by Sean Passmore | Oct 5, 2019 | Album of the Week
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...
by Sean Passmore | Sep 21, 2019 | Album of the Week
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...
by Sean Passmore | Jul 16, 2019 | Album of the Week
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...
by Sean Passmore | Jul 13, 2019 | Album of the Week
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...
by Sean Passmore | Jul 12, 2019 | Album of the Week
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...