Capital Cities Swimming Pool Summer Universal Music The new EP Swimming Pool Summer by the LA-based duo Capital Cities, comprised of Ryan Merchant and Sebu Simonian, delivers a hook-laden summer single on the title track, and is a worthy [...]
Imagine Dragons Pop-Up Arcade @ Shed Creative Agency, Toronto June 17, 2017 The Imagine Dragons opened their own Arcade in Toronto on June 17 and 18. While their hits played, you could play Frogger, Ms. Pacman, Pacman, The Simpsons and other [...]
U2 The Joshua Tree (30th Anniversary Edition) Universal Music Music feeds nostalgia, it places moments in time, and for a certain generation, few records documented a time and place more precisely than U2’s fifth record, The Joshua Tree, in [...]
Lil Yachty Teenage Emotions Universal Music Canada At a time when rap seems sometimes to be drifting aimlessly, lingering in the doldrums, along comes Atlanta, Georgia’s Lil Yachty. Without going overboard about his flow, it is fair to say that [...]
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – Anniversary Edition Apple Corps Ltd./Universal Music Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band may not be the best album ever made, may not even be the best Beatle album ever made (my nod goes [...]
Diana Krall Turn Up The Quiet Verve Label Group/Universal Music Multiple GRAMMY Award-winning jazz pianist and Canadian singer Diana Krall releases her highly anticipated new album Turn Up the Quiet today on Verve Records/Universal Music Canada. [...]
Feist Pleasure Interscope/Universal Music Feist delivers her muse’s wish in Pleasure (Interscope Records/Universal Music Canada) her fourth full-length album. Co-produced with longtime collaborators Renaud Letang and Mocky and recorded over [...]
14 STEPS TO HARLEM A CONVERSATION WITH GARLAND JEFFREYS Garland Jeffreys is a legend. That is a fact. I don’t know that he would agree with me, but let it be said, Mr. Garland Jeffreys is a legend. His first solo album which was self-titled, [...]
Right Said Fred Exactly! Universal Music Album number nine for Brothers Fairbrass (Richard and Fred), better known as Right Said Fred. And their first album since 2011’s Stop The World, which many assumed would be their last. Thankfully it was [...]
Paul McCartney Flowers In The Dirt (Reissue) Universal Music In 2010, Paul McCartney began a reissue series, called The Archive Collection, where he would reissue an album from his catalogue. The reissues would not only include the remastered [...]
Madness Can’t Touch Us Now Universal Music Fresh from the British Ska band Madness, which is known for its 1982 hit “Our House,” comes its latest album Can’t Touch Us Now, which was released on October 28. The whopping 16-track album is [...]
Mavrick Atlantis Universal Music Mavrick’s Atlantis is a melodically interesting album because of how simple and clean it is. There isn’t anything too messy or noisy in it, but that being said, simple doesn’t mean boring. It’s raw, emotional, [...]
MAVRICK TO RELEASE JAMES BLAKE INSPIRED ATLANTIS EP OCTOBER 7 Universal Music If someone would ask me what Mavrick sounds like, I’d answer, ”listen to Atlantis and you’ll know”. A just quote from the man himself, never one to shy away from [...]
MAKING A BETTER FUTURE – TOGETHER AN INTERVIEW WITH SAM ROBERTS Sam Roberts Band, Juno Award-winning Rock band, released their latest single “If You Want It” on July 2, 2016 via Universal Music Canada. Written by Sam Roberts and produced [...]
The Cure To Play 27 Shows In 22 North America Cities Next Spring This marks their first major tour of the continent since 2008. During the past 7 years the band has performed a number of ‘Reflections’ shows in LA and NYC, and [...]
