LOCUST SPECTRAL+ TODO RECORDS Locust, a London-based electronic band from Croydon, released their 10th studio album Spectral+. Mark Van Hoen produced the LP, using ominous drone music and synthesizers to complement guest vocalists. Spectral+ [...]
SHUDDER TO THINK WHO SENT YOU? DISCHORD RECORDS Shudder to Think has always sounded like a band arguing with the category assigned to it. Post-hardcore is the easiest label, but even during the Dischord years, the band was already pulling punk [...]
DREADNOUGHT WARS OF SPIRIT // WARDS OF LIGHT VESPERIAN/METAL BLADE RECORDS To add two times more spice to the pumpkin spice season, Denver-originating symphonic progressive metal band Dreadnought returns with an epic vengeance. With an [...]
D.D.DANAHY D3 INDEPENDENT Darren Douglas Danahy, known as D.D.Danahy, now also known as D3 is a very talented musician and artist. He is a member of Keldari Station, The Amaretto Sours, and Hidden Frequency. He has also released several solo [...]
TWILARK NEVER LEARNED THE TIDE INDEPENDENT Moniker is a multi-purpose thing in music, one could be to make a distinction from other artists, particularly in a very crowded genre, and singer-songwriter one is possibly at the top of that list. Yet [...]
JOYER ON THE OTHER END OF THE LINE… (CROSSED LINES REMIXES) JULIA’S WAR RECORDS Remix albums share quit a few similarities, as well as questions with tribute ones – does the remixed artist and those given tribute albums deserve it, [...]
FUNKADELIC MAGGOT BRAIN (REMASTERED) ORG MUSIC Originally released in 1971, Funkadelic’s seminal album, Maggot Brain, is an essential classic that plays like Geroge Clinton’s response to The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin. In a [...]
STABBING WESTWARD WITHER REWIRED COP INTERNATIONAL Influential industrial rockers Stabbing Westward released their gold-certified sophomore album, Wither Blister Burn + Peel, 30 years ago. Founding members Christopher Hall and Walter Flakus have [...]
DAVY JONES | MICKY DOLENZ LET ME ENTERTAIN YOU: ON THE ROAD WITH DAVY | TIMELESS 7a RECORDS | FRIDAY RIGHTS Although he has been gone since 2012, there is still some music by Davy Jones the world has yet to hear. 7a Records have established [...]
THE GENTRYS IT’S BEEN SO LONG SUN RECORDS The Gentrys were a rock band that made it very big in 1965 with their song “Keep On Dancing.” Other hits followed (“Everyday I Have To Cry” and “Spread It On Thick”) mainly in the UK, but the band [...]
SHOWING TEETH A FATE WORSE THAN LONELINESS SPINEFARM RECORDS A Fate Worse Than Loneliness, a debut EP from emerging artist Showing Teeth, is something uniquely volcanic and melodically special. A one-woman project helmed by Nashville’s Addison, [...]
AIRBOURNE AIRBOURNE SPINEFARM RECORDS Australia’s Airbourne are back with another injection of hard rawk adrenaline. This is Airbourne’s sixth album and the first one in seven years and they pick up exactly where they left off. Singer John [...]
УВБ-76 LEAN INTO THE SORROW HITACHI HOME VIDEO/INDEPENDENT УВБ-76 is Michael Mitchell and the name he records under, УВБ-76, is the Cyrillic spelling of UVB-76, the name of a mysterious shortwave signal known as ‘The Buzzer’, which has been [...]
ANGUS & JULIA STONE KARAOKE BAR VIRGIN MUSIC Angus & Julia Stone formed their musical partnership in 2006, and Karaoke Bar is their sixth studio album. The siblings hail from Australia, and in their native country they have had several [...]
BLACK PAINT BLACK PAINT INDEPENDENT For years, Black Paint has established themselves among the most exhilarating up and coming bands to emerge from the Greater Toronto Area. Blending aggressive blues rock with monstrous riffs, the power trio is [...]
MELISSA AUF DER MAUR BASS WOMB ROOM: MY ’90S 4-TRACK DEMOS X FIELD RECORDINGS ENVISION RECORDS Melissa Auf der Maur has been quite busy of late. Six months ago, she released Even the Good Girls Will Cry, her self-written memoir of her [...]
A. LEE EDWARDS INTERPRETING HEART SOUNDS VOL. II YOU KNOW WHAT…? RECORDS When you are a true songwriter (in both heart and mind) it is something, any discerning listener can hear instantly. It says that Interpreting Heart Sounds Vol. II [...]
DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS LOVE HEAVENLY RECORDINGS Kevin Rowland and his Dexys Midnight Runners have been around for decades now, and have gone through quite a number of changes, both in musical styles covered, as well as the number of members in [...]
SOFT LOFT THROW THE DICE PIAS Quite a few listeners will shy away from any type of music that has that pop label somewhere in its description. Yet, there should be no shying away from it, particularly if such an epithet is actually suitable. [...]
THE CRANBERRIES LIVE AT THE LONDON ASTORIA II, 1994 ISLAND RECORDS I’ve already spoken about the peculiar happiness and melancholy that pervades any Cranberries release in 2026 in my recent take on their anniversary release, and this is another [...]
MOVEMENTS HAPPIER NOW FEARLESS RECORDS Scene leaders Movements have always built music around the raw emotional tides of youth, heartbreak, self-doubt, and the dormant terror that finally awakens when you realize you can’t run from aging, [...]
BEN FOLDS FIVE BEN FOLDS FIVE (30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION) UNIVERSAL MUSIC It was always surprising, to me anyway, that Ben Folds Five’s self-titled debut album did as well as it did when it was first released in 1996. The combination of [...]
SLEEP HEMPISPHERES THIRD MAN RECORDS Sleep is often referred to as the “ultimate” stoner metal band. With doomy and psychedelic vibes, the giant of a band was formed in 1990 and began putting out records in 1991. In June of this year, the [...]
MIKE D THANK YOU CAPITOL RECORDS/UNIVERSAL MUSIC CANADA Since the untimely 2012 passing of Adam Yauch, perhaps better known as MCA, things have been relatively quiet among the Beastie Boys camp. While surviving members, Mike D and Ad-Rock have [...]
