Neon Indian VEGA INTL. Night School Mom + Pop Music Neon Indian (Alan Palomo) is a man out of time, out of place. In 2015, Palomo remains an anomaly forced to the fringe of success despite pumping out resplendent records like VEGA INTL. Night [...]
!!! (Chk Chk Chk) As If Warp Records Dance punk is an impossible genre. It simply should not exist, much the same way a smoothie should not be made of meat, or a strawberry be barbecued. Yet here we are, and there they are, the delightful !!! or [...]
Blue Rodeo Live At Massey Hall Warner Music Canada It is very good. When Canadian giant Blue Rodeo releases a new album, there is never any worry when it comes to the quality of the music. It is always great. The unfortunate part about being [...]
City and Colour If I Should Go Before You Dine Alone Records City and Colour’s brand new album, If I Should Go Before You was released earlier in October to the delight of a very loyal fanbase. The album is one that can only be described as [...]
IAMX Metanoia Metropolis Records Electronic sunshine of the insomniac mind! Creating the moniker IAMX in 2004 as a way of being true to himself and being more creatively independent with his music, Chris Corner (formerly of the Sneaker Pimps), [...]
Wavves V Ghost Ramp/Warner Bros. Surf rock/pop punk band Wavves released their fifth studio album in early October. It features 11 rendered tracks that should be added to the beach playlist you whip out every summer. V includes songs filled with [...]
Autre Ne Veut Age of Transparency Downtown Records Autre Ne Veut, a.k.a. Brooklyn singer-soulwriter Arthur Ashin, opens his third full-length record with the challenging, atonal “On and On (Reprise).” The jarring introduction to Age of [...]
Killing Joke Pylon Spinefarm Records Post-punk is a flat label that fails to encapsulate Killing Joke’s multifarious sound, and the astonishing reach they have in the alternative music industry. The recently reunited band members have been [...]
Electric Six Bitch, Don’t Let Me Die! Metropolis Records Electric Six summons clichés like Taylor Swift summons gal pals to participate in her latest video shoot. Frontman Dick Valentine might have been a carny in a past life; his [...]
Rome Anthology 2005-2015 Trisol Music Group If Jérôme Reuter is two things and two things only, they are these: political and reflective. The leader of Rome (not to be confused with Caesar, Nero, Caligula, et al) is known for outspokenness on [...]
Peaches Rub I U She Music Are there no nice Canadian Jewish girls out there? Merrill Beth Nisker a.k.a. Peaches does her best to explode this stereotype with her sexually-charged themes and lyrics. And what the hell is Feist of “1234” fame [...]
Windhand Grief’s Infernal Flower Relapse Records As the sounds of a crackling bonfire introduce Windhand’s stunning new album, the band delivers the goods precisely at the 32-second mark, showcasing first-rate songwriting, studio [...]
Metric Pagans In Vegas Crystal Math Music Metric’s sixth studio album sounds very modern and fresh, staying true to the band’s goal of capturing “the romance of another time without falling into nostalgia.” They certainly achieved that goal with [...]
Diana Panton I Believe in Little Things eOne Music Juno Award-winning vocalist Diana Panton delivers again, bringing her childlike, sensitive voice to 15 classic songs geared toward bringing jazz to the whole family. Backed by her team of [...]
Battles La Di Da Di Warp Records Preamble: I don’t really know what to expect since this is my first time visiting a restaurant run by renowned chef collective “Battles”. I mean, I grabbed ice cream at Gloss Drop once a few years back, but that [...]
Duran Duran Paper Gods Warner Bros. Paper Gods does not disappoint. Released Sept. 11, Duran Duran’s 14th studio album since 1981 stays true to the band’s legacy while injecting a fresh flavour. The Fab Five, as they were known when they ruled [...]
Lakes Of Canada Transgressions Independent Remembering Kathleen Smith. Forged from the tragic death of Jake Smith’s mother Kathleen Smith in 2010, Montreal’s Lakes of Canada craft their second progressive / pop / folk / gospel [...]
Painted Palms Horizons Polyvinyl Records The San Fran cousins are back, with more instrumental layerings than you could shake a synth at! Reese Donahue and Christopher Prudhomme are the architects of this 10-track release, having created the [...]
Young Empires The Gates Pirates Blend Records It’s been three years since its debut EP Wake All My Youth, and Young Empires returns to us with its anthemic electro-pop in a full-length album, The Gates. However, Young Empires’ experimental synth [...]
Fidlar Too Mom & Pop Music Skate/garage punk band Fidlar’s new album Too oozes a cohesive range in vocals from harsh to sweet, and some great punk riffs and beats. The band finally came through with a professionally rendered and recorded [...]
Electronic Substance Abuse (ESA) Themes Of Carnal Empowerment Pt. 3: Penance WTII Records After two years of nail-biting anticipation, the third part of Themes of Carnal Empowerment by Electronic Substance Abuse is finally out; and once again [...]
Iron Maiden The Book Of Souls Warner Music Canada After 40 years of blistering metal, Iron Maiden is back with their 17th studio album, The Book of Souls. The band has not changed their potent recipe of writing, recording and producing; what [...]
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats The Night Creeper Rise Above Records With Uncle Acid’s 4th full length release set to disturb the masses, Night Creeper assaults your psyche with doom and fury, peaks and valleys and bloody undertones that will [...]
Beborn Beton A Worthy Compensation Dependent Records Fans of Beborn Beton, unite! After a 15-year hiatus, the German synth-pop trio of Stefan Tillmann, Michael Wagner and Stefan Netschio are back with this 10-track album! With synthesizers and [...]
