CAITLIN STARR SPEED SAVES G-FOIL RECORDS Freshly signed to G-Foil records, NYC-based post-grunge artist Caitlin Starr has released her second EP Speed Saves, a succinct and emotionally direct collection of tracks that revolve around her [...]
SUNNAN SPAGHETTI SOUL INDEPENDENT Spaghetti Soul is Sunnan’s sophomore album. They are a Swedish collective who have issued seven singles in preparation for this album. Since their debut album, 2025’s Cinema, the band has issued several singles [...]
THE BEATLES RUBBER SOUL – SPECIAL EDITION (SUPER DELUXE) APPLE/UNIVERSAL MUSIC Rubber Soul is a very interesting album in The Beatles catalogue. It is arguably one of their most important, as it was a bridge to Revolver from their early [...]
FAT DOG CANCEL ME (I’M TIRED) DOMINO RECORDING COMPANY Fat Dog, one of the most boisterous acts to emerge from the UK within the last few years, has just released an explosive sophomore LP that sounds like what you would dance to at the end of [...]
DEAD POET SOCIETY MONARCH SPINEFARM RECORDS From beginning to end, Dead Poet Society creates an atmosphere that feels heavy, emotional, and almost unsettling in the best possible way. It is an album that doesn’t simply play in the [...]
LENE 3000 GREATEST SWAMP HITS 10K PROJECTS Lene 3000 is the moniker of Norwegian witch house singer songwriter Lene Talgø, who is just releasing her debut album with a grand title of Greatest Swamp Hits. For the uninitiated, according to [...]
VACATIONS PURSUIT OF ANYTHING NETTWERK MUSIC GROUP What is it with Australians and well too perfectly crafted sophisticated (pop) rock? Is it something in the water, tradition or something else? The number of such bands/artists from Down Under [...]
MX LONELY PERFECT HOUSE JULIA’S WAR RECORDINGS Peep beyond the meme inspired and crayon coloured artwork to find Perfect House, the most recent EP from Brooklyn, New York based shoegaze band, MX Lonely. The four-track record marks their second [...]
THE CRYSTAL TEARDROP LOVE YOU MORE POPCLAW RECORDS/RISE ABOVE RECORDS If you miss the days of peace, love, and rock ‘n’ roll when music wasn’t just something you listened to, it was something you could disappear into, The Crystal Teardrop [...]
GENE CHAMPAGNE TOO POP FOR PUNK…TOO PUNK TO CARE SIOUX RECORDS Gene Champagne has quite a history in rock ‘n’ roll, or rather punk. Besides making his own music (and by that, I mean he does everything), he is the drummer with Teenage Head, a [...]
NOFX 40 YEARS OF FUCKIN’ UP: SOUNDTRACK + SCORE FAT WRECK CHORDS The title of this album, 40 Years Of Fuckin’ Up, gives away the plot in some ways. NOFX has been around for 40 years, but their debut album, Liberal Animation was released in 1988, [...]
SPOONS NIGHTLIFE SPARKS MUSIC Spoons released their debut album, the brilliant Stick Figure Neighbourhood, in 1981, but it was their second album, Arias & Symphonies that launched them into a different stratosphere. The album contained the [...]
AYRIA 13 STITCHES ARTOFFACT RECORDS Jennifer Parkin is a Toronto artist who has performed and recorded under the name Ayria since 2003. 13 Stitches is her first full length album since 2022’s This Is my Battle Cry. Time has not made Ayria more [...]
FROM FIRST TO LAST WE WERE BLEEDING ANYWAY FEARLESS RECORDS From First to Last has always dared to bleed publicly for its fans, making music that connects with an audience seeking raw authenticity. Their music has never been about perfectionism [...]
BRANDON WOLFE SCOTT PRESSED FLOWERS VICTORY POOL RECORDS Those familiar with the band that goes by as Yukon Blonde will surely be familiar with Vancouver’s Brandon Wolfe Scott, a member of the band who has started coming up with solo [...]
THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION FREAK OUT! (60th ANNIVERSARY SUPER DELUXE EDITION) ZAPPA RECORDS/UMe Has it really been 60 years since Freak Out! by The Mothers Of Invention (led by Frank Zappa) made its debut? Yes, it has, and to celebrate a new box [...]
TERRY DRAPER THE ODYSSEY TERRY TUNES RECORDS Terry Draper loved to play music, in my conversations with him, he never saw creating music as work. It was what he did, and he enjoyed it. Perhaps his only problem, and this is not a bad problem, was [...]
THE KLITTENS HAVE A HEART THK/CARGO RECORDS How do you combine together as a relatively new artis/band so many strands of rock and still give it some sort of a unifying character? This might be an eternal question for new artists/bands and not [...]
SON LUX YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) WAXWORK RECORDS The second release by Son Lux in 2026, which comes very quickly (about one week) since their previous album, Out Into. But, as one can see, Your [...]
JULIA JACKLIN THE GEM 4AD Julia Jacklin is back with The Gem — her fourth studio release and first in four years. The Gem can safely be called a breakup record, and it shines with its sharp articulation of the grayer areas of breaking up. [...]
LEON BRIDGES HAPPINESS ANYTIME COLUMBIA RECORDS Texas-based neo soul and R&B singer Leon Bridges teams up with J Lloyd-Watson and Lydia Kitto of British soul collective Jungle in his fifth studio album, Happiness Anytime, where happiness [...]
KATHERINE PERKINS HELPLESS LOVE TWELVE | EIGHT RECORDS Maine’s Katherine Perkins is not the first and surely will not be the last singer and songwriter who is also a painter. In most cases, one artistic side takes a dominance over the [...]
THE REDS, PINKS AND PURPLES TRUE LOVE DAYDREAM FIRE RECORDS San Francisco’s Glenn Donaldson and his Reds, Pinks and Purples, have not only been around for a while, but their releases have been coming in a steady succession, enabling [...]
COCOLAROSA THE VALLEY OF TONGUES INDEPENDENT Ok, if you follow the singer songwriter scene closely, you might have noticed that recently there have not been that many so to say ‘classic’ singer songwriters, those that sit (or stand) [...]
