THE TREMOLO BEER GUT ASK NOT WHAT THE TREMOLO BEER GUT CAN DO FOR YOU… MUSICK RECORDINGS/NO-COUNT RECORDS The surf rock band from Denmark, The Tremolo Beer Gut, has just released their seventh album, Ask Not What The Tremolo Beer Gut Can [...]
HAPPY MONDAYS PILLS ‘N’ THRILLS AND BELLYACHES (SUPER DELUXE EDITION) LONDON RECORDS This behemoth of a release from Happy Mondays is a perfect end-of-summer party release, with their seminal third album getting the treatment 36 years (yes, [...]
THE CRAMPS GRAVEST GRAVY VENGEANCE RECORDS Lux Interior met Poison Ivy in Sacramento, California, in 1972. By 1976, they had moved to New York, added Bryan Gregory (guitar) and his sister Pam “Balam” (drums). As The Cramps, they [...]
KEB’ MO’ THE BREAKDOWN CONCORD RECORDS Keb’ Mo’ (also known as Kevin Roosevelt Moore) has been making music since the 1970s, but his debut album, Rainmaker, was not released until 1980. Since then, he has released 20 studio/live albums. The [...]
DEAD TIRED HORNETS OF FALL NEW DAMAGE RECORDS Hamilton-based legends, Dead Tired, are back with their fourth release, Hornets Of Fall, and we couldn’t be more excited. Mixing the sounds of ‘80s hardcore punk and a variety of different metal [...]
CIRCUIT3 METANOIA: MUSIC FROM THERAPY MORTALITY TABLES Circuit3 is Dublin-based musician Peter Fitzpatrick, and Metanoia: Music From Therapy is the first Circuit3 release since 2022’s Technology For The Youth. This primarily instrumental album [...]
JAH WOBBLE AND TIAN QIYI MYSTIC LIVERPOOL: THE BEATLES’ PSYCHEDELIC PSONGBOOK CHERRY RED RECORDS/30 HERTZ Since 1964, there have been numerous interpretations of The Beatles’ music. Stax, jazz, classical, Motown, country, Bing Crosby, [...]
JETHRO TULL J-TULL DOT COM: ANOTHER CAST OF THE NET (DELUXE EDITION) INSIDE OUT MUSIC Released in 1999, J-Tull Dot Com was Jethro Tull’s 20th studio album. Anderson and company navigated the 1980s well, but the 1990s proved to have new [...]
THE WOMACK SISTERS THE WOMACK SISTERS DAPTONE RECORDS Zeimani, BG, and Kucha are The Womack Sisters. The granddaughters of Sam Cooke, the daughters of Cecil and Linda Womack of Womack & Womack, and the nieces of Bobby Womack, their lineage [...]
JUNGLE SUNSHINE AWAL RECORDINGS British indie soul collective Jungle have been on a generational run, record after record, creating soul-jazz fusion, atmospheric vibes, and creative music videos with meticulous choreography. Most recently, they [...]
ROWENA WISE BAD THINGS FEEL GOOD 22TWENTY RECORDS It takes certain kind of bravery (actually, quite a bit of it) to go the singer songwriter way. Not only do you have to have an abundance of both singing and songwriting quality (add arranging [...]
GOD OF WAR MOLLY PICTURE JULIA’S WAR RECORDINGS When you run a record label, no matter how big or small it is, and you are an artist yourself, you have the possibility to spread your wings as wide as you can, no matter how good (or not) it [...]
THE MOUNTAIN GOATS DAYS CADMEAN DAWN RECORDS Reviewing a Mountain Goats album can be a bit of a tall order. It’s like trying to describe the taste of an apple to an apple virgin. There are so many variables and textures and tastes that [...]
CANCER BATS GIVE ME DIRT BAT SKULL RECORDS/NEW DAMAGE RECORDS Riding high off the 20-year anniversary of their debut album, Birthing The Giant, which was celebrated with a triumphant cross-Canada tour, Cancer Bats have returned with Give Me [...]
STRAWBERRY ALARM CLOCK WHERE’S ONE? BIG STIR RECORDS When Strawberry Alarm Clock formed in 1967, it was really the coming together of two bands (Thee Sixpence and Waterfyrd Traene), and when they released their debut single, “Incense and [...]
JOHN CARPENTER CATHEDRAL SACRED BONES RECORDS John Carpenter has long been known for turning nightmares into something tangible. For Carpenter’s new album, Cathedral, this is no different. In many ways, it grimly depicts a setting befitting of [...]
EFFE SOLDER ARTIST HOUSE RECORDS Dream pop in all its shapes and forms (old and new) lives on, and Melbourne, Australia’s singer/songwriter effe and her latest EP Solder confirm the fact. As far as that old and new thing is concerned, effe [...]
MCLUSKY MY PAIN AND SADNESS IS MORE SAD AND PAINFUL THAN YOURS BEGGARS BANQUET mclusky continues to make noise as they reissue their classic 2000 album, My Pain and Sadness Is More Sad and Painful Than Yours. Remastered by Sean Magee at Abbey [...]
CHARLIE EDWARD PUSHING MY LUCK ADA/WARNER MUSIC CANADA When not sharing the stage with Big Wreck, Joe Perry, Mötley Crüe, or Greta Van Fleet, Toronto’s Charlie Edward has spent much of the last year writing and recording the follow-up to his [...]
THE FAMILY DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR BIG BLACK COW RECORDS There are so many reasons a band would name itself The Family, with one key reason being that they actually are. In this case, Delusions of Grandeur is a debut by a family, or you could say [...]
LITVAR BEING HERE MOTHER WEST RECORDS Litvar’s frontman Rex Thurstan describes the band’s new offering, Being Here, as “a bare, stripped-back folk record.” Yet, that might be stretching it a bit. Of course, Thurstan might [...]
MOPAR STARS OFFICIAL RESEARCHERS OF THE NJ DEVIL K RECORDS/PERENNIAL RECORDS You would probably need more than ten fingers to count how many times critics have proclaimed the death of power pop – you know that rock genre, where melody, harmony [...]
CHURCH OF TREES TEN INDEPENDENT Church of Trees is a very prolific band. Since Bernard Frazer introduced the band to the world in 2017, they have released nine albums. Ten is their tenth, and, to date, their best. Although Frazer has been the [...]
CINDY BLACKMAN SANTANA COHERENCE MACK AVENUE RECORDS Following 2020’s Give The Drummer Some, Cindy Blackman Santana has returned with her seventh solo studio album, Coherence. The album takes a distinct turn towards contemporary jazz fusion, [...]
