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Now Hear This! – June 2023
Jack Johnson
In Between Dub
RepublicBuy Now In Between Dub features 11 remixes of some of Johnson’s most celebrated tunes. Includes two takes from the late reggae legend Lee Scratch Perry plus a Subatomic Sound System dub from Perry’s band, as well as remixes from Dennis Bovell, Scientist, Mad Professor, Nightmares on Wax, and more. Deer Tick
Emotional Contracts
ATOBuy Now Deer Tick’s first new body of work since 2017 adds an even greater vitality to their feverish collection of timeless rock-and-roll. Produced by Dave Fridmann, the 10-song set features guest musicians like Steve Berlin (Los Lobos) and background vocals from Courtney Marie Andrews, Vanessa Carlton, Kam Franklin, Angela Miller, and Sheree Smith. Brandee Younger
Brand New Life
VerveBuy Now Over the past 15 years, Brandee Younger has worked relentlessly to stretch boundaries for harpists. In 2022, she broke new ground by becoming the first black woman nominated for a Grammy for Best Instrumental Composition. An ever-expanding artist, the album builds on her already rich oeuvre, transcending genre and expectations. Raul Malo
Say Less
Thirty TigersBuy Now From midnight in Havana to the beaches of California, hear Mavericks frontman Raul Malo‘s full range of musical influences on display as he explores a wild variety of textures from surf guitar licks, lush earthen tones, spaghetti western to big band jams and more, accompanied occasionally by his Mavericks bandmates. Brandy Clark
Brandy Clark
Warner RecordsBuy Now An 11x Grammy-nominee and CMA Award-winning artist, Brandy Clark is one of her generation's most respected songwriters and musicians. Produced by 9-time Grammy winning Brandi Carlile, the album showcases Clark's versatility with eleven songs that span the emotional spectrum, including the first single, "Buried." Leftover Salmon
Grass Roots
Compass RecordsBuy Now Grass Roots showcases a different side of Leftover Salmon’s potent brew of bluegrass, rock 'n' roll, folk, zydeco and jazz and blues by presenting a series of covers from some of music's most influential voices including the likes of Bob Dylan, Link Wray, David Bromberg, and more. Featuring guest appearances from Billy Strings. Alison Brown
On Banjo
Compass RecordsBuy Now Grammy winner and Banjo Hall of Fame member Alison Brown is one of the world's foremost banjoists and composers. In her hands, the banjo is equally at home on the front porch or at symphony hall. Here Brown explores all the corners of the instrument's potential with guests Anat Cohen, Stuart Duncan, Kronos Quartet and Steve Martin. Rob Grant
Lost At Sea
InterscopeBuy Now An accidental recording artist, Grant has never had a lesson on any instrument in his life, but when he sits down at a piano, something magical happens. He enlisted an array of talent to contribute to the making of the album including daughter Lana Del Rey, Jack Antonoff, Luke Howard, Laura Sisk and Zach Dawes. Bailen
Tired Hearts
FantasyBuy Now Bailen’s second album beats with empathy, vulnerability, and resolve as they learn how to dream in the face of life’s uncertainty and in the process, move forward aware, resilient, and hopeful. Tired Hearts delivers a dazzling set of songs that navigates the space between the heart’s expectation and the head’s sober reality. Dropkick Murphys
Okemah Rising
Dummy Luck Music / PIASBuy Now Dropkick Murphys remain true to their Irish-rooted punk sound but pay proper tribute to Woody Guthrie's genius. At a time when some are trying to delete history, it's hopeful to see The Muphys bringing Guthrie's poignant lyrics to life. It's a reminder that some things are worth fighting for and have been from the beginning of time. Lauren Daigle
Lauren Daigle
AtlanticBuy Now The self-titled album marks the launch of a new creative chapter for the two-time Grammy-winning, Louisiana-bred artist. While holding on to her Christian roots, Daigle embraces the major label signing to Atlantic and welcomes co-writing duties from Natalie Hemby, Shane McAnally and others to help create 10 soulful and uplifting songs. Laura Cantrell
Just Like A Rose: The Anniversary Sessions
Propeller Sound RecordingsBuy Now After a nine-year hiatus, Laura Cantrell, a familiar presence in the international Americana & Roots music scene, is back with her latest studio album. This new collection, originally intended to commemorate the 20th anniversary of her debut, was expertly crafted with the help of renowned luminaries like Steve Earle, Buddy Miller, and Rosie Flores. Matchbox Twenty
Where The Light Goes
AtlanticBuy Now The multi-platinum, superstar hit making pop-rockers return with their fifth studio album and first new release in over a decade. Punchy tunes like “Don’t Get Me Wrong” and the title track encapsulate the DNA of Matchbox Twenty, perfected after 30 years of music-making. Y La Bamba
Lucha
Tender Loving EmpireBuy Now Lucha explores multiplicity - love, queerness, Mexican American and Chicanx identity, family, intimacy, yearning, loneliness. It’s a battle cry for acceptance with sonically sprawling tracks documenting the parallel trust the artist has built with herself to allow the songs to guide how they should be sung and sound. Rival Sons
Darkfighter
AtlanticBuy Now Darkfighters’ palpable ‘70s hard rock pedigree is agreeably refurbished by Scott Holiday’s use of daring, Jack White and Tom Morello-ish tones while frontman Jay Buchanan’s voice is agile, gutsy and raucous. Suited and booted, twice Grammy-nominated, and here benefiting from the up-front production of Dave Cobb, Rival Sons sound stadium-ready. Avenged Sevenfold
Life Is But A Dream
WMXBuy Now Life Is But A Dream is a is a brilliantly deranged, LSD-soaked psycho-metal musical that brings together so many different sounds, it's almost overwhelming, from jazz to grunge to electronic to psychedelia. Best served as a whole to truly appreciate its musical breadth and sonic depth, it marks their boldest statement and most revolutionary work to date. Graham Nash
Now
BMGBuy Now The Crosby, Stills & Nash and The Hollies alumnus mixes the personal and the political on his first new album in seven years, with moving results. The material is softly lit and effortlessly assured, conveying the calming and caressing sound that all so frequently added its soothing sobriety to CSN and CSNY. M. Ward
Supernatural Thing
Anti RecordsBuy Now Supernatural Thing’s songs sound freshly pulled from the ground, with a little earth sticking to them. Ward’s lyric delivery has that slight rawness the ear loves, and his voice has quiet dignity and great tenderness. This is an open-hearted, inviting album. Featuring First Aid Kit, Shovels & Rope, Neko Case, Jim James and others. Chayla Hope
Damn, Feelings
Misra RecordsBuy Now Damn, Feelings is a distillation of what makes pop such a potent force with its ‘80s synths and funky rhythms of New Jack swing as well as the bold production and teary-eyed joy of 2010s dance-pop. But the common denominator is always Chayla’s rousing vocals, alternating between cool and collected pop anthems, naked balladry and low, raspy fireworks. Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors
Strangers No More
Magnolia MusicBuy Now For over 20 years, Holcomb has brought his audience together, turning shows into celebrations of community, collaboration, and contemporary American roots music. Strangers No More celebrates that sense of togetherness while expanding the mix of timeless songwriting, modern-day Laurel Canyon folk, amplified Americana, and heartland rock & roll. LISTEN HERE LISTEN HERE Christine and The Queens
Paranoďa, Angels, True Love
Because MusicBuy Now The follow-up to 2019’s Redcar les adorables étoiles (prologue), Paranoďa, Angels, True Love is both more sprawling than Redcar… —twenty tracks spanning nearly ninety minutes—and more unified. Letissier has described it as the second part of an “operatic gesture” inspired by “Angels in America,” and it is structured, somewhat showily, in three movements. But the album feels less like an opera than like the score for a film epic, a patient and pleading unfurling of atmospheric sounds. And though the new album is not a neon-fueled ode to sweating out heartbreak, there is still enough here that might summon one to dance. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
Weathervanes
Thirty TigersBuy Now Weathervanes is a collection of grown-up songs: songs about adult love, about change, about the danger of nostalgia and the interrogation of myths, about cruelty and regret and redemption. Life and death songs played for and by grown ass people. Some will make you cry alone in your car and others will make you sing along with thousands of strangers in a big summer pavilion, united in the great miracle of being alive. The record features the rolling thunder of Isbell’s fearsome 400 Unit, who’ve earned a place in the rock ‘n’ roll cosmos alongside the greatest backing ensembles, as powerful and essential to the storytelling as The E Street Band or the Wailers. -
What's New 6-2-23
Sour Mash Records LimitedSurefooted, revelatory, well-rounded and emotionally deep, Council Skies cements Gallagher’s reputation as one of the best songwriters the UK has ever produced. This collection of songs is one of his finest post-Oasis offerings, and it feels like the album that Noel and his High Flying Birds have been aching to make.
LegacyShadow Kingdom presents Dylan performing revelatory 21st century versions of songs from his storied back catalog. The album's setlist includes 13 original songs handpicked by Dylan for his Shadow Kingdom live performance. Facing down his past, he comes close to eclipsing it, and offers magnificent proof of his continued vitality as a performing artist.
Sub PopAlicia Bognanno’s fourth album is the most close-to-the-bone album yet, drawing from personal pain and the universal struggle that is existing, learning, and moving on. And it’s all soundtracked by Bognanno's rock-solid melodic sensibilities and a widescreen sound that's impossible to pin down when it comes to the textures explored.
Cooking VinylSuch Ferocious Beauty is vintage Cowboy Junkies and another dimension from the lo-fi Canadian band comprised of, well, family. A tangle of sonic textures, Beauty is a rumination on aging, losing parents, facing mortality and creating space for one’s life in the midst of the ruin that comes from merely living.
RCABut Here We Are marks the band’s return after a year of staggering losses, personal introspection and bittersweet remembrances. A brutally honest and emotionally raw response to everything Foo Fighters have endured recently, But Here We Are is a testament to the healing powers of music, friendship and family.
LegacyThe Lockdown Sessions was recorded at home during the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021. Includes five seminal tracks from across Waters’ time with Pink Floyd and his solo career including “Mother” and “Vera” from The Wall; two tracks from The Final Cut; and “The Bravery of Being Out Of Range” from Waters’ highly acclaimed solo album, Amused To Death.
Yep RocInspired by their love of noir and neo-western films, their cinematic new album Ten Paces exhibits the rich, sonic versatility of the brothers, as every instrument heard on the album is performed by Henry and Rupert. The anthemic build of "The Fear" to the lonesome balladeering of "Bullet Blues" showcases these two outlaws at their creative peak.
ConcordThe Revivalists make the kind of rock ‘n’ roll that grabs you and doesn’t let go. On their fifth full-length release, the New Orleans outfit was inspired to create a life-affirming album that in many ways connects to the original seed of inspiration for the band’s name. Pour It Out Into The Night is a celebration of resilience, living for who you are and what you’re about.
Loosegroove RecordsOn Tigercub's third record of nocturnal, hard-hitting rock, the band embraces a moody, melancholic sound that's every bit as cinematic as Hollywood itself. It's about counterpoint and opposites, stacked with songs that contrast overdriven guitars with whispered vocals, tight grooves with shoegazing swells of noise, sonic experimentation with sharp songwriting.
BayonetBrooklyn bedroom-pop trailblazers Beach Fossils' new album is a triumphant return for one of the 2010s most influential NYC bands. Bunny is a precise blend of the luscious dream-pop atmospheres they notoriously honed on their earliest projects, the post-punk vigor expressed on Clash The Truth, and the warm sophisticated songwriting of Somersault.
New WestFolds’ masterful new album is an open hand reaching out to all those wounded and bewildered by a world that seems to make less and less sense every day. The result is an undeniably joyful record, an ecstatic reminder of all the beauty and promise hiding in plain sight for anyone willing (and present enough) to recognize their moments as they arrive.
City SlangDixon calls the late Toni Morrison the greatest rapper of all time; and the way he tackles topics like survival, violence, and religion within the expansive landscape of the Black experience, evokes her novels. Sometimes rough and other times delicate, this record is a journey into the psyche of Dixon, with all of the of the attendant peaks and valleys.
EpitpahSixteen tracks of pure punk rock chaos, done in Rancid’s own inimitable style which is one of passion and delivered straight from the heart. In true punk style, the songs on Tomorrow Never Comes all come in at under three minutes long and are short, sharp shocks of sheer energetic punk rock, the type of which the band have always done and done so well.
BMGA star-studded album of folk music reinventions that sees the 2x Grammy Award-nominated singer-songwriter joined by a spectacular collection of special guests that includes Brandi Carlile, John Legend, David Byrne, Sheryl Crow, Nicole Scherzinger, Chaka Khan, Andrew Bird, ANOHNI, Susanna Hoffs, Van Dyke Parks, Madison Cunningham, and more.
Prosthetic RecordsDrawing from influences as diverse as Nine Inch Nails, Deafheaven, Radiohead, and Deftones, Pupil Slicer have molded an album that is effervescent with passion but doesn't shy away from a good hook and a catchy chorus. Through darkness and despair, there is always - at the very least - a glimmer of light in all that they do.
Music Releases 06-02-23
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