & Smith. And although they have produced some mighty fine music in the past, they knock it out of the park with this [...]
OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark) The Punishment of Luxury: B Sides And Bonus Material White Noise Records The Punishment of Luxury by Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark (OMD) proved to be their biggest album in 16 years, peaking at number [...]
N.E.R.D No_One Ever Really Dies Sony Music It’s been seven years but N.E.R.D is back at last with their first album release since 2010’s Nothing. Since the band’s hiatus, the alternative pop band consisting of Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo, and [...]
The Beatles The Christmas Records Apple Corps Ltd./Universal Music In 1963, Beatlemania was hitting the U.K. in full force. It happened to be touching down in Canada too, a full year before the ‘British Invasion’ in the U.S.A.. Back in the U.K., [...]
Mabel Greer’s Toyshop The Secret Hagger Bailey Music Before there was Yes, there was Mabel Greer’s Toyshop, a band that formed in London in 1966. The band was formed by Clive Bailey (guitar), Robert (Bob) Hagger (drums) and Paul Rutledge [...]
Xiu Xiu / (r) Xiu Xiu / (r) Polyvinyl Records Long-time collaborators and experimentalists Xiu Xiu and (r) have partnered up to play ZZ Top covers for a new split 7” single release through Polyvinyl. For the avant-garde followers of California’s [...]
Jim James Tribute To 2 ATO Records Jim James’ forthcoming solo album Tribute to 2 is the most honest and best collection of songs I’ve heard since Sufjan Steven’s 2015 release Carrie & Lowell. This deep, diverse, and terrifyingly interesting [...]
Juicy J Rubba Band Business Kemosabe/Taylor Gang/Sony Music Hailing from Memphis, Tennessee, Juicy J, the rap veteran who dropped his first solo album in 2002, while he was still a member of Three 6 Mafia, the group he founded in 1991 – [...]
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 [...]
