Infrared From The Black Swamp Inframental Records Infrared delivers vintage thrash metal with styles comparable to Slayer, Testament, and early Anthrax. All good things typically come back around and this old-school sound is a refreshing change [...]
Poppy Flux Sumerian Records When looking at Poppy’s career over the best few years, her musical style has been undeniably alluring, confident, and dynamic in her delivery. Her releases have proven that she can tackle a myriad of genres to [...]
Mac McCaughan The Sound Of Yourself Merge Records Knowing that Mac McCaughan has been the front man for both Superchunk and Portastatic, what kind of sound would you expect to her from his latest solo effort, The Sound of Yourself? Well, if you [...]
Blancmange Commercial Break Blanc Check Records Commercial Break is Blancmange’s 14th album, and their second 2021 release since (Nil By Mouth III was released in March). Blancmange is really Neil Arthur, working, once again, with Benge. Here, [...]
Angels & Airwaves Lifeforms Rise Records Angels & Airwaves, a band that front man Tom DeLonge, formerly of Blink-182 likes to describe as a multimedia project rather than a band, have just released their 6th studio album Lifeforms. Fans [...]
Caroline Marie Brooks Everything At The Same Time Outside Music It is always great to hear an artist who grew up in my home town of Whitby, which is where Caroline Marie Brooks spent her early years and got her start performing with her family [...]
Ringo Starr Change The World Ume/Universal Music Ringo Starr is back! Six months since his first official EP, here he is with another one, Change The World. Once again, Starr is working with his famous friends, and he knocks it out of the park. [...]
Andy Shauf Wilds Arts & Crafts Listening to an Andy Shauf album is similar to watching a Wes Anderson movie. Both present immaculately produced worlds, full of quirky characters and narratives that reflect reality, or at least reality [...]
Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine A Beginner’s Mind Asthmatic Kitty Records Sufjan Stevens has never been one to shy away from gimmicky concept albums. After all, his discography includes two 50+ song albums dedicated to Christmas, [...]
Mandoki Soulmates Utopia For Realists: Hungarian Pictures Century Media Records Leslie Mándoki (Mándoki László) was born in Budapest, Hungary and had to flee the country in 1975 to Munich, West Germany to avoid persecution from the Communist [...]
Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection Full Time Hobby If the last name Cullum rings a bell, to the disappointment of many, or to the delight of equally large group of listeners, this is another Englishman, [...]
Ryan James Brewer Tender Amphion Recordings How do you combine sunny, sunshine SoCal pop vibe, with something so serious as suicide and depression among musicians and artists in general? Even though something like that might sound as completely [...]
OF MONSTERS AND MEN MY HEAD IS AN ANIMAL (10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION) REPUBLIC RECORDS Icelandic band Of Monsters and Men have released a 10th Anniversary edition of their debut album My Head Is An Animal. This edition includes four tracks not on [...]
Ronnie Wood & The Ronnie Wood Band Mr. Luck – A Tribute To Jimmy Reed: Live At The Royal Albert Hall BMG Returning with his most recent live album with a tribute album to a blues legend, Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood has [...]
José González Local Valley Mute José González is back. Local Valley is the first new album by González in six years, following the 2015 release of Vestiges & Claws. This album also marks the first album featuring songs in all three of his [...]
Lizzie Loveless You Don’t Know Egghunt Records It is a long way from Halifax, NS to New York City. Whatever Lizzie Lieberson picked up on her way from her hometown beyond her nom de plume of Lizzie Loveless down seems to have worked [...]
Alex Southey My Nights On The Island Independent There are two things you need to know about Alex Southey. First, the man is remarkably prolific. My Nights On The Island follows his last album, …And The Country Stirred which was released [...]
Sweet Nobody We’re Trying Our Best Daydream Records After initially being scheduled for release in summer 2020, the indie rock/pop band Sweet Nobody has at long last released their sophomore full-length album We’re Trying Our Best. Written by [...]
Crown Lands White Buffalo Universal Music With its upcoming Canadian tour with opener Skye Wallace kicking off in October, Canada’s most in-demand duo, Crown Lands, has returned with its latest EP, White Buffalo. It is a four-track EP, [...]
Annie Neeley Big Old Moon Independent One can never be certain when receiving advice from friends. “I’m sure that crab meat at the back of the fridge is fine to eat!” comes to mind. However, when the friend is Sarah Rudy (of West Virginia band [...]
Cancer Bats You’ll Never Break Us: Separation Sessions Vol. 2 New Damage Records Following the successful release of last year’s You’ll Never Break Us: Separation Sessions, veteran Canadian metal outfit Cancer Bats have returned with [...]
Gordie Tentrees Mean Old World Buckaroo Records Mean Old World is Yukon-based Gordie Tentrees seventh album, and is his first since 2018’s GRIT. With a title like Mean Old World, one would think this is a depressing folk album. Don’t let the [...]
Space Summit Life This Way Schoolkids Records Marty Willson-Piper is one hard working artist. He is currently in a number of bands (Anekdoten, Noctorum and MOAT), his own solo music, and now he introduces Space Summit, his latest project. It is [...]
Matthew Fowler The Grief We Gave Our Mother Signature Sounds For each and every artist that goes the singer songwriter route, there is always one, almost gigantic hurdle they have to jump over. That hurdle is at the same time a very complex one. [...]
