The Jailbirds Jungle Global Robot Global Entertainment One of Ontario’s hottest rock bands, The Jailbirds, has returned with its sophomore EP. Jungle is the long-awaited release following their 2019 debut, The Black River. Since then, the band [...]
Lord Huron Long Lost Republic Records After Lord Huron somehow managed to find new life on its 2018 record Vide Noir — a 1970s-inspired psychedelic journey through LA at dusk — it was anyone’s guess where the band would take its [...]
Violent Femmes Add It Up (1981-1993) (Reissue) Craft Recordings It is now 40 years on since Gordon Gano and his crew brought us their souped-up, brilliant musical vision of post-punk/new wave/whatever on mostly acoustic instruments. Some put [...]
John Linnell State Songs (Expanded Edition) Craft Recordings We have seen a number of reissues of late. These events usually coincide with a landmark anniversary of an album’s original release. Such is not the case with the expanded digital [...]
Morcheeba Blackest Blue Fly Agaric Records London-based Morcheeba once passed as a Thievery Corporation with actual songs, or a less jazzy Olive, or like Massive Attack without the paranoia and the politics. But whether it’s called downbeat, [...]
Great Lake Swimmers Live At The Redeemer 2007 Weewerk Recordings Some of the (somewhat older) readers might remember the good ole commercial for Memorex cassette tapes: “Is it live, or is it Memorex?”. For some (good) reason, that is [...]
Sara Bug Sara Bug Egghunt Records For quite a while now, you can simply label anything coming out of Nashville as country music, or even Americana. Still, those listeners who cringe at any mention of music out of that city tend to mention [...]
The Beaches Future Lovers Universal Music The Beaches maintain their sparkling pop-rock stride on the Future Lovers EP. Hot on the heels of 2019’s The Professional EP, Future Lovers arrives with high-calibre whimsy, glamour, and an unapologetic [...]
Juliana Hatfield Blood American Laundromat Records Juliana Hatfield’s storied career rolls on with her latest release, Blood to a thirsty new-gen audience and longtime followers. This impeccable release is LOADED with catchy twists, turns and [...]
Various Artists RAM ON: The 50th Anniversary Celebration Of Paul & Linda McCartney’s Ram Spirit Of Unicorn Music/Cherry Red Full disclosure…I think Ram is one of the greatest albums of all time. Period. It has taken 50 years for [...]
Myles Kennedy The Ides Of March Napalm Records Following his acoustic driven and artistically stunning 2018 solo debut, Year Of The Tiger, Myles Kennedy has returned with his solo sophomore follow-up. In the three years since, Kennedy has [...]
Sculpture Club Worth Funeral Party Records Chaz Costello, Bass player for Choir Boy and co leader of Human Leather always has another trick up his sleeve, in particular, Sculpture Club and all of the melancholy pop punk that it brings to the [...]
Paul Weller Fat Pop (Volume 1) Polydor Records Paul Weller returns with Fat Pop (Volume 1), his 16th solo LP, created at his Black Barn Studio in Surrey, where he recorded the vocals, pianos and guitars, and then sent to his bandmates (drummer [...]
Amy Winehouse At The BBC Universal Music Amy Winehouse had a voice truly unlike any other. As we approach the ten-year anniversary of her passing, a compilation of live recordings from various performances, At The BBC has been released, marking [...]
JJ Wilde Wilde Black Box Recordings Few artists are turning heads and making a splash in both rock and pop quite like Ontario’s very own JJ Wilde. Coming in hot after 2020’s JUNO nominated album, Ruthless, and two massive singles, “Best Boy” and [...]
The Reed Effect 1973 Independent The Reed Effect is an essential band within the Toronto music community. After the unexpected and devastatingly tragic passing of bassist and founding member, Chris Reed, in 2020, his brother, singer and [...]
The Heck Heck Yeah!! Soundflat Records Only two years after their debut release Who? The Heck!!!, this three-piece band from the North of the Netherlands is back with another album of 1960s-inspired garage rock: Heck Yeah!! Recorded [...]
Good Lovelies B-Sides Fontana North The Good Lovelies are Caroline Brooks, Kerri Ough & Susan Passmore, and they have been making music since 2007. B-Sides is their first E.P. of new music since their Christmas album, Evergreen (2019). [...]
Lisa Gerrard & Jules Maxwell Burn Atlantic Curve Dead Can Dance members Lisa Gerrard and Jules Maxwell have teamed up with producer James Chapman (MAPS) for a new album to be released this spring. Burn is a new project with London-based [...]
Sumo Cyco Initiation Napalm Records Canadian alternative-metal cult favourites Sumo Cyco have returned with not only their third album, but also, their label debut. Initiation follows 2017’s Opus Mar and builds on the distinctive sound of the [...]
Sufjan Stevens Convocations Asthmatic Kitty Sufjan Stevens never does the expected, never has, and no doubt never will. Following the success of his 2020 release The Ascension, he has followed it up with a five-album box set titled Convocations. [...]
This Twisted Wreckage Ei8ht Independent This Twisted Wreckage is the latest project from Luke “Skyscraper” James, former frontman and guitarist for the band Fàshiön, and more recently a member of The Pull Of Autumn. For This Twisted Wreckage, [...]
Tetrarch Unstable Napalm Records You better sit up and take notice of the Atlanta-turned-LA-based band, Tetrarch, as they have only begun to make themselves known. The highly anticipated, and well worth the wait sophomore album came out [...]
Phantom Handshakes No More Summer Songs Z Tapes It just might be that boundaries are going away, at least, as far as music is concerned. New York duo Matt Sklar and Federica Tassano that work as Phantom Handshakes, have released their second [...]
