The Modern Savage Unwilling Participants The Modern Savage Lacking the cookie cutter style of music we see too often in the music industry, The Modern Savage is bringing a new sound to the stage. Founded in 2011, the group is a five-member [...]
Cloud Nothings Life Without Sound Carpark Records While attending high school in Cleveland, Cloud Nothing’s 25 year-old frontman, Dylan Baldi, would spend hours driving around the suburbs listening to music. If it sounded okay to him in [...]
Sleater-Kinney Live In Paris Sub Pop This legendary feminist-rock trio made their mark throughout the late 90s and early 2000s as a raw, guitar driven, politically charged powerhouse. The all-female group garnered themselves a loyal fan base and [...]
Danny Michel Khlebnikov Maple Music Khlebnikov is a poetic and charming collection of tales about the journey on a ship sailing through chilling waters. Right from the get-go, with the crashing waves and rickety sound of the ship’s floorboards, [...]
Bill & Phil Songs Of Darkness And Despair Housecore Records Something dark and heavy emerged this week from the minds of an unlikely duo. Bill Moseley, a cherished horror-film figure with a cult following, and metal icon Philip H. Anselmo of [...]
Drab Majesty The Demonstration DAIS Records Deb Demure’s powerful voice, the beat of hypnotic synthpop, layers of cosmic energy, and lyrics that can be read as contemporary magic spells: this is Drab Majesty. I became aware of Drab Majesty [...]
Danny Michel Khlebnikov Maple Music Danny Michel has always been an avid storyteller in his music. From painting bleak images of displaced animals in an increasingly urbanized world on “Feather, Fur, and Fin”, to the sombre tale of a mundane [...]
Jonathan Roy Mr. Optimist Blues Warner Music Canada/Siena Records “Pro-athlete-turned-pop-star” isn’t a narrative that you’d typically expect to hear in the music industry, but it’s a narrative that applies to singer-songwriter Jonathan Roy. Roy [...]
The Grateful Dead The Grateful Dead: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Rhino Records The Grateful Dead’s self-titled debut never really got the credit it deserves. Even the band was quick to dismiss it following its release, as many of the final [...]
Austra Future Politics Pink Fizz Records Kate Stelmanis and her main counterpart, Maya Postepski, are Austra: the electronic music producers from Ontario, Canada. The release of their third studio album, Future Politics, is the most ambitious to [...]
Julian Cope Drunken Songs Head Heritage Author, activist, historian, musician, writer, father, LSD expert, antiquarian, and more: that is Julian Cope. He has released over 40 solo albums since the demise of Teardrop Explodes, an English [...]
Colony House Only The Lonely RCA With a brand new release for 2017, Colony House has already been claimed one of Entertainment Weekly’s “Bands That Will Rule in 2017”. Brothers Will and Caleb Chapman are the sons of the well-known Christian Pop [...]
Lo-Pan In Tensions Aqualamb Records One part modern sludge metal, one part 90’s alternative rock; Lo-Pan just dropped their fifth release, the five track EP In Tensions. Hailing from Columbus, Ohio, Lo-Pan’s latest release is a brilliant [...]
SOHN Rennen 4AD Rennen came out via 4AD on January 13th, 2017. Christopher Michael Taylor, aka SOHN, (translated in German as “run”) felt like he had been running, both physically and emotionally, for the past two years. In the wake of his 2014 [...]
Bonobo Migration Ninja Tune Are you stuck inside, gazing out the window at the pouring rain? Is a green sunset falling gently over the horizon? Are you lying down in a calm, breezy meadow, while the distant hum of a running creek and bird songs [...]
Black Anvil As Was Relapse Records New York’s Heavy Metal band Black Anvil released their latest album As Was last month, a follow-up to their 2014 album Hail’s Death. Their most progressive album to date, As Was is a 50-minute face melting [...]
The Darts The Darts Dirty Water Records First, let us be clear, this is NOT the nine piece doo-wop band who were huge in the UK in the late 1970’s. That was Darts, there is no ‘the’. The Darts are the polar opposite. This is a four piece band [...]
The Black Clouds After All Capacitor Records I hopped on the elliptical torture machine and cranked up my headphones with no expectations. From the first riff, I was hooked. After All, The Black Cloud’s third full length album, is the perfect [...]
Verena von Horsten Alien Angel Super Death A Tree In A Field Verena von Horsten lives and works in Zürich, Switzerland. She has a quirky, dark-pop vibe that has gained her a substantial loyal following. On January 13, 2017, she released her [...]
Ryder Ryder IV EP Independent If you are wondering whether the nostalgic classic rock and metal sounds of the 70’s are still around in 2017, the answer is yes. Ryder is a newly formed hard rock group out of Queens, NY, and they seriously rock. [...]
Run The Jewels Run The Jewels 3 Mass Appeal Records 2016 has been a difficult year to say the least. In the year we witnessed a Reality TV Star become Leader of the Free World leave it to Run The Jewels, the knock out duo of Killer Mike and [...]
Nine Inch Nails Not The Actual Events Independent ANNOUNCEMENT AND RELEASE DEC 15 2016 NIN.COM is down. Only this appears… It’s happening. FINALLY! I’ve decided not to eat or sleep or communicate with the world until it happens. I will [...]
T.I. Us Or Else: Letter To The System Grand Hustle/Roc Nation Us or Else: Letter to the System emerged from Us or Else, the six-track EP released in September of 2016. T.I. is a high-profile advocate of Black Lives Matter. His album Us or Else: [...]
The Doors London Fog 1966 Rhino Records Nearly every band from the ‘60s and ‘70s has put out a compilation of unreleased material. Normally, it’s hard to see this as anything more than a cash grab from old bands with nothing new to offer the [...]
