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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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,...

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...

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

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...

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...

Southern Ontario - a haven, as everyone knows, for car thieves, misfits, drunks and rowdies. A murky centre of hillbilly menace, coupling sh...

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...

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...