Neil Young Peace Trail Warner Music Canada/Reprise Neil Young returns with his 37th studio album and second new release this year, Peace Trail. Throughout the 10 songs we hear Neil characteristically protesting – this time he [...]
Astrocolor Astrocolor EP Last Gang Records Hailing from Victoria, B.C, the electronic band Astrocolor have begun to make some very interesting and unique music, in contrast to their previously released and critically acclaimed Christmas album. [...]
Erasure From Moscow To Mars Mute Records To celebrate their 30th anniversary, Vince Clarke and Andy Bell (known to us all as Erasure) thought they should put together something retrospective: a 12 CD plus one DVD boxset. 13 discs in total. This [...]
Crystal Lake True North Artery Recordings The metalcore ebb and flow of Crystal Lake… Tokyo’s hardcore/metalcore 4-piece band Crystal Lake has been around for longer than most people realize. They’ve been around since 2002, with Ryo [...]
The Adventures Of The Silver Spaceman Bare Bones Part II: Electric Earth TAOTSS Bare Bones Part II: Electric Earth is the highly anticipated sequel to last year’s Bare Bones Part I: Oxygen is Flowing Although the Bag May Not Inflate. As the [...]
Jean-Michel Jarre Oxygène 3 Sony Music Canada Almost forty years to the day of the original album, Oxygène, comes Oxygène 3. For those familiar with this electronic wizard’s music, no explanation is necessary. For those who are only now [...]
Childish Gambino Awaken, My Love! Glassnote Entertainment Group When was the first time you discovered Donald Glover? Was it through his music as Childish Gambino? His standup? His writing on “30Rock?” Perhaps it was when he was an actor in [...]
Telefon Tel Aviv Fahrenheit Fair Enough Ghostly International Telefon Tel Aviv reissues its September 2001 release Fahrenheit Fair Enough on Ghostly International. Joshua Eustis is currently the only member of the group, after friend and [...]
Dungen Häxan Mexican Summer Sweden’s psychedelic rockers, Dungen, are known for their insane live performances and distinct sound. Their latest work, Häxan, is an instrumental album that doubles as a narrative accompaniment to Lotte Reiniger’s [...]
The Weeknd Starboy Republic Records / Universal Music Canada Who is Abel Tesfaye? This isn’t something you’ll be hearing this year. Tesfaye, AKA The Weeknd, was propelled full-throttle onto the pop scene when his massive 2015 hit, “I Can’t Feel [...]
Lil Yachty Lil Boat Universal Music Canada Lil Yachty is one of the major breakout hip-hop and trap stars of the past year. During 2016 alone, he was featured on the cover of the XXL Freshman Issue, appeared as a model in Kanye West’s [...]
Sydney Blu Bouncin’ EP Playmobil On November 25, Canada’s “leading house and techno vixen,” Sydney Blu releases her ‘Bouncin’ EP on Playmobil with Mihalis Safras’ Material Series. Described as “strong, sinfully, [...]
Various Artists Polyvinyl Plays Polyvinyl Polyvinyl Records Over the past 20 years, the independent music scene has changed significantly. Bands have come and gone and styles have changed, yet Polyvinyl Records remains true to its DIY aesthetic [...]
BrokenRail BrokenRail Independent BrokenRail’s self-titled debut album is chock-full of elements that make up a good rock album, like hard riffs and catchy beats. It’s similar to the sound that a lot of bands were releasing in the late 90s and [...]
Immanu El Hibernations Glitter House Records With so many bands trying to make it in this insanely competitive and difficult time for the record industry, it can be difficult to stick what you do best. It’s hard to make something you love while [...]
Justice Woman Warner Music Canada / Ed Banger Records Since French duo Gaspard Augé & Xavier de Rosnay released Cross in 2007, you would probably have had to live under a rock to have missed the smash hit single, “D.A.N.C.E.” If you’ve been [...]
Various Artists The Edge of Seventeen (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Sony Music Canada Saturday Night Fever may have started it, but John Hughes perfected the various artists’ soundtrack albums. For those of us old enough, who can forget [...]
Tommy Hawkins Amy TDM Tommy Hawkins is an exciting new project from the experienced Canadian musicians Thomas D’Arcy and Hawksley Workman. Amy, the duos debut EP, features an eccentric, ever evolving sound that is simultaneously seamless and [...]
Metallica Hardwired…To Self-Destruct Warner Music Canada The wait is over! Hardwired…To Self-Destruct is here. Since the release of the EP Beyond Magnetic in 2011, Metallica fans have been eagerly waiting for another full-length album from [...]
Soundgarden Badmotorfinger 25th Anniversary Edition Universal Music Canada What can you say about the album that set the bar for the grunge genre? A lot! Although there were other grunge bands emerging around the same time in Seattle, like Pearl [...]
ESP Ohio Starting Point Of The Royal Cyclopean Rockathon Records ESP Ohio’s Starting Point of the Royal Cyclopean has that old-school Rock sound combined with a few Pop or Prog-Rock undertones. It’s a noisy, gritty, and raw album that is pretty [...]
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band (Reissue) Secretly Canadian Yoko Ono’s first solo album, which was recorded during the recording of John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. It was originally released on the same day as John’s album. Once again, Secretly Canadian [...]
Islands Return To The Sea (Reissue) Manque Music 10 years after its original release, the Canadian Indie Rock staple, Islands, remaster and re-release their debut LP. The “light but firm” remaster has never sounded better and is available on all [...]
Minihorse Big Lack Friendship Fever Records I first got wind of Ypsilanti, Michigan “Introvert Rock” band Minihorse a few months ago. Someone in my musical universe told me they were a band to watch out for and, lo and behold, their debut EP Big [...]
