The Wytches All Your Happy Life Heavenly Recordings In All Your Happy Life, England native The Wytches flies through 13 songs of swirling Garage Rock tones, with a ringing aftertaste of Shoegaze. Released September 30 from Heavenly Recordings, [...]
Yellowcard Yellowcard Hopeless Records Walking off into the sunset… If you’ve consumed enough music genres through whatever means you have, then Yellowcard is a name that some audiophiles immediately recognize, and after almost 20 years of [...]
Blonde Redhead Masculin Féminin 4AD You may not realize it, but Blonde Redhead’s been making music since 1993. Check that. Let’s do that first sentence over again. You may not know it or you may have forgotten but Blonde Redhead’s still a band. [...]
La Sera Queens EP Polyvinyl Records Somewhere in between touring in support of its album Music For Listening to Music To (which I reviewed just this past March HERE), La Sera found the time to record its latest EP, Queens. A longtime fan of Katy [...]
Lisa LeBlanc Why You Wanna Leave, Runaway Queen? Bon Sound Lisa LeBlanc is the friend who gives you honest advice about dealing with your lame boyfriend and talking about life, but instead of over drinks, she’s dedicated an entire album. She’s [...]
Delerium Mythologie Metropolis Records Full of beautifully ethereal melodies and transitional soundscapes, Delerium is back with its 15th studio album, Mythologie. Since Delerium’s founding in 1987, music pioneers Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber have [...]
Beach Slang A Loud Bash Of Teenage Feelings Polyvinyl Records In the short time since the release of their 2015 full-length debut, The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us, Beach Slang has kept busy. They’ve toured extensively, nearly [...]
Beware Of Darkness Are You Real? Bright Antenna Records Aiming to revitalize the Alternative Rock scene and remind fans of what they love about the genre, Beware of Darkness is back with its latest album Are You Real? Fans of its 2013 debut [...]
Psychic Twin Strange Diary Polyvinyl Records In the midst of a dissolving relationship seem to be a suitable albeit emotionally exhausting state in which to start producing an album. This appears to be the case for former Headlights member Erin [...]
Various Artists Groovilicious Deep: The House Years Groovilicious Records Groovilicious released its entire catalogue via Digital Distribution for the first time on September 9, 2016. The catalogue’s uplifting 1990’s House anthems are featured [...]
Jack White Acoustic Recordings – 1998-2016 Third Man Records If this was the first Jack White album you’d ever heard, you might not even realize it’s an anthology. It could easily be misinterpreted as just another classic Jack White blues-rock [...]
Okkervil River Away ATO Records Okkervil River’s newest album, Away, is ambitious but it may have overshot the mark. There is no bad song on the album but there are lots of forgettable tracks. Almost every song is too long and the album is [...]
The Minders Into The River Space Cassette In order to describe The Minders’ new album, Into The River, one will need a very good thesaurus. Unfortunately, there aren’t enough synonyms in the world for the word “boring.” The band is back from an [...]
Gang Of Four Live… In The Moment Metropolis Records Gang of Four’s latest album Live… In the Moment, is not a horrible introduction to the band, even if you’re familiar with the original line-up. Live… In the Moment, recorded at [...]
Soundwalk Collective & Jesse Paris Smith ft. Patti Smith Killer Road Sacred Bones Killer Road is a concept album conceived and created by Soundwalk Collective, Jesse Paris Smith and Patti Smith. It focuses on the death of vocalist Christa [...]
Tuns Tuns Royal Mountain Records Formed in 2015, Tuns is comprised of Mike O’Neill of The Inbreds, Chris Murphy of Sloan and Matt Murphy of The Super Friendz. The idea of a supergroup, where successful artists in their own right [...]
Rome The Hyperion Machine Trisol Music Group Every once in a while, when listening to a new album, within the first few minutes of listening the first thing that comes to mind is how good the album is going to be. It’s just clear within the [...]
Dinosaur Jr. Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not Jagjaguwar Having experienced numerous variations and reconfigurations to its lineup over the past 31 years, Dinosaur Jr. proves it is still capable of creating a noteworthy album. Since its reunion [...]
Tilted Axes Music For Mobile Electric Guitars Peppergreen Media Tilted Axes is the project of Patrick Grant, a composer and performer living in New York City and creating music for a wide range of media. A native of Detroit, MI, Grant moved to [...]
Young Gun Silver Fox West End Coast Wax Poetics “Whenever I’m feeling blue, you make me better. Whatever I’m going through, you make me feel better.” ~ “Better,” Young Gun Silver Fox Good things come to those who wait. In 2012, Andy Platts (U.K. [...]
Durand Jones & The Indications Durand Jones & The Indications Colemine Records Durand Jones’ first release is such a pleasure to listen to, and has instantly become a staple in my musical catalogue. Writing with Aaron Frazer (drums) and [...]
Broncho Double Vanity Dine Alone Records Broncho reached the pinnacle of their pop sensibilities with 2014’s “Class Historian.” The track commandeered Alt-airwaves with a catchy, nonsensical hook. Whereas most ear-worms recall Khan’s brain bugs [...]
Tegan and Sara Love You To Death Vapor Records Love You to Death by Tegan and Sara is a highly personal album featuring 10 songs about loving relationships, both romantic and platonic but the subject of love never feels overplayed. The band [...]
FEWS Means Play It Again Sam With its debut album Means, Alt-Rock band FEWS bares its teeth with 10 tracks inspired by various genres of music but huddled beneath the safety of Indie Rock. It’s no surprise that the band has a unique feel to it. [...]
