album reviews

Anyone who saw 74-year-old Wanda Jackson’s performance at Venue this past October knows that there’s a lot of fire remaining in this, to use Bob

Martin Eden is a new project from the man behind Eluvium, a band that has popped up several times in the last few years, all

I had the privilege of catching Melody’s Echo Chamber at Venue Nightclub last month during their first North American tour, opening for The Raveonettes. I

Act 1 is a two-disc live recording featuring a longboat-full of the expected offerings from previous Tarja Turunen releases (“Phantom of the Opera”, “I Walk

Ben Folds is back with The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind, the first album released by his eponymous (numerically incongruous) trio since 1999.

Levek have crafted a little folk gem of an album. It is full of gorgeously composed songs with hints of psychedelia and funk along the

There’s “positive” and then there’s Devin Townsend, or more appropriately, the Devin Townsend of today. This guy’s been through a lot. From a near complete

Although the Vaccines have been a rising force on the UK scene, with Come of Age hitting #1 on the national charts, they are a

It’s more than a little appropriate that 2012, the alleged Mayan apocalypse year, is also the year of Italian doom-freaks Ufomammut. Ufomammut’s newest slab of

Weird is as wonderful as ever on Mother Mother’s latest release. The Sticks is the Vancouver-based quintet’s fourth album and the second in as many

Back with a vengeance, Two Gallants‘ new album The Bloom and the Blight shows these two lads are far from past their prime with one

“Huh, these guys sound kind of like Beach House, only less self-indulgent and abusing less heroine.” That’s my first thought when I chuck on Seapony‘s