Death From Above Outrage! Is Now Last Gang Records Death From Above’s album just dropped and once again they’ve proved that in the hay day of two piece bands, they have serious staying power. Setting them apart, Outrage! Is Now is loud, visceral [...]
TAXI Intimacy Issues Independent Intimacy Issues is the debut EP from Ottawa native, Emma Lamarre, who goes by the name TAXI. The EP, Intimacy Issues features five very distinct songs from this young and talented artist. Working with Blinker the [...]
Jonny Lang Signs Concord Records Signs is Jonny Lang’s eighth album, and his first since 2013’s hugely successful Fight For My Soul. Since 1995 Lang has been building a solid fanbase that keeps getting larger with each release. Signs is going to [...]
Jack Johnson All The Light Above It Too Universal Music After releasing his number one 2013 album, From Here To Now To You and the subsequent tour which led into the following year, things have been relatively quiet from Jack Johnson. 2013 was [...]
Tori Amos Native Invader Decca I love Tori Amos and I look forward to each new release. However, her last few releases did not live up to her potential or, in my opinion, her talent. This has changed with her new album.Native Invader. This is [...]
Alter Bridge Live At The O2 Arena + Rarities Napalm Records Following the release of their critically acclaimed 2016 release, The Last Hero, Alter Bridge have returned with Live At The O2 Arena + Rarities. The band, consisting of lead vocalist, [...]
Aaron Roche HaHa HuHu Figureight Records In 2012 I received a CD by a Brooklyn artist named Aaron Roche. The CD had the intriguing title !BlurMyEyes. It took some getting used to but I came to appreciate and love that album. Since then Roche has [...]
Partner In Search Of Lost Time You’ve Changed Records Josee Caron and Lucy Niles, the founders of Partner, met in Sackville, N.B. at Mount Allison University’s meal hall back in 2010. Caron and Niles are both gay, however not for each [...]
Julie & The Wrong Guys Julie & The Wrong Guys Dine Alone Julie, from Julie & The Wrong guys is Julie Doiron of Eric’s Trip fame (not to mention her numerous solo albums and other side projects). The Wrong Guys are Mike Peters and [...]
Ace Frehley Anomaly eOne Music Back in 2009, Ace Frehley released Anomaly. Not only was the record very well received among critics, but it was Frehley’s first solo record since his 1989 release, Trouble Walkin’, making the album that much more [...]
The National Sleep Well Beast 4AD Formed in 1999 and originally from Cincinnati, but now based in Brooklyn NY, American Indie Rock band The National have released their highly anticipated seventh studio album, Sleep Well Beast. The first single, [...]
Alvvays Antisocialites Polyvinyl Records Antisocialites is Alvvays’ highly anticipated follow-up to their 2014 self-titled debut. Within its 33 minutes are 10 songs of reckless romance, isolation, and loss that are draped in Alvvays’ [...]
Beaches Second Of Spring Chapter Music When Australian psych rock all-girl quintet Beaches released their self-titled 2008 debut, it was shortlisted for the Australian music prize, and they toured the U.S., including playing SXSW twice, sharing [...]
Gregg Allman Southern Blood Rounder On May 27th, 2017, the world was shocked to hear of the sudden passing of music legend, Gregg Allman. Allman, who had quite an extensive and incredibly innovative career as a founding member of The Allman [...]
LaRissa Vienna And The Strange Neptune VII Independent Coming from a background of experimental dark pop, LaRissa Vienna and the Strange prove the power of collaboration with the release of their first full-length album as a band, Neptune VII. [...]
Discolor Blind Long Vivid Dream Republic Of Music Discolor Blind is a duo out of Montreal, and Long Vivid Dream is their debut EP. Ashkan Malayeri is the core of the band, producing, writing and performing most of the music. He was born in [...]
LCD Soundsystem American Dream DFA Records Back from a 2011 emotional breakup,, LCD Soundsytem has now released another record which pokes fun at music, combines 80s beats with modern edge and tackles big topics on the backdrop of upbeat sounds. [...]
Kobi Onyame Gold Independent Gold is Kobi Onyame’s third album and his first since 2013’s Glory. Onyame is a Ghanaian artist who is currently based in the U.K. All of his music has been released independently and yet he has built up a sizeable [...]
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart The Echo Of Pleasure Painbow Records The fourth album by Kip Berman’s The Pains of Being Pure at Heart is called The Echo of Pleasure. The album has been out for a while and many initial opinions jumped onto the [...]
OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark) The Punishment Of Luxury White Noise Records Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark (OMD) are not a retro act. This band may have started close to forty years ago, but they continue to produce relevant, [...]
Elovet B-Sides Vol. 1 Independent Elovet is a new artist from Georgia. B-Sides Vol 1 is his most recent EP and features songs that did not make his previous releases (two previous albums, and one EP). Elovet is really a one man show, Ajaye [...]
Tera Melos Trash Generator Sargent House Suffice to say that after 10 years as a band and the release of their 7th studio album, Trash Generator, Tera Melos is simply at their prime. The band is a three-piece melting pot of post-hardcore and [...]
The War On Drugs A Deeper Understanding Atlantic Records It has been three years since The War On Drugs last album (Lost in The Dream), and since that time it would seem that frontman and writer for the band, Adam Granduciel, has been listening [...]
Aron D’Alesio Aron D’Alesio Paper Bag Records Taking a moment out of his decade-long stint fronting indie rock band Young Rivals, Aron D’Alesio has released his debut solo album. Simply self titled, this record reflects a creative outburst for [...]
