For a band that has built up a reputation built on the energy and strength of their live shows, the Flashing Lights' latest offering may pro...

Trip-hoppin' down through the realms of mystical and elemental grooves, across continents and aural limitations comes the latest sampler fro...

After seven years, the Scottish twins that shamelessly reinvented the sappy song you weren't ashamed to like have come back with a long-awai...

Out of Rochester, NY, come the Quitters, pretenders to the snot-punk garage throne. Whiny, bratty, funny and sarcastic, the Quitters tend to...

Swedish punk rock heroes Millencolin offer up a tasty little EP that borrows heavily from their Pennybridge Pioneers album - of the eight tr...

Eyes for Telescopes are a bluesy, folksy and very pop-oriented Charlottetown group, and yet another item Canada has been overlooking. Includ...

Unabashedly retro and celebrating the world before Vietnam got ugly, the Neatbeats are pure Liverpool, Japan. Stylistically and musically, t...

Detroit's Moods for Moderns blend a tight, hand-clapping British Invasion pop and driving Motor City guitar-led structure in a complex weave...

Maritimer festival faves the Jive Kings have apparently been cutting quite a swath of success since their 1999 inception. Winning two consec...

As melodic as Winnipeg's the Telepathic Butterflies are, they are able to maintain a strong centre to their highly original, '60s psych-infl...

Considering the recent mayhem coming out of the province of Quebec this past couple of months (protestors, cops, rubber bullets, Svend Robin...

Recorded over almost two years and in three countries, the NYSJE's live offering provides an overlook of some of this premiere ska band's fi...

As if dealing with oversized Hollywood egos on screen and in the celebrity magazines isn't bad enough, now we have to listen to them. This c...

Ireland-based Skindive's debut album, the brainchild of guitarist and songwriter Gerry Owens, is at times overwhelming in its complexity, gr...

As far as the average fantasy tale of good guy versus bad guy, ugly outcast versus beautiful rich creep, "Shrek" at least is better than "A...

The long decline of the vampire/teen slasher/titty flick has another lamentable chapter in "The Forsaken," an utterly predictable, laughably...

Nicotine is a fast and furious punk (and occasionally ska) group out of Chiba, Japan. They sing in English, which more often than not works,...

Los Angeles pot-rockers Arlo will have you know they got the title of their album from an e.e. cummings poem, not from any sort of dopey gig...

As madcap time-travel goofball comedies go, "Just Visiting" isn't really worse than any of the others. The plot is formulaic, the script fai...

With songs that are soft, intricate, deeply melodic and harmonic, Bran Van 3000 alumnus and hang-around Adam Chaki is not only very hairy bu...