A$AP Mob Cozy Tapes Vol. 2 – Too Cozy A$AP Worlwide/RCA A lot of people have been waiting eagerly for this, the second studio album from A$AP Mob, and although it might not quite always hit the heights, they won’t be too disappointed. A$AP [...]
Queens Of The Stone Age Villains Matador Records Queens of the Stone Age fans rejoice; the boys are back in tow! It has been nearly a four year musical drought for the Palm Desert band and rock n’ roll has become restless in their absence. After [...]
Dan Deacon Spiderman Of The Rings Carpark Records The best way to describe the music of 2007 is that emo rock was at its peak in popularity and sound, and hip-hop was as ever present as it is today. Dan Deacon’s Spiderman of the Rings [...]
Betty Moon Chrome Evolver Music Betty Moon returns with her eighth album and she continues to do what she does best, produce danceable, melodic pop music. Chrome is a well put together album full of beats, rhythms and strong vocals from Moon [...]
Tobacco Ripe & Majestic Rad Cult To narrow down exactly what Tobacco’s latest record, Ripe & Majestic, sounds like would be to say it’s a good combination of merging the old and the new. What I mean by that is in his songs [...]
Angelo De Augustine Swim Inside The Moon Asthmatic Kitty Perhaps it is the move to Asthmatic Kitty, or perhaps it is his own growth, but on this album,his second, Angelo De ugustine has delivered a deeply personal album and incredibly strong [...]
Kacy & Clayton The Siren’s Song New West Records Second cousins Kacy Anderson and Clayton Linthicum seem like they’re part of a bygone era. It’s not just their retro cover art, the disco-ball cuts in music videos, or their dreamy [...]
Grizzly Bear Painted Ruins RCA It’s been five years since Grizzly Bear has released a record. In that time, we’ve lost Obama, gained ebola, and upgraded our iPhone five times. It’s definitely been a while. After Shields, the group went [...]
Android Lust Berlin//Crater Vol 2 Synthellec Music From the second the needle drops, you know you are in new and uncharted territory. It says Berlin, but this is Android Lust’s Berlin, not the city you know. From the opening sound until the [...]
Frankie Rose Cage Tropical Slumberland Records What do Dum Dum Girls, Crystal Stilts, and Beverly all have in common? Each one of them played host to the talented drummer/vocalist Frankie Rose, before she struck out on her own as a solo artist [...]
Slow Leaves Enough About Me Independent Imagine it’s June and you’ve taken a vacation to Newfoundland and you walk into a pub with fairy lights and wood furnishings. A band is playing and it’s probably going to sound like Slow [...]
Maker Girl Quit Your Crying Kidda Records These guys just keep getting better and better. Girl Quit Your Crying is Maker’s second five track EP (their first, Move Your Feet was released earlier this year) and it not only picks up where Move Your [...]
The Isley Brothers & Santana Power Of Peace Legacy Recordings/Sony Music Carlos Santana collaborating with other artists is not news. He has had an entire career where he has collaborated with many different artists, usually to great [...]
Niteshifters Huge Disco Deli Music Disco is back! Niteshifters follow the success of their debut single “Show Me What You’ve Got” with the release of their album Huge Disco (Deli Music) on August 4, 2017. The full-length album recalls the [...]
Moon King Hamtramck ’16 Arbutus Records Moon King’s new EP Hamtramck ‘16 steps a million miles away from his previous eclectic dream pop sound into new territory: disco. The moniker of producer, singer and songwriter Daniel Benjamin, Moon [...]
Blancmange (Box Set) The Blanc Tapes Edsel Recording In 1981 I bought a sampler album called Some Bizzare Album. There were a lot of incredible bands on the album, The The, Soft Cell and Depeche Mode. But there was one song by a new band named [...]
A$AP Twelvyy 12 A$AP Worlwide/RCA Rapper A$AP Twelvyy finally steps out from the Bronx-based A$AP Mob after a decade or so of being in the background to release his first album under his own name – or at least, under Jamel Phillips’ stage name, [...]
George Thorogood Party Of One Rounder Records George Thorogood signed to Rounder Records (as George Thorogood and The Destroyers) in 1976 and his debut album, George Thorogood and The Destroyers was released in 1977. Two years, and two studio [...]
Sam Coffey & The Iron Lungs Sam Coffey & The Iron Lungs Burger Records/Dine Alone Records Toronto’s very own Sam Coffey & The Iron Lungs, now signed to Burger Records/Dine Alone Records have released their sophomore self-titled [...]
Cage The Elephant Unpeeled RCA Records Ever since making their 2008 debut with their self-titled record, Cage The Elephant have shown no signs of slowing down as each step forward has only taken them into bigger directions. While Cage The [...]
Manchester Orchestra Black Mile To The Surface Loma Vista Recordings Manchester Orchestra puts on a magical performance on their latest album Black Mile To The Surface where the contrast between profound sadness and triumphant glory is peppered [...]
Arcade Fire Everything Now Sony Canada Arcade Fire is no stranger to theatrics when it comes time to release a new album. In 2013, before Reflektor (my favorite Arcade Fire album) was released, the band billed themselves as The Reflektors. They [...]
The Nasty Housewives RESisters Hologram Recordings The Nasty Housewives, an interesting name for an interesting and unique band. The Nasty Housewives consist of Marcella Detroit (also known as Marcy Levy (Shakespears Sister), Hope Juber (The [...]
Downturns Dust Independent Brampton, Ontario based indie/post-punk band Downturns formed in 2014 and have released their second EP Dust. The lead vocalist James Murray’s voice lunges with pleading emotion and with a scatter like a ‘50s do-wop [...]
