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 [...]
Real Numbers Wordless Wonder Slumberland Records Bad day? Real Number’s first full length album Wordless Wonder will try to pick you up out of your slump. The garage pop quartet provides a lighthearted and quirky ten songs that sound like they [...]
Terry Malts Lost At The Party Slumberland Recordings The third album coming from Terry Malts, Lost at the Party is rich, explosive and buoyant that will keep your feet moving. Notable of the Terry Malts sound, his punk backbone is certainly not [...]
Jamie Lidell Building A Beginning Jajulin Records After 20 years making music as an enigmatic talent, Jamie Lidell once again reset the script on his music with Building a Beginning. Produced under his own label imprint, Jajulin Records, Lidell [...]
Two Door Cinema Club Gameshow Parlophone Records Four years after the release of their second album, Beacon, and three years after the release of the Changing of the Seasons EP, Irish alt-Rock trio Two Door Cinema Club has finally delivered on [...]
Mick Thomas These Are The Songs: A Mick Thomas Retrospective Liberation Music When I attended University of Ottawa, I had a radio show, every Saturday night, midnight to six, on the University station. If you tuned in, you were guaranteed a [...]
Green Day Revolution Radio Warner Music Group While not as revolutionary as American Idiot, Green Day’s twelfth studio album, Revolutionary Radio, gives us a familiar sound to the 2004 album that’s rather nostalgic. Is it perhaps too familiar? [...]
Army Of The Universe 1999 & The Aftershow Metropolis Records Throughout listening to this album I was excited, entertained and confused. Army of the Universe’s newest release 1999 & The Aftershow sounds like a mashup of many greats from [...]
Mavrick Atlantis Universal Music Mavrick’s Atlantis is a melodically interesting album because of how simple and clean it is. There isn’t anything too messy or noisy in it, but that being said, simple doesn’t mean boring. It’s raw, emotional, [...]
Phantogram Three Republic Records Three, the aptly named third record from New York-based dreampop outfit Phantogram, sees more of the signature distorted, grimy, tension filled sounds that anyone familiar with their material would recognize, [...]
Phish Big Boat Jemp For many, the term “Jam Band” is intimidating. It conjures up images of four-hour concerts, 15-minute guitar solos and songs overstuffed with every conceivable instrument. Thanks to that mentality Phish, perennial leaders of [...]
