Bad Touch | Kiss the Sky
Music is like food. I try to stick to stuff that's healthy and good for me and ethically produced and organic and all that shit. And most of the...
Vibration Black Finger | Can You See What I’m Trying to Say
Some jazz albums are recorded. Others are assembled. Can You See What I'm Trying to Say, the sophomore Vibration Black Finger release from London vet Lascelle Lascelles Gordon, deftly...
Animali | Mary D. Kay
Full disclosure: I snagged this one solely because of that wild cover. And can you blame me? Besides, between the face-melting pic and the entropic title pun, I thought...
Baauer | Planet’s Mad
Baauer’s name sure sounds familiar, right? Maybe you recognized it right off the bat, but I'm obviously getting old — for the life of me, I couldn't place him....
Etuk Ubong | Africa Today
What's more impressive than an album that delivers a colourfully dynamic, urgently driving and lyrically topical hybrid of Afrobeat, Highlife and more — as performed by crack band fronted...
Arabs In Aspic | Madness and Magic
Don't get me wrong. I like classic ’70s psyche-prog as much as the next geek. But I like it a little better when it rocks out every now and...
We Versus The Shark | Goodbye Guitar
If you're lucky enough to get a do-over — even a severely belated one — make the most of it. These Athens indie-rockers clearly have. More than a decade...
Amo Amo | Canta EP
I've been watching Seinfeld reruns again because why the fuck not? Anyway, The Chinese Woman episode was on again recently. You know that one? George's phone line gets crossed...
Bhajan Bhoy | Bless Bless
Don't bogart that hookah, brah. It's totally bad karma. Puff, puff, pass, you know? Atta boy. Now, while your hands are free, do me a solid and push play...
Vile Creature | Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm!
Come for the awesome Cronenbergian cover pic. Stay for the headcrushing doom metal. Marvel at the ability of this Hamilton duo to cleave your skull in twain with a...
Academy of Sun | The Quiet Earth
Remember that weird kid you went to junior high school with? The weedy little one with the speech impediment, the bad acne and the translucent white skin from never...
BPMD | American Made
BPMD stands for the names of the metal supergroup’s members — singer Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworth of Overkill, MVP drummer Mike Portnoy, bassist Mark Menghi of Metal Allegiance and guitarist...
JJ Wilde | Ruthless
Canada does a damn fine job of exporting pop stars and rappers. But it's been a while since we launched a bona fide rocker onto the world stage. JJ...
Bad Cop Bad Cop | The Ride
Anger is an energy. But so is hope. And the latter is the one that powers L.A. punk foursome Bad Cop Bad Cop’s third studio album The Ride. But...
Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile | Not Our First Goat...
What do you get when you combine a globally beloved classical cellist, a respected Nashville fiddler and banjo master who's backed everyone from Dolly Parton to George Strait, a...
