Murray McLauchlan Hourglass True North Records/Linus Entertainment Murray McLauchlan’s debut album, Song From The Street was released 50 years ago. In all the years since that debut, McLauchlan has done pretty much what he wanted to do, and he [...]
Albino Bats Roots Pop Suicide Records Written, recorded, and performed entirely by himself, Roots is the creative work of Barrie, ON.’s Shane Heath. Furthermore, it is the debut album under the name of Heath’s latest project, Albino Bats. Roots [...]
Raymans Welcome To Gerrard Square Independent I guess it would have been a legal hassle to use anything connected with Rayman, the Ubisoft video game character, for your fledgling band. Just a few guys hanging on the street on a sunny day will [...]
Fox Run Distress Signals Tarantula Tapes Ontario-based melodic punk band, Fox Run, have released their debut EP, Distress Signals. The album follows a series of three singles, all released throughout 2020, making the six-track release highly [...]
Michael Cormier More Light!! Dear Life Records How do you survive in a music world as an artist these days? Unless you are a big name (and even then, it could be a problem), you have to take on a few musical roles, and then, that might not be [...]
Rose City Band Earth Trip Thrill Jockey Every discerning fan of modern-day psychedelia has encountered the name of guitarist Ripley Johnson. You see, Johnson is one of the driving forces behind some really accomplished psych that has come our [...]
Future Lives Spirit House Soft Magic Records Spirit House is the followup to Future Lives debut album, Mansions. One would think the latter would be very hard to top, but top it they did. Future Lives is a project that was started by former King [...]
Lacuna Coil Live From The Apocalypse Century Media Records Italian Goth metal rockers Lacuna Coil chose to respond to the global pandemic the best way they could. Live stream a full-on rock show to celebrate their recently released album Black [...]
Marc Almond Enchanted (Deluxe Expanded Edition) SFE/Cherry Red Enchanted was originally released in 1990 and was Marc Almond’s sixth solo outing after he took a break from Soft Cell. This album followed one of his most successful solo albums, [...]
Dynowaves Big Sun Tarantula Tapes Reminiscent of a simpler time – and a warmer coast – Dynowaves released their debut studio EP, Big Sun, in 2020. They have now partnered with Tarantula Tapes for a limited run of cassette. Hailing from the [...]
Whispering Sons Several Others PIAS It was only three years ago, in this very publication, that Belgium’s Whispering Sons were heralded as being the future of post-punk. This summer’s release of Several Others, their first full-length album [...]
Frank Zappa Zappa ‘88: The Last U.S. Show UMe/Zappa Records What can you say about Zappa that hasn’t been said before. He was a genius, an innovator, one of the best guitarists ever to grace the planet, funny, and passionate about what he was [...]
Ink Bomb/No Breakfast Goodbye Split Dental Records/Concrete Head Entertainment/Horn & Hoof Records Keeping with the punk tradition of splitting a release between two artists, Nijmegen, NL bands Ink Bomb and No Breakfast Goodbye have united [...]
Phantom Atlantic Your View Of A Former Me Indpendent Having made their debut in 2018 with a pair of singles, Toronto’s Phantom Atlantic have released their debut studio EP. Your View Of A Former Me follows the release of three singles since [...]
Tom Morello & The Bloody Beetroots The Catastrophists EP Independent Following the release of his 2020 solo EP, Comandante, Tom Morello has reunited with electronic outfit, The Bloody Beetroots for a collaborative release, The Catastrophists [...]
Mike Gale Twin Spirit Baboo Records Who can you call the UK version of a combination of Robert Pollard and R. Stevie Moore? Could be a hard choice to make, but here’s one proposal — Southampton’s Mike Gale. Not only is Gale as [...]
Def Leppard Volume 3 (Box Set) UMG/Mercury Records If your band has been around for 40 plus years and produced monster hits such as “Animal” and “Photograph” back in your heyday, I guess you are entitled to put together a monster box set. Volume [...]
Six Organs Of Admittance The Veiled Sea Three Lobed Recordings Ben Chasny, or Six Organs of Admittance is one of those artists to whom you can attach only one label — expect the unexpected. Throughout his quite illustrious career [...]
Dennis DeYoung 26 East, Volume 2 Frontiers Music Last year Dennis DeYoung released the album 26 East: Vol. 1 which was originally to be his farewell to the music world. He recorded so much music that he was encouraged to split the project into [...]
Islands Islomania Royal Mountain Records The definition of Islomania is to have an enthusiastic obsession with islands, where the mere thought of being on a little world surrounded by water has one quivering with excitement. It’s an odd [...]
Green Jellÿ Garbage Band Kids Cleopatra Records Punk rock outfit, Green Jellÿ have returned with their fifth album, Garbage Band Kids. The 17-track record – their first since 2009’s Musick To Insult Your Intelligence By – features [...]
Liz Phair Soberish Chrysalis Records There are quite a few scenarios about what happens when your first record is proclaimed (and actually is) a true classic. Most of them are not so good for the artist in question. And Liz Phair could be a [...]
Various Artists The Problem of Leisure: A Celebration Of Andy Gill And Gang Of Four Universal Music The Gang Of Four were not only the most important post-punk band of its time, they stand as one of the most important bands of all time. Their [...]
Skids Songs From A Haunted Ballroom Cleopatra Records Despite reforming in 2018, Scottish punk band Skids seem to have been unfortunately forgotten. Having released two albums since reuniting, 2018’s Burning Cities and the 2019 follow-up, [...]
