Dead When I Found Her Eyes On Backwards Artoffact Records Eyes on Backwards is an eerie industrial-electronic album from EDM band Dead When I Found Her. The brooding collection of songs are made with heavy synths, looped beats, and audio clips [...]
The Silver Hearts Golden Favourites Mudtown Records The Silver Hearts has ended a decade-long lull with its newest album Golden Favourites. Featuring 11 previously unrecorded songs from the ensemble’s 16-year history — including many fan [...]
Port Juvee Crimewave Independent Despite their success and wide acclaim in 2014 with their EP Revenge, Calgary, Alberta’s own garage rocking Port Juvee have come a long way since their “Bleachers” days / radio competitions. Consisting of Brett [...]
Chris de Burgh A Better World Justin Time Records Chris de Burgh’s 22nd studio album, A Better World, arrived in stores on October 28th, and it ventures into familiar territory for de Burgh, that includes diverse styles, tempos, and [...]
The Seams Meet The Seams Hand Drawn Dracula The Seams are a fairly new Canadian band formed by members of Toronto indie bands WISH, Fake Palms, Elsa, and U.S. Girls. Together they create simple tunes influenced by rock and pop from the 60s [...]
Alejandro Escovedo Burn Something Beautiful Fantasy Records Where do you see yourself at age 65? Early morning breakfast at Burger King, rummaging through the morning paper while the waitress waddles over with your Early Bird Breakfast Special? [...]
The Olympians The Olympians Daptone Records Over the past 15 years, Daptone Records have cemented their position as a leader in funk, soul, and R&B by rostering acts like Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings and Charles Bradley. Daptone releases [...]
Casper Skulls Lips & Skull Buzz Records Although trends in popular music would suggest guitar Rock has been through a bit of a latent period in the past few years, labels like Toronto’s Buzz Records have been quietly building all-star teams [...]
Lou Barlow Apocalypse Fetish Joyful Noise Recordings A year after the release of Brace the Wave, a record exploring the complexity and heartbreak of his divorce, Lou Barlow returns with a collection of songs that try, with some success, to blow [...]
Soft Lions XOXO Velvet Blue Records Following up on last year’s debut EP, Spellbreaker, the San Diego trio Soft Lions, led by Megan Liscomb, turn out six new tracks that deal with the usual pitfalls of youth, like objectification, breaking [...]
Sam Roberts Band TerraForm Secret Brain/Universal Music Canada Enter….the TerraForm!!! It’s incredible to imagine that the Juno Award-winning Sam Roberts Band has been around since 2001 as it continues to churn out Indie / Alt rock from [...]
Slothrust Everyone Else Danger Bird Records Everyone Else marks the latest release by LA/Brooklyn-based Slothrust. It is truly an awe-inspiring masterpiece that pulls the listener in within moments. Though the central album theme is the human [...]
Madness Can’t Touch Us Now Universal Music Fresh from the British Ska band Madness, which is known for its 1982 hit “Our House,” comes its latest album Can’t Touch Us Now, which was released on October 28. The whopping 16-track album is [...]
Lowlands Erie Independent Lowlands have unearthed their third full-length studio album, Erie, the predecessor of Huron. This time, recorded on the newly founded, Chelsea Records. It has been a long anticipated wait – four years to be precise. [...]
Nina Diaz The Beat Is Dead Cosmica Artists The fierce and electrifying Nina Diaz is perhaps best known as the frontwoman of indie rock band Girl in A Coma. After almost a decade of touring, she recently took an extended break to develop a [...]
Roy Orbison The Ultimate Collection Sony Music Roy Orbison is easily one of the 20th century’s most storied musicians, with a stellar career that was tragically cut short by a fatal heart attack in 1988. Now, coming up on 30 years since his [...]
The Radio Dept. Running Out Of Love Labrador Records For some time now Swedish indie-rockers, The Radio Dept. have been a staple in the provocative lo-fi dream-pop game. Their latest, Running Out Of Love, is true to from but provides a new [...]
Crystal Fighters Everything Is My Family Zirkulo/PIAS/Atlantic Records The third studio album from pop party band Crystal Fighters is Everything Is My Family. A truly international band, Crystal Fighters is composed of Sebastian “Bast” Pringle [...]
Hooton Tennis Club Big Box Of Chocolates Heavenly Recordings Chris X hears a Hooton! To be honest, the title of the album didn’t grab me (enter obvious Forrest Gump reference here), considering this group’s penchant for long song titles off [...]
Crystal Shawanda Fish Out Of Water Newsun Records Crystal Shawanda considered herself a Country-music outsider based on her eclectic sound and style, which fuses Blues with traditional Country sensibilities. In her latest album, Fish Out of [...]
Gord Downie The Secret Path Arts & Crafts The Secret Path dares to become a wide and open road, an artistic plea of a dying man for change and reconciliation of a nation. This is the fifth studio effort by the Tragically Hip singer Gord [...]
Mono Requiem For Hell Temporary Residence For its ninth release, Mono reconnected with an old friend and collaborator, Steve Albini. The result? An uneasy listening experience; uneasy as the music is varied and different. Militaristic drumming [...]
His Clancyness Isolation Culture Hand Drawn Dracula / Maple Death Records His Clancyness’s forthcoming art-pop LP Isolation Culture provides an uplifting effervescence and groovy weightlessness that leaves you head-bopping and smirking as you [...]
The Alpacas The Best Is Behind You Independent The Best Is Behind You is a reflection of life as a young adult. Living as a 20- or 30-year-old may sound like it’s fun and games, but in between that there’s a lot more to it. There are a lot of [...]
