Aesop Rock The Impossible Kid Rhymesayers Entertainment One of the most powerful things about hip-hop is it’s ability to present complex, dark, and deeply personal thoughts and feelings. In his latest album The Impossible Kid, rapper Aesop Rock, [...]
Plants And Animals Waltzed In From The Rumbling Secret City Records Canadian indie alternative outfit Plants and Animals meanders around folky vibes caught up on dreamy, Radiohead-like soundscapes with Waltzed in from the Rumbling – an 11-piece [...]
Mo Troper Beloved Good Cheer Records When you hear the term “singer-songwriter” one generally thinks of a lone folk guitarist, sometimes accompanying him/herself with a harmonica hung around their neck, singing weighty songs set to three or four [...]
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard Nonagon Infinity ATO Records For the last few years, King Gizzard And the Lizard Wizard have been expanding their sound past the lo-fi sound they made their name with. In 2015 they released two outstanding LPs: [...]
Mulligrub Soft Grudge Independent The city of Winnipeg has spawned some major Canadian musicians over the past 50 years, The Guess Who and Neil Young being the most famous. Mulligrub is one of the latest products of The Peg. Over the past three [...]
Guided by Voices Please Be Honest Guided by Voices Inc. Guided By Voices’ new album, Please Be Honest, boasts aggressive melodies and biting lyrics accented by the rise and fall of the album’s two consistently wonderful guitars. Please Be Honest [...]
Royal Wood Ghost Light MapleMusic Recordings Full of beautiful melodies, heartfelt emotions and solid vocal tracks, Toronto based Royal Wood’s latest album Ghost Light will leave listeners mesmerized and eager to press the repeat button. [...]
Various Artists Brown Acid: The Second Trip RidingEasy Records You might just learn a thing or two… Brown Acid “The Second Trip” is the second edition of a wildly successful compilation series. RidingEasy Records had the challenging task of [...]
Suuns Hold/Still Secretly Canadian You’re staring at a shadow of a shadow of a shadow – what are you looking at? Hold/Still is Suuns’ (pronounced “soons”) third album in six years (if you ignore their collaborative effort from 2015 – a [...]
Ashley Shadow Ashley Shadow Felte Ashley Shadow’s debut self-titled album is a consistently haunting piece of work reminiscent of ‘90’s female singer/songwriters like Tori Amos. Shadow has, up until now, largely made her career as a backup [...]
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros PersonA Community Music/Fontana North Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros has dropped its fourth Album, PersonA, following its previously self-titled release three years prior. This Californian Indie, [...]
Solids Else Dine Alone Records Sometime in the early teens of the 21st century, a niche group of rock bands decided they were completely burned out on jangly Libertines-esque rock music, and dusted off their old Jawbox and Sebadoh cassettes. [...]
Moving Units Damage With Care Metropolis Records Los Angeles-based group Moving Units have recently released their fourth album, Damage with Care via Metropolis Records (April 8, 2016). As with the previous three albums, you can expect Damage [...]
M83 Junk Mute Records In every major artist’s career there is generally a record ascribed “the breakout album” and then, naturally, something called “the follow-up” follows… eventually. The breakout album speaks for itself. It’s the moment [...]
Tokyo Police Club Melon Collie and the Infinite Radness, Pt. 1 Mean Beard/Dine Alone Records The peachy keen resonance of Melon Collie. Tokyo Police Club have just released their latest album Melon Collie and the Infinite Radness, Pt. 1, after [...]
Woods City Sun Eater In The River of Light Woodsist Another day, another expansion of the discography from psych-folkers Woods. City Sun Eater in the River of Light represents the band’s 9th album in 10 years. The album title sounds like the [...]
Rome Corolian Trisol Music Group Rome’s Coriolan is a grab bag of different musical genres and types. From the opening “Investiture,” which sounds like an old-time war march, to the closing, “Funeratio,” wrapping things up with a [...]
Weezer Weezer (The White Album) Crush Music/Atlantic Records Weezer’s presence in the music industry has been an up-and-down success story of pop-punk fluctuation. Their original body of work (including their first two records, released in the [...]
Com Truise Silicon Tare EP Ghostly International Synthwave started sometime mid-2000s, but didn’t really become a thing until the 2011 film Drive was released. Cliff Martinez’s brilliant score was moody, melodic and very ‘80s. The synth-heavy [...]
Yeasayer Amen & Goodbye Mute Records Many bands make careers out of applying the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” philosophy: Rage Against the Machine did it for a few years, Motörhead did it for decades. Brooklyn art-rock outfit Yeasayer [...]
The Range Potential Domino Records James Hinton, under alias of The Range, is a Brooklyn-based musician with broad sonic influences. His newest album, Potential – to be released March 25 – embodies the creative possibilities of our [...]
The Life Electric The Real You Zippah Records Disco and rock have a messy history. In 1979, the backlash against disco culminated at a baseball stadium in Chicago, where a radio DJ exploded a crate of disco records to the delight of rock fans in [...]
Laura Sauvage Extraordinormal Simone Records When it comes to being cool, the trick is to act like you don’t care. New Brunswick’s Vivianne Roy walks that line without breaking a sweat. Her English-language solo project goes by the [...]
Ron Hawkins Spit Sputter And Sparkle Pheromone Recordings Hawkins doesn’t sputter on this album! The Lowest Of the Low frontman Ron Hawkins skillfully crafts another album to whet the appetite of Canadian music purists with his 15th album [...]
