At this point, with seven studio albums under their belt since debuting on the scene in 2004, The Hold Steady have locked down a pretty reliable piece of rock & roll real estate around the storytelling narratives of singer/songwriter Craig Finn. The band’s 2019 album, aptly titled Thrashing Thru The Passion, featured five new songs…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 19 February 2021. Mogwai’s tenth studio album As The Love Continues, is out now through Spunk Records. Mogwai have advanced without a plan since they were teenagers, there have been no secretive meetings to work out the master plan….
With the pandemic postponement of the Hella Mega Tour with co-headliners Green Day and Fall Out Boy, Weezer has delayed the release of their promised Van Weezer record designed to re-visit the big noisy guitars of their hard rock and metal influences a la the likes of KISS, Sabbath, and of course, Van Halen. In…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 12 February 2021. Mia Doi Todd’s 12th album, Music Life, was recorded in her native Los Angeles. The album features guest performances from Jeff Parker, Money Mark, Fabiano do Nascimento, Sam Gendel, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and Laraaji. Ever since her…
Great music always finds a way to captivate its audience and find new listeners. That is the way I feel about this excellent new record from Seattle-based soul-jazz group Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio. The group’s sophomore studio album, I Told You So, will turn your ears and erase any expectations upon hearing it as it…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 5 February 2021. Hot on the heels of their acclaimed recording of Britten’s Peter Grimes, Stuart Skelton and Edward Gardner join forces with Christine Rice and the BBC Symphony Orchestra for this fascinating programme of early twentieth-century works. Schoenberg’s…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 29 January 2021. Arlo Parks is poet/singer from London. In her words she spent most of school feeling like that black kid who couldn’t dance for shit, listening to too much emo music and crushing on some girl in…
How about a record that embraces the isolation of current times with a simmering post-punk that will hit your core? If that piques your interest then Shame’s sophomore record, Drunk Tank Pink, is a release that you need to spin right now. The band presents a much more mature sound from their debut, Songs of…
A story of aspiration and achievement, the documentary Dawn Raid is a ripper. Dawn Raid Entertainment became an institution in New Zealand in the late ‘90s and noughties. Co-founded by a couple of young big guys from South Auckland who met at business school – but only completed about a year – and didn’t have…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 22 January 2021. Wide, Wide River is the new album from James Yorkston in collaboration with The Second Hand Orchestra. James writes “This beautiful album I made with The Second Hand Orchestra, a Swedish band ran by Karl-Jonas, a…
