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
Photo Credit: Trevor Pavlik In case you hadn’t noticed, country music is enjoying a “boom” moment – earlier this summer, country songs occupied all the top 3 spaces on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time ever – and then, it happened again. But whether this phenomenon was to the genre’s benefit or not… Read more
Photo Credit: Quavo via Motown Records Quavo’s latest, and first solo album in over 5 years, Rocket Power, is a poignant and heartfelt tribute to his late nephew, Takeoff. As one-third of the renowned hip-hop trio Migos, Quavo is no stranger to the music industry’s limelight. However, Rocket Power reveals a different facet of his… Read more
“You have 20 years to write your first album and you have six months to write your second one,” said Elvis Costello in 1981. The best debuts bottle up and release decades worth of insight, feeling, and experience into a singular, captivating musical statement. From indie rock and pop to folk and country, below are some… Read more
Photo Credit: Kristina Nagel Travis Scott’s new album UTOPIA is an interesting addition to his discography, but it falls short of the high expectations set by his previous work. UTOPIA features notable collaborations with artists like Beyoncé, Drake, and The Weeknd, which adds star power to the album and showcases Travis Scott’s ability to bring… Read more
Photo Credit: Nazrin Massaro There’s one instrument that dominates the new album by Georgia Flipo (AKA G Flip) and you don’t get points for getting which one it is – it’s there in the album title, and the album art and is made obvious within the album’s first few songs. This is a return to… Read more