Foster The People Sacred Hearts Club Columbia Records Foster the People come out swinging with their first track “Pay the Man” on their new album Sacred Hearts Club. With a sound slightly edgier and more industrial than their last album, “Pay [...]
Yoko Ono Approximately Infinite Universe (Reissue) Secretly Canadian Secretly Canadian and Chimera Music continue with phase two of The Yoko Ono Reissue Project with the release of Approximately Infinite Universe, perhaps Yoko Ono’s best album [...]
Hundredth Rare Hopeless Records Every press release for a new album reads the same way. “This a departure for the band”, “…brave new territory…”, then it turns out to be the same old crap, but the lead singer bought a new hat or the [...]
nTTx Of Beauty And Chaos WTII Records Every Sunday I go to the same local jazz bar to listen to the same handful of musicians play a similar repertoire over and over, and it is a good lesson on listening, music appreciation and objectivity. You [...]
Yoko Ono Fly (Reissue) Secretly Canadian This release is part of phase two of The Yoko Ono Reissue Project, a joint release project between Secretly Canadian and Chimera Records. Phase one included albums that were more or less joint projects [...]
David Palfreyman And Nicholas Pegg Decades Diteli Records David Palfreyman (Malf) and Nicholas Pegg have produced an album in 2017, which is remarkably brave and certainly brilliant. They have written and with the help of many talented artists, [...]
Last Bullet 80-69-64 Independent Toronto’s premier rock & roll outfit Last Bullet has released their third EP, 80-69-64, their follow up to 2012’s Love. Lust. Illusion. While the album is officially released today on July 14th, fans who [...]
Boris Dear Daymare Recordings Boris’ Dear is the most “Boris” album Boris have ever made. And, just as the repeated pronunciation of the word “Boris” detaches the moniker from semantic meaning, the music contained in this sizable LP bludgeons [...]
The Dan Ryan Guidance Cosmic Dreamer Some albums hit you straight away, right in your chest, feet, head, or all of those. Some, on the other hand are slow evolving affairs, unfolding note by note in front of your ears, either to be simply [...]
Laibach Also Sprach Zarathustra Mute Records Laibach gained popularity in industrial clubs through a relatively small subset of their songs that fit in with the military aesthetic fetishism prevalent in the scene. At the core of their black [...]
My Favourite Things Fly I Will, Because I Can Independent You really have to be a bit cheeky to name your band My Favourite Things. This was one of the main themes from the Mary Poppins move which became one of signature John Coltrane tunes upon [...]
Yoko Ono Feeling The Space Secretly Canadian Feeling The Space is the third and final installment of Phase Two of the Yoko Ono Reissue Project, courtesy of Secretly Canadian and Chimera Music. It was originally released on Apple Records in [...]
Terry Draper Remarkable Women Terry Tunes Terry Draper, one third of Klaatu, returns in less than a year from his last release Window on the World (The Lost ‘80’s Tapes), and with this release, Remarkable Women is a collection of old and new [...]
The Stevens Good Chapter Music They say a thousand bands were formed the day after The Beatles played on Ed Sullivan, the standard four piece, two guitars, bass and drums with vocals. After The Ramones played the Roundhouse in London in 1976, [...]
Silverstein Dead Reflection New Damage Records Silverstein have always been an underrated part of the early 2000s Hardcore scene despite forming at the peak of its popularity as well as having their song performed by a contestant of American [...]
Rac Ego Counter Records While many artists have found success releasing singles and albums as solo projects, the rise of producers creating albums seems to be at an all time high in 2017. The two most high profile ones are D.J. Khaled’s [...]
The Harringtons Change Is Gonna Come Independent Rock and roll’s default position tends to be the sound of the early to mid-60s when pop was young, the first flush of the music had passed and young musicians were enthusiastically taking up the [...]
John Murry A Short History Of Decay Latent Recordings Some artists suddenly crop up, come up with some brilliant music, get critical accolades, and then, as if there is an invisible border, they simply cannot cross it. It can be that the [...]
Black Needle Noise Lost In Reflections Independent Black Needle Noise is a project from John Fryer. If that name sounds familiar to you, it’s because he has been making music, usually as a producer, since 1979. Go to your record collection, [...]
Capital Cities Swimming Pool Summer Universal Music The new EP Swimming Pool Summer by the LA-based duo Capital Cities, comprised of Ryan Merchant and Sebu Simonian, delivers a hook-laden summer single on the title track, and is a worthy [...]
Dream Version Fight Fair Independent Punk is vague. It has always been vague. Ideologically, some punks are full-fledged antiestablishmentarians that veer into anarchism, while some are simply mad at “Big Pharma” and the American war [...]
Grim Streaker Girl Minority EP Independent They have been playing the New York City/Brooklyn scene for the past year, and here it is, the debut EP from Grim Streaker. They released a debut single, “Guts”, earlier in the year but here [...]
Dusty Springfield A Brand New Me: The Complete Philadelphia Sessions (Expanded Edition) Real Gone Music Originally released as a 10 song collection in early 1970, Dusty Springfield’s, Brand New Me: The Complete Philadelphia Sessions gets [...]
Bellevue Days Rosehill SO-RAF After amassing critical success in 2016 with the release of their album Sad Boy, Bellevue Days are back again with Rosehill, an overall impressive EP that reflects on both the adolescent and adult lives of the [...]
