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 [...]
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 [...]
