Menahan Street Band The Exciting Sounds Of Menahan Street Band Daptone Records Perhaps best known as the backing bands for late neo-soul icon Charles Bradley, Menahan Street Band has returned with its first record in nearly a decade. The [...]
Lydia Luce Dark River Independent Nashville is changing. No, it isn’t the quality of musicianship. Whether you like it or not, the Nashville sound is one of the best around. It is the change that spells diversification, though it could be [...]
Strawbs Settlement Cherry Red Records The Strawbs released their self-titled debut in 1969, their first official album. This is their 27th release, and their second with this particular lineup. Once again the band has not only reinvented itself, [...]
Sloping Completed Songs sound as language Lead songwriter of the band Scooterbabe, JJ Posway, has released a debut solo album under the name Sloping. It is called Completed Songs, and it is nine tracks of fairly beautiful, but melancholy, [...]
Sam Coffey & The Iron Lungs Real One Dine Alone Records For its third album, Toronto’s Sam Coffey & The Iron Lungs has returned with Real One. The full-length record is their first major release since 2017’s acclaimed self-titled album [...]
Anya Marina Live And Alone In New York Independent You know your friend that’s a hot mess but has impeccable taste and style? Anya Marina’s Live and Alone in New York is a conversation with that friend. Her storytelling throughout the album by [...]
cEvin Key And The Subconscious Electronic Orchestra Resonance Artoffact cEvin Key’s fifth solo album, Resonance (formerly X̱wáýx̱way), is released on Toronto’s Artoffact Records. The album consists of 12 electronic tracks, some instrumental and [...]
Cursed Arrows Mage Tarantula Tapes Toronto-based Cursed Arrows has released its 12th full-length release, Mage. The five-track EP includes singles “Rebuild As One” and “Haunted”, both of which were released in October of 2020, and is their first [...]
Tommy Bolin Shake The Devil: The Lost Sessions Cleopatra Records It’s time again for the Tommy Bolin estate to dig into the archives, especially for those fans who will still spend money on the music they love. Bolin had only released two [...]
Matt Mays From Burnside With Love Sonic Records Lighters up for Matt Mays! The Nova Scotia-based folk rocker continues to quietly evolve his sound with his ninth album: From Burnside With Love. The Juno Award-winner strips down his music in this [...]
Lilys A Brief History of Amazing Letdowns/The 3 Way (Reissues) Sundazed Shoegaze caught on, particularly in the British Isles in the early ‘90s, went down for a while and then returned in the new millennium with full force around the world. Of [...]
Creedence Clearwater Revival Pendulum/Mardi Gras (50th Anniversary Half-Speed Masters) Craft Recordings Creedence Clearwater Revival or CCR, if you will, ruled the airwaves and record players when psych rock was on the rise and prog rock was [...]
The Band Stage Fright (50th Anniversary Edition) Capitol Records The latest reissue from The Band Stage Fright, is a prime example of many things. Firstly, it is example of an album that was unjustly quite down-rated by critics when it was first [...]
The Holdouts For Reasons Unknown Tarantula Tapes The latest offering from Tarantula Tapes’ roster is St. Catharine, Ont.-based The Holdout’s sophomore EP, For Reasons Unknown. It is an explosive and hard-hitting follow-up to their 2020 debut, [...]
Various Artists Saturday Night: South African Disco Pop Hits 1981-1987 Cultures Of Soul While the likes of Prince, Madonna, and Michael Jackson were capturing the world by storm, disco seemed to all but disappeared back to the clubs and [...]
DBA (Downes Braide Association) Halcyon Hymns Cherry Red Geoff Downes was one half of the original Buggles and a member of Yes, while Chris Braide is best known for his work with Lana Del Rey, Paloma Faith, Marc Almond, and Beyoncé to name a [...]
Aaron Lee Tasjan Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan! New West Records Aaron Lee Tasjan is certainly a name that is somewhere in the back of the memory files of music fans. After all, as his official biography describes, he went from “his glam rock [...]
Tele Novella Merlynn Belle Kill Rock Stars Smart pop music with engaging lyrics is not just the sole property of British bands like Belle & Sebastian and Camera Obscura. Latest proof–Texan duo Tele Novella and their brilliant album [...]
Foo Fighters Medicine At Midnight Roswell Records For the past 10 years or so, the Foo Fighters have without question been the biggest band in the world. This was solidified with their mega-hit record, Wasting Light in 2011. While their 2014 [...]
Strippers Union The Undertaking The Orchard Strippers Union’s The Undertaking is the third instalment from the collaborative efforts of Rob Baker (The Tragically Hip) and Craig Northey (Odds), and supported by Pat Steward (Odds – drums), [...]
Alex Southey …And The Country Stirred Independent Alex Southey’s has released his latest album, ...And The Country Stirred. Southey wrote and arranged the entire album, and provides vocals, guitars, synthesizer, and other noises. Produced [...]
Ten Years After A Sting In The Tale (Deluxe Edition) Deko Entertainment It would be easy to dismiss a deluxe reissue of an album by any band as being a mere marketing ploy to grab some cash. Covid times have not been kind, and many touring acts [...]
St Germain Tourist (20th Anniversary Travel Versions) Warner Music Group Ludovic Navarre, better known as the French house and nu jazz DJ St Germain, has recently released a 20th anniversary remix album of his hit album Tourist, that originally [...]
The Besnard Lakes The Besnard Lakes Are The Last Of The Great Thunderstorm Warnings Flemish Eye/FatCat/Full Time Hobby On their sixth album, The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings, Montreal’s The Besnard Lakes [...]
