Amyl And The Sniffers Comfort To Me Rough Trade Records Straight out of the gate, Comfort To Me, the second full release from Australia’s garage punk quartet, Amyl and the Sniffers, grabs you roughly by the collar and throws you into a [...]
Elvis Costello & The Attractions Spanish Model UMe This Year’s Girl was Elvis Costello’s first of many masterpieces to be released with his band, The Attractions. When remixing the record earlier this year for its extensive deluxe release, [...]
The Bevis Frond Little Eden Fire Records Many listeners who are not so familiar with Nick Saloman, aka The Bevis Frond, may wonder why he has such a staunch and unwavering following, whatever the size of that following is. The answer might be [...]
Andrew W.K. God Is Partying Napalm Records Ever since exploding onto the music scene in 2001 with monster party anthems that were heard worldwide and beyond, Andrew W.K. has been a champion of positivity, hard rock, and partying. 2018 marked a [...]
Saint Etienne I’ve Been Trying To Tell You Heavenly Recordings If you’ve ever taken Saint Etienne at face value, a very good electro pop band, you would be greatly mistaken. Behind every one of their releases, the trio has always had an [...]
The Used Heartwork (Deluxe Edition) Big Noise Music Group The Used have had nothing short of a spectacular run of a career since they first began to trailblaze the scene in the early 2000s with their 2002 release of their self-titled album. They [...]
Whitehorse Strike Me Down Six Shooter Records Inc. Whitehorse has maximized its musical prowess with Strike Me Down, its second full-length album release of this year, since early 2021’s Modern Love. The chemistry-laden Juno Awar-winning, [...]
Krista Hartman Transcend Independent Transcend is Krista Hartman’s fourth album, and her first since 2015’s Constellations. Her new album is a mixture of Canadiana, pop, and rock with hints of psychedelia. It is a fascinating and interesting [...]
Nico Hedley Painterly Whatever’s Clever Records How do you combine the countrified ramblings of one George Jones and wide excursions everywhere, particularly into jazzy plains of one and only Destroyer? If that is a question you need [...]
The Artisanals Zia Artisanals Records The Artisanals hail from Charleston, SC, and Zia is their second full-length album. It comes three years after their self-titled debut. The Artisanals are Johnny Delaware, Clay Houle, Eric Mixon and Eric [...]
The Northern Belle The Women In Me Die With Your Boots On Records Well, along with Americana, we’ve certainly got Canadiana, and a few other -ianas, to which we can certainly add Nordicana, as there is definitely a take on North [...]
Jinjer Wallflowers Napalm Records When looking at metal bands in the scene currently, some float to the top of the pool almost instantaneously. Jinjer is one of them. One of the hardest working bands in the scene, Jinjer has worked undoubtedly [...]
The Beach Boys Feel Flows: The Sunflower & Surf’s Up Sessions 1969-1971 (Super Deluxe) UMe/Capitol Records The post-Smile era Beach Boys is one that is often overlooked by the general public. Albums like Friends & 20/20, both lo-fi [...]
Gordon Downie Coke Machine Glow: Songwriters’ Cabal Arts & Crafts It is not an easy task to spin words about an album that was released 20 years ago, penned by one of this country’s most beloved characters, musicians, ambassadors for a [...]
Opus Orange Object Lessons Emoto Music Opus Orange is one Paul Bessenbacher and the ‘indie-rock’ Santa Monica, CA collective gathered around his ideas. That indie-rock categorization these days is usually something that denotes [...]
Chris Roberts Lost And Found Independent Many listeners shy away from artists that seemingly work with a set-out formula connected with any given musical genre. Just by sticking to the formula doesn’t get you very far, particularly in the [...]
Supergrass In It For The Money (Remastered Expanded Edition) BMG With no better reason for Supergrass to reform in 2019 than the fact that playing in a million-selling band can be a decent job, the act of re-issuing an album called In It for the [...]
The Bronx The Bronx VI Cooking Vinyl LA punk outfit, The Bronx, has returned with their first new record since 2019’s Dead Tracks, Vol. 2. The Bronx VI follows the release of five singles throughout 2021 – “White Shadow”, “Superbloom”, “Watering [...]
Dakota Jones Black Light Lord Please Records When you love old-fashioned blues and soul and want to refresh them for the tastes that are prevalent today, you really have a problem ahead of you. You want to keep ‘that old stuff’ in [...]
One Way Out The Sun, The Moon, The Truth Independent Having released their debut EP, Black & White, in 2018 and the following Cosmic Beat album in 2019, DC rock band One Way Out have released their sophomore full length album, The Sun, The [...]
The Furious Seasons Home All Day, Home All Night Stonegarden Records David Steinhart has been one of the stalwarts of the Los Angeles indie folk scene since the 80s, either solo or as a member of Pop Art, Smart Brown Handbag, and now The Furious [...]
The Follow Ups/Dave Rocket And The Jobbers The Follow Ups/Dave Rocket And The Jobbers Tarantula Tapes Moncton, NB’s punk band The Follow Ups as well as Sarnia, ON’s Dave Rocket And The Jobbers have teamed up for a split album released on [...]
John Ford Life In A Foreign Town Whole Shot Records Life In A Foreign Town is John Ford’s first solo album since 2015’s A Better Day. It has been a while since we have heard from Mr. Ford, and he has been missed. He has been busy, performing [...]
Magnum Dopus Suburbanova Independent How do you characterize a rock music genre that goes under the title of goth, and where does it stem from? Of course, many would point to the 80s and bands that stemmed from the almighty New Wave, anybody [...]
