REVIEWS

Seriously, is Brooklyn the new Seattle? I mean, grunge is dead and gone, but what is it about the New […]

Three years after his last full length, Jay Reatard returns with Watch Me Fall, a jubilant twelve tracks that smooth

One of the biggest fears faced by writers is making their audience seem irrelevant by dropping unnecessarily large amounts of

You’d think with a name like Hockey, this Portland foursome would be one of those shit-kickin’, tough as nails country

Forget blitzkriegs, CoCoComa’s Things Are Not All Right is the real all-out assault. Ten tracks clocking in at somewhere around

Where Were You In The Wild, the debut LP from Vancouver’s Language Arts is a record made for the music

How much does album packaging matter in this in age, when Itunes and The Pirate Bay are happy to pawn

Not having been alive for certain things really gets me down. Paul Henderson’s goal in ’72, now that would have

Alright, seriously. Sweden sounds like a magical place. Sure, it’s probably cold as hell, but the images that are often

Some people are just blessed. These folks don’t necessarily “Walk in the light” as it were, but they’ve definitely got

Boston isn’t known as a major player in world music but that doesn’t mean it isn’t home to some fine

Sweden’s The Mary Onettes created a small buzz two years ago when it released its debut self-titled disc. That was

The Antikaroshi, Crushed Neocons (Fonatana Universal Records) Bordering the three musical states of Black Sabbath, Kings of Leon and Lou

Mojo Rising has taken the land down under by storm as they now set out to take over the states.

This singer/songwriter from Southern California is bringing her highly spiritual & inspirational music to the forefront.   Alexandra Celano blends

This Morning Fuzz will without a doubt get your motor running from the early morning to the midnight hour.  

The Peace is led by Bobby Kendes who wrote all the songs for this debut release while also taking care

This Montana-based rock trio packs so much intensely fun energy into this record that it’s ridiculous!   Tonight We Ride

Mason Daring is a well-established film composer who has been hard at work since the early 70s.   Early on,

Youth is as much a blessing as it is a predicament. There’s a fresh-faced innonence that captivates young people; this

A few months ago, while browsing through one of Vancouver’s top indie record shops, I came across an older record

Black Roses, the latest from Aurora, Illinois’s Painkiller Hotel is a study in how to do a lot of things

The idea of Record Of The Week Club is rather simple; bring three different artists from Winnipeg’s Manitoba’s vast musical

Downcast Theory is made up of Matthew Simon on lead vocals & guitar, Jake Raynor on lead guitar & vocals,

Live albums can be a very hit-or-miss affair as it is hard to capture the energy of a concert in

The first thing that struck out at me right away was the title of this album, Live From the Darkside

 “It still amazes me what some people will throw away” croons Dave McEathron on “Progress.” It’s an apt sentiment from

Precious Fathers are the kind of typically enigmatic act that Vancouver’s oft-experimental, instrumental post-rock scene thrives on. Altruistic in the

Madorsky is following up her 2008 debut, Talk Is Cheap, with a new name & a new attitude.   Talk

First off, I’d like to mention the exceptionally professional touch put forth on their overall appearance of the cover art

Sit down and fasten your seat belt before hitting “play” for this album, because Luis Bonilla is talking now. It’s

The Chicago-based trio, Tirra Lirra, brings modern sounds of outer-dimensional electronics mixed with pop/rock tendencies.   Pink Live Forever offers

Teleseen is one man known as Gabriel Cyr and he is based in Brooklyn. The NY locale has no relevance

Steven Bryan was born Francesco Dell’Orco in Milan, Italy, but he is an English adopted singer/songwriter.   He later moved

On their sophomore release Anywhere But Here will come as a huge change to many Mayday Parade fans. Mainly for

“Hindie rock,” you say? That’s what Elephant Stone, a five-piece psych-pop outfit from Montreal (Better known as Canada’s indie music

Elliot Brood is one seriously bad-ass band. No, it’s not just one dude parading around; it’s a full-on, raucous three-piece

Once known as Friday Morning’s Regret, an ode to the sins committed by University students, Toronto’s newest alt-country sensation have

The meaning behind this artist’s name is “Excellence, Finally”, which was given to him by his uncle.   Ihsaan Khatim

Ready to relive the British invasion? ‘The Beatles: Rare and Unseen’ takes you on a magical mystery tour from the