Sylvan Esso What Now Loma Vista/Concord It has only been a few short years since Sylvan Esso released their self-titled debut to an exceptionally warm response. The harmonious melding of Amelia Randall Meath’s ethereal vocals and Nick [...]
Shugo Tokumaru Toss Polyvinyl Records Slice everything into pieces, toss them in the air, let them fall to the ground, then pick them up and arrange them in any random order and see what you can come up with. I guess that is maybe what Shugo [...]
Old Crow Medicine Show 50 Years Of Blonde On Blonde Sony Music I love Old Crow Medicine Show, love them. They have put out some of the finest country/roots album over the past decade. And I love Bob Dylan, and like most people, recognize [...]
Animal Collective Meeting Of The Waters EP Domino Records Animal Collective have been around for over 15 years, and the core members of this band are Avey Tare (David Portner); Panda Bear (Noah Lennox); Deakin’ (Josh Dibb); and Geologist (Brian [...]
David Bowie Cracked Actor (Live In Los Angeles ’74) Parlophone On April 22, 2017, I was up very early to get in line at Dead Dog Records to try and get the new limited edition releases for Record Store Day. Among my purchases, I got my [...]
Sheryl Crow Be Myself Warner Music Sheryl Crow is back and better than ever. Be Myself was released on April 21st and is the songstresses’ ninth studio album. Jeff Trott, producer, musician, and songwriter, worked on the album with Crow. In the [...]
Ray Davies Americana Sony Music For Kinks fans, 2017 is shaping up to being a pretty good year. First Dave Davies and Russ Davies (his son) released the great album, Open Road on March 31, 2017 and Ray Davies has now released his first album of [...]
Green Jellö Green Jellö Suxx Livë Blacktop Records Somewhere in the world, at this very moment, a class in modern art is taking place at a major university where a professor stands underneath the projection of a urinal with “R. Mutt” scribbled [...]
Various Artists Brown Acid: The FourthTrip RidingEasy Records The terms “Rare Tracks” or “Deep Cuts” would be vast understatements when describing the exclusivity of the songs that are offered up here on Brown Acid The Fourth Trip. The [...]
Father John Misty Pure Comedy Sub Pop What can be said about Father John Misty (a.k.a. Josh Tillman) that has not already been said? One thing comes to my mind. During the last two years since the release of his last album, 2015’s I Love You, [...]
Steph Cameron Daybreak Over Jackson Street Pheromone Recordings Steph Cameron made waves with her debut record Sad-Eyed Lonesome Lady (2014), an effort that garnered its fair share of acclaim and rave reviews. Her sophomore release, Daybreak [...]
K’Valentine Here For A Reason Javotti Media That album title is not just conceit – it recalls K’Valentine’s near fatal automobile accident on I-94 one Sunday evening back in September 2015. Thankfully – and somewhat miraculously – [...]
The White Reaper The World’s Best American Band Polyvinyl Records The World’s Best American Band is more than just the title of White Reaper’s latest release, it is also the band’s aspirational credo. While calling a band [...]
The Strawbs Live In Gettysburg – Rites Of Spring Festival 2016 Witchwood Music The Strawbs have been around a long time, and there have been many member changes, with original member Dave Cousins as the longest standing member. He has [...]
Del Bel III Missed Connection Records Fittingly titled III, Del Bel’s third album features a large assortment of instruments such as synths, violins, electric bass, and trumpet. While it is a fairly rich album and does show off the band’s talent [...]
Tashaki Miyaki The Dream Metropolis Records Usually, it is supposed to be like this — if you haven’t heard of an artist, it is for your own good. But in this information glut we live in, you’re bound to miss on some good ones, even great [...]
Dave Davies & Russ Davies Open Road Sony Music The Kinks called it a day in 1994, following the release of their much overlooked, but brilliant, album To The Bone. Who would have predicted that Dave Davies, co-founder and the revolutionary [...]
Aye Nako Silver Haze Don Giovanni Records The adjectives we use to describe punk typically have a strong affect on the noise. Pop punk, hardcore punk, folk punk, all have a particular sound and a potential listener has some idea of what to [...]
Various Artists Resistance Radio: The Man In The High Castle Album Sony Music A compilation album put together by Danger Mouse and Sam Cohen as an imagined soundtrack from the Amazon series The Man In The High Castle. The title, Resistance [...]
K.Flay Every Where Is Some Where Interscope Don’t you ever dare cram K.Flay into the narrow box of hip-hop music — she’ll shred the damn thing apart, tape-gun your eyelids open, and run off with scissors. Yes, she is a superlative MC, but [...]
Cold War Kids L.A. Divine Capital Records Indie rockers Cold War Kids have released their first album in three years, titled L.A. Divine. Inspired by the band’s hometown of Los Angeles, this fourteen track record is their first release for [...]
The New Pornographers Whiteout Conditions Dine Alone Records From the first drum beat of “Play Money,” you unmistakably know that you’re listening to the New Pornographers. You are immediately affronted by the distinct sound that these Canadian [...]
Timber Timbre Sincerely, Future Pollution Arts & Crafts Timber Timbre have been around since 2005, when their debut album, Cedar Shakes was released. A dark, frightening, brooding album, and from there, they have continued on to this, their [...]
The Flatliners Inviting Light Dine Alone Records The Flatliners have been together for over 15 years, and their four man line-up has not changed in all those years. Inviting Light is album number five. Hailing from Brampton and Richmond Hill [...]
