by Sean Passmore | Jan 14, 2017 | Album of the Week
Jad Fair has been making his own unique brand of Half Japanese low-fi alternative art punk since as far back as 1975. The band has certainly come a long way from the days when it included brother David alternately helping out on a small drum kit, vocals and an...
by Sean Passmore | Jan 9, 2017 | Album of the Week
Norwegian garage rock straight outta Oslo (“our town, our rules, the smell of piss and power tools”) this record reeks with in-your-face street cred, integrity and raw power. No posing, posturing or pretty fake gloss here, nothing but high powered balls-to...
by Sean Passmore | Jan 7, 2017 | Album of the Week
Catch The Brass Ring is a BRILLIANT record from Ferraby Lionheart, his first of two, released on Nettwerk Records 10 years ago in 2007. Sadly relegated to obscurity, this is an achingly beautiful record. A super hybrid of Emitt Rhodes, Harry Nilsson and White Album...
by Sean Passmore | Dec 31, 2016 | Album of the Week
This is the most important album of 2016. Gord Downie’s liner notes best explain why. Chanie Wenjack (misnamed Charlie by his teachers) was a young boy who died on Oct 22, 1966. He was trying to walk home, along the railroad tracks, trying to escape the Cecilia...
by Sean Passmore | Dec 31, 2016 | Album of the Week
Never mind the smug snickers of laughter and the haters alike, this is the best album of 2016. Here The Monkees manage to accomplish a feat none of their contemporaries, including The Beatles, The Who, The Kinks, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin, were ever quite able to...
by Sean Passmore | Dec 31, 2016 | Album of the Week
As time rolls on there’s always that one special album of unique importance to emerge out of every passing decade that, for one reason or another, floats to the very top of the collective consciousness. In the 1970’s that record may very well have been...
