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What's New 4-8-22
Fear Of The Dawn is the most focused and exciting White solo record yet, a precision-tooled digital reconfiguration of his rock bona fides. By splitting his 2022 albums into two distinct projects and saving his quieter material for Entering Heaven Alive, White has delivered his best release since 2012's Blunderbuss, and one of the most consistently exciting albums in his 25-year-career.Y
Young Man is their first project without electric guitars, with the emphasis instead on skillful songwriting, flawless harmony, and intricate fingerpicking. Sonically the album draws on inspirations such as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, yet there’s also a dusty Western feel, similar to a Guy Clark or Townes Van Zandt album where the detailed backdrop and acoustic arrangements convey the story as eloquently as the lyrics do.
Lushly orchestrated and sweetly melodic, Chloë and The Next 20th Century (his first new material since 2018’s God’s Favorite Customer) sees Father John Misty combine his Honeybear-era sound with elements of 1920s-30s jazz and traditional pop to make something that sounds both familiar and fresh.
The mysterious occult black/death metal power-trio has released 3 prior critically acclaimed albums on Moribund Records. And now, rising once more from the ethereal fog, Pact returns with their highly anticipated fourth album and the bands unquestionable masterwork God Only Knows – 2022’s first metal masterpiece!
Hailed as 'the new master of the slide guitar' by the Montreux Jazz Festival and 'the real thang' by the legendary Bootsy Collins, Jack Broadbent returns with his unique blend of virtuosic acoustic and slide guitar playing, his poignant folk and blues-inspired vocals, and his range of beautiful folk ballads to raw blues to straight-up rock 'n' roll.
After releasing two of the hottest singles of the year, Wet Leg's Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers were catapulted from their confines on the Isle of Wight to sold out venues across the UK and packed-out tents at festivals causing giddy excitement wherever they went. Now, the duo is thrilled to unveil news of their debut album.
Tucker Pillsbury continues to explore his pop sensibilities while playing with themes of love, healing, and religion - and ultimately, the power of a woman. One moment, he's crooning about his crush's earrings over crunchy chords. The next, he's spitting bars about staying home. Either way, the intimacy of his songwriting beckons connection.
A singer and guitarist who has played with many of the greatest players of the modern era, Albert Cummings has received the kind of recognition that few others do. Ten is a compelling and emotional summation of what the artist has seen and done. Blues is not a style of music that easily progresses, but this is exactly what Cummings is able to.
New Release Round-Up 04-08-22
Jack White - Fear Of The Dawn - Third Man Records
Fear Of The Dawn is the fourth studio album from Jack White, founding member of The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, and The Dead Weather. True to his DIY roots, this record was recorded at White's Third Man Studio throughout 2021, mastered by Third Man Mastering, pressed to vinyl at Third Man Pressing, and released by Third Man Records. Pressed on limited astronomical blue vinyl, only available at independent record stores
Aerosmith - 1971: The Road Starts Hear - UMe
Boston 1971: Historic early recording of Aerosmith in their rehearsal room – just the band, crew, and friends captured on Joe Perry's tape recorder. This never-before-heard performance showcases the early, raw talent of this future Hall Of Fame band, one year before signing to Columbia Records and two years before their eponymous debut, which featured many of these songs, including their enduring anthem" Dream On."
ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
Lucius - Second Nature
Daniel Rossen - You Belong There
Wet Leg - Wet Leg [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Clear Yellow LP]
Camila Cabello - Familia
Father John Misty - Chloe and the Next 20th Century
Orville Peck - Bronco
Tool - Fear Inoculum [Limited Edition Deluxe 5LP]
Calexico - El Mirador
Papa Roach - Ego Trip
Grizfolk - Grizfolk
Joe Satriani - The Elephants of Mars
Jack Broadbent - Ride
Role Model - Rx
Of Monsters And Men - My Head Is An Animal: 10th Anniversary Edition
Kae Tempest - The Line Is A Curve [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Translucent Orange LP]
Foxes - The Kick
Cole Swindell - Stereotype
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Made In Timeland
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What's New 4-1-22
Red Hot Chili Peppers have clearly been galvanized by guitarist John Frusciante's return from self-imposed exile in 2009 and the results are some of RHCP's strongest songs since 2002's By The Way. The sprawling 17 tracks are an impressive consolidation of their strengths an eager to relighting of the band’s classic elemental spark.
Set Sail continues the band’s tradition of creating roots music that displays remarkable variety. With their latest record, NMA are able to build upon their self-described sound of Primitive Modernism - a melding of the new and the old, traditional and futuristic, crafted lyrics and improvisational music.
In the world of Tilt, nothing is certain except taxes, death and Confidence Man. They are unstoppable, unquenchable, undeniable, and if you get in their way, you're gonna get hurt. Not even a global pandemic could stop Janet, Sugar, Reggie and Clarence from producing an album so fierce, flirty and full of anthems that you might need to sit down before you hit play.
Full of surprises and yet instantly recognizable as the work of metal's most idiosyncratic force, Immutable redefines and redesigns the Meshuggah sound across more than an hour of the most stimulating and absorbing music the band have ever made. As we spiral towards a dystopian future, Meshuggah still stands alone.
The Danish-Swedish quartet Vola are back with their first live album featuring songs from their entire catalog. Live From The Pool showcases a band hitting their stride as they masterfully blend futuristic progressive rock with electronica and modern metal, topped off with clear, beautiful vocal lines.
A complete 180 from 2019’s revealing and cathartic Room 41, Country Coming Down finds Cauthen renewed with a heathy, confident and downright fun headspace. The 10 new songs feature honest and brash themes that go from excess and hedonism to love and devotion, all rolled up in one album.
Pianist and composer Gerald Clayton explores the impact and abstraction of time on his ravishing second Blue Note album. Bells On Sand (featuring his father on sax) includes new original pieces by Catalan composer Federico Mompou, his uncle Jeff Clayton, and 2 stunning solo piano versions of the standard "My Ideal."
New Release Round-Up 04-01-22
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Unlimited Love - Warner Records
Our only goal is to get lost in the music. We (John, Anthony, Chad and Flea) spent thousands of hours, collectively and individually, honing our craft and showing up for one another, to make the best album we could. Our antennae attuned to the divine cosmos, we were just so damn grateful for the opportunity to be in a room together, and, once again, try to get better. Days, weeks and months spent listening to each other, composing, jamming freely, and arranging the fruit of those jams with great care and purpose. The sounds, rhythms, vibrations, words and melodies had us enrapt. We yearn to shine a light in the world, to uplift, connect, and bring people together. Each of the songs on our new album Unlimited Love, is a facet of us, reflecting our view of the universe.This is our life’s mission. We work, focus, and prepare, so that when the biggestwave comes, we are ready to ride it. The ocean has gifted us a mighty wave and this record is theride that is the sum of our lives. Thank you for listening, we hope you enjoy it. One of the most successful acts in rock history, Red Hot Chili Peppers have sold more than 60 million albums, including five multi-platinum LPs, and won six Grammy Awards, including "Best Rock Album" for Stadium Arcadium, "Best Rock Performance By a Duo or Group" for "Dani California, "Best Rock Song" for "Scar Tissue," and "Best Hard Rock Performance With Vocal" for "Give It Away." The band holds the record for the most No. 1 singles of all time at Alternative radio, a total of 11, and a combined 81 weeks at No. 1.
North Mississippi Allstars - Set Sail - New West Records
Luther and Cody Dickinson started North Mississippi Allstars in 1996 as a loose collective of like-minded second-generation musicians who shared a local repertoire and regional style. Over the years the lineup shifted by design, and each NMA record offered up a different combination of collaborators. Set Sail finds the brothers working with Jesse Williams on bass and Lamar Williams, Jr. for the first time. Set Sail, North Mississippi Allstars’s thirteenth album, follows 2019’s Up and Rolling, which was nominated for a Grammy Award for the Best Contemporary Blues Album in 2021. Set Sail continues the band’s tradition of creating roots music that displays remarkable variety. With their latest record, NMA are able to build upon their self-described sound of Primitive Modernism - a melding of the new and the old, traditional and futuristic, crafted lyrics and improvisational music.
Paul Cauthen - Country Coming Down - Velvet Rose Records
Want to get a bead on Paul Cauthen? Good freakin' luck -- especially on his third album, Country Coming Down. COUNTRY COMING DOWN has been in motion awhile, actually. The title track, one of several co-writes with good Nashville pal Aaron Raitiere, has been around since before Cauthen's dark sophomore album ROOM 41. Its sense of campfire calm and "damn near off the map" idyll set a bar, for both music and lifestyle, that Cauthen aspired to, while the rest of the new album, recorded at Modern Electric Sound Recorders in Dallas with regular collaborators Beau Bedford (Texas Gentlemen) and Jason Burt (Medicine Man Revival), shows that Cauthen was able to get there without losing any of the playful "hot dog holly golly dagnabit" good-time spirit that rolls off his tongue like a tumbleweed in the west Texas panhandle.
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Marvin Gaye - What's Going On: 50th Anniversary
Pup - The Unraveling Of PUPTHEBAND [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Neon Coral & Black Smush LP]
Thomas Rhett - Where We Started
Molly Tuttle - Crooked Tree
Carpenter Brut - Leather Terror [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition White 2 LP]
Animals As Leaders - Parrhesia
Tempers - New Meaning
King Garbage - Heavy Metal Greasy Love [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Opaque White LP]
Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls [RSD Essential Black & White Explosion LP]
Jackson 5 - Diana Ross Presents... [RSD Essential Indie Colorway Orange LP]
Edwin Starr - War & Peace [RSD Essential Indie Colorway Orange LP]
Jungle Brothers - Straight Out The Jungle [RSD Essential Smoke LP]
Daryl Hall - Before After
Meshuggah - Immutable
The Hellacopters - Eyes Of Oblivion [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Clear LP]
Testament - The Formation of Damnation [Limited Edition White w/ Blue & Green Splatter 2LP]
Com Truise - Galactic Melt: 10th Anniversary Edition [Black & Orange 2LP]
Quelle Chris & Chris Keys - Innocent Country 2: Remastered [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Fuego LP]
Devon Kay & The Solutions - Grieving Expectation [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Half Clear half white w/ Silver Splatter LP]
Port Noir - Cuts [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition LP]
Lights - PEP
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