Robert Plant Carry Fire Nonesuch Records Robert Plant is one of rock & roll’s biggest cultural icons. His work with Led Zeppelin between 1968 and 1980 made him one of the genre’s most legendary figures, making him a true voice of a [...]
St. Vincent Masseduction Loma Vista Recordings/Universal Music St. Vincent (Annie Clark), originally from Dallas, Texas, has teamed up with producer Jack Antonoff for an interesting follow up to her 2014 Grammy Award winning Alternative Album of [...]
King Krule The Ooz XL Recordings/True Panther Sounds If “Biscuit Town” is the preprandial mint-leaf placed on tongue, then “Dum Surfer”, which likely reached your ears in elephantine thumps at some late-August house party, is The Ooz’s first [...]
Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile Lotta Sea Lice Matador Records A collaboration that looks good on paper, that sounds even better on record,Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett have released some of the most intelligent, influential and stunning [...]
The Kents Within Waves Independent On October 13, 2017, The Kents released their sophomore EP, Within Waves, a year after the release of Waking. Hailing from Lindsay, Ontario, The Kents composed an EP drawn from the experience of exploring [...]
Downchild Something I’ve Done Linus Entertainment A Canadian institution of almost fifty years standing, their first single was released back in 1973, “Flip Flop and Fly”. Downchild – still referred to in some quarters as [...]
Little Coyote The Trouble With Teeth EggHunt Records Debut albums can be a tough affair, for the artists making them and for the listeners encountering an artist they are not familiar with no matter how much they’ve heard about them beforehand, [...]
King Krimsen Official Bootleg: Live In Chicago, June 28th, 2017 Discipline Global Music It all began in 1967 when Robert Fripp met up and joined The Giles Brothers (Michael and Peter) and they formed a trio. By 1968, the band had expanded to a [...]
Dolly Parton I Believe In You Sony Music It’s been 50 years since Dolly Parton released her first album. Since then, she has gone through many incarnations. I am not just referring to innumerable changes in wigs and rhinestone-clad dresses, or [...]
The Glorious Sons Young Beauties And Fools Black Box Music The stories that come out on The Glorious Sons’ new album Young Beauties and Fools are independent in their own right but when tied together in a hastily wrapped package, make up the [...]
The Pack A.D. Dollhouse Cadence Music Strange and eerie is the overall feel of The Pack A.D.’s latest album Dollhouse. This should be no surprise as it provides comments on our current political, violent state of living. Dropping on October [...]
Dhani Harrison In///Parallel Hot Records Ltd It cannot be easy being the offspring of a Beatle in the music world. Stella McCartney has done extremely well in fashion, and Mary McCartney has carved out her own niche in photography, but when it [...]
Liam Gallagher As You Were Warner Music I’ve always found the machinations of the Gallagher brothers intriguing, and so when I had the opportunity to review this latest album by lead vocalist Liam, I jumped at the chance to find out what [...]
The White Buffalo Darkest Darks, Lightest Lights Unison Music Group I need to get out of this city. The money is running out and I seem to be heading nowhere fast. I call my brother — he’s three years younger, in a similar boat. [...]
Shigeto The New Monday Ghostly International Zachary Saginaw, a.k.a. Shigeto, has always been a musical chameleon, and the genre-bending groove master is at it again on his latest album, The New Monday. His first full-length solo project since [...]
Little Miss Higgins My Home, My Heart Independent Little Miss Higgins, a.k.a. Jolene Higgins, originally out of Brooks, Alberta and now living in rural Manitoba with her partner and son, writes, plays and sings in a beautifully authentic [...]
I Like To Sleep Bedmonster All Good Clean Records Based in Trondheim, Norway, I Like To Sleep is a band that feed off playing instrumental “powerjazz” with extreme improvisation, and off kilter 60’s freejazz vibes. Their vibraphone, baritone [...]
Marilyn Manson Heaven Upside Down Loma Vista Recordings It seems this past week or so has been a buzz of news surrounding The Anti-Christ Superstar, Marilyn Manson. First there was the report that he thought he may have broken his ankle at a [...]
The Northern Pikes Big Blue Sky (Super Sized) Universal Music Canada Although I love The Northern Pikes, I have not pulled out my copy of Big Blue Sky in a few years, so when I approached this 30th (30th!) Anniversary Super Sized version of the [...]
Mirah Sundial Absolute Magnitude Records As an artist that fills a room with charisma, excitement and trepidation, singer-songwriter Mirah is captivating with her ease and self-confidence embedded in her sweet folk melodies. The magic behind the [...]
Wolf Parade Cry Cry Cry Sub Pop It’s always hard to predict who will stick around when a band calls an indefinite hiatus. Not every group’s work stands the test of time, and irrelevance sometimes seems imminent for even the most promising of [...]
David Bowie A New Career In A New Town (1977-1982) Parlophone David Bowie was to the 1970s what Elvis was to the ‘50s and the Beatles were to the ‘60s. He was the most dominant and experimental force in possibly the most musically diverse decade [...]
Max Webster The Party (Box Set) Ole Label Group/Anthem Records Formed in 1973, Max Webster became one of Canada’s biggest selling and most prolific live bands, led by frontman Kim Mitchell. Included in this eight-vinyl disc box set are [...]
Acid Baby Jesus Lilac Days Fuzz Club Records Acid Baby Jesus’ 2011 self titled debut album was one of those records that seemingly sprung from nowhere. Straight out the gate with psych guitars blazing and self assured garage roars, it [...]
