by Sean Passmore | Dec 20, 2016 | Album of the Week
At 47 years of age Black Mountain front man Stephen McBean is a grizzled veteran of the wild Canadian music frontier. Forming his first band at the age of 12, Victoria’s punk rock outfit Jerk Ward, McBean has tried his hand at various incarnations in the ensuing...
by Sean Passmore | Dec 19, 2016 | Album of the Week
Taking the name from an episode of ’90’s TV show Northern Exposure in which a group of Alaskan citizens celebrate the first snowfall of winter by wishing one another bon hiver, a French phrase meaning “good winter”, Wisconsin native Justin...
by Sean Passmore | Dec 18, 2016 | Album of the Week
Not bad for a band with 30 plus years behind them who once sounded like the future but now sound simply like themselves. Just their second album in half a decade, ninth overall in a recording career spanning 25 odd years, Moon Shaped Pool maps very familiar ground...
by Sean Passmore | Dec 16, 2016 | Album of the Week
52 years after releasing their debut album of mostly covers The Stones go full circle with their first new album in 11 years. Not since 2005’s A Bigger Bang have The Glimmer Twins had any new material out on the street and technically they still don’t....
by Sean Passmore | Dec 15, 2016 | Album of the Week
Recorded at the Bathhouse in hometown Kingston, Ontario, the Hip return to the fray with their first album of new material since the announcement of lead singer Gord Downie’s terminal brain cancer diagnosis earlier this year. Named after a song from their...
by Sean Passmore | Dec 14, 2016 | Album of the Week
46 years after their initial formation in Gainesville, Florida, Southern country rockers Mudcrutch release the follow up to their 2008 self titled debut album. More than just a Tom Petty side project this is not The Heatbreakers 2.0, this is an entirely different band...
