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 [...]
Elvis Costello In Motion Pictures Universal Music In Motion Pictures is a compilation of Elvis Costello songs that were featured in movies, and according to the press release, were “originally brokered and now hand-picked, with the sometimes [...]
Kid Rock Rebel Soul Atlantic Records / Warner Music Group As an artist Kid Rock is a polarizing figure. He’s a Rapper and a Rock ‘n’ Roller, but this often dissatisfies fans of both genres. He does have a wide ranging, loyal following of NASCAR [...]
The Auras The Auras EP Unsigned It’s been a while since I’ve come across a Psychedelic Rock band imbued with the spirit of psychedelia from the ’60s. I think it’s safe to say, almost lamentably, that ostensibly contemporary music is moving away [...]
Various Artists The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 Chop Shop/Atlantic Twilight. A single word that holds the power to make a moon-eyed audiences scream in delight or cause a less-than-enthusiastic individual to shake their head in disgust. [...]
Amy Winehouse At The BBC Universal Music Canada Amy Winehouse quickly became an icon in the music industry with her single “Rehab,” being on many charts since its official release. Winehouse has recorded a number of sessions with the BBC that [...]
The Babies Our House On the Hill Woodsist Records Sound is a palpable thing, and has the capability of jarring emotions from us at a moment’s notice – a powerful display of energy animating clay long after it dissolves from reality. Music can in [...]
How To Destroy Angels An Omen Sony Trent Reznor returns with wife Mariqueen Maandig on vocals with a taster for next year’s How To Destroy Angels album. This six-track EP mainly delivers taut, lithe, percussive Funk. Opening track “Keep It [...]
Roc Marciano Reloaded Decon Decon Records just dropped Reloaded, Roc Marciano’s sophomore LP, and it is nothing less than dope. This Long Island, New York emcee has kept us waiting patiently for this album, but it was well worth the wait. “Tek [...]
TheWeeknd Trilogy Universal/Republic Records This long awaited three-disc (160 minute) compilation album is one pristine piece of work and a hell of an album. Trilogy is TheWeeknd’s first release with a major label. Mixtapes; House of Balloons, [...]
Shugo Tokumaru In Focus? Polyvinyl Record Co. Tokyo-born multi-instrumentalist Shugo Tokumaru is back with a fun new album laden with maddening and enchanting sounds. From high-energy tunes that don’t seem to come with a brake pedal, to slower, [...]
