“Elton John had to pause his “Farewell Yellow Brick Road” tour due to the unfolding COVID pandemic in March 2020. His retirement plans may have been thwarted, but John took the opportunity to keep working. The result? An expansive collection of duets called The...

“St. Vincent is back with her second album in four months. The “Pay Your Way In Pain” singer previously released her sixth studio album Daddy’s Home in May and shared her first film with an accompanying soundtrack: The Nowhere Inn.” - Glitter Magazine “St. Vincent has...

“Canadian duo Crown Lands share two brand new tracks: White Buffalo and The Oracle, both recorded with three-time Grammy Award-winning, Toronto producer David Bottrill (Tool, Mastodon, Rush, Peter Gabriel).” - Louder Sound “Hard rock duo Crown Lands stampede the White...

“The former Beatle's focus on EPs means a steady beat of exciting collaborations. This one renews his call for peace. Today marks the release of Ringo Starr's "Change the World," the sequel to his March EP "Zoom In." As with the All-Starr Band, the drummer's...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5lE7QxzhlA Click the link below for the full 2020 SOTDC record review of Songs For The General Public by The Lemon Twigs https://songofthedayclub.wordpress.com/2020/11/15/the-lemon-twigs-songs-for-the-general-public/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X0TX-vyxSU Click the link below for the full 2020 SOTDC record review of WHO by The Who https://songofthedayclub.wordpress.com/2020/04/25/the-who-who/

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The brothers D'Addario from Hicksville, New York form the nucleus of 70's retro rockers The Lemon Twigs. Founded while the brothers were still attending high school the band features multi instrumentalists Brian and Michael D'Addario along with Daryl Johns (bass)...

2020 sucks balls. A lethal pandemic, quarantines and the requirements of social distancing literally killing off careers in the music industry, the year has been the worst since the depression. That said, some good has come out of it, namely art works and other...

British electronic music duo Disclosure consists of brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence. Hailing from Surrey, England, their first two albums, Settle (2013) and Caracal (2015), were both nominated for Best Dance/Electronica Album Grammy awards. After a five year break...

After releasing three EPs, Mantra (2016), Rise Over Run (2017) and Wayward Flyers Vol. 1 (2020), Oshawa, Ontario based hard rocking duo Crown Lands return with their first full length, the self titled 7 track Crown Lands LP from major label Universal Music Canada....

Next year marks the 20th anniversary of The Killers' formation in 2001. In the 16 years since their 2004 debut album Hot Fuss they have released 6 albums, the latest of which is Imploding The Mirage. Perhaps the most interesting thing about the latest Killers album is...

Love them or hate them, there has never been another band quite like The Doors. A film school graduate stricken with stage fright for a lead singer, a jazz drummer, a classically trained pianist and a flamenco guitarist made for the unlikeliest of all rock n roll...

To date The Rolling Stones have released 30 studio albums. There's a nice round symmetry to the number 30, a more than acceptable end point to hang one's legacy on. Having said that, reportedly the Stones have been picking away at their 31st for the last five years...

Founded in 1996 in Olympia, Washington by the then 18 year old Phil Elverum, over the years The Microphones have been a revolving door of at least a dozen or so local musicians from the  Olympia music scene with Elverum as the prime songwriter and producer. After...

Much has been said and written about Neil Young's so called lost or abandoned 1974 Homegrown album. Fans have had over 45 years to speculate on which of the 30 odd songs Young recorded around the time would ultimately end up on the album and what the final track...

For those unaware, the artist formerly known as the Dixie Chicks (now branded simply as The Chicks in light of the current cultural climate surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement and other forces at large) are an American country pop trio consisting of singer...

What do Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Rod Stewart and James Taylor all have in common? Well, besides the fact that they are all septuagenarians, they've also all made albums of standards, James Taylor's American Standard being the most recent. American Standard is...

Clocking in at a compact 43 minutes, Chromatica, Lady Gaga's sixth album in 12 years, a hard discographical fact emblazoned in metal on the inside cover of the album's accompanying booklet, visually celebrates the iconography of Swiss artist H.R. Giger's work on the...

The culmination of a legacy close to 80 years in the making, Rough And Rowdy Ways, Bob Dylan's 39th album and first new record of original material in 8 years, has been one long slow train coming. Like its maker its old and its wise, and chooses its words carefully....

LA based rock quintet Phantom Planet formed just over 25 years ago in 1994 with band members still in their teens just barely out of high school. Named after the 1961 B movie The Phantom Planet, their sound at the time was compared to Weezer with a heavy Beach...

Whoever said "Rock is dead" has not heard the latest from Pearl Jam, Seattle's sole living survivors of the early 90's grunge wars. A unit of explosive equal to one billion tons of TNT, a gigaton is exactly what Pearl Jam dropped earlier this year with their album of...

Green Day are the Rolling Stones of punk rock, in a good way. An uncompromising creative force onto themselves Green Day have managed to remain relevant and vital throughout a continuing stretch of 30 plus years maneuvering the murky waters of popular music's fickle...

Perpetually forward looking, brothers Dean And Robert DeLeo along with drummer Eric Kretz, the nucleus of the Stone Temple Pilots, have consistently triumphed over periods of adversity in their 30 years together. Starting a new chapter in late 2017 with the addition...

Strokes' lead singer Julian Casablancas was all of 3 years old when controversial New York street artist Jean-Michele Basquiat painted The Bird Of Money in 1981, the very piece of art work Casablancas & co. chose to grace the cover of their latest album The New...

Five years in the making, one man band Will Toledo's latest venture as Car Seat Headrest is his fourth album for the prestigious Matador Records label and second of new material since 2016's Teens Of Denial. Fleshed out by fellow bandmates Andrew Katz (drums), Ethan...

L.A. born Nashville raised potty mouthed bad gurrl cum poet rawker Kesha (the artist formerly known as Ke$ha) dropped her latest bomb in the early days of 2020. Throughout High Road the outspoken singer songwriter speaks her truth through 15 tracks and near 50 minutes...

Seven years have passed since Nashville based power pop singer singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire Brendan Benson released his last solo outing You Were Right back in 2013. The part-time Jack White collaborator and fellow Raconteur, Benson spent the...

Top 15 Albums Of 2019 Playlist Deerhunter - Detournement Steve Mason - About The Light Joe Jackson - Fabulously Absolute Motherhood - Bird Chirp The Claypool Lennon Delirium - Toady Man's Hour Tedeschi Trucks Band - Hard Case Brittany Howard - History Repeats Santana...

The new Who record's got balls. Big balls. And the septuagenarians who made it got big balls too. Big old balls. To borrow from Dan Bern's ode to Tiger Woods, this records got balls as big as grapefruits, as big as pumpkins, small dogs, tractor wheels, the golden...

Lame Impala. 'Nuff said. And while we're at it, people gotta stop referring to Australia's one man Kevin Parker band as psychedelic. Not since the delightful 2012 sophomore LP Lonerism has Parker even vaguely orbited close to the warmth of the psychedelic sun....

Vancouver's hard rocking Polaris Music Prize nominated Black Mountain have been putting out albums for close to 15 years dating back to their 2005 self titled debut from Jagjaguwar Records. Their most recent album Destroyer, released earlier this year in May of 2019...

To paraphrase T.S. Eliot, "this is the way the band ends, not with a bang but a whimper". Sort of. After releasing five critically acclaimed albums in seven years (band members Rado and France were both just 15 years old and still in high school when recording their...

The Beatles set the gold standard by releasing 13 studio albums in 7 years from 1963 through to 1970. Contemporaries of theirs The Who released 11 studio albums in forty years from 1966 to 2006, Led Zeppelin released 8 from 1969 to 1979 and Paul Simon released 14 in...

Award winning independent Canadian record label Dine Alone Records (FIDLAR, The Sheepdogs, City And Colour, The Sadies, Black Mountain, The Dandy Warhols, The Cult) have just released the debut album from Toronto based quartet Girlfriend Material comprised of Tokyo...

Three years after debuting in three separate Billboard Top 10 charts with their first ever collaboration Monolith Of Phobos (Top Vinyl Albums, Top Tastemakers Albums, Top Alternative), 55 year old Primus bassist Les Claypool and perennial Beatle kid Sean Lennon return...

Celebrating both the 50th anniversary of Santana's iconic 1969 self titled debut album as well as their historic career launching 45 minute set on the afternoon of August 16, 1969 at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair in Bethel, New York, famed Mexican-American guitar...

Possessing one of the toughest tender voices in rock today, 48 year old six time Grammy nominee Susan Tedeschi leads an impressive ensemble cast of musicians on the fourth Tedeschi Trucks Band album in eight years. Formed a decade ago after three years of touring...

For his 19th album in 46 years the soon to be 70 year old Bruce Springsteen turns his gaze towards the vast expanse of the great American travelogue. Channelling the ghost of Glen Campbell (Gentle On My Mind, Dreams Of The Everyday Housewife) in particular Campbell's...

It's been 10 years since the US release of Cage The Elephant's self titled debut album and the London based Bowling Green, Kentucky sextet has been on a steady trajectory ever since. After showcasing at the 2007 South By Southwest music festival they secured their...

Madonna's Madame X, her 3rd studio album in a decade and 14th overall in the 36 years since her 1983 self titled debut, finds the 60 year old reigning queen of pop music in a reflective mood. Not unlike Bowie and his revolving cast of characters Madonna too has...

According to the Urban Dictionary a power trio is defined as a "(noun) A rock band consisting of three musicians, usually a guitarist, a bassist and a drummer. This common power trio format was developed in the 1960s by Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience and...

The bad boys of British underground are back with their third album in six years. Formed in 2011 in a South London squat Fat White Family have brazenly brandished the banner passed down in a tradition traced back through early Stones, Syd Barrett, Sex Pistols, The...

Named after a surfing term, Grammy Awarding winning San Diego, California based pop rock quintet Switchfoot have been successfully navigating the youth obsessed fickle world of popular music for over two decades now. Formed in 1996 around the nucleus of Foreman...

It's been close to 20 years since Atlanta, Georgia's Deerhunter formed and in that time they've released 8 official full length albums, Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? is their latest. Released just two weeks into the new year this 36-minute-long exercise...

Canadian indie pop sextet Royal Canoe evolved out of the same colossally vibrant Winnipeg, Manitoba music scene that spawned The Waking Eyes, Novillero, Imaginary Cities, The Weakerthans and others. Released earlier this year in the dark days of winter 2019 Waver, the...

As Josh Ramsay nears the 20-year mark in a gig which began at the tender age of 16 with the 2001 recording of the self-titled debut EP from Marianas Trench, one can safely say the 33-year-old Vancouver native is now, without question, the undisputed leader of the...

People of a certain age are most likely to know Steve Mason from his Beta Band inspired Hollywood moment in the 2000 movie High Fidelity adapted from the 1995 Nick Hornby novel of the same name. In a scene typical of pre-millennial record store culture of the day shop...

It’s been close to a decade now since So-Cal punk band FIDLAR, acronym for the skate culture mantra Fuck It Dog Life’s A Risk, first began to make some noise. Formed in 2009 by brothers Elvis (guitar/vocals) and Max Kuehn (drums), sons of longtime LA musician Gary...