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 [...]
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 [...]
