The City Streets opens their latest (third) album, the Jazz Age, with grand ambitions. In a recent interview, singer Rick Reid states, “It’s our big rock record about failure (among other things) and it’s meant to be played loud.” And so it is. The louder the better, in fact. The record is literally shot through [...] Read More

Brett Caswell’s new album, A New Balance, is a sure-footed escape from the past. Announcing his intentions with the near perfect opener, “When It Rains,” and seemingly caught in an unexpected emotional downpour, Caswell struggles to remove himself from such disorientation once and for all. For much of the rest of the album, his songwriting [...] Read More

Wintersleep’s new album, New Inheritors, stealthily snakes to life with a snyth and a murmur. The melancholy then quickly winds its way up to full blown arena rock, but there are aftereffects that don’t sit too well. While boasting a wide range of strengths, there’s an unshakeable sense that its punchier production values come at [...] Read More

British Columbia is on fire. Trading the blues for Runaways’ style pop glamour, the Pack A.D. emerge a little flashier and heavier on the eyeliner. While they once sounded like the Canadian answer to the wounded blues howl of Ohio band the Black Keys, they now sound a lot more like glammed-up garage rock. Swing [...] Read More