The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – Anniversary Edition Apple Corps Ltd./Universal Music Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band may not be the best album ever made, may not even be the best Beatle album ever made (my nod goes [...]
Brother Ali All The Beauty In This Whole Life Rhymesayers Entertainment Articulating his journey of pain and healing, Minneapolis MC Brother Ali, conquers his demons with his first official release in five years, All The Beauty In This Whole [...]
Blair Packham Unpopular Pop Blair Packham Records This is Blair Packham’s third solo release since leaving The Jitters, and his first album in 13 years. His last album was 2004’s Could’ve Been King. In the years between albums, it would seem [...]
PIG Swine & Punishment Metropolis Records It is late and I hear thunder in the distance and the night is bound to get better thanks to PIG and friends. I had forgotten how late it really was because I kept raising the volume, while listening [...]
Aldous Harding Party 4AD For the less initiated, New Zealand is that land far far away and so strange, they filmed The Lord of the Rings film series there. And for those a bit more in it, New Zealand is that land far far away and so strange [...]
Little Reader The Big Score Little Reader Music Little Reader is a pop duo consisting of , Kate Tucker (Kate Tucker and the Sons of Sweden) and Ross Flournoy (Broken West; Apex Manor). The Big Score is the debut album from this new band . Both [...]
My Friend The Chocolate Cake The Revival Meeting Independent My Friend The Chocolate Cake have been around since 1989. The two founding members, David Bridie (piano/keyboards and vocals) and Helen Mountfort (cello and vocals) came out of the [...]
A R I Z O N A Gallery Warner Music Let’s start with a disclaimer: Alternative-pop group A R I Z O N A actually have no relation to the state. The New Jersey band just like the way the name sounded for their group. The three members were mostly [...]
Lee Watson Lee Watson Dead Radio, Love At first listen, it’s very clear that Lee Watson has listened to a lot of Neil Young. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing (Neil Young is a damn national treasure after all) but it doesn’t set Watson apart [...]
BONZIE Zone On Nine Beevine Records On Nina Ferraro’s latest release as BONZIE, we are given a glimpse into the next step in the evolution of a singer-songwriter. Zone on Nine is by far BONZIE’s most ambitious and eclectic release [...]
Daniel Romano Modern Pressure New West Records Modern Pressure is solo album number seven for this prolific artist, and for the most part, no two albums sound the same. He has also been in a number of bands (Attack in Black; Daniel, Fred & [...]
Various Artists Singles: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Expanded & Remastered Deluxe 25th Anniversary Edition) Sony Music Talk about a throwback Thursday! The soundtrack for Singles, the 1992 Cameron Crowe film which sought to look [...]
Erasure World Be Gone Mute Records Longevity is rare and fleeting in the music industry. Certainly musicians’ work can be appreciated much later in time and long-standing collaborations amongst artists is rare. Erasure, the British duo of Andy [...]
Papa Roach Crooked Teeth Sony Music To be a candidate for worst album of all time, the collection of songs needs to go beyond having lousy music. Anyone can put clashing noises together and make awful tunes, but to be in the running for worst [...]
The Junction City Nights Culvert Music City Nights, the most recent release from Toronto based indie rockers The Junction, is a record which takes all the tropes and expectations of the genre and flips them upside down, in what can best be [...]
Warrant Louder Harder Faster Frontiers Music SRL 1980s glam rockers Warrant are back with Louder Harder Faster following a tumultuous run through the 2000’s. Over the course of the previous decade, the band behind the quintessential 1980’s hit [...]
Scott Helman Hotel De Ville Warner Music Since bursting on the scene with the release of his debut EP Augusta in 2014, young Toronto singer/songwriter Scott Helman has toured the U.S. and Europe, both solo, with just his guitar as accompaniment, [...]
Dreamcar Dreamcar Columbia Records No Doubt was one of the biggest ska bands to emerge in the 1990s. While the quality of the work is certainly debatable, no other ska cum punk rock band of the decade was able to reach such staggering heights in [...]
Inglorious II Frontiers Music SRL Inglorious’ new self-produced album attempts to recreate the classic rock vibe. Although their music doesn’t live up to the likes of Van Halen and Aerosmith, Inglorious II still has a few catchy and heartfelt [...]
Hazel English Just Give In/Never Going Home Polyvinyl When you first hear Hazel English’s music kick in, you might guess that Beach Fossils, Wild Nothing or Day Wave just came on. English, the Sydney, Australia born artist, now resides in [...]
Slydigs How Animal Are You? Estupendo Records On May 12th, UK’s Slydigs dropped their latest EP How Animal Are You?, which is full of rock busting beats, fantastic solos, and raw vocals, among other things. Proving that good old rock and roll is [...]
Elf Power Twitching In Time Orange Twin Records Whatever happened to the Elephant 6 Collective that practically ruled the indie rock scene (some even added a then popular sub-label ‘college rock’) in the second part of the Nineties? Some [...]
Larissa Tandy The Grip Thalassophile Records The Grip is Larissa Tandy’s debut solo album. Actually it is a wonderful title for this album, because it has so many interpretations, much like the songs inside the package. Larissa has earned a [...]
Manic Street Preachers Send Away The Tigers – 10 Year Collector’s Edition Sony Music It is hard to believe that Send Away The Tigers is now ten years old. This album, the eighth in their catalog, was seen as their return to form. [...]
