Albums
The Howling Eye – Sonorous
9/10 Sonorous, the latest release from Poland natives The Howling Eye, is full of riff-heavy stoner jams, each one longer and more full of twists and turns than the last. And they couldn’t be easier […]
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Albums
Flares – Traces of You
7/10 Here’s the thing. Traces of You, the latest release from Germany natives Flares, wants to be edgy. It needs to be edgy. Its friends are all edgy and it wants to be like them. […]
Albums
Some Antics – Not Very Fun at Parties
7.5/10 Ah, pop punk. Somehow it has endured through its relatively brief but still respectable tenure among other spikey-haired subgenres, never quite becoming the most popular, but never disappearing either. To their credit, while Not […]
Quebec
Mike Shinoda with Don Broco – Live at MTelus – October 10th, 2018 – Montreal, QC
Last summer, whether you’re a fan of their music or not, chances are you heard about the tragic passing of Linkin Park lead vocalist Chester Bennington. Since then, while the band has been cagey about […]
Quebec
J. Cole With Young Thug and EARTHGANG – Live at Bell Centre – October 5th, 2018 – Montreal, QC
There is a lot of rap around these days. Maybe you’ve noticed. As of just May of this year, there are over 8,000 artists on Spotify who sport the prefix “Lil” as part of their […]
Albums
Static – Disguise
4/10 If East London natives Static were going for unsettling on their latest EP Disguise, they definitely succeeded. If they were going for almost anything else, then let’s just call this a miss. It starts […]
Quebec
Aqua with Prozzak – Live at MTelus – September 24th, 2018 – Montreal, QC
Let’s be honest, everyone everywhere loved the 90s. It was a time when nothing ever went wrong, the roads were made of candy, and music came from people who looked exclusively like Japanese cartoons made […]
Quebec
Streetlight Manifesto with Mephiskapheles – Live at The Olympia – September 23rd, 2018 – Montreal, QC
Contrary to the night before (and in a fashion much more common to Montreal’s Olympia theatre) the line was huge to get in to catch Streetlight Manifesto perform their first album in its entirety in […]
Quebec
Coheed and Cambria with Protest the Hero and Crown Lands – Live at The Olympia – September 22nd, 2018 – Montreal, QC
What’s your dream bill? Given the opportunity, which two bands would make up your perfect evening concert? In terms of modern prog titans, it doesn’t get much more perfect than Protest the Hero and Coheed […]
Albums
Elevate the Virus – Derelict
9/10 Genre worship doesn’t have to be a bad thing. Sometimes a band so accurately nails a sound they’ve clearly grown up listening to that it ends up not only sounding as good as the […]