Pile – “Loops” [Video]
Pile have announced their new album, All Fiction, with a video for its eruptive lead single “Loops.” On their eighth record, the ambitious group assembles … Read more
Wild Pink: ILYSM [Album Review]
Wild PinkILYSMRoyal Mountain Records [2022] I don’t use the word gorgeous very often to describe music as I feel it never really defines the artists … Read more
King Tuff – “Smalltown Stardust” [Video]
King Tuff, the project of Kyle Thomas, has announced his long-awaited new album Smalltown Stardust, with a video for its lead single and title track … Read more
Martha: Please Don’t Take Me Back [Album Review]
MarthaPlease Don’t Take Me BackSpecialist Subject/Dirtnap Records [2022] Now on their fourth album, Durham, England’s Martha has perfected their indie pop punk formula as they … Read more
Simple Minds: Direction Of The Heart [Album Review]
Simple MindsDirection Of The HeartBMG [2022] Scottish band Simple Minds came to the attention of American rock audiences in the early 80’s alongside UK bands … Read more
Ghost Funk Orchestra: A New Kind Of Love [Album Review]
Ghost Funk OrchestraA New Kind Of LoveColemine/Karma Chief Records [2022] When Ghost Funk Orchestra’s debut LP for Karma Chief, Song For Paul, made its way … Read more
Dropkick Murphys: This Machine Still Kills Fascists [Album Review]
Dropkick MurphysThis Machine Still Kills FascistsDummy Luck Music [2022] In 2003, Boston-based Celtic punk rock band Dropkick Murphys covered Woody Guthrie’s song “Gonna Be a … Read more
Death Cab For Cutie: Asphalt Meadows [Album Review]
Death Cab For CutieAsphalt MeadowsAtlantic Records [2022] While responses to the 2018 release from Death Cab For Cutie were mixed, there were hints in several … Read more
Brendan Benson – “Ain’t No Good” [Video]
Not every two-year period measures out the same, noted Brendan Benson, the 51-year-old Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and co-founder of The Raconteurs. Benson had just finished his … Read more
Fire Track: Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – “Mr Medicine”
The Newcastle, UK-based group Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs has announced their upcoming album, Land of Sleeper to be released on February 17th … Read more
Surprise Chef: Education & Recreation [Album Review]
Surprise ChefEducation & RecreationBig Crown Records [2022] In the music critic business, you would be surprised sometimes on how promoters create large reaching descriptors for … Read more
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard: Changes [Album Review]
King Gizzard & The Lizard WizardChangesKGLW [2022] Changes wraps up King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s trilogy of new albums released in October 2022, and it’s … Read more
Drugdealer: Hiding In Plain Sight [Album Review]
DrugdealerHiding In Plain SightMexican Summer [2022] Michael Collins has always been an interesting character in music since the early 2010’s. After a legal battle over … Read more
Guided By Voices: Scalping The Guru [Album Review]
Guided By VoicesScalping The GuruGBV Inc. [2022] If you were to poll fans of Guided By Voices what they thought were three consecutive years that … Read more
Richard X. Heyman: 67,000 Miles An Album [Album Review]
Richard X. Heyman67,000 Miles An AlbumTurn-Up Records [2022] The speed of the earth as it moves in orbit around the sun is 67,000 miles an … Read more
The 1975: Being Funny In A Foreign Language [Album Review]
The 1975Being Funny In A Foreign LanguageDirty Hit/Polydor/Interscope Records [2022] One of the challenges in describing the music and albums of The 1975 in the … Read more
Archers Of Loaf: Reason In Decline [Album Review]
Archers Of LoafReason In DeclineMerge Records [2022] I know that I was not alone in my excitement when I heard that the original four members … Read more
The Men – “Hard Livin'” [Video]
“When everyone left NYC, the sewer opened and we crawled out.” Prolific Brooklyn institution The Men are today announcing their ninth studio album, ‘New York … Read more
Robyn Hitchcock: Shufflemania! [Album Review]
Robyn HitchcockShufflemania!Tiny Ghost Records [2022] With 22 studio albums to his credit, and the subject of a concert film by Jonathan Demme, Robyn Hitchcock may … Read more
Chris Staples – “Out Of My Body” [Video]
Chris Staples has just released his variation on the pandemic blues in his first new release since Holy Moly (Barsuk Records, 2019). “Out of My … Read more
Arctic Monkeys: The Car [Album Review]
Arctic MonkeysThe CarDomino [2022] When Arctic Monkeys released the lounge affair that is 2018’s Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, I think every fan and follower … Read more
Fire Track: The Tubs – “Sniveller”
Dead Meat by The Tubs London-based Welsh band The Tubs announce their debut album, Dead Meat, out January 27th via Trouble in Mind, and present … Read more
Dry Cleaning: Stumpwork [Album Review]
Dry CleaningStumpwork4AD [2022] After the release of their 2019 EP, Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks, TFN said that we couldn’t wait to hear how South … Read more
Sloan: Steady [Album Review]
SloanSteadyYep Roc Records [2022] Steady represents Sloan’s 13th full length album, and its release today coincides with the 30th anniversary of their debut record Smeared … Read more
Lou Reed: Words & Music, May 1965 [Album Review]
Lou ReedWords & Music, May 1965Light In The Attic Records [2022] The standard rock critic cliché often attributed to Brian Eno—he of early Roxy Music … Read more