Kansas Leftoverture Live And Beyond Inside Out Music A good live album is a difficult thing to produce. As for great live albums, there are but a handful. The Concert For Bangla Desh, The Who Live At Leeds, Viva Roxy Music are examples of great [...]
Banners Empires On Fire Island Records/Universal Music Liverpool UK singer/songwriter Banners is fascinated by dreams, life, death, hope and despair. Following his single “Start A Riot” in 2015, which has over 50 million global Spotify streams, [...]
Belle Miners Powerful Owl MGM Powerful Owl is the debut album from the Australia-based Belle Miners, a band comprised of two Canadians (Felicia Harding and Martina Avros) and one Australian (Jamie Jackett). Since starting out three years ago, [...]
21 Savage, Offset & Metro Boomin Without Warning Epic/Sony Music Released the day before Halloween, Metro Boomin’s collaboration album with Migo’s Offset and 21 Savage is a delight to fans of any of the three. Metro Boomin is a name stable [...]
The Used The Canyon Hopeless Records “Where is the rock music these days?” millennials ask. Well, The Used are back with their first new album since 2014, The Canyon, that touches base with all eras of rock music. They take [...]
Various Artists Stranger Things (Soundtrack From The Netflix Original Series) Legacy Recordings There are so many ways you can approach making an album out of an original soundtrack – from slap dash pile of anything that has an even remote [...]
Various Artists Stax Country Stax Records Would anyone have expected a country music album from the stalwart Southern soul label Stax? Nevertheless, while there is a history of overlap between country and soul/r&b, this release might still [...]
Julien Baker Turn Out The Lights Matador Records Julien Baker’s new album Turn Out the Lights is emotionally disarming, as her talent as a songwriter/lyricist/singer makes itself known. While her debut Sprained Ankle was an all acoustic [...]
Gord Downie Introduce Yerself Arts & Crafts Gord Downie’s newest album Introduce Yerself couldn’t come at a better time for Canada, a nation that needs a whole lot of healing right now. Dropping exactly ten days after Gord’s heartbreaking [...]
Dirty Fences Goodbye Love Greenway Records You walk into a punk/heavy rock dive, you’re seriously craving a greasy burger and an even more seriously cold beer. Oh, and you want to hear a band that is first of all loud, but tight and musically [...]
Matt Mays Once Upon a Hell of a Time Sonic Records/Warner Music For long time Matt Mays fans it has been one hell of a long wait for new music. Five years and one month to be exact since 2012’s Coyote. Finally Matt Mays is back with his seminal [...]
Willie Nelson Willie Nelson and the Boys (Willie’s Stash, Vol. 2) Legacy Recordings On Friday, October 20, 2017 Willie Nelson fans will finally be able to get their hands on Willie Nelson and the Boys (Willie’s Stash, Vol. 2). This release [...]
Skydiggers Warmth Of The Sun Latent Recordings Skydiggers are back with album 14 (my count, not including live recordings and compilations) and as always this is cause for celebration. The pure joy of Skydiggers is one never knows exactly what [...]
Nick Lowe Party Of One Yep Roc Records Party of One is a classic Nick Lowe album that has been out of print for a number of years. The fine folks at Yep Roc are correcting that situation and have reissued the album (along with five other Nick [...]
Giraffage Too Real Counter Records After years of mix-tapes and EP’s fans of EDM artist Giraffage were finally given his debut LP Too Real on October 20th, 2017. The album gives the listener a wide variety of melodies that surely will be [...]
John Carpenter Anthology (Movie Themes 1974-1998) Sacred Bones Starting his filmmaking career in the late 60s, John Carpenter has become one of the most influential and important directors in the horror genre. Since his retirement from directing [...]
Matthew Good Something Like A Storm Warner Music If early millennium melodies and modern beats had a baby, that baby would be Matthew Good’s Something Like A Storm. For over 20 years, this Canadian music legend has been wowing audiences with [...]
Chris Jagger All The Best BMG/Absolute Chris Jagger is Mick Jagger’s younger brother, and like Paul McCartney’s younger brother, who used to go by Mike McGear, it cannot be easy trying to get out from under that shadow. Even with the support of [...]
The Cooper Brothers Radio Silence Independent Legendary Canadian Country/Rock band The Cooper Brothers have returned with their eighth studio album, and perhaps one of their best, called Radio Silence. Long known for their superb writing and [...]
Beck Colors Capitol Records/Universal Music Canada Some days you just need mind-warping ear candy. So it’s a good thing that Beck is always ready to deliver. Beck is back with his 13th studio album Colors, his first full length with new material [...]
Hologram Teen Between The Funk And The Fear Polytechnic Youth Hologram Teen is Morgane Lhote, known mainly for her work with Stereolab from 1995 to 2001 (she played keyboards). She left the band to join The Projects, and in 2005 joined Garden. [...]
Stars There Is No Love In Fluorescent Light Last Gang Records The prolific “cool rock” Montreal band Stars, led by Torquil Campbell and Amy Millan, have released their latest album, the 12-song opus There is no Love in Fluorescent Light. [...]
Alan Doyle A Week At The Warehouse Skinner’s Hill Music Ltd./Universal Music This is solo album number three from Alan Doyle, of Great Big Sea fame. The band called it a day in 2015 (or retired they called it) and Doyle has been very busy [...]
John Wetton Akustika: Live In Amerika/Akustika II: Return To Amerika Primary Purpose/Cherry Red Records John Wetton was a talented artist. His extensive musical resume is breathtaking. If he had just formed the incredible band UK, he would [...]
