Albums (English)

Before I start on Mr Lafarge’s latest album. Please take a look at this clip. His last show in Montreal. Was present. Had beer spilled on by someone next to me. Don’t regret a drop of...

Tough not to think of Courtney Love and Hole when listening to Du Blonde's new album, "Welcome Back to Milk" (what?!). The blonde singer, close to being naked on the album art, can scream as powerfully as the...

The electro pop band Hot Chip is back with its catchy - almost disco-esque - beats that made them famous in recent years with hits like Ready For The Floor, Over and Over (2008), One Life Stand (2010)… The...

Don't be mistaken. Django Django isn't a gypsy cover band. Based in London, they are a cool indie pop rock band that has an obvious melodic talent. The quartet just released their second album, “Born Under...

Features which connects the Brazilian electronic music to traditional elements, like forró or bossa nova, is increasingly seen as fallacy. When a simple computer connect you with the world, all barriers...

In 2012, indie lo-fi folk artist Cat Power stunned her fans with an album that was more upbeat than anything she had ever done - by far! Nowhere in her 8 previous albums could we have detected any sign that...

Some bands take breaks after a few successful years. Either to resource themselves, write new songs, or take care of personal issues. And sometimes, this hiatus can take years before the band rejoins together...

Montreal-born musician Debbie Tebbs produced a few months ago a pretty cool album with catchy electro pop songs (like Up!) with a little help from friends like Misteur Valaire.... There is a lot of energy...

What a great stoner rock album "Golem" is! The LA based band Wand has the ability to create slow, thick and heavy stoner rock on one song (like the opener Unexplored Map) and then throw an energic song that...

Since January 1st of this year, RREVERB’s staff received over 650 albums in all genres, from a wide variety of labels (majors to independents). It’s quite a task (but a fun one!) to try to find the best...

(Here is the 3rd installment of Galileo's Travel Guide to World Music series) The music of India is quite possibly one of the most famous sub-genres of world music. Thanks to the increasing popularity of...

I remember buying Tv On The Radio's 3rd album, “Return to Cookie Mountain”, after reading a comment from David Bowie saying it was one of the best new bands he had heard. As I've always admired the Thin...

Father John Misty presents a lovely, alternate version of the title track of his latest album, I Love You, Honeybear, along with a new, exclusive B-side, truthfully-entitled “I’ve Never Been a Woman,” on...

While I have been pretty quiet on the blogging front lately, there has been one standout album on my Last.fm most listened stats. Milk & Bone is an electro-pop duo from Montreal, they have been much...

Three years ago, Montreal band Suuns (Ben Shemie, Liam O'Neill, Max Henry and Joseph Yarmush) and musician Radwan Ghazi Moumneh that goes by the name Jerusalem In My Heart hooked up together and jammed on...

Every once in a while a pop artist that comes up with a great album that gets (almost) universal praise. 2013 was Lorde's, 2009 was all about La Roux. We could go back to excellent albums by Blondie,...

Back in the 40's, there wasn't that many female folk singers. Connie Converse was one of the great musicians that preceded Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell. And when we listen to her music 70 years after it was...

Singer-songwriter Sarah Bethe Nelson explores the dark 60s garage folk rock style with her debut album, published on Burger Records. Alike Kandle, she delivers great catchy songs that have a somber twist, like...

In the "great pop" alley of the music market, you can find some pretty cool and catchy music. At RREVERB, we don't snob pop music. We don't approve it all, but we can recognize the best one among the sea of...

FFS - the collaboration between Glasgow-based quartet Franz Ferdinand and seminal Los Angeles duo Sparks - have announced details of the release of their self-titled album on June 9 on Domino. The first...

What seemed to be leaning towards heavy groovy dance floor beats (the catchy Loops) takes a sharp turn in direction of industrial offbeat psycho-killer ambiance. Yes, that's what Doldrums latest album, "The...

The eponymous album by the Portland, Oregon band The Helio Sequence is one of my favorites of the first three months of 2015. Their perfect blend of dreamy vocals and upbeat guitars makes me relax without...

(Here is the 2nd article of Galileo's Travel Guide serie) It's often a general rule that extreme conditions breed fantastic music. Scandinavia's dark and dismal winters, followed by its too-short summers,...

Dick Diver is one of the latest "flavors of the month" in the indie rock scene. We'll see if they'll make their way and have a long-term career in music, or just be a hit-and-run type of band. But in the...

In 1998, English rocker PJ Harvey released her 4th album, entitled "Is This Desire?". At the time, it was perceived as a record where experimentation was less raw (vs her duet album with longtime friend and...

Unlike millions of people around the world, I've never been a fan of Madonna's music. Mostly because I've always found that her success was in large part due to her sexiness more than her music. What would...

It often still amazes me just how many different styles of music there are to listen to and how music varies from country to country. When you think about how many variants of scales you find and look at just...

The great movement of soft indie pop from the West Coast has a new militant: Pacific Gold. This band, composed of Torry Anderson (keys), Brian Hibbard (guitar), Dan Koch (vocals), David Stuart (drums) and John...

As a young kid growing up with siblings that were 15/16 years my senior it became very apparent that I was in the midst of  musical fulfillment. So as a 5 year old I would frequent their bedrooms for musical...

Siskiyou hasn't released an album since 2011’s “Keep Away The Dead”. During those silent years, the singer and songwriter Colin Huebert had been diagnosed with hyperacusis. A health condition which...

Cecile Doo-Kingué wants "to be your bitch". And she wants somebody to "fuck the devil out of me!" Yes, shocking indeed! That's how the first song of Cecile Doo-Kingué's third album opens. The folk singer...

I am starting off by stating that the Beastie Boys have been an absolute staple of my musical life. Easily in my Top 5 of the ranking system.  Even after the premature death of my favorite B-Boy Adam Yauch...

"The Lotus Factor” is an album that I keep pressing play whenever I want to escape from my lovely jazz world. Blown away by the feelings of this magnificent first album, Em Pompa and her band mates...

During the endless 2014 winter, ex-Unicorns and ex-Clues frontman Alden Penner created an album that crystalized his solo experience. "Exegesis" was born out of many songs build on strong folk structure and...

TOPS (all in caps) is a synth pop band that came out of Montreal, Canada in 2012. Rather unnoticed, their soft dreamy indie pop deserves more attention, even though the sound quality isn’t optimal. Catchy...

Father John Misty is the alter ego of Joshua Tillman, a prolific songwriter and musician: at 33 years old, he has 10 albums under his belt and has also toured as a drummer with the folk bands Fleet Foxes and...

There's something nice about growing old(er). Yes, the body is less performant. Some parts hurt. But experience and knowledge adds up through the years, and it makes some things more interesting. I've been...

Last week, I missed Viet Cong playing at Montreal's Ritz PDB to a sold out crowd. I wish I hadn't. That day, I had just started listening to their new self-titled album, and I haven't stopped since then....

I was recently listening to good old Mudhoney albums (see my review of "Every Boy Deserves Fudge" here) and was missing the heavy fuzzy stoner rock these guys used to make in the heyday of grunge rock, late...

We often hear about The Go-Go's and The Bangles as "influential and important" to the female rock scene, as they were somehow successful in the pop world of the 80s. Hard rockers L7 also get some recognition...