Atreyu Baptize Spinefarm Baptize is Atreyu’s eighth album, but their first since the departure of vocalist and founding member Alex Varkatzas who left the band in the fall of 2020. Ex-drummer and clean singer Brandon Saller has stepped forward [...]
PJ Harvey The Peel Sessions 1991-2004 UMe/Island A comprehensive re-issue campaign is underway to re-release all of PJ Harvey’s back catalog on vinyl across 2020 and 2021, so if you’re new to her music or looking to reconnect with it once again, [...]
Obed Calvaire, Bob Franceschini, Kevin Hays & Orlando Le Fleming Whole Lotta Love: The Music Of Led Zeppelin Chesky Records I went to jazz school and in a first-year jazz performance workshop, a guitarist bent a note in his solo, to which my [...]
Various Artists Still Wish You Were Here: A Tribute To Pink Floyd Cleopatra Records There have been a number of tribute albums recorded paying tribute to Pink Floyd and usually these take the form of artists covering one of their classic albums. [...]
Mercury Rev Snowflake Midnight (Deluxe Edition) Cherry Red Records Let’s put things straight where Mercury Rev is concerned: they are a prog rock band. However, instead of being part of the much-maligned branch of prog rock that deservedly [...]
The Reducers Live: New York City 2005 Rave On Records Hailing from New London, Connecticut, The Reducers produced some mighty fine music from 1978 until 2012. The band consisted of Hugh Birdsall (vocals, guitar), Peter Detmold (vocals, guitar), [...]
Betty Moon Cosmicoma Evolver Music Cosmicoma is Betty Moon’s 10th album, and her first since last year’s Little Miss Hollywood. To me, Cosmicoma is very much a continuation of Little Miss Hollywood, not exactly a part two, but a continuation. [...]
The Tragically Hip Saskadelphia Universal Music Canada Saskadelphia, the new Tragically Hip release, should not disappoint the many fans who have been anticipating hearing these five unreleased songs, once injected into various setlists spanning [...]
John Hiatt With The Jerry Douglas Band Leftover Feelings New West Records It sounds like the beginning of an old joke: two guys walk into a bar, and… but this is no joke. The ‘guys’ are two giants of Americana – singer-songwriter John Hiatt, and [...]
Robert Finley Sharecropper’s Son Easy Eye Sound There’s something about what some call ‘old-fashioned’ soul/blues/roots combo that just hits you right away and doesn’t let you go as long as the sounds come out. Just [...]
Mary Hopkin Live At The Royal Festival Hall 1972 (Reissue) Mary Hopkin Music This concert, and album, have a remarkable history. The show was originally designed as Mary Hopkin’s farewell to show business, thankfully that would not be the case, [...]
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 [...]
