AMELIA DAY EGO TRIP INDEPENDENT It is true that the number of artists covering that currently popular ground between Americana and pop/rock. Yet the key there is how distinctive their music is – whether they separate themselves from the rest and [...]
AUDIOSLAVE OUT OF EXILE (REMASTERED) UNIVERSAL In 2024, Audioslave, the collaboration between Chris Cornell and Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello, Brad Wilk, and Tim Commerford, returned with their second album, Out Of Exile. The album [...]
KIT MAJOR MISS EGO FUTURELESS With an abundance of singles to her name, Kit Major has returned with her third EP, Miss Ego. Led by singles “Not As Witty As I Used To Be” and “Punk Rock Boyfriend,” the latter of which features some exceptional [...]
PUBLIC IMAGE LTD ALIVE A WAY WITH MEDIA Following 2023’s brilliant Public Image Ltd. album, End Of World, Johnny Lydon lost his wife, Nora (with whom he had been since 1979), and his longtime manager, John Rambo Stevens. No one knew what Lydon [...]
ANGINE DE POITRINE VOL. II INDEPENDENT Angine de Poitrine seemingly emerged out of nowhere. Upon achieving viral status earlier this year, the masked Montreal-based duo has become inescapable as they became the subject of an onslaught of memes [...]
YES AURORA INSIDEOUT Aurora is the second Yes album featuring the lineup of Jon Davison (lead vocals acoustic guitars), Steve Howe (guitars banjo guitar, mandolin, autoharp and vocals), Geoff Downes (organ, synthesizers, piano, keyboards, [...]
JON SPENCER SONGS OF PERSONAL LOSS AND PROTEST SHOVE RECORDS Jon Spencer is back with his first album since 2024’s Sick Of Being Sick!. With this album, Songs Of Personal Loss And Protest, Spencer is joined by his touring trio, Kendall Wind [...]
SWEET LIVE AT THE CAPITOL (HANNOVER 1991) METALVILLE Sweet continues to mine their archives for another (re) release of live material from the early 1990s. And this is an extremely good thing. Sweet is usually lumped in with ‘glam’ bands or AM [...]
MIDGE URE A MAN OF TWO WORLDS CHRYSALIS It has been 12 years since Midge Ure released a studio album of new material (in 2024 he did release The Sessions (Backstage Lockdown Club) which was a studio album of him revisiting older songs recorded [...]
KALEO A/B (10th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION) RHINO RECORDS Kaleo formed in Mosfellsbær, Iceland in 2012 and is still going strong. In 2016 they released a landmark album that earned them numerous accolades, awards and high chart placements. When [...]
LEE “SCRATCH” PERRY & MOUSE ON MARS SPATIAL, NO PROBLEM DOMINO RECORDS Lee “Scratch” Perry passed away on August 29, 2021. The music world lost a true original and an artist who had worked with just about everyone. But that didn’t mean he [...]
FUCKED UP YEAR OF THE MONKEY TANKCRIMES As the second chapter in Fucked Up’s ambitious Grass Can Move Stones trilogy, Year of the Monkey uses a sprawling mythological framework to explore themes of identity, growth, purpose, and [...]
FIREBUG DUST AND ECHOES BUDDHA BELT RECORDS FireBug has been making music since 2017. The core of FireBug is Juliette Tworsey (lead vocal, guitar, slide guitar, piano, organ) and Jules Shapiro (lead guitar, synthesizer, bass). This EP, Dust and [...]
JALEN NGONDA DOCTRINE OF LOVE DAPTONE RECORDS Jalen Ngonda burst on the scene in 2023 with his debut album, Come Around And Love Me, and justifiably earned critical acclaim for his own style of soul music that owes a great deal of debt to Motown [...]
THROTTLE BODY M/C ALL THAT WAS GREEN MONKEY RECORDS Throttle Body M/C is really a project for Jerry Hammack, a well-known engineer, producer, writer, and musician. Hammack played all the instruments, produced, wrote, and engineered the album, so [...]
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE I BUILT YOU A TOWER ANTI- RECORDS Indie rock veterans Death Cab for Cutie are back, more than 20 years removed from their iconic Transatlanticism release and are settling into the latter half of their career with I Built You [...]
MICHELE DUCCI SNAIL IN THE CLOUDS MONOTREME RECORDS Snail in the Clouds might be just the second solo album for Italian songwriter and vocalist Michele Ducci, but he comes to it with ample experience with M+A band and collaborations with his [...]
JOSY AND THE MIND READERS SIGH SOME MORE GOLD ROBOT RECORDS When you have in mind that what you have in front of you is a 5-song EP (formally a debut one at that) and that its full title is “sigh some more” (because it releases endorphins [...]
GINA LESLIE I LOVE YOU ALWAYS NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS INDEPENDENT Where would you choose to be as a singer songwriter if your music would fit within so many categories but having a strong connection to roots and Americana sounds? Well Nashville [...]
THE CLAUDETTES GARAGE GLAMOUR PRAVDA RECORDS Garage Glamour is the new album from the Chicago-based blues, rock, and pop band The Claudettes, and it is pretty incredible. This is the band’s sixth album, and their first with lead vocalist Rachel [...]
SKYDIGGERS WEST MONTROSE INDEPENDENT The new album from Skydiggers, West Montrose, is a collection of songs from albums past and old favourites, from Canada’s preeminent roots rock band. Presented simply and with a skeleton crew of the band on [...]
MODEST MOUSE AN ERASER AND A MAZE GLACIAL PACE/VIRGIN RECORDS “Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.” ~ Charles Bukowski It was the beginning of Summer 2000, and Portland’s Modest Mouse had recently released The [...]
AUGUST BURNS RED SEASON OF SURRENDER FEARLESS RECORDS For the past 20 years, August Burns Red has never concerned themselves with rewriting the soundscapes they helped bring to metalcore. As they have braved the changes in the genre’s [...]
BOARDS OF CANADA INFERNO WARP Boards of Canada have never come up short when it comes to tape-warped, ominous music, and 2026’s latest release, Inferno, may be their heaviest collection of tracks to date. This long-awaited fifth studio LP [...]
