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 [...]
The Veldt The Shocking Fuzz of Your Electric Fur: The Drake Equation Leonard Skully Records Besides producing wonderful college basketball, Raleigh, North Carolina has given us Daniel and Danny Chavis, otherwise known as The Veldt, a name taken [...]
Hans Zimmer & Junkie XL Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Watertower Music DUNNNN DUNNNNN DUUUUNNNNNN! DC’s Highly anticipated Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice hits theaters March 25. This über [...]
James Girl At The End Of The World BMG Recordings For the most part, James has always been a singles band, known more for their hits than their albums. That’s not to say that their LPs are bad – Gold Mother and Laid are classics – but a fair [...]
Jeff Buckley You And I Legacy Recordings It has become ubiquitous for the music industry to unearth the works of household name artists and compile these “new findings” into something marketable. The motive is as transparent as any real [...]
The Wild Feathers Lonely Is A Lifetime Warner Bros. The Wild Feathers’ first track “Overnight” on their album Lonely Is a Lifetime transports you into those summer music festival days. The steady pulses of this album give off an indie-rock feel [...]
Lucius Good Grief Dine Alone Records Lucius’s initial effort Wildewoman turned heads with its gospel-influenced, country sounding, clap-along tunes. Bubblegum pop was redefined with their bright, vocally driven arrangements. And when they [...]
Journalism Faces Dead Stare Records Trying to break out and be noticed in a music scene is never easy, especially if that city is Brooklyn, whose scene is so dense that it is nearly impossible. Journalism’s first LP, Faces, deals with this topic [...]
The Zolas Swooner Light Organ Records Popular music in the 1990s was, for all intents and purposes, absolute mind-warping rubbish. There’s no other explanation for the success of 311. These broad swaths of negativity are irrefutable. I was [...]
Nada Surf You Know Who You Are Barsuk Records Life after 20 years…a softer pop sound? Having gone to their concert in Toronto on November 17th, 2015 at the Horseshoe Tavern (shameless plug) and immensely enjoying the show, I was intently [...]
Wintersleep The Great Detachment Dine Alone Records A few years ago, economist and Freakonomics co-author Stephen Dubner declared McDonald’s McDouble hamburger to be the “cheapest and most nutritious food in human history”, measuring its [...]
La Sera Music For Listening To Music To Polyvinyl Records The influence of producer Ryan Adams is apparent in La Sera’s Music For Listening to Music To‘s thoughtful arrangement of the tracks, and somewhat alt-folk-country sound. The [...]
Cherubs Fist In The Air Brutal Panda Records This five-track EP from Cherubs – their first offering since 2015’s 2 Ynfynyty, an album which broke two decades of silence with a high-hat destroying “hello, how are you” – is a carbonated bottle of [...]
Wiwek The Free And Rebellious OWSLA It’s pretty rare for someone to create and establish a unique brand of music and Dutch DJ Wiwek is trying to do just that. His self-declared “Jungle Terror” approach to house music is suitably described by [...]
Run River North Drinking From a Salt Pond Nettwerk Music Group It hasn’t been a very long time since we last heard from Run River North – a Korean-American indie band, formerly known as Monsters Calling Home. Their 2014 debut self-titled [...]
The Dirty Nil Higher Power Dine Alone Records For the better part of a decade, The Dirty Nil has been chipping away a monolith of a rock band. They’ve been patiently releasing 7” singles, an EP, and an ongoing fan club exclusive series of [...]
Yuck Stranger Things Mamé Records Breaking up is hard to do. After the success of Yuck’s eponymous first record in 2011, founding member Daniel Blumberg left the band, leaving the young English quartet stripped of their leader and their [...]
