THE COMPANY CAR THE RETURN OF INDEPENDENT If you know that a band is located in Nashville and that their music is characterized as psychedelia, there is quite some certainty there that it will be some musical connection with spaced-out folk or [...]
BLONDSHELL VIOLINS PARTISAN RECORDS Blondshell fans are going to eat well this fall season, because singer Sabrina Teitelbaum has just arrived with a fresh batch of music: her new album, Violins. This contemplative record oozes with [...]
EUROPE COME THIS MADNESS HELL & BACK RECORDINGS It has been far too long since we have had a new album from Europe. However, Come This Madness is well worth the wait, and may just be their best album. Come This Madness is the band’s 12th [...]
ORBITAL GLASTONBURY 1994 LONDON RECORDS Glastonbury is one of the most famous and popular music festivals in the world. As such, the performances are often recorded for and transmitted by the BBC TV and radio. These broadcasts are often [...]
SOFT CELL DANCETERIA REPUBLIC OF MUSIC Soft Cell’s latest album, Danceteria is a very bittersweet album. Listening to it, it seems very sad knowing that this is the last album by Soft Cell. Dave Ball (who provides the instrumentation for this [...]
THUNDER QUEENS DEEP BELOW VICTORY POOL In 2024, London, Ontario’s Thunder Queens released their debut album, Strike One. Since then, the teenage power trio has gone on to share the stage with the likes of Billy Talent, The Beaches, and The Dirty [...]
BLURRED CITY LIGHTS UNREST ELAB RECORDS Unrest is Blurred City Lights’ fifth album, and their first since 2024’s Overload. They make music that is best described as a form of shoegaze but also incorporates industrial, doom, death rock, and [...]
FREE UNDER FIRE GRAFFITI IN THE GARDEN RUNNING ON INSTINCT Free Under Fire is a band based in Ajax, Ontario, where Steppenwolf’s John Kay got his start with The Sparrows. Free Under Fire carries on the hard rock-heavy metal tradition of that [...]
ISHA FEEL AT HOME SIDEKICK MUSIC Dutch queer multi-instrumentalist, producer, and singer ISHA releases her debut album, Feel At Home, which encapsulates the ever-changing life at home. “Bottled” kicks off the record with an off-kilter acoustic [...]
WEATHERELL LONELY SOUL INDEPENDENT A deeply personal album, Lonely Soul is a departure for Sean Hackl (hence the unique name for the project). He explores new themes here, with grief and loss at the centre, which explain some of the [...]
STARLING PLEXUS BROKE RECORDS Just recently, music critics are starting to confirm that shoegaze in all of its shapes and forms is stronger that ever, and L.A. four-piece Starling are here to confirm that fact with their latest EP Plexus. The [...]
WARREN HAYNES DREAMS & SONGS: A SYMPHONIC JOURNEY EVIL TEEN RECORDS Warren Haynes has never been particularly interested in staying inside the lines. Throughout his remarkable career with Gov’t Mule, The Allman Brothers Band and as a solo [...]
TOKYO TEA ROOM FEEL FOREVER NICE GUY RECORDS No matter what anybody says, creating well crafted (or better) pop is an art in itself, particularly if you are able to abide by the rules and regulations, or more simply put, formulas that good, [...]
DAVID MYHR EVERYTHING IS ALL ABOUT YOU OGLIO ENTERTAINMENT It has now become a sort of tradition for artists from Sweden to come up with some high-quality to excellent power pop and pop rock. Is it something in the water, or something else, [...]
UNCLE ACID & THE DEADBEATS SHAPES OF MIDNIGHT KILLER CANDY RECORDS Uncle Acid is back at it, this time with a throwback to earlier tones and writing styles that Uncle Acid fans came to know and love from their first three albums. This one [...]
LARKK CINDERS (INSTRUMENTAL) INDEPENDENT/AWAL Danielle McTaggart is best known as the lead singer of Dear Rouge. But there is another side to her, Larkk. This is McTaggart by herself making peaceful and beautiful music that is so very much [...]
BECK RIDE LONESOME CAPITOL RECORDS Twelve years ago, Beck released his pivotal and critically acclaimed 12th album, Morning Phase. While not his most recent album, which was 2019’s Hyperspace, Beck has since reconvened with Smokey Hormel, Joey [...]
SON LUX OUT INTO THIS IS MERU/CITY SLANG Son Lux started out in 2007 as a solo project for Ryan Lott, but by 2015 Rafiq Bhatia (guitars) and Ian Chang (drums) joined the band, which took them in a new direction. The fact that both members [...]
ROGER TAYLOR VIOLENCE INSANE IN A BEAUTIFUL WORLD COLUMBIA RECORDS Ringo Starr, Phil Collins, and Don Henley are just a few examples of drummers who have had successful solo careers. You could add Roger Taylor of Queen to that list. He may not [...]
THE MARY WALLOPERS PADDYWHACKERY BC RECORDS The Mary Wallopers, the pride of Dundalk, Ireland are back with their third album, and first since 2023’s Irish Rock N Roll. A lot has changed since 2023, most notably, a founding member, Seán McKenna [...]
DRAGONFLIES DRAGONFLIES DARK HORSE RECORDS/BMG Dragonflies is the duo of Dhani Harrison and Nigel Godrich, who began working together after Harrison reached out to Godrich for guidance on what would become Harrison’s most recent solo album [...]
YOKO ONO IT’S ALRIGHT (I SEE RAINBOWS) SECRETLY CANADIAN It’s Alright (I See Rainbows) was originally released in 1982 and was Yoko Ono’s sixth solo studio album. It was also the second album following the murder of John Lennon. While her [...]
VESPERA THE THOUGHTS THAT PLAGUE YOU INDEPENDENT Vespera’s music has always held this nostalgic darkness that creeps into its instrumental body, settling between the ribs of vulnerable lyrics. On this new album, The Thoughts That Plague You, [...]
BRIAN FALLON NOT BAD FOR NEW JERSEY LESSER KNOWN RECORDS/NASH YORK RECORDS Brian Fallon’s in a golden age of songwriting right now – he churned out History Books with his band, The Gaslight Anthem, just two years ago, and now Not Bad For New [...]
