Flamingo Pier is a self-professed crew of music makers, DJs and artists whose livelihood depends on throwing wildly extravagant dance parties in specialized unique locales. Part brand, part band the New Zealand music collective comprised of DJs Luke Walker, Dominic...

Award winning Prince Edward Island based graphic designer Paul Atwood recently expanded the focus of his art from the visual to the musical through a steady flow of releases made available on his Bandcamp page. Admittedly not a winter person, Atwood explained...

For his 19th studio album in 40 years piano pop punk pioneer Joe Jackson dishes up eight sophisticated compositions informed by first generation punk rock circa ‘77 and Steely Dan. Contradictory mix? That’s Joe Jackson. Falling somewhere between Beat Crazy (1980) and...

Originally hailing from Calgary, Alberta, Canadian singer, composer, music producer Shawn Tennant, known professionally as HERO and currently based out of Montreal, Quebec, has set his eyes firmly on the prize with the release of Dirty Work his first EP for Brooklyn,...

Hot on the heels of Egypt Station, Paul McCartney’s first US No. 1 album in 36 years (1982’s Tug Of War, Macca’s highly anticipated first album following the tragic December 1980 murder of close friend and fellow Beatle bandmate John Lennon was his last), comes the...

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Like every other important movement in popular music that has come before or since, punk rock must continue to evolve in order to remain relevant and truly representative of its time. Not unlike jazz music in the first part of the last century which, over a period of...

Rock n Roll has a long and storied history of brothers, roommates and childhood friends meeting together in garages, front rooms and dank dirty basements, making music and changing the world. Kansas City Missouri’s Shy Boys can lay claim to sharing in at least part of...

At 18 years of age Lindsey Jordan is an unmitigated success. Throughout the past three years the emboldened newly crowned darling of the indie music scene has been busy blazing a trail of hard won triumph amassing an impressive list of enviable accomplishments along...

It’s been well over 35 years since Elvis Costello, then a 27-year-old angry young man born Declan Patrick MacManus, teamed up with Attractions Bruce Thomas (bass) Pete Thomas (drums) Steve Nieve (keyboards) and Beatles Sgt Pepper engineer Geoff Emerick to help realize...

In the midst of a music career now in its 20th year, soon to be 40-year-old American R&B singer John Legend (born John Roger Stephens on December 28, 1978), with a succession of #1 chart topping gold and platinum selling albums to his credit, has long since...

Socks is 41 year old Oklahoma native JD McPherson’s fourth album in eight years and first stab at Christmas since his December 2012 single Twinkle (Little Christmas Lights). A brisk 30 minute listen Socks is perhaps most impressive for the fact that McPherson, whose...

73-year-old British music legend Eric Clapton has managed the unthinkable with his 22nd studio album in a solo career now in its 48th year. The much loved guitar god has, unintentionally perhaps, gone and made the perfect Christmas album for those who hate Christmas...

At the very heart of The Mavericks joy inducing latin fused country swing is none other than singer, songwriter and showman extraordinaire Raul Malo. One of the most accomplished tunesmiths of his generation, Malo handles big catchy hook laden swinging beats in ways...

All four original Monkees are back (posthumously in Davey Jones’ case) in the shortest time between albums since 1970 (The Monkees Present 1969 and Changes 1970) for the band’s first ever full length Christmas record. Hot on the heels of the critically acclaimed Good...

When faced with the impossibly difficult task of having to follow up one of the finest albums of the decade, Ray LaMontagne soldiered on through the release of Part Of The Light by shamelessly embracing the cosmic stardust of its predecessor, his criminally overlooked...

Ben Howard is a 31-year-old British folk singer/songwriter from the Devonshire/Cornwall area of south western England. For a decade now he has been releasing EPs and long players channelling his own post millennial take on the acoustic British folk music renaissance...

Once an integral part of New Zealand’s award winning noise rock/art punk quartet The Mint Chicks, lead singer Kody Nielson has come a long way from the chainsaw wielding corporate logo destroying stage antics of his past. Legendary for his death defying feats of...

What immediately becomes most apparent when listening to The Voidz for the first time is the unmistakably familiar voice one hears from the outset, the voice that catapulted an unlikely mix of Manhattan prep school boys from their Swiss boarding school beginnings to...

Fiftysomething trailblazer Kristin Hersh is perhaps best known for her work with Throwing Muses, the band she helped form in 1981 at the age of 14 while attending high school in Newport, Rhode Island. In the years since she has released over 20 albums and published...

It’s a rite of passage in many suburban homes throughout North America and beyond, teens and tweens banding together in garages and basements across the nation setting up amplifiers, drum kits, microphones and guitars, plugging in and rocking out. Heck, there’s an...

Who are Parquet Courts and why haven’t you heard of them? In the years following their initial release, the 2011 limited edition American Specialties cassette, subsequent albums by Parquet Courts have had the enviable distinction of not only charting successfully in...

In an all too brief period of just 18 months between May 1967 and October 1968 Jimi Hendrix released the only three studio albums that would be issued during his lifetime, the explosive stunning debut Are You Experienced, the equally brilliant sophomore effort Axis:...

The mid-tempo melodic melancholy of Gorillaz’s 6th album in 17 years (The Now Now) is more akin to the last Blur album (Magic Whip) than last summer’s blockbuster Humanz LP. A wonderfully cohesive addition to Damon Alban’s resume as well as a perfectly respectable way...

37-year-old pop music diva Christina Aguilera is back with her eighth album in 20 years, sixth when excluding her 2000 Christmas album and the Spanish language Mi Reflejo record from the same year which contained recycled material from her bestselling 1999 self-titled...

With his dreamy rock star good looks, angelic voice and gunslinger guitar chops 27-year-old British singing sensation James Bay lies somewhere between Rick Springfield and Jeff Buckley, perhaps more “Jessie’s Girl” than “Last Goodbye”. Electric Light, the follow up to...

In these days of nonstop in-your-face social outrage, twitter wars and bombast there’s something to be said for quiet and unassuming. That’s exactly how Washington State’s The Moondoggies have been going about things for the better part of a decade now and, if the...

During the past decade Sheffield England’s Arctic Monkeys have firmly established themselves as one of Britain’s most successful bands. Winners of seven Brit Awards including three for Best Album and three for Best Group, they are also recipients of the UK’s...

In 1962 a short haired, clean shaven 29-year-old songwriter by the name of Willie Nelson appeared on the cover of his very first record …And Then I Wrote wearing a dress shirt, suit jacket and tie, the album’s title alluding to the number of hit songs the young...

In a flagrant attempt at beating the ever prolific King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard at their own game, legendary seventysomething Van Morrison upped the ante recently by releasing his third album of new material in just seven months (Roll With The Punches September...

Between 1971 and 1991 legendary Grammy Award winning songwriter John Prine crafted an impressive body of work consisting of 10 exceptional studio albums. His debut, the self-titled John Prine album, has few equals. Not even Bob Dylan himself can lay claim to such an...

It’s been 4 years since former White Stripe Jack White released, from a purely structural point of view, possibly the coolest record of all time. The limited edition three-speed “Ultra” LP version of his 2014 Lazaretto album not only played backwards from the inside...

Soon to be 40-year-old Nathaniel Rateliff had been hanging at the precipice of a struggling music career since his early 20s. The Denver, Colorado based blue eyed soul singer released four albums in six years under various guises with little to no success before...

Austin, Texas quartet The Sword (not to be confused with their 1980s heavy metal counterpart The Sword from Quebec, Canada) have suffered the slings and arrows of numerous tags and labels in the 15 years since their inception in 2003. For better or worse certain heavy...

Sharing a title with its 2010 predecessor, the most recent of back-to-back eponymously titled Stone Temple Pilots records is as much a spirited new beginning as its predecessor was a final definitive end. The reenergized DeLeo brothers (guitarist Dean DeLeo and...

The story behind Insecure Men’s debut record began with Saul Adamczewski teaming up with old school chum Ben Romans-Hopcraft (of the band Childhood) to form the duo after being asked to temporarily depart from his primary occupation as guitarist and main songwriter...

The Decemberists are a whimsical shapeshifting eclectic roots rock band formed in Portland, Oregon at the turn of the century. Since their 2002 debut album Castaways and Cutouts they have released a total of eight albums including their most recent I’ll Be Your Girl...

Bassist Shannon Shaw and guitar player Cody Blanchard formed Shannon and the Clams along with drummer Ian Amberson in the late 2000’s while attending art school in Oakland, California. Soon the trio were playing shows in and around the city and within a short period...

Black Label Society founding member Zakk Wylde first came to prominence in the late '80s at the tender age of 21 when he was chosen by heavy metal legend turned reality TV star Ozzy Osbourne to be his writing partner and lead guitarist. After a decade spent in Ozzy’s...

Brighton England’s The Go! Team (not to be confused with Washington State indie rockers The Go Team from the late 80s) are the brainchild of Ian Parton, the deeper dig record collecting mix-master musician turned DIY record producer/arranger extraordinaire. He...

25-year-old millennial indie rocker Will Toledo is perhaps best known and loved for the half dozen or so self-released Bandcamp albums he wrote and recorded as a teenager, particularly Twin Fantasy. Now he has re-recorded it. Released in multiple formats including...

The Sheepdogs '70s CanCon rock band lineage can be traced back through heritage acts The Guess Who (No Sugar Tonight), Crowbar (Oh What A Feeling), Lighthouse (Sunny Days) and The Five Man Electrical Band (Signs). Although they freely admit to forming under the heavy...

Ty Segall is proving to be one of the single most rejuvenating forces in rock music today. Barely 30 he has released an album a year for the past decade in addition to a half dozen other side projects and collaborations. His singular passionate enthusiasm for the...

The Limiñanas are a duo from the south of France consisting of multi-instrumentalist Lionel Limiñana and partner Marie Limiñana on drums & occasional vocals. Emulating Serge Gainsbourg’s trademark spoken-word singing style their groovy cool retro vibe relies...

They Might Be Giants are many things to many people. Named after the Don Quixote inspired title to the 1971 George C. Scott film of the same name, the singing duo of John Flansburgh (guitar & vocals) and John Linnell (accordion, saxophone & vocals) first came...

BRMC founding member Peter Hayes first came to prominence at age 21 in the late ‘90s as guitarist and bass player for the now infamous Brian Jonestown Massacre. His stint with the BJM is featured prominently in the critically heralded award winning music documentary...

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Song Of The Day Club Top 10 Albums Of 2017 The Orwells   Terrible Human Beings Ty Segall   Ty Segall King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard   Polygondwanaland The Mavericks   Brand New Day Gorillaz   Humanz Dan Auerbach   Waiting On A Song The Flaming Lips   Oczy Mlody...

The 30 Most Uncompromising Albums of 2017 Algiers   The Underside Of Power Alt-J   Relaxer Dan Auerbach   Waiting On A Song Chuck Berry   Chuck Jarvis Cocker & Chilly Gonzales   Room 29 Corridor   Supermercado Robert Cray   Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm Dave...

For yesterday’s exciting new smash sounds, today, look no further than Corridor, Montreal's hottest new underground art rock quartet. Dominic Berthiaume (bass & vocals) Jonathan Robert (vocals, guitar & synths) Julian Perreault (guitar) and Julien Bakvis...

Thirty-seven years ago in the spring of 1980 twenty-seven year old Robert Cray released his first album Who’s Been Talkin'. At the time he was one of the shiny new kids of the youthful burgeoning blues scene of the early 1980’s that included Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff...

English indie rock band Alt-J, also known (in the fashion of “the artist formerly known as” Prince) by the triangle shaped symbol for the 4th letter in the Greek alphabet (typed out on an Apple Mac using the key sequence Alt+J) are celebrating their 10th anniversary...

After a smattering of Christmas singles and curios over the years legendary Cheap Trick have just now got around to releasing their first ever full length Christmas album, aptly titled Christmas Christmas. Recorded in Nashville, Tennessee at Blackbird Studios, their...

Grizzly Bear have conjured up a most intriguing quizzical listening experience with Painted Ruins, their first album of new material in five years. Since their formation in Brooklyn, New York in 2002, Grizzly Bear’s music has become increasingly more and more...

This ain’t your Dad’s free U2 album, forcibly ingratiating itself through Apple upon an unsuspecting and, for the most part, unamused public. King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard, Australia’s whimsical stalwarts of progressive psychedelia, are back with their 4th album...

Finally, it’s Christmas, and not a moment too soon. 20 years after the release of Snowed In, Tulsa, Oklahoma power trio the Hanson brothers Zac (drums), Taylor (keyboards) and Isaac (guitars), with help from Andrew Perusi on bass, return with their first new album of...

Dhani Harrison (named after the 6th and 7th notes of the Indian music scale dha and ni by his Indian-music loving Dad) has been quietly whittling away at his own musical legacy since winning the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance for his work on...

The Chateau Marmont is a 90-year-old hotel located in the heart of Los Angeles’ famed Sunset Boulevard. It’s 63 rooms have been frequented over the years by such romanticized luminaries as Jim Morrison, Sharon Tate and her then Roman Polanski, Hunter S. Thompson,...

After spending a decade independently releasing three albums of her own music Memphis born multi-instrumentalist singer songwriter Valerie June can now successfully lay claim to her second major label release in just under four years. The Order Of Time marks June’s...

Bob Dylan’s profound influence on popular music in the last century is undeniable, so much so that Nobel's Royal Swedish Academy, amidst a great deal of controversy, awarded him the world’s most prestigious prize for literature last year, marking the first time this...

A mediocre effort from one of Canada’s most gifted songwriters. Watershed feels like a contractual obligation album featuring an uninspired Curran simply going through the motions. Never has Six Shooter Record’s mission statement “Life is too short to listen to shitty...

As light as his Black Keys are heavy, Dan Auerbach's second solo album in eight years is a delightful '70's flashback chock-full of upbeat melodic hits the decade's chart topping AM radio fare is now famous for. Waiting On A Song is 32 minutes of toe-tapping sunshine...

32-year-old multi-genre bassist Stephen Bruner has achieved much in the twenty odd years he has been professionally immersed in the business of making music. At 15 he was a member of 90’s boyband No Curfew, contributing to their overseas chart success in Germany...

Dave Davies is rock royalty, full stop. Not only is he credited with single-handedly creating distortion for rock n roll guitar by taking a razor blade to the now legendary green amp, he was a key member of England’s first and most famous sibling rivalry band, The...

Recorded and produced in Chicago by Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy at his hometown recording studio The Loft, Kacy & Clayton’s latest is very much a swinging full band affair, seeing the millennial acoustic folk duo from rural Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan beefed up this time...

27-year-old Aldous Harding’s latest album Party, contrary to what it’s title might suggest, is a refreshingly poignant acoustic reprieve from most of the ear crushing computer-generated electronic noise and mind-numbing beats that make up much of the soundtrack to the...

Ringo Starr has consistently been making slickly produced superb sounding rock n roll records for some 25 years now from his 1992 comeback album Time Takes Time to his latest. What started out as an intended country album to be recorded and produced in Nashville by...

As a child growing up in war torn Mali of the early 1960’s, master guitar player Ibrahim Ag Alhabib built his very first guitar using nothing more than a tin can, stick and bicycle wire. By age 19 he had migrated to Algeria and in 1979 assembled the players who were...

Formed in Reading, Berkshire, England in the fall of 1989, Slowdive, named after a Siouxsie and the Banshees song, were so brutally butchered and universally reviled by the mean spirited British music press of the day that the band packed it in and called it quits...

Complex, challenging and wildly unpredictable, Dirty Projectors is the future sound of pop music, today. As one-man American band Dirty Projectors, 30 something Yale graduate David Longstreth has conjured up one of the year’s freshest, most powerful statements in...

A 20 year film and television career have done nothing to soften the edge of fifty-something original Kingston punk rocker Hugh Dillon and his band of not so merry men who make up the latest incarnation of the Headstones. After a decade of sitting on the shelf taking...

Powerfully anchored by the poignancy and politics of the album's title track, The Underside Of Power harkens back to a bygone era when the Motown sound of young America was taking it to the streets and acts like The Temptations and Edwin Starr helped give voice to the...

In attempting to describe the music of The Mavericks one must first accept the fact that Roy Orbison is an entire genre of music onto himself and that Marty Robbins is so much more than a mere country & western cross-over artist, for it is somewhere in-between...

90 year old Chuck Berry managed to crack the Top 10 for the first time since 1977 with this record but sadly did not live to see it. Despite having managed to complete the album on schedule and on time, Chuck, Berry's first new album of original material in almost 40...

Euro techno pop contemporaries to both Daft Punk and Air, France’s Phoenix, fronted by none other than Mr. Sophia Coppola himself (Thomas Mars), successfully manage to channel their favorite Pet Shop Boys throughout Ti Amo, the forty somethings sixth album in a music...

Anyone unfamiliar with the works of Roger Waters should first acquaint themselves with his former band Pink Floyd and their albums Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here and The Wall before turning to Water's latest opus and it's numerous repetitive sonic...

There's trouble in Paradise and it has nothing to do with PEI's Jenn Grant wanting to shed the limitations of a music persona knee deep in the trappings of today's crowded acoustic music scene; Bon Iver did just that quite successfully last year with his ground...

After a near 20 year absence The Jesus And Mary Chain are back, sounding every bit as youthful and energized as ever. Utilizing the classic JAMC elements of reverb and distortion, three chords and a guitar, Damage And Joy seamlessly carries on where their 1985...

Pure Comedy is anything but. With nary a laugh to be found Josh Tillman's alter ego Father John Misty has released his 11th album in 14 years, 12th if you include his one record four year stint drumming for Seattle's hipster folk darlings Fleet Foxes. The fact that...

No fathomable amount of planetary hyperbole could ever come close to describing just how wonderfully huge and joyous this record is, even in it's darkest moments. Absolutely guaranteed to be the official soundtrack to summer 2017. Get yours today and start reveling in...

This record has been brewing deep within Ray Davies ever since The Kinks first touched down in America in the summer of 1965 for their first ever US tour, right before the now infamous four year performance ban imposed on the group by the American Federation of...

Nominated for Pop Album of the Year and Breakthrough Artist of the Year Juno Awards in 2016 for his seven-track EP Augusta, 21 year old Scott Helman returns with his first official full length debut record Hôtel de Ville. Anchored by the strength of powerhouse opening...

In a recording career spanning four decades since the Soft Boys recorded their first EP, Give It To The Soft Boys, at Spaceward studios, Cambridge, in the heady days of England's punk rock infused 1977, Robyn Hitchcock, recipient of this year's South By Southwest...

In a year celebrating the 30th anniversary of the first Guided By Voices album, 1987's Devil Between My Toes, band leader Robert Pollard marks the personal milestone of seeing the release of his 100th album, Guided By Voices' first double album and latest record,...

Steel Panther are no joke, despite the fact that their first two albums debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Comedy chart. These guys have been routinely topping rock charts and selling out shows all over the world since releasing their major label debut Feel The Steel...

The recent departure of long time drummer Spencer Schoening along with a revolving door of bass players has resulted in Vancouver's Juno Award winning one time 5 piece Said The Whale reduced to the trio it is today comprised of founding members Ben Worcester and Tyler...

Australia's King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have decided that 2017 is the year for excessive experimentation. With plans of releasing no less than 5 full albums of difficult music before the year is out they have chosen the field of microtonal music as their...

England's newest hit makers, Temples have followed up their exquisite 2014 debut album with this self produced collection of 12 dreamy psych pop tracks recorded at their home studio in Kettering, Northamptonshire 80 miles north of London. Originally a home studio...

Indie guitar rock gods The Shins are no more. It's been 10 years since group founder James Mercer rid himself of longtime bandmates Dave Hernandez, Marty Crandall and Jesse Sandoval for "aesthetic" reasons (according to Sandoval he was "unequivocally fired"). Only the...

Two full years before the release of their 1980 debut album the Village Voice dubbed the then-unsigned Feelies "The Best Underground Band in New York". Fast forward to 2017 and The Feelies, cited by R.E.M. as a major influence, have a new record on the shelves. 40...