The studio tomfoolery created by the brothers Hutzulak, and their partner in noise crime Todd Mason, blend elements of the Beta Band with a...
Anyone who can appreciate the fine art of songwriting accompanied by fleeting moments of Kate Bush brilliance should become intimate with Su...
The soundtrack to video game Road Rash: Jail Break is packed with 12 hard rockin' bands, including Toronto's Punchbuggy, who submitted their...
Finding a muse for their sixth release has greatly improved Malhavoc. Unfortunately, the band has come to the Book of the Dead influence a f...
The perplexing complexity that the Need bring to their wonderfully eccentric sound can drive you crazy trying to explain it. Simply put, the...
Throughout history, music has been accused of being a bad influence on innocent youth, corrupting minds too naïve to properly understand the...
When Frank Black, then known as Black Francis, broke up the sonically charged Pixies in favour of putrid solo albums, I had written him off,...
In the 1980s, at the height of the Dungeons and Dragons craze, if you made up your own characters, constructed costumes and wrote yourself a...
Tom Spacey is all that and a bag of weed. For the first 22 minutes, the music drones mildly, melding vocals, guitar, drums and Hammond organ...
Simply amazing. While the rest of the goth world has finally caught up with their sonic experimentation and Julie S. Faris's mournful vocals...
To expect anything less than excellence from ambient pioneer Robert Rich would be foolish. Watchful has a very mellow vibe that contains a m...
In creating his debut album with producer Mark Pistel (Meat Beat Manifesto, Consolidated), Ledenhed tosses in hip-hop, heavy guitar riffage,...
Everyone's got their finger on the button. It's not just for kids, rec room stoners, coin-feeding teens or under-employed 20-somethings. Bus...
Usually when a band borrows a page from the Sisters of Mercy they end up sounding dreadful. Not so for the Dreadful Shadows, who spark enoug...
The childish lyrics that Tommy Lee recorded on his answering machine from the L.A. county jail, combined with trendy scratches, raps and san...
Prolific album artist Russell Mills has carved an excellent ambient landscape out of snippets of acoustic/electronic field recordings and, m...
Sorting and the cost of laundry can take hours away from listening and purchasing music. Most people have to sort their clothes because they...
The cadaver cool vibes of NYC's the Gunga Din hum along the lines of Bad Seed Mick Harvey's compositions. What's different is the timeless p...
“If you take a bar in a song at random and you loop it, it always sounds cool,” Meg Lee Chin reveals about her superb slick mell...
Lou Reed's lost mojo has finally been recovered by the unlikeliest of characters in Charles Douglas. That mojo is one powerful dope fuelled...
