Photo Credit: Rich Goodwin With their previous album, What’s Rock and Roll?, Rotherham, England band the Reytons answered their own question: taking cues from Blur, the Arctic Monkeys, and other essential Britpop as well as classic punk, the Reytons offered up a tight, kinetic, in-your-face but fun thirty-five minutes and twelve tracks of what was… Read more
Photo Credit: Mark Seliger “I just saw Let’s Spend the Night Together [the concert movie of the Rolling Stones’ 1981 tour] and I’m convinced rock n’ roll must be on a life support system. Well, it’s time someone pulled the plug. Yesterday is gone.” – A letter to the editor of Stereo Review magazine, 1983 Imagine if someone had… Read more
Photo Credit: Pamela Littky After the success of Corey Taylor’s first solo album CMFT in 2020, it’s safe to say that those familiar with Corey Taylor’s work (whether it be Slipknot or solo) were excited about his next solo project. CMF2 is a sequel to Taylor’s first album and an improvement to its predecessor. One… Read more
Photo Credit: Jacob Webster Amala “Doja Cat” Dlamini has had the sort of career that could have only unfolded in our current “Very Online” era. Her big breakthrough arrived via the self-published “Mooo!” – a rap number, which was accompanied by a music video of Doja in cow pajamas, and which includes the line, “B*tch,… Read more
Photo Credit: Zamar Velez If there’s one thing that unites Gen-Z’s most popular singer-songwriters, it’s that they all capture – to one extent or another – that being young often sucks. Whereas the last generation of pop stars presented youth exclusively in its brightest, most ecstatic hues (think Kesha’s “TiK ToK” or Katy Perry’s “Teenage… Read more
Photo Credit: Becca Hamel Blame My Ex is Toronto’s, The Beaches, first new album in six years, even though they’ve released several EPs and stand-alone tracks in the interim (even about half the songs on this album had been available at some point previously). In fact, that last album, Late Show, was The Beaches’ debut… Read more
Photo Credit: Angelo Kritikos Demi Lovato has alternately tried on, and shed, many musical identities over the years – from the Disney-fied pop-punk of Don’t Forget, the self-described “generic” pop of Unbroken, the pop-meets-power-ballads of Confident, and the R&B-infused Tell Me You Love Me. Last year, she embarked on her most successful metamorphosis yet –… Read more
Photo Credit: Aron Klein & Bartholomew Cubbins Anyone discovering the music of Thirty Seconds to Mars (Jared and Shannon Leto) for the first time via their newest LP It’s the End of the World but It’s a Beautiful Day, will probably dismiss the project as a vanity project headed up by an A-lister running out… Read more
Photo Credit: Emman Montalvan Perhaps the biggest surprise of the 2022 Grammy’s ceremony was the coveted Album of The Year award being given to Jon Batiste – previously best known for leading the Stay Human band on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show. However, the decision is less shocking the more one thinks about it – We… Read more
Photo Credit: Julia Jackson Irish musician and songwriter Hozier (full name: Andrew John Hozier-Byrne) didn’t quite score the same success on his last release, Wasteland, Baby! (2019) as he had achieved with his enormously successful self-titled 2014 debut album (or his debut single “Take Me to Church”). But continuing his apparent practice of taking several… Read more