VHS Collection is a talented New York based electronic rock band formed by three longtime friends: Conor Cook, James Bohannon, Nils Vanderlip.

VHS Collection are known for their powerful songwriting and high-energy live performances. Their music has been streamed over 40 million times on Spotify and three singles have charted on the US and Global Viral Charts. They have performed at major festivals including Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits and have sold out headline shows across the country. 

After two EPs and a bunch of singles, VHS Collection released their full-length debut album last Friday, November 2.

Titled Retrofuturism, the album was expertly produced by Chris Zane (Passion Pit, St. Lucia, Nelly Furtado) and Tony Hoffer (The Kooks, Phoenix, Beck).

As the title of the record suggests, Retrofuturism is a "modern vintage" album, with 80's synth-wave and pop influences and a modern production.

Try Retrofuturism on your favorite digital music service clicking on the image.

Coyote Choir is an American three-piece rock band featuring brothers Jason and Paul Watkins (vocals and bass respectively) and Mathew Linton, a veteran drummer on the Nashville music scene.

Coyote Choir independently released their debut full-length album Volume 1, last Friday, November 2.

A multi-generational mix of road-worthy influences found their way into the music of Coyote Choir, from contemporaries like Brandon Flowers and The War On Drugs to the Traveling Wilburys and Dire Straits.

The writing sessions for the album took long detours into discussions of old movies and 80's sitcoms. "There was no pressure to do anything - just this joy of connecting over all these things we love" recalls Jason Watkins. It seemed as though every new inspiration the band bonded over reminded them to pause and to reconnect with the loves that shaped them. To remember.

With their resulting debut, Volume 1, the band and producer/multi-instrumentalist Joe Causey have crafted a sound at once new and familiar. It's a savvy blend of dazzling programming and production, vintage synthesizers, and jangly, Heartbreakers-inspired guitar.

Thanks to NoiseTrade, you can stream/download 4 tracks off Volume 1 for free: just click on the image to be redirected to the NT page. For the whole thing, head over to iTunes or Spotify.

Canadian rockers Royal Tusk released their sophomore album Tusk II last October 26.

Tusk II was recorded in Toronto with producer Eric Ratz (Big Wreck, Billy Talent, Arkells) and is the first released on Entertainment One (eOne), with which the band signed a worldwide deal.

Tusk II includes the leading single Aftermath, a strong, hard hitting song that "was inspired by the idea that our culture (especially youth culture) is being desensitized to violence through an overload of media and information" in the words of vocalist Daniel Carriere. "While wrestling with ideas of isolation, violence, tragedy, and authoritarianism, Aftermath asks what we may see looking back when this ever-volatile present has become a distant memory."

Tusk II is a powerful collection of songs driven by loud guitars, a touch heavier than Royal Tusk's debut, highly enjoyable nonetheless.

Watch the amazing video for Aftermath clicking on the image and download/stream the whole album on all digital platforms.

Canadian indie pop-rockers Arkells released their new, fifth studio album, last October 19 via Last Gang Records - Universal Music Canada.

Titled Rally Cry, it was produced by JUNO Award winning producer Eric Ratz (Big Wreck, Billy Talent, The Tea Party), mixed by legendary sound-wiz Mark Needham (Blue October, The Killers, Imagine Dragons) and mastered by veteran mastering engineer Greg Calbi (John Mayer, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan).

"We made Rally Cry in the midst of touring our last record, with our live show fresh in our minds each time we entered the studio" guitarist Mike DeAngelis said. "On Rally Cry, there's an urgency to recording these songs and hearing them back. It's our sharpest and most concentrated effort yet," frontman Max Kerman added. "Rally Cry is the idea of a communal heart, a connected spirit. Whether it's political songs or love songs, they share the same starting place."

Official statements aside, Rally Cry is another top notch effort showcasing a superior songwriting skill: how many acts out there can write modern-dressed, '70s influenced pop-rock songs with meaningful lyrics of this level?

So stop reading and start listining to Rally Cry: download/stream the album and check the video for the latest single Relentless clicking on the image.

Jake Fields is a Los Angeles & Nashville based singer/songwriter and guitar player.

For Jake Fields, all it took was $70 and a thrift store visit to drop professional baseball aspirations to dedicate his life to music. What Fields got in return was a guitar, amplifier, and an unrelenting dream to become a professional musician. After falling deeply in love with songwriting and performing, Jake Fields decided to focus his ambition towards becoming a full-time musician and eventually releasing an EP of original tracks.

Today, those ambitious goals have become his reality. Fields has recently teamed up with established producer Jim McGorman (Avril Lavigne, Weezer, Marc Broussard) to record his first EP, Someday You'll Be Mine, which is expected to drop in early 2019.

The Other Side Of Waiting is the title of Jake Fields' new single, released today and produced and co-written by McGorman: from the driving guitar that's reminiscent of early 2000s pop-rock, to the energetic vocals that have become a staple of modern pop, this release showcases Fields' innate ability to deconstruct genres and reshape them into his own unique sound.

The Other Side Of Waiting is a solid, anthemic and addictive song that should appeal to fans of powerpop bands like Until June, Rooney, Mêlée or The Feeling.

Buy/stream this little gem on digital music platforms.

Maefire is a brilliant modern pop-rock band from Melbourne, Australia, featuring David Scammell on vocals, Cameron Leigh Eaton and Dave Tran on guitar and Geoffrey Mark Taylor on bass.

Maefire independently released their debut album I Am Not Afraid Of The Dark last September 20: produced by Samuel K Sproull (The Getaway Plan, Villainy) and engineered by Jon Grace, it was recorded at Homesurgery Recordings in Melbourne with Nicholas Andrew handling the drum duties.

I Am Not Afraid Of The Dark is an album for lovers of fresh, energetic, catchy pop rock songs, rich in tone and texture, finely crafted and professionaly delivered.

I can hear similarities with Finnish band The Rasmus in their heyday, with traces of Aussie acts Invertigo and, why not, Savage Garden.

All in all, a safe buy for infectious pop rock addicted: stream the album on Spotify and watch the video for the leading single Baby, Please clicking on the image.

Flip For It is the title of the new album from Newmarket, Ontario, infectious indie pop band Modern Space.
Released last September 14 on WEA, it immediately marks a great leap forward from the tenderfoot songs they laid out on 2016's Before Sunrise. Channelling influences such as The Vaccines and The Strokes – whose song The Modern Age inspired the first half of the band's name – Modern Space have returned with a new album that beams with a newfound assuredness.

Each and every one of the cuts feels ready for heavy A-list rotation – from A Small Pocket, a song the Strokes will wish they'd written a decade ago, to the soon-to-be massive sing-along anthem that is Just Quit, to the sleek, Motown throwback of the title track, Flip For It is a case of all killer, no filler.

For frontman Sean Graham, however, this move forward has all been the result of him reaching a new level of maturity. "The biggest difference is that I've grown up in that time [between records]," he explains. "I got to travel, so a lot of it was written outside of Toronto. I was still young when we made Before Sunrise. I was only 21 when I wrote it. Now I'm 25. This record is more just about drinking, meeting people, being outrageous and having fun. It's faster. It's louder. It's a bit more bad-ass."

And it's a joy to listen to: buy/stream at all the major outlets out there and watch the video for the title-track clicking on the image.

Toronto-based art-rock trio Palaye Royale released their highly anticipated new album Boom Boom Room (Side B) last September 28 via Sumerian Records.

According to the band, the recording process for their sophomore album started in January 2018. However, the entire album got scrapped and was reconstituted over the course of five months, completed a week before the band left for the final Warped Tour.
The record is the follow up to Boom Boom Room (Side A) from 2 years ago and completes the two part album Boom Boom Room. 

Boom Boom Room (Side B) debuted on the Billboard charts with 8,000 equivalent album units, reaching position number 12 on Top Rock Albums and 89 on the Billboard 200 charts.

If you still don't know this band, then take the music of The Libertines and early day Artic Monkeys, blend it with the music of My Chemical Romance, add the swagger of the British Invasion, the flamboyance of glam rock and the reckless abandon of punk: the result you'd get would be Palaye Royale.

Palaye Royale are quite the phenomenon. Uniquely encompassing the worlds of music, art, fashion and philosophy and equally at home in the hallways of Los Angeles Fashion Week as they are climbing the lighting tresses at the Vans Warped Tour, they have been dubbed "The Hottest Band of 2018" and simply "the" group of the year by the music press. Having graced the covers of magazines on both sides of the pond this year, singer Remington Leith, guitarist Sebastian Danzig and drummer Emerson Barrett are right on the brink of crossing the divide between success and superstardom.

Rock 'n' Roll for a new generation? I don't know, but there's some roast under the smoke.

Buy/stream Boom Boom Room (Side B) on all digital platforms and watch the video for the latest single off the new album Death Dance clicking on the image.