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 [...]
Dragonette Royal Blues Dragonette Inc. After four years, Toronto synth pop trio Dragonette is back, but “Royal Blues” might not be what you expected. The band’s fourth studio album is filled with thirteen dance tracks that provide easy listening [...]
John Lennon & Yoko Ono Unfinished Music No. 2: Life With The Lions (Reissue) Secretly Canadian The second release in the Secretly Canadian/Chimera Music “Yoko Ono Reissue Project.” The front cover tells the story of the album, Yoko Ono in a [...]
The Rolling Stones Blue & Lonesome Universal Music Canada After more than a decade without releasing a studio album, The Rolling Stones have made an interesting move. Blue & Lonesome is a full-length cover album and not including their [...]
Jacuzzi Boys Ping Pong Mag Mag If their previous album was an experiment in sound, then Ping Pong, the latest release from Miami rockers Jacuzzi Boys, is the realization of it. Produced by the band and released on their brand new label, Mag Mag, [...]
Martha Wainwright Goodnight City Cadence Music Group/PIAS It might seem difficult trying to live up to household folk names like Loudon and Rufus, but in her sixth studio album, Martha Wainwright has successfully rounded out her sound and showed [...]
Sting 57th & 9th Universal Music Canada Sting has never been afraid of change. His music has constantly morphed since his days with The Police. His hits like “Fields of Gold”, “Desert Rose”, and “Englishman in New York” (just to name a few) [...]
John Lennon & Yoko Ono Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins (Reissue) Secretly Canadian Secretly Canadian and Sean Lennon’s Chimera music are endeavoring on a reissue campaign (called the Yoko Ono Reissue Project) of Yoko Ono albums, which [...]
SSHH Issues Independent It is an intriguing idea, an album of cover versions played with members of the original band. That is the idea behind SSHH’s debut album. SSHH is comprised of Australian singer/artist Sshh Liguz and guitarist/drummer [...]
Monster Rally Mystery Cove Gold Robot Records Cinematic and picture-esque are not usually the first words that come to mind when listening to music, but that seems the most fitting way to describe Mystery Cove, the fourth album from Monster [...]
Young Mammals Jaguar Odd Hours Records Jaguar is the sixth release from Young Mammals, which was forged from a middle school friendship between Cley Miller and brothers Jose and Carlos Sanchez. Drummer Justin Terrell group is the additional [...]
Bobby Bazini Summer Is Gone Universal Music Canada Quebec’s Bobby Bazini has been making a name for himself in Canada over the past few years, and on this album, his third, he’s set to take on the world. The good news is that this album is [...]
A-Trak In The Loop: A Decade of Remixes Fool’s Gold A-Trak’s latest album, In The Loop: A Decade of Remixes (Fool’s Gold Records) is solid. And addictive. How he managed to select 13 tracks after a decade of honing his remixing craft is as [...]
Bob Dylan The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert! Sony Music Canada Growing up in the sixties, like I’m sure for many others at the time, Bob Dylan was my poet. Hell, I guess I even idolized the guy in a way only a teenager can. Seeing [...]
Body/Head No Waves Matador Records Kim Gordon (ex-Sonic Youth) and experimental guitarist Bill Nace’s project Body/Head is based on improvisation with one another. Their debut album, Coming Apart, was released in 2013 and followed by a [...]
Mike Watt Ring Spiel Tour ’95 Sony Music Canada Ring Spiel Tour 95 is a live recording of a supergroup of sorts, a grunge supergroup to be more specific. I don’t like using the grunge label, but this recording comes from 1995, and the [...]
Rotersand Capitalism TM Trisol Records Rotersand have carved out a unique musical niche: popular in Europe from where they hail, but still in a cultish underground in North America. There is no single genre that describes this musical project; [...]
