The first EP from Alexander and The Great Ones feels like a love letter to the past. Super Turbo finds itself sonically rooted in classic rock and roll, but frontman Alexander MacNeil takes his time to add his own modern sentiments to the sound. Continue reading New Music: Alexander and The Great Ones Pay Homage to the Past with ‘Super Turbo’
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Single: Michael S Ryan Wants You to Know Just How Far He’ll Go for You With ‘Mexico’
Michael S. Ryan continues working with his better half – his wife, artist Kristen Herrington, not to be confused with his other half, Bruce Gillis of The Town Heroes – to produce a series of songs and videos reinterpreted as paintings. With his latest single, “Mexico,” Ryan makes it very clear just how far he’d be willing to go for either one of them, or anyone really. Michael S. Ryan is just that kind of guy. Continue reading Single: Michael S Ryan Wants You to Know Just How Far He’ll Go for You With ‘Mexico’
New Music: norc Shine on the Instrumentals ‘With Ginseng and Honey’
With Ginseng and Honey is the debut album of norc, a Halifax’s trio “of questionable genre” but words like ambient, prog, and math suit them well. The album features complex rhythms and harmony, but the ingredients are put together with a pop sensitivity. Their sound is full and well-arranged, with instrument parts seemingly written to get the most bang out of a trio. Continue reading New Music: norc Shine on the Instrumentals ‘With Ginseng and Honey’
New Music: Paragon Cause & Danish Prod. Sune Rose Wagner Merge Ideals for ‘Lies Between Us’ EP
It’s a story as old as time itself: two people meet, sparks fly, they form an indie-electronica band, tweet their Danish noise-pop idol that he should work with them on their next project, to which he agrees and arrives post-haste. Okay, so maybe this scenario is… uncommon, but it indeed happened and the results are the new Paragon Cause EP, Lies Between Us; a dark and textured, sometimes lush and hopeful record that grabs your attention and keeps it. Continue reading New Music: Paragon Cause & Danish Prod. Sune Rose Wagner Merge Ideals for ‘Lies Between Us’ EP
Thrush Hermit: Joel Plaskett Reflects on 20 Years of ‘Clayton Park’
In 1999 three things happened that would shake the foundations of my world: my own personal (and, admittedly, late) discovery of Thrush Hermit, the release of their album Clayton Park, followed almost immediately by the near-simultaneous and heartbreaking announcement of the band’s dissolution.
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