The Lookouts Spy Rock Road (And Other Stories) Don Giovanni Records Thirty years before anyone would ever even conceive of Green Day, three guys got together and The Lookouts were born. The California punk band released a remastered album March [...]
Simple Minds Sparkle In The Rain: Super Deluxe Reissue Universal Music “Don’t You Forget About Me”….wasn’t that the song from the John Hughes movie? Yeah it was and it’s still probably the most well known song associated with the Scottish [...]
Purity Ring Another Eternity 4AD Another Eternity showcases some experimentation with space-like beats and synth patterns, with Purity Ring’s distinguishable sound infused within. The Canadian synthpop duo finally released their second [...]
of Montreal Aureate Gloom Polyvinyl Records Another year, another of Montreal release. Another smattering of discord psychedelic-funk-glam-breakbeat tracks that fascinate and confound in equal measure, with catchy melodies, sing-along hooks and [...]
Sonny & The Sunsets Talent Night At The Ashram Polyvinyl Records If you didn’t know it, you would never guess San Francisco native Sonny Smith is nearing his mid-40s. Imaginative, quirky, and possessing the ability to spin stories akin to a [...]
Drake If you’re reading this it’s too late Cash Money Records If there’s an Aziz Ansari equivalent in the rap genre, it might be Drake. But comedian Ansari’s swag lust and posturing comes off as personable and self-aware. Drake, [...]
Danko Jones Fire Music New Damage Records The return of Danko Jones comes with great timing, challenging a music scene that is overrun by shoeless, whistling and clapping hipster bands. Their new release Fire Music cuts through the crap and [...]
Alex Conde Descarga For Monk Zoho Music Reinventing the classics: In Descarga for Monk, pianist Alex Conde and his band interpret nine of Legendary pianist and composer Thelonious Monk’s compositions through the lense of Conde’s Spanish [...]
Father John Misty I Love You Honeybear Sub Pop Records I Love You Honeybear is a well thought out album. The slow romantic music, accompanied by realistic lyrics of relationships and the American education system, makes for an interesting album. [...]
Prima Donna Nine Lives And Forty-Fives Alive Naturalsound Records Los Angeles foursome Prima Donna is back with an impressive 11-song studio album. Nine Lives and Forty-Fives features eight original songs, and three covers: “I’m On Fire” (Dwight [...]
The Gothsicles Squid Icarus Negative Gain Records The Gothsicles’ fourth album Squid Icarus, released in December of last year by Negative Gain Productions, lives up to the standards of humor and cleverness we’ve come to expect from the ‘sicles. [...]
The Pop Group Citizen Zombie Freaks R Us Records Punk was declared dead not long after it exploded in popularity in the U.K. and the U.S. It was dismissed as a fad and no longer taken seriously as a revolutionary force. By the late ‘70s Punk [...]
Bob Dylan Shadows In The Night Columbia Records Shadows in the Night is Bob Dylan’s 36th studio album. It was released by Columbia Records on February 3, 2015 and contains 10 songs originally made famous by Frank Sinatra, though Dylan himself [...]
Karl Latham, Ryan Carniaux & Mark Egan Constellations Double Moon Records Constellations, the jazz/funk interpretation of Björk’s 2007 Volta, goes beyond categorizations. Drummer Karl Latham, trumpeter Ryan Carniaux, bassist Mark Egan, and [...]
Emmy The Great S EP Bella Union S, the new EP from British singer-songwriter Emmy The Great, packs a punch. The album features four songs with names starting with the letter s and, more importantly, offers up powerful lyrics and catchy pop. [...]
Ty Segall Live In San Francisco Castle Face Ty Segall gives a head banging, body shaking, ear splitting good time on their Live In San Francisco LP. Segall began his solo career in 2008 with the release of Horn the Unicorn, the same year as his [...]
The Dodos Individ Polivinyl Records Individ is the sixth studio album from The Dodos and was recorded hot on the heels of their last release, 2013’s Carrier. The 2013 release was an album that seemed haunted by the death of previous occasional [...]
Sleater-Kinney No Cities To Love Sub Pop Records There is a scientific theory that nothingness is inherently unstable. That something eventually must happen. As such, our universe — and the Big Bang — necessarily had to occur. Indeed, the past [...]
The Decemberists What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World Nonesuch Records The new year is off to a great start with the release of The Decemberists’ new album, What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World. It has been a long five years [...]
Marilyn Manson The Pale Emporer Hell, Etc. The king of industrial doom rock is back in top form for 2015 promoting another set of sick, disturbing, and irresistible tracks on his new album The Pale Emperor. Marilyn Manson just unleashed his 13th [...]
Panda Bear Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper Domino Records With a title like Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper, it’s no surprise that Panda Bear’s new album features eerily haunting sounds throughout the entire album. In true Panda Bear style, [...]
The Louis Romanos Quartet Take Me There Independent Hailing from Athens, Georgia, drummer and composer Louis Romanos and his quartet perform 12 of Romanos’ compositions that focus on melody and group interplay more than instrumental prowess. [...]
Howardian Land of the Low Tides Bufu Records Howardian is the solo stage name for Japanther’s Ian Vanek. Vanek keeps his noise and art rock sound while switching gears to Howardian and able to keep his fans. The album begins to sound like [...]
Wilco Alpha Mike Foxtrot: Rare Tracks 1994-2014 Nonesuch Records The newest gem from Wilco titled Alpha Mike Foxtrot: Rare Tracks 1994-2014 gives fans a glimpse into the bevy of songs that never made the cut. With themes of heartbreak, pure [...]
