VARIOUS ARTISTS BROWN ACID: THE NINETEENTH TRIP RIDINGEASY RECORDS You may have been taking this trip into the seemingly endless depths of very very heavy psych rock, hard rock, and proto metal from the late ’60s and early ’70s, with [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE (MUSIC INSPIRED BY THE FILM) UNIVERSAL MUSIC In conjunction with the box-office hit, Bob Marley: One Love, the biopic starring Kingsley Ben-Adir as the titular icon, Universal Music has released the companion [...]
Various Artists Shine On: A Tribute To Pete Ham Y & T Music Pete Ham was a genius. He was an incredible songwriter and performer. Of course, he was one fourth of Badfinger, one of the finest power pop and rock bands of all time. Sadly, the [...]
Various Artists Too Late to Pray: Defiant Chicago Roots Bloodshot Records Bloodshot Records emerged on the scene 25 years ago, aiming to be a bridge. What is soul is bluegrass, what is punk is folk, what is pub rock is rockabilly. The sounds [...]
Various Artists Canada Covers Tom Petty Independent Tom Petty departed this world on October 2, 2017. Just a little over a year later, Jadea Kelly has put together something special to honour Petty while promoting independent Canadian talent. [...]
Various Artists SpongeBob SquarePants, The New Musical (Original Cast Recording) Masterworks Broadway/Sony Music Canada Where to even begin with this? The first thing to note is that SpongeBob SquarePants is a very funny show. As a father with [...]
Various Artists Resistance Radio: The Man In The High Castle Album Sony Music A compilation album put together by Danger Mouse and Sam Cohen as an imagined soundtrack from the Amazon series The Man In The High Castle. The title, Resistance [...]
Various Artists The Edge of Seventeen (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Sony Music Canada Saturday Night Fever may have started it, but John Hughes perfected the various artists’ soundtrack albums. For those of us old enough, who can forget [...]
Various Artists Suicide Squad: The Album Warner Music Group I’ll admit I haven’t seen Suicide Squad. The film opened to such poor reviews that no matter how potentially interesting the highly manufactured trailers looked, the fierce word of [...]
Various Artists Bad Moms (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Sony Music Mashed together for the film, Bad Moms is a decent soundtrack for any girls’ night out, or in. Sometimes movies have great soundtracks that are 100% worth the money spent [...]
Various Artists A Tribute To Pet Sounds The Reverberation Appreciation Society Before the Levitation Festival in Austin, Texas was cancelled, it was set to feature a performance by legendary Beach Boy, Brian Wilson in honor of the 50th [...]
Various Artists Brown Acid: The Second Trip RidingEasy Records You might just learn a thing or two… Brown Acid “The Second Trip” is the second edition of a wildly successful compilation series. RidingEasy Records had the challenging task of [...]
Various Artists A Strange Play (An Alfa Matrix Tribute To The Cure) Alfa Matrix A Strange Play is a double-disc set containing 31 (33 if you get the Bandcamp version) covers of The Cure songs by almost as many electro, industrial, goth, and EBM [...]
Various Artists Ronnie James Dio: This Is Your Life (Tribute Album) Rhino In honour of Ronnie James Dio’s incredible music career and immeasurable influence on heavy metal and hard rock, the best of today’s metal bands congregated [...]
Various Artists Original Soundtrack Recording – West of Memphis: Voices for Justice Sony In 1994 three men from Arkansas were tried and convicted for the ritualistic murder of three young boys in 1993. Since ’94 a debate has raged whether [...]
Various Artists Girls – Volume 1: Music From The HBO Original Series Fueled By Ramen Wunderkind Lena Dunham’s smart and funny Girls has become one of this year’s out-of-nowhere cult TV hits, so it only makes sense that the soundtrack is [...]
Various Artists Fool’s Gold: Loosies Fool’s Gold Records Who the hell is Fool’s Gold anyways? Fool’s Gold is a record label that was founded in 2007 in Brooklyn by DJs, A-Trak and Nick Catchdubs. Bridging the Hip-Hop and Electronic [...]
Various Artists The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 Chop Shop/Atlantic Twilight. A single word that holds the power to make a moon-eyed audiences scream in delight or cause a less-than-enthusiastic individual to shake their head in disgust. [...]
Various Artists Reggae Golden Jubilee – Origins of Jamaican Music VP Records Edward Seaga, former producer and Jamaican Prime Minister, “hand picked 100 of the most significant songs to emerge from the country to celebrate the island’s [...]
Various Artists Endzeit Bunkertracks [Act VI] Alfa Matrix The Endzeit Bunkertracks compilations – if you know them, you love them, and if you don’t know them, put your boots on and prepare to get dark and crunchy. Awaiting you is nearly 70 [...]
Various Artists Fac. Dance 02 Strut This album didn’t meet expectations whatsoever. With various artists on an album called Factory Dance 02, you would expect more of an upbeat, dance vibe. Instead it was boring and hard not to skip through all [...]
