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What's New 3-8-24

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Republic

Grande is no stranger to the evolution of sound, constantly redefining pop music. With Eternal Sunshine, she's poised to embark on her most ambitious journey yet by plunging headfirst into house music. Collaboration with the legendary Max Martin further assures that her newest will not only feature her signature vocal prowess but also innovative production.

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Capitol/Blue Note

A vibrant and joyous 12-song set that finds Jones singing about feeling free, wanting to dance, making it right, and acceptance of what life brings. It’s the yang to the yin that was Pick Me Up Off The Floor, Jones’ last album released early in the pandemic lockdown of 2020 and foreshadowed many of the dark emotions of that period.

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Lightning Rod Records

Taj adds to his legendary legacy with an extraordinary set recorded at the Tulsa studio best known as the home base of the late, great Leon Russell. The ten songs reach across multiple genres that he has explored in his incomparable career: country blues, reggae, R&B, Cajun, Caribbean, gospel, jazz and Hawaiian slack-key.

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Epic

Fast-paced and heavy but with the traditional feel that has made Judas Priest the 50-year Metal institution they are, Invincible Shield is an album that should delight their army of fans, encourage the curious new wave, and hopefully provide a few new classics on their forthcoming tour.

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Water Tower Music/gamma.

Boasting an ensemble cast like no other - Fantasia's soulful melodies, Taraji B. Henson's emotive depth, Colman Domingo's captivating energy, Danielle Brooks' powerful resonance, H.E.R's contemporary artistry, and Hallie Bailey's radiant vocals promises an auditory experience that's both deeply nostalgic and refreshingly new.

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New Release Round-Up 03-08-24

Nora Jones - Visons

Norah Jones - Visions - Blue Note

Visions is a vibrant and joyous 12-song set that finds Jones singing about feeling free, wanting to dance, making it right, and acceptance of what life brings. It’s the yang to the yin that was Pick Me Up Off The Floor, Jones’ last album of new original songs which was released early in the pandemic lockdown of 2020 and foreshadowed many of the dark emotions of that period. Indie Exclusive "Sun-kissed" Orange Blend LP. Alternate Cover Art.

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Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Past Is Still Alive

Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Past Is Still Alive - Nonesuch Records

Hurray for the Riff Raff’s (aka Alynda Segarra, they/them), The Past Is Still Alive, is out now on Nonesuch Records. The record represents a new phase of beginning in Segarra’s lauded evolution as a storyteller. Created during a period filled with grief, when they found inspiration in radical poetry, railroad culture, outsider art, the work of writer Eileen Myles, and the history of activist groups like ACT UP and Gran Fury, discovering a stronger, singular style of writing that felt like a long-awaited revelation.

The album has been featured everywhere from NY Times (including a “primer” which they almost never do) to Vogue, to NPR and today it received an 8.3 Best New Music on Pitchfork. It’s currently got an 88 on metacritic, making it the 3rd best reviewed new release of the year.

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ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY...

Kali Uchis - Red Moon in Venus

Kali Uchis - Red Moon in Venus - Interscope/Geffen Records

We're still loving Kali Uchis' Red Moon In Venus on its one year anniversary on 03/03/24!

ALSO OUT THIS WEEK

Bleachers - Bleachers [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Blue 2 LP]

Ariana Grande - eternal sunshine [Alt Cover, Ruby LP]

Kim Gordon - The Collective [LP]

Moor Mother - The Great Bailout [LP]

Judas Priest - Invincible Shield [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Red 2LP]

Nothing - Guilty Of Everything: 10 Year Anniversary Edition [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Black Ice LP]

Bolis Pupul - Letter To Yu [LP]

Alice Cooper - Theatre Of Death - Live At Hammersmith 2009 [Red 2LP + DVD + Numbered Ticket]

Luke Grimes - Luke Grimes

Konradsen - Michael’s Book on Bears [LP]

Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - BRSB [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Yellow LP]

Myrath - Karma [Transparent Red LP]

Dion - Girl Friends [2 LP]

Various Artists - The Color Purple (Music From And Inspired By) [Purple 3LP]

Chris Rottmayer - Being

Chief Adjuah - Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning [LP]

Azrael Raps Good X The Dirty Sample - Content

TRIAD - TRIAD

MŘAA - Jaywalker [Transparent Blood Red LP]

Destruct x DJ Zole - Sharpshooters [LP]

Kill The Light - Death Melodies [LP]

The Rolling Stones - Live At The Wiltern [3 LP]

Xmal Deutschland - Early Singles (1981-1982) [Purple LP]

Anja Huwe - Codes [Oxblood LP]

Joywave - Brain Damage [Picture Disc Vinyl Single]

The Rhythm Method - Peachy [Peach LP]

Claude Bolling - Le Magnifique Pt. 1 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [2 LP]

Claude Bolling - Le Magnifique Pt. 2 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [2 LP]

Eladio Carrion - Sol Maria


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For more information on these and other releases out this week, check out our New Releases charts by week section.

UPCOMING RELEASES

Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well

Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well - Interscope Records/MCA Nashville


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What's New 3-1-24

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New Years Day

After almost two decades of being a band, you would have thought that New Years Day would have achieved everything they ever dreamed of, but they’re not quite done yet. After a five-year hiatus, the rock quintet back with their fifth studio album. There’s no fat or gristle to chew through here, Half Black Heart is a lean, mean sound machine.

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Le Plan Recordings

Gangbusters Melody Club is a joyous jigsaw puzzle of an album-- the band’s most dancefloor-friendly to date. The trio pack more influences than ever before into their elegant earworm songs. The jazz and swing for which they became famous over a decade ago is back with a bang, alongside their love of House, Electronica and Big Beat.

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Third Man Vinyl

Sheer Mag capitalize on a decade’s worth of devotion to their own collective spirit—a spirit refined in both the sweaty trenches of punk warehouses and the larger-than-life glamour of concert halls—emerging with a dense work of gripping emotions, massive hooks, and masterfully constructed power-pop anthems.

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Zappo Productions

The Bruce Hornsby and yMusic collaboration explores seafaring themes, sounds and metaphors encapsulated in progressive chamber music and Hornsby's vocals. It’s an album about water and the ways we live with, in or against it… Hornsby and yMusic as you have never heard them, but also instantly identifiable in their own ways.

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Blue Note

Julian Lage returns with Speak To Me, his remarkable fourth release for Blue Note, which finds the guitar virtuoso broadening his sonic palette in collaboration with esteemed producer Joe Henry who enhances Lage’s trademark melodic lyricism on this wide-ranging set of compelling new originals.

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Epitaph Records

Over ten ambitious tracks which abruptly turn from searing punk to inviting alternative pop, I Got Heaven is deeply concerned with desire, the power in being alone, and how to live in an unfeeling and unkind world. It’s a document of a band doubling down on their unshakable bond to make something furious, thrilling, and wholly alive.

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Sub Pop

Pissed Jeans are known for their feral vocals, biting lyrics, buzzsaw guitars, and unhinged live shows, and their sixth album is no exception. These songs skewer the tension between youthful optimism and the sobering realities of adulthood, and when viewed through frontman Matt Korvette’s scowl, everything takes on a level of violent absurdity.

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Geronimo West Records

Few if any outfits in country and roots music can make their music rise to the epic and weighty level that Shane Smith and the Saints achieve. Norther showcases the full spectrum of their style that seamlessly blends elements of country, Americana, Southern rock, folk, and a little honky-tonk with soaring four-part harmonies and Smith’s striking baritone vocals.

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New Release Round-Up 03-01-24

Liam Gallagher & John Squire - Liam Gallagher & John Squire

Liam Gallagher & John Squire - Liam Gallagher & John Squire - Warner Records

Liam and John have been friends for years but when Liam invited John to join him on stage at Knebworth in 2022 it reignited a long-running ambition of writing and recording an album together. The demos were written at John's home studio in Macclesfield and then recorded with legendary producer, Greg Kurstin and mixed by Spike Stent. Joey Waronker (Atoms for Peace, Beck, R.E.M.) plays drums on the album.

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Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven

Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven - EPITAPH

Mannequin Pussy’s music feels like a resilient and galvanizing shout that demands to be heard. Across four albums, the Philadelphia rock band that consists of Colins “Bear” Regisford (bass, vocals), Kaleen Reading (drums, percussion), Maxine Steen (guitar, synths), and Marisa Dabice (guitar, vocals) has made cathartic tunes about despairing times. “There’s just so much constantly going on that feels intentionally evil that trying to make something beautiful feels like a radical act ,” says Dabice. “The ethos of this band has always been to bring people together.”

Their new album, I Got Heaven, which is out March 1 via Epitaph Records, is the band’s most fully realized recording yet. Over ten ambitious tracks which abruptly turn from searing punk to inviting alternative pop, the album is deeply concerned with desire, the power in being alone, and how to live in an unfeeling and unkind world. It’s a document of a band doubling down on their unshakable bond to make something furious, thrilling, and wholly alive.

Following the 2019 release of their critically acclaimed third album Patience, Mannequin Pussy returned in 2021 for their EP Perfect. They toured that release relentlessly and added guitarist Maxine Steen to the band’s official lineup. The band changed their entire creative formula, choosing to write together in the studio in Los Angeles with producer John Congleton , over slowly crafting tracks at home. “Everyone felt empowered to speak up about their own ideas to make this thing the best it could possibly be,” says Regisford.

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ALSO OUT THIS WEEK

Pissed Jeans - Half Divorced [Limited Edition Spotify Green LP]

Yard Act - Where's My Utopia? [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Orange LP]

Kula Shaker - Natural Magic [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Tie-Dye Orange & Yellow LP]

Bruce Dickinson - The Mandrake Project [2LP]

Faye Webster - Underdressed At The Symphony [Faye Blue LP]

General Patton vs. The X-Ecutioners - General Patton vs. The X-Ecutioners [RSD Essential Indie Colorway Silver Streak LP]

Jacob Collier - Djesse Vol. 4 [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Orange 2LP]

Caravan Palace - Gangbusters Melody Club - Tan [Colored Vinyl] [180 Gram]

Master Peace - How To Make A Master Peace [Translucent Yellow LP]

Slayer - Reign In Blood [RSD Essential Clear w/Red Splatter LP]

Everything Everything - Mountainhead [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Clear LP]

Shane Smith & the Saints - Norther [LP]

Amaro Freitas - Y'Y [LP]

Sheer Mag - Playing Favorites [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Clear w/Pearlescent Flo Orange Wisp LP]

Lang Lang/Gina Alice/Andris Nelsons/Gewandhausorchester - Saint-Saëns [2 CD]

New Years Day - Half Black Heart [Opaque Silver LP]

Albert Hammond  - Body of Work [2LP]

Vitamin String Quartet - VSQ Preforms Fall Out Boy [RSD Essential Indie Colorway Translucent Ruby LP]

Widespread Panic - Dirty Side Down [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition 2LP]

Various Artists - Eccentric Soul: The Tragar & Note Labels [Orange Marble 2LP]

Thunder - Live At Leeds [3LP]

Big Big Train - The Likes Of Us [2LP]

The Who - Live At Shea Stadium 1982 [3 LP]

Cannonball Adderley with Bill Evans - Know What I Mean? (Original Jazz Classics Series) [LP]

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Caravan [Original Jazz Classics Series LP]

BrhyM - Deep Sea Vents [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Opaque Violet LP]

Various Artists - Priscilla (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [LP]

Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes: Remastered 2023 [Deluxe Edition 3LP+7in]

The Glass Hours - The Glass Hours [LP]

Julian Lage - Speak To Me [Limited Edition Bone 2 LP]

Linkin Park - Lost Demos

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds [RSD Essential Coke Bottle Clear LP]


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For more information on these and other releases out this week, check out our New Releases charts by week section.

UPCOMING RELEASES

Nora Jones - Visons

Norah Jones - Visions - Blue Note


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