Dan Auerbach Waiting On A Song Nonesuch Records Waiting on a Song is Dan Auerbach’s soon to be gem. I hate to say it, but It’s better than most of the Black Keys’ recent albums. ‘Mellow’ is the best word to describe this album as the tracks are [...]
Saint Etienne Home Counties Heavenly Recordings Saint Etienne is a trio, who have been recording music since 1991. Their eighth release, Home Counties is their first album since 2012’s Words and Music by Saint Etienne, and to say this album is [...]
Sleep Party People Lingering Joyful Noise Recordings Sleep Party People is really Brian Batz, a Danish artist who has been recording since 2010. This is the fourth album by Batz under the name Sleep Party People, and the first album he has [...]
Bleachers Gone Now Sony Music Stop for a second, and you might miss Jack Antonoff’s next move. His career started in a small band called Outline, but really gained traction with Steel Train. The band would go on to record three albums from 2005 [...]
Headstones Little Army Cadence Music Since reforming in 2011, Kingston ’90s hard rock outfit Headstones have released one full length studio album, Love + Fury, as well as One In The Chamber Music, an acoustic album, along with a pair of [...]
Roger Waters Is This The Life We Really Want? Sony Music Roger Waters, one of the most consistently strong songwriters to emerge from the booming 1960s British invasion rock scene, has returned with Is This The Life We Really Want?, his first [...]
Lil Yachty Teenage Emotions Universal Music Canada At a time when rap seems sometimes to be drifting aimlessly, lingering in the doldrums, along comes Atlanta, Georgia’s Lil Yachty. Without going overboard about his flow, it is fair to say that [...]
Oh Susanna A Girl In Teen City Stella Records This album is a pleasant surprise. When I read the description of the record, I was a bit worried it would be full of angst and be self absorbed. I was wrong. It turned out to be a pleasant, [...]
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 [...]
