Prog-1, Metal-0: Opeth – Heritage If you like prog, this is an album to truly get excited about. If you like Opeth, be forewarned: This has NO death metal riffs or death metal growling. As Mikael Akerfeldt said recently, “It feels, without sounding pretentious,like we’ve been working our way up to this point since our first [...]

This band makes me think about what would happen if The Beatles collided with Billy Talent in a cosmic explosion of sound. It’s not that they sound anything like the Beatles at all… but take Billy Talent, remove every morsel of dark, sinister morbidness, and chuck in a trillion colourful balloons and an overdose of [...]

Icelandic composer, Johann Johannsson (b.1969) is a modern composer with his hand in a few different sorts of ideas. He has been involved in performances, exhibitions, books, radio shows, films etc.,all in an effort to encourage and promote experimentation and cross media/genre pollination. His albums of original music are absolutely beautiful in the most meaningful [...]

Among the sea of small bands constantly rising and falling, here is a band that stands out somewhat and, dare I say it, may achieve greatness with the right decisions:  The Randos. Out of Boston, comes this little surprise, a modern band with a taste for classic rock. When I first listened to the tracks [...]

Young Galaxy are a band from Canada based in Montreal. An ever changing line-up is centered around couple, Stephen Ramsay, his wife Catherine McCandless and long time associate Stephen Kamp. They have been labeled as shoegaze/dream pop. I’m not quite sure. They’re just Canadian! If you’ve been trawling around on line looking for something new [...]

Do you like your music Short and Creepy? Well then this album is for you! This album is only 10 Minutes Long! It’s full of electronic Squerks and Sqronks! It has a scary voice mumbling stuff about his ‘real voice’, how he gets his TV friends confused with his real friends and that you shouldn’t [...]

Why is my review of Radiohead’s 8th studio album a bit later than most? I wanted to let The King of Limbs really sink in before writing up a review because sometimes my first impressions don’t hold up very long. A good example is this is my 2009 “first impressions” review of Embryonic by The [...]

I’m putting this in the “Album Reviews” category but really, this is more like early impressions type thing than a proper review. I’m only on my second listen. For those with short attention spans who are likely to be put off by my rambling, let me first get to the point: I strongly recommend giving [...]

I just downloaded Philip Selway’s Familial from AmazonMP3 for $7.99 and I’m really pleased with it thus far. It’s an exceedingly pleasant album. If you like quiet contemplative songs then you may dig this album quite a bit. What does it sound like? Think Nick Drake with some subtle Radiohead-esque sonic experimentation. The songs are [...]

Hey guys (and girls). I apologize for not writing a post in a while. My life has become as intense as it can possibly be. Anyways, I just got back from a trip to LA, and got a good chance to listen to some music, especially while sitting in never ending bumper to bumper traffic! [...]