Praises In This Year: Hierophant Hand Drawn Dracula Praises, aka Jesse Crowe, caused quite a stir with Spill Magazine back in 2018 with their debut album In This Year: Ten of Swords. Four years on, and they’re back with yet another Tarot [...]
London Plane Bright Black Declared Goods London Plane brings a marked evolution in their sound on their second album, Bright Black. The New York City six-piece brings on a darker, more complex, larger sounding, melancholic gothic rock feel on [...]
Dylan Moon Option Explore RVNG Intl. Anybody who had a chance to hear Dylan Moon’s initial album Only the Blues, from 2019 might be taken aback by what is in the grooves (or bits) of his follow-up, Option Explore. Instead of the Syd [...]
1st Base Runner Light Roars Independent Tim Husmann, aka 1st Base Runner has been on a hot streak for a few years now with his brand of dark, electronic modern gothic-oriented sounds, bringing the 80scool 40 years forward. Any changes on his [...]
The Dream Syndicate Ultraviolet Battle Hymns And True Confessions Fire Records The Dream Syndicate came, dropped a few brilliant modern psych albums (The Days of Wine and Roses, would be quite enough), including one of the best live albums [...]
Wardruna Kvitravn – First Flight Of The White Raven Music For Nations/Sony Music/Columbia Germany/Bynorse Einar Selvik is the storyteller and mastermind behind Wardruna, the Norwegian atmospheric musical group reviving ancient Nordic [...]
Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage: Live At The Palladium Metal Blade Records Killswitch Engage has stood the test of time by being one of the most accomplished bands in the metal scene today. For a band that has many record-breaking [...]
The Fixx Every Five Seconds The Orchard/BFD/JARC Records The Fixx made their debut in 1982 with their debut album Shuttered Room. Of course, they had formed earlier and paid their dues in the clubs in the U.K. but when they delivered their debut [...]
Prince And The Revolution Prince And The Revolution: Live Sony Music While released for a limited time in 2020 – a time when everyone was seemingly dropping new and archived live releases and streams – the Prince estate has officially released [...]
Max Roach Members, Don’t Git Weary Real Gone Music Despite passing in 2007, Max Roach remains a quintessential figure among modern jazz as not only an influential drummer, but as one of the musicians who led the shift in the genre in the [...]
S.G. Goodman Teeth Marks Verve Forecast One of the key reasons many listeners shy away from singer songwriters as a general music genre is lack of variation. The mention that, usually, it is just the artist and her/his guitar or piano, voice and [...]
Angel Olsen Big Time Jagjaguwar A country album by Angel Olsen is something I never knew I needed. But I did, and I got it… with a twist. “Out with the bangs, in with the twangs,” she declares. Olsen’s albums have all been different [...]
Encephalon Echoes Artoffact With their first release in over five years, Encephalon makes their return with their fourth studio album, Echoes. Lead vocalist Matt Gifford very much sounds like the unsettling and haunting growls of heavy metal [...]
The Sheepdogs Outta Sight Dine Alone Records/Warner Music Saskatchewan’s The Sheepdogs have been a centrepiece of the Canadian rock scene for the last decade. Their first three label-released records achieved relatively great commercial success [...]
Fantastic Negrito White Jesus Black Problems Storefront Records For his fourth full-length album, Oakland-based Fantastic Negrito has returned with White Jesus Black Problems. Following 2020’s Have You Lost Your Mind Yet, the prolific [...]
Me & Munich Postponing The Past Cloudy Water Records Postponing The Past is Me & Munich’s second album. This post punk band from Denmark has put together a very rocking and solid album full of hard driving songs. The band burst on the [...]
Stars From Capelton Hill Last Gang Records OK. Montreal’s Stars are a pop band. They say it so themselves. Loud and clear. Those listeners having issues with pop music may just as well forget about Stars. Yet, if you don’t [...]
Various Artists Stranger Things (Soundtrack From The Netflix Series, Season 4) Sony Music Canada Stranger Things Season 4 has finally been released on Netflix after a 3-year wait. Also released is the official soundtrack, which includes a [...]
Sex Pistols The Original Recordings UMC Just in time for Queen Elizabeth’s 70-yr jubilee — and the FX limited series Pistol based on the autobiography of Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones — comes this compilation of remastered Sex Pistols [...]
Marc Almond Stranger Things (Deluxe Expanded Edition) Cherry Red Records Stranger Things was originally released in 2001 and was Marc Almond’s 11th solo album and in many ways it was a bit of a departure for him. For this album, Almond teamed up [...]
John Jody Crooked Star Ramp Local How many monikers can you take on as an artist/musician? Well, probably as many as you need to express your concept(s). That is exactly what one John Jody is doing, as this is his new moniker, previously working [...]
Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends (20th Anniversary Edition) Craft Recordings When looking back at the early wave of 2000’s bands that helped shape the emo, pop-punk, and post-hardcore scene, no band is more fondly or memorably [...]
A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS @ LARIMER LOUNGE, DENVER (CO) MAY 26, 2022 At their sold-out performance at Denver’s outstanding Larimer Lounge, A Place to Bury Strangers (APTBS) sounded even more primal than their studio recordings. The X factor in [...]
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Dirt Does Dylan NGDB One American folk-(ish) institution pays tribute to another, even more elevated American folk(-ish) institution. The Dirt Band is multi-generational these days, with lead vocalists/ guitarists Jeff [...]
