CRUISE YOUR ILLUSION – FAT POSSUM Oh hey, Olympia, what’s up? For a city that has seen its fair share of getting the short end of the proverbial straw, scene-wise, […]

AMOK – XL RECORDINGS Yeah, we all know the details by now and they’re just starting to sound like buzz-words and filler for those who really have no idea what […]

AT PEACE – SIX DEGREES RECORDS He’s been compared to Jimi Hendrix. Then again, what African guitar or kora player hasn’t been? A virtuosic performer, Ballaké Sissoko has woven a […]

UNTIL IN EXCESS, IMPERCEPTIBLE UFO – JAGJAGUWAR Experimental Canadian post-rockers The Besnard Lakes return with another album, Until in Excess, Imperceptible UFO, an album whose high propensity for poeticism and […]

TOOTH & NAIL – DINE ALONE RECORDS This recording represents a bit of a departure for Billy Bragg, a throwback to a kinder age – a time when an artist […]

MUTUAL FRIENDS – NETTWERK Boy’s story goes something like this: Valeska Steiner and Sonja Glass met at a German music school, where they realized they shared a love for quirky […]

DEAD SET ON LIVING RE-ISSUE/BAT SABBATH EP – DISTORT ENTERTAINMENT With a hiss and a scream, Toronto hardcore band Cancer Bats have re-released their fourth studio album. Dead Set on […]

BIGFOOT – SECRETLY CANADIAN More and more, the promise of summer’s hot, sunshiny days can be seen through our windows each afternoon. Cayucas’s debut full-length, Bigfoot, is sure to be […]

POP ALLIANCE – VOL. 3 - MINT RECORDS CiTR and Mint Records have already put together two Vancouver-based compilations over the last couple of years and this is the third instalment […]

PAPER NICKELS – LOCAL RASCAL RECORDS When writing about an album, one would think that the focus would be on the music. Normally this assumption would be correct, but the […]