Tag: album review

June 1, 2010 marks the release of “No Ghost” from Ottawa’s The Acorn in North America with a European release following a week later on June 8. “No Ghost” is the band’s sixth release, and their first full-length album since 2007’s “Glory Hope Mountain”.
The Acorn began as a solo project for Rolf Klausener in [...]

It’s been an almost overwhelming time for new albums from Canadian indie artists lately and you can add “New Inheritors” from Wintersleep to the growing list. “New Inheritors” is the band’s fourth album, following the fantastic previous release of “Welcome to the Night Sky” from 2007. The follow-up album “New Inheritors” is currently streaming on [...]

When I first heard the band name Type Monkey Type, the first thing that popped into my head was the following Simpsons clip:

Needless to say, I was highly amused at Type Monkey Type’s choice of band name.
The “pre-apocalyptic fusion rock” group from Calgary has been an up-and-coming act since the release of their first EP [...]

Montreal’s Plants and Animals became known for their unique modern take on classical rock sound with their 2008 release of “Parc Avenue”. Plants and Animals are set to follow up “Parc Avenue” with 2010’s “La La Land” and a supporting Canadian and American tour.
“Parc Avenue” was both nominated and short-listed for the Canadian Polaris Music [...]

Maya Miller and Becky Black of the garage rock duo The Pack a.d. are definitely a couple of workhorses. Their debut album “Tintype” was released in January 2008, and by August of the same year, they had a second record, ”Funeral Mixtape”, under their belts. Now, after a year of approximately 157 tour dates across [...]

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I’ve been meaning to write about this album for a while now. Brasstronaut’s first full length LP, called Mount Chimaera was released in Canada on March 2, but it only hit the US yesterday. I can’t say enough good things about this album, it’s classic and classy. It’s the type of music that [...]

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The debut album from The Jason Zerbin Band is, in a word, impressive. Titled “Of Fools and Gold”, the album captures the same type of pop flow and melody that made acts like Coldplay and Snow Patrol famous. But The Jason Zerbin Band is more than a carbon copy, taking the essence of [...]

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“Islands Disappear” and “Howe Sounds/Taking Abalonia” by Said The Whale have become staple albums in my household over the past month. So, when Said the Whale announced an acoustic EP, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on it.
Said The Whale stated, on their website, that this album was recorded in Ben’s [...]

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Hawksley Workman’s recent departure from a major label has allowed him the freedom to explore new methods of releasing music. The plan was to release a song a week from “Milk” leading up to the album release in April, which was preceded by a more traditionally released album “Meat” in January. There’s [...]

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Charlotte Cornfield – Collage Light
I was crammed into the upstairs of a closed coffee shop, open only for this show. It’s quite “living-room-esque”. There were so many people they had to remove the chairs. It was standing room only. On the bill was an acoustic version of Charlottetown’s The North Lakes, Charlotte [...]