Bad Wizard - Sky HighBad Wizard is the greatest contemporary rock and roll band that no one is talking about. If you take the stage presence and energy of the Tight Bros From Way Back When, fuse it with a band that takes itself completely serious in its quest for big, loud stadium rock and threw in the best absolute influences like Led Zeppelin, ACDC, Guns ‘N’ Roses, and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, you’d have Bad Wizard. Read more

Aids Wolf - The Lovvers CD AIDS Wolf are a noise outfit out of Montreal, and I am gonna say right off the bat, I just don’t get it. Mostly squawking guitars, repetitive intricate bass lines, breakbeat drumming, and a howling chick add up to something kinda vaguely cool to me, but nothing I am gonna shit my pants over. Read more

Belle and Sebastian - The Life PursuitEloquence and sunshine swirls about in the latest from the cherubic Scottish outfit. Like water off a duck’s back, the miseries of the world are repelled by The Life Pursuit, a plucky foray into Burt Bacharach territory. Read more

The Postmarks - The Postmarks Much like their name suggests, The Postmarks‘ debut disc is the stuff of lost love letters, perfume-soaked postcards, and twenty-something hopefulness. It’s downright infectious. Read more



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