The Darts Me.Ow. Dirty Water Records The Darts return with their debut solo album, Me.Ow. They have previously released two ten inch EPs and those two EPs were issued as an album (The Darts, 2017). But Me.Ow. is their first full length album [...]
Keith Emerson Emerson Plays Emerson Emersongs/Cherry Red The music world lost Keith Emerson on March 11, 2016. What a huge loss it was. Many know him through his work with Emerson, Lake and Palmer, though he was also in The Nice, and Emerson, [...]
Escobar The Biggest Sound Dirty Water Records The Biggest Sound is the third LP from French rock and rollers Escobar. Coming off their widely-acclaimed sophomore release, Bird of Prey, the grunge-rockers take a page from the works of Nirvana and [...]
Michael Nau The Load Suicide Squeeze Sometimes, no matter how good you are or how hard you try — or both — you just have an extremely hard time making it. It can be any reason or combination of them: too little exposure, too much [...]
The Killers Wonderful Wonderful Island Records Wonderful Wonderful is The Killers’ fifth studio album, and their first in five years (Battle Born was released in 2012) . That does not mean they have not been busy during that time: there have [...]
Ummagma LCD Label Obscura/Somewherecold Records Ummagma is a duo based in Canada. The members are Canadian Shauna McLarnon (vocals) and Ukrainian born Alexander Kretov (instruments). The band have been releasing records since 2012, and have [...]
Prawn Run Topshelf Records Emo is the most difficult genre of music to review. Once you look past the genre’s title which easily carries the most negative connotation in music and the commercial pop music which was sold as “emo” in the early [...]
Various Artists SpongeBob SquarePants, The New Musical (Original Cast Recording) Masterworks Broadway/Sony Music Canada Where to even begin with this? The first thing to note is that SpongeBob SquarePants is a very funny show. As a father with [...]
IAMX Unfall Caroline International/Universal Music At the heart of all revolutions is a seed of madness, a frustrated intelligence that cries for transformation. In a time when electronic music was just entering the mainstream, Chris Corner was [...]
Low.Poly.Exception Nodal Point Gang Independent Nodal Point Gang, low.poly.exception’s debut album out on September 22, 2017, is self-described as “music for sad people” and “codewave” (a newly created term by Philadelphia-based musician, Neon [...]
Moses Sumney Aromanticism Jagjaguwar Moses Sumney has been on the music scene since 2014. In 2015 he issued his debut EP on cassette, Mid-City Island. The same year he issued a seven inch single “Seeds” b/w “Pleas” and finally 2016 saw the [...]
Van Morrison Roll With The Punches Universal Music It is hard to believe that Roll With The Punches is Van Morrison’s 37th studio album. The 72 year old singer is one of rock’s most prolific artists in rock today. His last album was 2016’s Keep [...]
Electric Youth Breathing Milan Records Sometimes it is hard not to pigeonhole a band based on its name. After all, the Toronto duo Austin Garrick and Bronwyn Griffin named their band after a Debbie Gibson album. With the electro-pop tag attached [...]
The Persian Leaps Bicycle Face EP Land Ski Records Everybody who thinks they have something to say about music at some point mentions originality. Sure, great, but what do they exactly have in mind? Something exceptional, never heard before, a [...]
Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun Sargent House Chelsea Wolfe manages to keep evolving her sound with every new release and that’s more than apparent in her latest effort, Hiss Spun. We’ve heard Wolfe master experimental folk, gothic rock and darkwave and [...]
Jon Langford Four Lost Souls Bloodshot Records I wanted to love this album. Jon Langford is a genius. This album was written and recorded in America during the Trump election — literally during and after the election. I thought this should [...]
Aerialists Group Manoeuvre Fiddlehead Records This past summer, I saw Aerialists perform for the first time, watching as they took the stage at Guelph’s Hillside Festival. I was immediately struck by their arresting stage presence and apt [...]
Drop Top Alibi Drop Top Alibi Independent Hot off their recent tour opening for former Guns N’ Roses rhythm guitarist, Gilby Clarke, Drop Top Alibi have released their debut, self-titled album. W. Drop Top Alibi, while only four songs in length, [...]
Ori Dagan Nathaniel: A Tribute To Nat King Cole ScatCat Records Toronto jazz singer songwriter Ori Dagan, a staple in the local jazz scene, recently won the Global Music Awards silver medal for “Outstanding Achievement” in the Best Album [...]
Ringo Starr Give More Love Roccabella Give More Love is Ringo Starr’s 19th solo album since The Beatles disbanded. People forget that at the time of The Beatles break-up, Ringo was not the odds on favourite for a successful solo career. His [...]
Foo Fighters Concrete And Gold RCA Records For a turbulent series of weeks in 2016, the rumour mill- based on very little substance- spat out the idea that one of rocks biggest bands was on the brink of breaking up. Yep, following the release of [...]
Church Girls Hidalgo Independent Formed in Philadelphia in 2014, Church Girls is singer/songwriter Mariel Beaumont’s way of filling the creative void in her fashion career. Teaming up with high school friend and guitarist Robert Dwyer, the [...]
Bruce Cockburn Bone On Bone True North Records Bone on Bone is Bruce Cockburn’s 33rd album and his first studio album since 2011’s Small Source of Comfort. Cockburn has not mellowed in those years. He is still producing his brand of [...]
Prophets Of Rage Prophets Of Rage Universal Music It’s 2017 and our neighbors down south are under the reign of what can only accurately be described as a tyrannical fool with an atrocious hair piece who only seems to benefit the upper elite and [...]
