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 [...]
GAIIA Suenara Loudeast Records So, what exactly does Suenara mean? To be honest, it doesn’t even matter – we are already in love. GAIIA is a new collaboration by Canadian/French duo Giselle and Aimée, combining electronic beats with eclectic [...]
Living Hour Living Hour Lefse Records Winnipeg five-some Living Hour introduces its mix of swinging guitars, lush dreamy soundscapes and heavy bass rolls on their eight-track, self-titled debut. On Living Hour, the band wrangles with ambient [...]
Monster Truck Sittin’ Heavy Dine Alone Records Why are you not rocking? Well you probably haven’t heard of Monster Truck. The up-and-coming Canadian rock ‘n’ roll powerhouse is back with a bang! Sittin’ Heavy is Monster Truck’s [...]
Choir Of Young Believers Grasque Ghostly International Artists disguising themselves through the use of alter-egos in order to reinvent their sound is not that uncommon in pop music. Sometimes this formula works (think of the Beatles during [...]
Vandaveer The Wild Mercury White Space Records A symphonic lyrical epiphany to soothe your soul. Vandaveer’s fifth and career-defining LP, The Wild Mercury, is a living example of how an Americana-influenced folk band can thrive in today’s [...]
Gazebos Die Alone Hardly Art One element of music that continues to smash windows of expectation, regardless of decade, genre or nationality, is a voice. Someone with something to say and a new way of saying it. Gazebos’ Shannon Perry has one [...]
Basia Bulat Good Advice Secret City Records On Basia Bulat’s fourth record, she finds her vulnerable place. Amidst the percussion-driven ballads Bulat sounds her best, crooning above wounds that have seemingly become scars. Good Advice is the [...]
Junkie XL (Tom Holkenborg) Deadpool: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (Under Exclusive License To Milan Entertainment, Inc. On February 12th, Deadpool broke Box office records by reaching $300 million and [...]
The Suffers The Suffers Rhyme And Reason The Suffers’ self-titled debut album combines vintage soul, jazz and reggae to create a unique blend of R&B. Over the past five years, the 10-piece ensemble has been making a name for itself by [...]
Feeding Fingers Attend Sounds For Sure With 25 songs and a running time that passes the two-hour mark, Feeding Fingers latest release, Attend, seems a tad daunting. However, the diversity of the material makes the time float by. After wrapping [...]
Junior Boys Big Black Coat Geej Recording/City Slang Big Black Coat, Junior Boys’ first release in five years (and first for new label City Slang), finds them working in the comfort of their hermetically sealed bedroom R&B, littered with [...]
Past Life EP 1 Broken Circles Rock ‘n’ Roll ain’t noise pollution! One of Broken Circles’ newest additions, Past Life, has released its first EP, aptly titled EP 1. Hailing from Brooklyn N.Y., these guys take the listener through a musical time [...]
Rhine An Outsider Independent Rhine’s latest full-length release, An Outsider, opens with seriously ominous sounds that will intentionally bend your mind in preparation for its impending sonic doom. The Seattle-based band has a unique brand of [...]
The Cult Hidden City Dine Alone Records As the final piece of a trilogy of work beginning with Born Into This in 2007, and reuniting with producer Bob Rock at the helm, The Cult’s Hidden City doesn’t greatly depart from their AC/DC sound that [...]
Immersion Analogue Creatures 10″ swim~ It has been a little more than 40 years since Brian Eno released his golden-ratio-obsessed avant-pop masterpiece Another Green World, and from that time till now, its influence has only grown. All [...]
Blackdog Ballroom This Is Blackdog Ballroom Independent Some albums don’t translate well into live performance with its complex layered production effects. This isn’t what Richmond Hill quartet Michael Stanfield, Mat Powers, Rob DeSimone and [...]
The Pooches Heart Attack EP Lame-O Records Geography has always served as ambivalent signifier for bands. The Strokes were compared to Television upon the release of their first record; Coldplay were categorized as Radiohead fed through a [...]
St. Lucia Matter Neon Gold Records St. Lucia’s initial success came from his 2013 hit single “Elevate,” an electronic indie-dance piece of pure pop hooks and beaming videogame-like effects. His first record When the Night was consistent in this [...]
