Another album review written by my helpful intern Sebastian L’Arrivée. CocoRosie’s latest release, Tales of a GrassWidow, is somewhat different from the bands past efforts, in that there is a strong, if dark, story flowing throughout. The songs follow an overt structure and there’s significantly less reliance upon shocking the audience in the way that […]

Happy Monday, friends! Today’s post comes to you from one of my amazing interns, Sebastien L’Arrivée. He will be helping with the new album portion of the website along with writing reviews of albums we both think deserve some praise and critical discussion. Hope you enjoy! It’s hard to tell what to expect from U.K. […]

2011 was one amazing year for music, especially here in Canada where there was an incredible amount of wonderful releases. It made narrowing down this list to just 10 records incredibly hard. All of these records inspired me in some way over the year, along with many others that didn’t quite fit into my top 10. Here […]

I recently came across Teenage Kicks through some brilliant marketing they did on Record Store Day, giving away a free 7 inch vinyl single at Criminal Records and Sonic Boom. I grabbed it, being familiar with the Undertones song of the same name,  so I thought it might be worth checking out. Also, it was […]

Sloan’s tenth album in twenty years (aptly titled The Double Cross) hit stores this week and I’ll just say right away, this is my favorite Sloan album since Navy Blues. It’s that good. I feel like Canada mostly forgot about Sloan for the past decade, and I’ll admit I haven’t been crazy about many of […]