Album review: Blue World by John Coltrane
John Coltrane Blue World Impulse! Score: A Blue World is an album of unreleased takes recorded by the John Coltrane Quartet at the height of their masterful jazz cohesion, made three weeks after their...
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Album review: Love and Compromise by Mahalia
Mahalia Love and Compromise Atlantic Records Score: A If you’re having trouble soothing the painful sting of heartbreak, or if you’re looking for a new single girl anthem, Mahalia’s newly released album Love...
Album review: i,i by Bon Iver
Bon Iver i,i Jagjaguwar Score: A As we make the transition from hot summer days to cool autumn nights, consider having Bon Iver’s fourth studio album, i,i, your background music. Listen to it as...
Album review: Morbid Stuff by PUP
PUP Morbid Stuff Rise Score: A Returning with their third album, PUP’s Morbid Stuff is front to back what pop-punk dreams are made of. Where the Toronto band’s second album, The Dream is Over...
Album review: Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent by Lewis Capaldi
Lewis Capaldi Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent Virgin EMI Records Score: A- Out of all the bops this summer, there’s Lewis Capaldi’s debut album filled with his rougher-than-gravel powerhouse vocals and weepy sentimental...
How Maren Morris and the rest of the music industry are standing up for women
By Mackenzie Gellner, Contributor Music has the ability to make a person feel like they belong or that they are being understood. Music can uplift you and also put you right into your feelings. Recently,...
Noise 101: CD reviews for Nov. 29
The Avett Brothers The Carpenter Ramseur Records The Carpenter, the seventh studio album by The Avett Brothers, is a lesson of how a band can evolve to appeal to the masses but still...
Dojo Workhorse album M.I.A.
Civil Sheperd release successful even without actual record Graham Duncan Contributor There aren’t many bands that can host a successful album release without actually releasing their album. Dojo Workhorse, however, is one...
Noise 101 – CD reviews for Nov. 15
The Killers Battle Born Vertigo Record Following Day and Age, and on the heels of Brandon Flower’s solo work Flamingo, comes Battle Born: an underwhelming album. It’s extremely derivative to say the least....
Less Than Jake and Reel Big Fish storm MRU
Flatfoot 56 likely great too, just really early Lindsay Douglas Web Editor It‘s been a while since Calgary has seen the likes of third-wave ska kingpins Reel Big Fish and Less Than...
