Albums Of The Week: Cowboy Junkies | Sharon
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Sharon is the alternate recording of what would become Cowboy Junkies 1990 album The Caution Horses, the followup to the band’s iconic album The Trinity...
Albums Of The Week: Pixies | Doggerel
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The iconic Pixies forged an influential path for alt-rock during their first era, while their post-2004 reunion has seen them alchemize more sophisticated dark arts...
Albums Of The Week: Dead Kennedys | Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables 2022 Mix
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “San Francisco’s Dead Kennedys arrived onto the post-punk scene of the late ’70s and early ’80s with something to say and an urgent, razor sharp...
Albums Of The Week: Björk | Fossora
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “each album always starts with a feeling
that i try to shape into a sound
this time around the feeling was landing on the earth
and digging my...
Albums Of The Week: Wilco | Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Super Deluxe Edition
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Wilco’s now-classic landmark 2002 album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was released commercially on April 23, 2002, after a circuitous and storied gestation, including a period of...
Albums Of The Week: Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Cool It Down
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “It could only be called alchemy — the transformative magic that happens during the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ most tuned-in moments in the studio, when their...
Albums Of The Week: Monster Truck | Warriors
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Juno-winning rock band Monster Truck’s epic fourth album Warriors delivers everything you want and expect from the band and more, bringing their signature, riff-driven brand...
Albums Of The Week: Milly | Eternal Ring
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Milly make songs that simmer and spark. The Los Angeles band led by songwriter Brendan Dyer find power in the slow burn: Their music carries...
Bruce Springsteen Announces New Album Of Vintage Soul Covers
Bruce Springsteen has a heart full of soul. And an album full. As he hinted at yesterday — and as Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner revealed a while back —...
20 Questions (& More) With Sir Will
Sir Will is ready to pump you up. The Compton-bred, Phoenix-based rapper's latest single Weight Up is a hip-hop anthem dedicated to investing in yourself, putting in the work...
Vivienne Cure Makes You Squirm With Paranoia
Vivienne Cure gets under your skin with her darkly haunting goth-rock single and video Paranoia — showcasing today on Tinnitist.
Boasting electric lo-fi percussion and seething metal elements, Cure's vocals haunt...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
I have a Velvet Underground live album recorded at Max's Kansas City in 1970. The album came out in 1972, the year the band broke up — just five...
Area Resident’s Classic Album Review: Pink Floyd | Ummagumma
When you have a favourite band, sometimes you have records of theirs which you rarely play and don't enjoy thoroughly enough to spin.
I've had a love affair with Pink...
Area Resident’s Classic Album Review: Jimmy Page | Special Early Works
I had seen this damn record around for years and finally bought it off a pal for $5 earlier this year.
This pressing is an American one from 1975, but...
Classic Album Review: India.Arie | Voyage to India
This came out in 2002 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Instant fame and fortune...
