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. [...]
Elton John Diamonds Universal Music Enterprises Glitzy and emotional, Elton’s newest album Diamonds is a compilation of his greatest hits spanning an impressive, culturally significant career. To take full advantage of this easy and fun to [...]
The Dayoffs The Dayoffs Emerald & Doreen Recordings The story of how the Dayoffs came to be actually began with other artists’ work. Producers Vladimir Komarov and Atsuo Matsumoto were in a recording studio in Manhattan when they veered off [...]
Amp Fiddler Amp Dog Knights Mahogani Music Amp Dog Knights is the fourth studio album by Amp Fiddler, and it’s truly one of a kind. Recorded and produced in Detroit, Amp Dog Knights is a kind of “back to the roots” project. Joseph ‘Amp’ Fiddler [...]
The Reed Effect A Strange Curiosity Independent The Toronto psychedelic metal-rock trio The Reed Effect, featuring brothers Kirk Reed and Chris Reed, along with Bryan Fontez, bring their stink-face inducing rock to us with their new six-song EP [...]
Teen Daze Themes For A New Earth Flora Jamison Isaak (aka Teen Daze) and his newest album feel shine with a new sort of optimism. Titled Themes for a New Earth, this release is a counterpart to his last album, Themes For Dying Earth, which came [...]
Greta Van Fleet From The Fires Lava Records Having released their first studio EP, Black Smoke Rising, in April of this year, Greta Van Fleet are very well on their way to becoming one of North America’s biggest up-and-coming rock bands. The [...]
Tears For Fears Rule The World: The Greatest Hits Virgin/Universal With Halloween having come and gone, we come to be surrounded by the same tell-tale signs of the holiday season quickly approaching. The store displays, the Christmas music being [...]
Various Artists Deeplomatic Flavours Vol. 1 Deeplomatic Recordings UK record label Deeplomatic Recordings celebrate their 80th release with Deeplomatic Flavours Vol.1. It is the first in a new series of special compilation albums featuring [...]
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Who Built The Moon? Universal Music Following a two-year collaboration with renowned producer, DJ and composer David Holmes in both his Belfast and London studios, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds [...]
The Flux Machine Hurricane Independent How do you mix a good cocktail that will pump you up, get you moving, jump around so that at one point you can simply drop? Usually, it means that you need at least two strong drinks, maybe even three, [...]
Strawbs The Ferryman’s Curse Witchwood/Cherry Red Records The Ferryman’s Curse is the first studio album by The Strawbs since 2014’s Prognostic. For the past three years, fans have been waiting for a new studio album, and not only has the [...]
U-Men U-Men Sub Pop Records For true fans of the Seattle Underground, this album is long overdue. The U-Men were a band unlike any other on the infamous scene that was home to the likes of Soundgarden, Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam, Mad Season and [...]
Lemon Bucket Orkestra If I Had The Strength Outside Music “We start in a musty train car overlooking the fields and valleys of our youth through permanently smudged windows, reflecting on the life that once was and wondering how to face [...]
Dave Allen When The Demons Come Independent Dave Allen has released When the Demons Come, a stone cold brilliant album that absolutely should not become a tiny footnote of, in this case, Canada and Toronto’s (and even broader) music history. [...]
Ora Cogan Crickets Hand Drawn Dracula Crickets is Ora Cogan’s fifth album, and it is her best. Last year she released the remarkable Shadowland, and to me it was somewhat doubtful she would be able to top such a personal and beautiful album. The [...]
Primitive Race Soul Pretender Metropolis Records Following the shocking passing of former Faith No More, Bad Brains, and VUA vocalist, Chuck Mosley on November 9th, Primitive Race’s sophomore album, Soul Pretender, is as triumphant as it is [...]
