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Jane’s Addiction’s fresh singles, “Imminent Redemption” and “True Love” are exactly what one could only dream of coming from them, this is in no way to say they are perfect. Hoping for hope from such an energetic and emotional band is what one always does. Too often has Perry...
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Saturday Night Live just had its Christmas episode, which featured musical guest Hozier. The Irishman in New York celebrated the holiday and the recently passed Shane MacGowan by playing Pogues‘ famed “Fairytale of New York” – watch to catch the back-up singers up-front, guitarist switching mid-song to violin, flute...
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In maybe the most hardcore/metal moment on national TV since Gojira beheaded the Paris Olympics, Knocked Loose came to Jimmy Kimmel Live with Poppy to crush it with their Grammy-nominated “Suffocate”. Yes, there was a circle pit – and extra props to everyone for doing it in the rare...
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One QRO’s favorite new finds in the last few years has been Dublin’s Somebody’s Child, whose expansive emotionalism taps in no matter your age. On March 28th, they put out sophomore album When Youth Fades Away, their follow up to last year’s great self-titled debut, (QRO review), and just...
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The greatest thing out of Canada since bacon, Broken Social Scene were the leading edge of the ‘Canadian Invasion’ of indie-rock in the 2000s. Now they get their own much-deserved documentary, It’s All Gonna Break, from Stephen Chung about the chaotic collective’s chaotic, collectivist history, from meeting in the...
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Grade School, the relatively sensitive, explosively great, and currently particularly unknown band are sprinting to being found, but Be Cool, Grade Schoolis really just an incarnation of the same trope, an interestingly mix-heavy but synth sparring art-rock where “Cry If I Want To” is the mantra, “My Favourite Sweater”...
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Two of the greatest music mysteries in 2024 have been resolved: The Cure will release their long-awaited 14th record on November the 1st 2024, and L.A.’s wonder trio ASHRR will finally release their sophomore album, Sunshine Low, on September the 20th, 2024, via the 20/20 Vision Recordings label. ASHRR...
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Sunbeam Sound Machine, “Creatures” single is a fitting follow up to the greatest incarnation of said primarily alternatively artsy single voiced (Nick Sowersby) forces of nature based artists best works in Possum, but nocturnal, diurnal, or somewhere in between, some the charms are like the weather, based in their...
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Late Night has been the home of indie-rock since the eighties, the weird younger brother to The Tonight Show‘s ultra-mainstream, from David Letterman’s initial creation to Conan O’Brien’s absurdist nineties, even Jimmy Fallon bringing a crowd behind them, but it hit its peak with the 8G Band, formed around...
Jane’s Addiction’s fresh singles, “Imminent Redemption” and “True Love” are exactly what one could only dream of coming from them, this is in no way to say they are perfect. Hoping for hope from such an energetic and emotional band is what one always does. Too often has Perry...
Saturday Night Live just had its Christmas episode, which featured musical guest Hozier. The Irishman in New York celebrated the holiday and the recently passed Shane MacGowan by playing Pogues‘ famed “Fairytale of New York” – watch to catch the back-up singers up-front, guitarist switching mid-song to violin, flute...
In maybe the most hardcore/metal moment on national TV since Gojira beheaded the Paris Olympics, Knocked Loose came to Jimmy Kimmel Live with Poppy to crush it with their Grammy-nominated “Suffocate”. Yes, there was a circle pit – and extra props to everyone for doing it in the rare...
One QRO’s favorite new finds in the last few years has been Dublin’s Somebody’s Child, whose expansive emotionalism taps in no matter your age. On March 28th, they put out sophomore album When Youth Fades Away, their follow up to last year’s great self-titled debut, (QRO review), and just...
The greatest thing out of Canada since bacon, Broken Social Scene were the leading edge of the ‘Canadian Invasion’ of indie-rock in the 2000s. Now they get their own much-deserved documentary, It’s All Gonna Break, from Stephen Chung about the chaotic collective’s chaotic, collectivist history, from meeting in the...
Grade School, the relatively sensitive, explosively great, and currently particularly unknown band are sprinting to being found, but Be Cool, Grade Schoolis really just an incarnation of the same trope, an interestingly mix-heavy but synth sparring art-rock where “Cry If I Want To” is the mantra, “My Favourite Sweater”...
Two of the greatest music mysteries in 2024 have been resolved: The Cure will release their long-awaited 14th record on November the 1st 2024, and L.A.’s wonder trio ASHRR will finally release their sophomore album, Sunshine Low, on September the 20th, 2024, via the 20/20 Vision Recordings label. ASHRR...
Sunbeam Sound Machine, “Creatures” single is a fitting follow up to the greatest incarnation of said primarily alternatively artsy single voiced (Nick Sowersby) forces of nature based artists best works in Possum, but nocturnal, diurnal, or somewhere in between, some the charms are like the weather, based in their...
Late Night has been the home of indie-rock since the eighties, the weird younger brother to The Tonight Show‘s ultra-mainstream, from David Letterman’s initial creation to Conan O’Brien’s absurdist nineties, even Jimmy Fallon bringing a crowd behind them, but it hit its peak with the 8G Band, formed around...