Alexander Spit A Breathtaking Trip To That Otherside Decon On January 29th, 2013, Decon will be dropping A Breathtaking Trip To That Otherside, Alexander Spit’s debut commercial album. Completely produced by Spit, his album features The [...]
Amor de Dias The House At Sea Merge Records Low temperatures and arctic wind chill got you down? If you can’t afford a trip to sunnier lands, let Amor de Dias take you on a trip to warmer climes. The duo’s second album, The House at Sea, has a [...]
Bleeding Rainbow Yeah Right Kanine Records Hailing from Philadelphia, Indie Rock quartet Bleeding Rainbow have come up with a passable collection of songs that blend both ambient melodies with, at times, a psychedelic dream-like feel for their [...]
Android Lust Crater Vol. 1 Independent Funded entirely by a Kickstarter campaign, Android Lust’s newest album, Crater Vol. 1, already demonstrates that the US-based Electro-Industrial artist has a dedicated fan base. Crater Vol. 1 comes on the [...]
Tegan And Sara Heartthrob Warner Music Canada By now Tegan and Sara are what you could call ‘seasoned veterans’ on Canada’s Indie scene. Their first album, Under Feet Like Ours, debuted in 1999 and the identical twins have played at festivals [...]
Local Natives Hummingbird Frenchkiss Records Sophomore slumps are a hard thing to avoid when making music; so many bands fall victim to this unfortunate phenomenon. Luckily, Local Natives isn’t one of those bands. Their highly-anticipated [...]
Mountains Centralia Thrill Jockey Come, for a story is waiting. It tells of something gentle which rose out a profound silence, in a time when simplicity and modesty ran next to one another. The gentle something is music. Never before had the [...]
Ra Ra Riot Beta Love Barsuk Records Ra Ra Riot’s debut LP, The Rhumb Line (2008), opened with a few bars of cello. Shortly thereafter a plucked violin string, followed by persistent snare. That track, “Ghost Under Rocks,” grabbed our [...]
FIDLAR FIDLAR Mom + Pop Records We all have those days where we’re feeling feisty and ready to go out and stir up some trouble. LA-based FIDLAR’s new self-titled release is one way to get into that mindset. This record is oozing with raw power; [...]
Bad Religion True North Epitaph Records True North is the 16th studio album from Los Angeles’ Punk Rock veterans Bad Religion. Coupled with the fact that the band is now entering its 34th year of existence, one would assume that the band is [...]
Helloween Straight Out of Hell The End Records Hair Metal seems to be raising a lot of fans from the dead these days, making the return of ’80s fantasy Hair band Helloween perfectly timed. 2013 is seeing big tours and Vegas residencies by bands [...]
A$AP Rocky LONG.LIVE.A$AP RCA Records/ Sony Music Entertainment One of the hottest albums of the year, LONG.LIVE.A$AP is a hot grab and sets new standards. The title track roars, while A$AP chants, bragging with mesmerizing lyrics about how he [...]
Lee Harvey Osmond The Folk Sinner Latent Recordings The great thing about Lee Harvery Osmond is that you can immediately set the band apart from others. They have their own sound that puts them in an elite group of Canadian roots rockers. A [...]
Various Artists Girls – Volume 1: Music From The HBO Original Series Fueled By Ramen Wunderkind Lena Dunham’s smart and funny Girls has become one of this year’s out-of-nowhere cult TV hits, so it only makes sense that the soundtrack is [...]
Dropkick Murphys Signed and Sealed in Blood Born & Bred Records Signed and Sealed in Blood is the Dropkick Murphys newest album – and possibly their best yet – showcasing their versatility in sound and undeniable talent. This is their eighth [...]
Wooden Wand Blood Oaths for the New Blues Fire Records James Jackson Toth is certainly not new to the music scene; Blood Oaths for the New Blues is his thirtieth recording. His wiki page calls him a prolific artist and a major contributor to the [...]
Various Artists Fool’s Gold: Loosies Fool’s Gold Records Who the hell is Fool’s Gold anyways? Fool’s Gold is a record label that was founded in 2007 in Brooklyn by DJs, A-Trak and Nick Catchdubs. Bridging the Hip-Hop and Electronic [...]
Megascavenger Descent Of Yuggoth Selfmadegod Megascavenger is the brainchild of Swedish Death Metal icon Rogga Johanson. Johanson’s also responsible for delightfully brutal bands such as: Paganizer, Ribspreader, Demiurg, The Grotesquery, Bone [...]
I:Scintilla Marrow I Alfa-Matrix Records We live in a world of right and wrong, two paths that split the earth in two. The path we choose is solely based on our habits and attitudes, for once we venture on it is rather difficult to turn back. [...]
Legend Fearless Artoffact Records Legend, an Electronic music duo from Iceland, originally released their debut album Fearless independently. Soon after the release the album was re-released on Toronto-based record label Artoffact. On Fearless, [...]
DYM The Technocratic Deception Vendetta Music The Technocratic Deception, Canadian Industrial duo DYM’s second full-length studio album, offers up some great club tracks. I was confused by the choice of opener, “The End,” which is a weaker [...]
Alexisonfire Death Letter Dine Alone Records It was a sombre goodbye, for the record. Quite different from the farewell tour that graced the world, Toronto included, when the St. Catherines band played their last notes together. Death Letter, an [...]
Memory Tapes Grace/Confusion Carpark Records Moments cascade to our memory, like food aromas to the palate, causing a sudden rapture within the soul as we wait to feast with uvula and tongue clamouring. We know not what is to happen, or if we [...]
Ien Oblique Drowning World Infacted Recordings Drowning World, the debut album by musical trio Ien Oblique, is an 11-track album of well-crafted dark Electro-pop tracks that are reminiscent of the mid-’80s New Wave sounds that shaped the [...]
