The National First Two Pages Of Frankenstein 4AD With its latest album First Two Pages of Frankenstein, The National continues to prove why it is one of the best alternative rock bands working today. First Two Pages of Frankenstein features [...]
Benjamin Russell Frontier TCBE Records Benjamin Russell has been around for a while and he has certainly proven himself to be one of the biggest talents in this, or any other, country. In 1984 he had a very big hit “Miracle (Miracle Of Love)”, [...]
Paul McCartney And Wings Red Rose Speedway (50th Anniversary) MPL/Capitol As part of Record Store Day, Paul McCartney decided to remaster the second Wings album, Red Rose Speedway and release it as 50th Anniversary edition. It has been [...]
Pearl Jam Give Way (Record Store Day Release) Epic Records In 1998, Pearl Jam toured Australia in support of their new record, Yield. Their Melbourne date would be among the final shows with then drummer, Jack Irons and recordings of the [...]
Brian Eno FOREVER VOICELESS Verve/UMC Brian Eno released FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE in October of 2022. It was the first album to feature him singing in 17 years, since 2005’s Another Day on Earth which was his last vocal album. Now, he has removed [...]
Bourbon House The Fourth Album Independent Up-and-coming rock outfit, Bourbon House, have returned with their latest release, The Fourth Album. Following their 2021 record, Into The Red, their new album continues to see the band work classic [...]
Jah Wobble Dark Luminosity – The 21st Century Collection Cherry Red Records Jah Wobble (born John Joseph Wardle) began his musical career as an original member of Public Image Limited (PIL), a band John Lydon formed after he left The Sex [...]
Electric Bird Noise derek roddy 8-10-22 Silber Records/Broken Sound Tapes Ambient and metal clash on the latest release from Electric Bird Noise. The three-song, collaborative EP sees guitarist and songwriter Brian McKenzie join forces with [...]
Louise Burns Element Independent Vancouver’s Louise Burns has released her fifth solo album, Element, which she describes as a “sonic daydream” that was written to help her deal with the incredible amount of change that has occurred over the [...]
Easy Star All-Stars Ziggy Stardub Easy Star Records The name of the collective involved in recording this album, a reggae tribute to David Bowie’s legendary album Ziggy Stardust, might include the word easy in its name, but recording a [...]
Rose City Band Garden Party Thrill Jockey Is it really a bad thing that a band or an artist follows in the footsteps of other artists or bands? Of course not, particularly if the music they make is as good as the music of the bands or artists in [...]
Abigail Lapell Stolen Time (Deluxe Edition) Outside Music Exactly a year and a day after its initial release, Abigail Lapell is rereleasing her Stolen Time album, this time as a deluxe edition. So, what has happened to the Toronto [...]
Enter Shikari A Kiss For The Whole World So Recordings Enter Shikari has never been what you call ordinary when attempting to label the music they create within the post-hardcore scene. Establishing a unique and fresh electronicore soundscape [...]
Jethro Tull RökFlöte Inside Out Music/Sony Music RökFlöte is Jethro Tull’s 23rd studio and their first album since 2022’s The Zealot Gene. Thankfully fans did not have to wait 20 years for the follow-up to that very successful album, as that had [...]
Various Artists Brown Acid: The Sixteenth Trip RidingEasy Records Ok, is there really an answer to this question “will the “Brown Acid” series of compilations, now in its sixteenth edition, ever end?” Well, maybe it is not a [...]
Jesus Piece …So Unknown Century Media Over the past 10 years, the landscape of metalcore has mutated into various forms, with a penchant for the melody/breakdown routine of the post-hardcore movement. Philadelphia’s Jesus Piece has instead [...]
Ann-Margret Born To Be Wild Cleopatra Records These days, people forget that Ann-Margret, along with being a movie star, was also a very popular recording artist. She sang with Elvis Presley and The Beatles even covered one of her early hits [...]
Metallica 72 Seasons Blackened Recordings After polarising their audience with what I considered to be the very strong, albeit unnecessarily excessive album, Hardwired… To Self-Destruct, Metallica has returned with its first studio album since [...]
Gord Sinclair In Continental Drift Pheromone Recordings/Cadence Music Group Gord Sinclair returns with his sophomore solo album, In Continental Drift, the follow-up to his solo debut 2020 release, Taxi Dancers. Sinclair, well-known for his bass [...]
The Watchmen Silent Radar (Super Deluxe Anniversary Edition) Universal Music Canada 25 years after the initial release of Silent Radar, Winnipeg’s The Watchmen, through Universal Music Canada, are releasing a Super Deluxe Anniversary Edition. [...]
Fur Trader Stuck In The Aching Again Independent How do you keep up the traditional sound of prime singer songwriters of late 60s and early 70s and at the same time present your music with an individual touch that sets you apart? Los Angeles [...]
ferna understudy Independent It is ok to be humble as a musician, particularly if you are just coming up with your debut album. But Belfast, Northern Ireland singer songwriter Hannah McPhillimy, aka ferna, as her debut album understudy shows, [...]
Fruit Bats A River Running To Your Heart Merge Records Fruit Bats and their songwriter Eric D. Johnson have been around for a while, and they have been constantly coming up with some of the more sophisticated, elegant, and often subdued folk [...]
Linkin Park Meteora (20th Anniversary Edition) Warner Records Few albums deserve a mark of perfection when it comes to production, writing, and instrumental world-building. For Linkin Park, the album that comes to mind is Meteora. When the album [...]
