Clara Engel Their Invisible Hands Independent Don’t be fooled by the list of ‘thank you’ names Clara Engel dedicates on the album page of her latest album ‘Their Invisible Hands,’ some thirty or so names. [...]
James Krivchenia Blood Karaoke Reading Group LLC The songs inside James Krivchenia’s abstract work, Blood Karaoke, are nothing if not unpredictable. From duck pond sounds, to sci-fi noises, to wind chimes, there’s a familiarity to each note— [...]
Cancer Bats Psychic Jailbreak New Damage Records Having spent the last two years transforming their greatest songs into acoustic renditions on You’ll Never Break Us: Separation Sessions Vol. 1 & 2, Cancer Bats have returned triumphantly, [...]
Nazareth Surviving The Law Frontiers Music Surviving The Law is Nazareth’s 25th studio album. Of course, over their 54-year history there have been many member changes, with only one original member remaining in the band, Pete Agnew on bass. [...]
Hocico HyperViolent Out Of Line Music Conversations of the darker things in life are often avoided out of fear. Listening to HyperViolent is like being immersed into the innermost primal parts of a mind ravaged by a volatile world. The opening [...]
1969 Collective 1969 Independent Suddenly, music projects appear out of nowhere to wow music listeners. For the artists involved, it is more a painstaking process of hours, days, months, sometimes years, of often meticulous work to put [...]
Big Paul Ferguson Remote Viewing – Reboot Cleopatra Records On a surface level, Remote Viewing – Reboot sounds like what you’d expect to hear if the drummer from English post-punk/industrial metal band Killing Joke made an album. If you [...]
Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys Teen Tapes (For Performing Your Own Stunts) Unique Records/Schubert Music Teen Tapes (For Performing Your Own Stunts) is the third album in a trilogy released by Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys. It began with [...]
Wet Leg Wet Leg Domino Records Wet Leg has made quite the splash since they released their first single “Chaise Lounge” in 2021. Love them or hate them they’ve been in the airwaves and music lovers’ conversations. Fusing indie rock and [...]
Zero 7 Yeah Ghost (Bonus Edition) New State Music Zero 7’s Sam Hardaker and Henry Binns had real problems when they parted ways with Sia, their ‘unofficial lead singer,’ after her 2008 album Some People Have Real Problems. Despite nominations [...]
Lucius Second Nature Dine Alone Records On their sophomore effort, Good Grief, Brooklyn four-piece Lucius perfectly reinvented their act. From the ashes of their indie-folk debut rose an electrifying callback to 80s and 90s dance-pop, captained [...]
Jack White Fear Of The Dawn Third Man Records Upon listening to Fear of the Dawn, Jack White’s latest album release, for the first time, there’s a sense of ‘What the hell did I just listen to’? It’s chaotic. It’s loud then it’s quiet. It’s full [...]
Red Hot Chili Peppers Unlimited Love Warner Records It’s been sixteen years since the Red Hot Chili Peppers released their modern rock opus, Stadium Arcadium, their last record to feature guitar legend, John Frusciante. While the alt-rock [...]
King Garbage Heavy Metal Greasy Love Ipecac Recordings You think you haven’t heard of King Garbage before? Well, maybe you should think again. Behind that moniker, under which the band is releasing it second album, Heavy Metal Greasy Love, [...]
Rumpistol Isola Raske Plader Danish producer, film composer, electronic musician and pianist Jens B. Christiansen (aka Rumpistol) has quite a few fans among fellow musicians and music industry plaudits, and rightfully so. His seventh solo album [...]
Pere Ubu Nuke The Whales 2006-2014 Fire Records Nuke The Whales 2006 – 2014 is the latest installment of Fire Records’ re-release of the Pere Ubu catalogue. For this set, they are focusing on four albums released between 2006 and 2014. The [...]
Marvin Gaye What’s Going On: 50th Anniversary 2LP Edition Motown/Universal Originally released in May of 1971, What’s Going On was Marvin Gaye’s 11th studio album. Not only was it a departure from the music he had been making up to 1970 [...]
Daryl Hall BeforeAfter Legacy Recordings Daryl Hall and John Oates have had hits from the early 1970s until quite recently. They are one of the most popular duos of all time. What is often forgotten, however, is that both of them have [...]
Lights Pep Fueled By Ramen Few artists in the pop arena are as unique or as adventurous when it comes to electro-rock artists like Lights. Throughout her career, her music is hardly what you would call mainstream alternative pop music. Looking [...]
Meshuggah Immutable Atomic Fire Records Fans of the Swedish metal band Meshuggah have waited six years for an album, and the band is now ready to deliver. Their ninth studio album, Immutable, is the follow-up to 2016’s The Violent Sleep of [...]
Suzi Moon Animal Pirates Press Records Rising punk sensation Suzi Moon has returned with her second EP, Animal. Not only is this her first collection of music since her 2021 debut, Call The Shots, but the three-track EP also follows recent [...]
Dream Widow Dream Widow Roswell Records Following the release of the slasher comedy film, Studio 666, Dave Grohl has released his death metal debut via a project titled Dream Widow. Those who watched Studio 666 will recognize the name as the [...]
Jules Maxwell Cycles Ghost Palace Composer and Dead Can Dance keyboardist, Jules Maxwell, is back with his new album Cycles. A contemplative collection of instrumental offerings, this album is definitive of the word ‘soothing’. It is a departure [...]
Raven King Veni Vedi Verti Independent Although Raven King declares itself as having grunge tendencies, the new album Veni Vedi Verti is far from that genre. In fact, it’s unorthodox and to be honest, has a sound of its very own. The LP begins [...]
