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New Release Round-Up 10-18-24
Dean Lewis - The Epilogue - Capitol
Global superstar Dean Lewis will release his hotly anticipated third studio album, The Epilogue, via Capitol Records. Dean will head off on a global tour to support the album release. The Epilogue Tour will start in Australia in October 2024 and head to the US, UK and EU in 2025. The 12-track album includes his previous singles, “Trust Me Mate” and “Memories” as well as the recently released, “All I Ever Wanted.”
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - Long After Dark (Deluxe) - Geffen
This is the expanded Deluxe Edition of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers’ classic 1982 album Long After Dark, featuring “You Got Lucky,” “Straight Into Darkness” and “Change Of Heart.” Release is scheduled for 10/18 and includes 12 bonus tracks, 7 of which are previously unreleased.” The new product is timed around the re-release of director Cameron Crowe’s first film, Heartbreakers’ Beach Party, a 1983 documentary special for MTV that has not been seen since its original airing (only aired twice).
Wyatt Flores - Welcome To The Plains - Island
Double vinyl LP pressing. 2024 release. Welcome To The Plains is the debut album from Wyatt Flores. Across it's 14 epic tracks, Wyatt writes about home, happiness, family and the place that raised him - Stillwater, Oklahoma. The album is happy on one side and heartbreak on the other. It's powerful storytelling and tight musicianship create a classic album for the ages that is a true front to back experience.
ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
Wyatt Flores - Welcome To The Plains
Dean Lewis - The Epilogue [Bone LP]
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Long After Dark - Deluxe [Indie Exclusive Turquoise LP]
Mc5 - Heavy Lifting [Indie Exclusive Arctic Pearl Color LP]
Vince Guaraldi - A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving [RSD Essentials Indie Exclusive Purple Jelly Bean LP]
Joe Henry - Blood From Stars [2 LP]
Mariah Carey - Rainbow (25th Anniversary) [rainbow colored vinyl]
Chinese American Bear - Wah!!! [Strawberry Pink]
Brutal Truth - Extreme Conditions [RSD Essential Half Orange & Half White LP]
Goodbye June - See Where The Night Goes [RSD Essential Indie Exclusive Half Red & Half White]
Vikingur Olafsson - Continuum [45 RPM]
Midland - Barely Blue [Metallic Marble 12inch EP]
Skegss - Pacific Highway Music [Indie Exclusive Magenta vinyl (various shades)]
Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan - In Session (Deluxe Edition) [3 LP]
Barenaked Ladies - Barenaked For The Holidays [LP]
Sonora Poncena - Sabor Sureno (50th Anniversary Edition) [LP]
Bishop Briggs - Tell My Therapist I'm Fine [LP]
Carnosus - Wormtales [Random Eco-Mix LP]
Jerry Cantrell - I Want Blood [Red 2 LP]
Rubblebucket - Year Of The Banana [Indie Exclusive]
Iris DeMent - My Life [Colored Vinyl] (Maro) (Aniv)
Blue CheervOutsideinside (Blue) [Colored Vinyl]
Tim Heidecker - Slipping Away [Indie Exclusive Frosted Teal LP]
Wild Pink - Dulling The Horns [Colored Vinyl] (Ylw)
Mary Gauthier - Drag Queens In Limousines [Colored Vinyl] (Ruby)
Deafheaven - Infinite Granite (Blue) [Clear Vinyl] [Indie Exclusive] [Download Included] (Spla)
Humdrum - Every Heaven (Blue) [Colored Vinyl] [Download Included]
Ella Raphael - Mad Sometimes [Colored Vinyl] (Gol) [Indie Exclusive] [Download Included]
Phoebe Rings - Phoebe Rings [Clear Vinyl]
Bonzie - When I Found The Trap Door [LP]
Daniel Johnston - Artistic Vice [Disc 1 - Light Blue, disc 2- Peach Swirl]
Hargrove, Roy ( Roy Hargrove's Crisol ) - Grande-Terre
Japandroids - Fate & Alcohol [Indie Exclusive Crystal Clear LP]
Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Sings Newman
Pete Townshend - Iron Man: The Musical By Pete Townshend [Half-Speed LP]
Pete Townshend - Psychoderelict (Music Only) [Half-Speed 2 LP]
Marty Robbins - Return Of The Gunfighter
DJ Rude One - Upper Space [LP]
Bear Hands - The Key to What [banana peel colored vinyl]
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What's New 10-18-24
Expanded Deluxe Edition of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers’ classic 1982 album Long After Dark, featuring “You Got Lucky,” “Straight Into Darkness” and “Change Of Heart.” Includes 12 bonus tracks, 7 of which are previously unreleased. Coincides with the re-release of Cameron Crowe’s 1983 documentary special for MTV.
Pianist and composer Aaron Parks returns with the third studio album from his acclaimed band Little Big, featuring guitarist Greg Tuohey, bassist David Ginyard Jr., and drummer Jongkuk Kim. The collective's concise, accessible writing elevates the band's powerfully modern, post-genre concept for improvised music in the 21st century.
Global superstar Dean Lewis releases his hotly anticipated third studio album The Epilogue. Dean continues to write and perform with unmatched vulnerability, vibrancy, and vitality. As such, the album represents both the culmination of an incredible journey thus far and a harbinger for where he may go next.
New Release Round-Up 10-11-24
The Offspring - SUPERCHARGED - Concord Recordings
Following up on the global success of their album "Let The Bad Times Roll,"ť legendary So-Cal punk group The Offspring release their 11th album SUPERCHARGED. Produced by Bob Rock, the record continues the band's legacy with some of their best songwriting to date and unmatched musical energy.
Jelly Roll - Beautifully Broken - Republic Records
Jelly Roll - "Beautifully Broken" [Clear/Gold Splatter LP] Beautifully Broken is the new studio album from Jelly Roll, releasing October 11, 2024 and featuring the hit single "I Am Not Okay. " Clear/Gold Splatter LP. Limited Edition. Indie Exclusive. EXPLICIT
Samara Joy - Portait - Verve
Born out of her time on the road, Samara Joy took her touring band into legendary Van Gelder Studios in February of 2024. This record, appropriately entitled Portrait, is a collection of standards (as well as one original) and features her singular voice, alongside arrangements from this tight-knit young group. The recording tells the story of the community she’s created with a new generation of young players and is evocative of the energy of her incredible live show.
Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue - Blue Note Records
Guitarist Kenny Burrell debuted on Blue Note Records in 1956 and over the following 7 years made a series of excellent albums for the label that culminated with his masterwork Midnight Blue. Recorded in 1963, the album waded deep into the blues, conjuring an alluring late-night vibe with a profoundly soulful cast including tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, bassist Major Holley, Jr., drummer Bill English, and Ray Barretto on congas. Burrell originals including “Chitlins con Carne,” “Midnight Blue,” “Saturday Night Blues,” and the stunning solo guitar piece “Soul Lament” set the tone for this timeless classic adorned by one of the all-time great Reid Miles cover designs.
Hank Mobley - Soul Station - Blue Note Records
Tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley had already led nine dates for Blue Note Records by the time he arrived at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio on February 7, 1960 with pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Art Blakey, but on that day the quartet laid down what would become his masterpiece: Soul Station. The crystalline six-song set was a showcase for Mobley’s lyrical flow from the breezy opening take on Irving Berlin’s “Remember” through bluesy originals like “Dig Dis” and the title track, and the swinging up-tempo numbers “This I Dig of You” and “Split Feelin’s.” Soul Station endures as a jazz classic for the ages.
ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
Lady Gaga - Harlequin [Red LP]
Linda Lindas - No Obligation [Indie Exclusive Translucent Pink LP]
Various Artists - Punk Goes Christmas [Ruby Red LP]
Sondre Lerche - Two Way Monologue (20th Anniversary Edition) [White 2 LP]
Celia Cruz & Johnny Pacheco - Celia & Johnny [LP]
Touche Amore - Spiral In A Straight Line [Indie Exclusive Rose-Tinted LP]
Go Team - Thunder Lightning Strike [Indie Exclusive]
Teddy & Rough Riders - Down Home [Indie Exclusive]
Immanual Wilkins - Blues Blood [2 LP]
Ensemble Paramirabo - Voix Jetees [CD]
The Last Dinner Party - Prelude To Ecstasy: Acoustics And Covers [Transparent Amber 2 LP]
Old Dominion - Odies But Goodies
Abstract Crimewave - Longest Night
Ronnie Baker Brooks - Blues In My DNA [Blue LP]
Chat Pile - Cool World [Colored Vinyl] [Limited Edition] (Ylw)
Chesterfield Kings - We're Still All The Same
Current Joys - East My Love - Olive [Colored Vinyl]
Dawes - Oh Brother [Colored Vinyl]
Def Leppard - One Night Only: Live At The Leadmill, Sheffield
Steve Earle - Alone Again (Live)
E L U C I D - REVELATOR [Compact disc]
Myles Kennedy - The Art Of Letting Go [Indie exclusive]
Justin Moore - This Is My Dirt [Dirt Color LP]
Woody Platt - Far Away With You
Propaganda - Propaganda [Colored Vinyl] (Org)
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What's New 10-11-24
Saxophonist/composer Wilkins' third studio album is a soothing balm for anyone searching for peace, and for Black people trying to reconcile history in a country that tries to erase it. It explores 'blues' as a symbol of radical optimism in the face of adversity and 'blood' as a symbol of all things ancestral and generational.
Alter Bridge frontman Myles Kennedy discovers the art of turning up the ante and the volume on his third – and best – solo album. His skyscraping voice, alternating from broody warning to unbridled celebration, continues to be an immediately identifiable calling card, but this time, as the title suggests, Kennedy goes for what feels right.
An exquisite album of spontaneous solo composition, nuanced improvisation, and exploratory world creation featuring living legends Laraaji, Luis Pérez Ixoneztli, and André 3000. Samples of his studio sessions with Kamasi Washington, Shabaka Hutchings and others pervade Mercereau's psychedelic quests and adventures as well.
Born out of her time on the road, Samara Joy took her touring band into legendary Van Gelder Studios in February of 2024. This record, appropriately entitled Portrait, is a collection of standards (as well as one original) and features her singular voice, alongside arrangements from this tight-knit young group.
No Obligation further advances The Linda Lindas’ unironic, joyful, and exciting trajectory of mashing up L.A. punk with alt-rock, garage rock, power pop, new wave and rock en espanol. It’s a dazzling window into growing up right now, borrowing from and building on previous generations of feminist passion and energy.
The emo rockers’ second album tells a story of religion and violence within the titular city, a rundown of its history and everyday activities. The band have recruited an amazing roster of featured vocalists from bands like The Used and Ice Nine Kills, all of whom lend their voices in narrating this epic tale.
New Release Round-Up 10-04-24
Moon Music, the highly anticipated tenth album from Coldplay lands on October 4 2024.
Moon Music, which was produced by Max Martin, is available to pre-order everywhere now.
In tandem with Coldplay’s ground-breaking sustainability measures on their current tour - which has so far produced 59% less CO2e emissions than their previous stadium tour - the band have gone to great lengths to make the physical release of Moon Music as sustainable as possible.
This will be the world's first album released as a 140g EcoRecord rPET LP, with each copy containing nine recycled PET-plastic bottles recovered from post-consumer waste. This will prevent the manufacture of more than 25 metric tonnes of virgin plastic, and provide an 85% reduction in manufacturing process CO2 emissions/kg compared to traditional 140g vinyl.
Additionally, the band have collaborated with long-time partners The Ocean Cleanup to create an additional format: the Notebook Edition EcoRecord rPET LP. The rPET for this edition comprises 70% river plastic, intercepted by The Ocean Cleanup from the Rio Las Vacas, Guatemala, and prevented from reaching the Gulf of Honduras and the Atlantic Ocean.
The CD editions of Moon Music will be the world’s first to be released on EcoCD, created from 90% recycled polycarbonate,sourced from post-consumer waste streams. This will provide at least a 78% CO2/kg emission reduction, and avoid the manufacture of more than five metric tonnes of virgin plastic.
In an effort to reduce waste, the first edition run of Moon Music(both EcoRecord rPET LP and EcoCD) will be strictly limited and produced at a higher specification than any future editions. All First Edition EcoRecord rPET LP products will be individually numbered.
FINNEAS - For Cryin' Out Loud! - OYOY, Inc.
Multiple GRAMMY and Academy Award-winning artist, songwriter, and producer, FINNEAS returns with ‘For Cryin’ Out Loud!’ his second studio album. FINNEAS’ self-produced solo album was born out of a series of live studio sessions in Los Angeles, bringing together some of his closest friends and peers into one room. In contrast to his debut album OPTIMIST which featured instrumentals written and performed solely by the artist himself, For Cryin’ Out Loud! sees FINNEAS expand his creative horizons to a classic studio/band environment, freeing FINNEAS and ultimately resulting in his most uplifting and raw body of work to date. For Cryin’ Out Loud! follows the release of his sister Billie Eilish’s third studio album HIT ME HARD AND SOFT which has further cemented him as one of the most critically acclaimed, award-winning producers and songwriters of his generation.
Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit - Live from the Ryman, Vol. 2 -
Southeastern Records
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit follow up 2018's Live from the Ryman with a second volume of live recordings from their annual residency at The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN. Live from the Ryman Vol. 2 features favorites from Weathervanes and Reunions recorded in 202 & 2023 as well as "The Last Song I Will Write" (2019) and a cover of Tom Petty's "Room at the Top" (2017).
Lady Gaga, Joaquin Phoenix, Cast of Joker: Folie a Deux - Joker: Folie a Deux (Music From The Motion Picture) - Warner Records/Interscope Record
Official soundtrack to accompany Joker: Folie a Deux, one of the most anticipated films of a generation. Produced by Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Jason Ruder and executive produced by Todd Phillips, Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Randall Poster, & George Drakoulias
Booker Little - Booker Little 4 & Max Roach (Blue Note Tone Poet) - Blue Note Records
Memphis-born trumpeter Booker Little was a bright light of the jazz world who died tragically young at age 23. A prodigiously talented hornman as well as a composer, Little first came to prominence as a member of Max Roach’s band which he joined in 1956 after the death of Clifford Brown, another trumpet great gone far too soon. Little only made a handful of albums as a leader during his brief career including his astounding debut Booker Little 4 & Max Roach recorded in 1958 for United Artists when he was just 20 years old. The full breadth of Little’s artistry leaps out of the grooves with his brilliant tone, astonishing technique, and inventive lines matched by Roach’s fiery drums throughout this engaging set that also featured George Coleman on tenor saxophone, Tommy Flanagan on piano, and Art Davis on bass. The album opens with Miles Davis’ “Milestones” and includes the standards “Sweet and Lovely” and a stunning version of “Moonlight Becomes You,” but the album’s centerpiece is the trio of Little originals: “Rounder’s Mood,” “Dungeon Waltz,” and “Jewel’s Tempo.”
Donald Byrd - Kofi (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) - Blue Note Records
Drawn from two sessions recorded in December 1969 and December 1970, and not first released until 1995, Kofi found Donald Byrd in the early stages of his transformation from top-notch hard bop trumpeter to fusion pioneer. Byrd had already begun to move away from a pure hard bop sound with his album Fancy Free in the Spring of 1969, and the two Kofi sessions straddled the recording of his adventurous fusion album Electric Byrd. The first Kofi session subtly explored a new realm of sounds on Byrd’s originals “Kofi” and “Fufu” with producer Duke Pearson’s electric piano shimmering underneath textured arrangements featuring Lew Tabackin on flute and tenor saxophone, Frank Foster on tenor saxophone, William Campbell on trombone, Ron Carter on acoustic bass, Bob Cranshaw on electric bass, and Airto Moreira on drums. The following 1970 session produced two more vibey Byrd originals—“Perpetual Love” and “Elmina”—adding Wally Richardson on guitar and Mickey Roker on drums with Moreira playing percussion along with Dom Um Romăo.
ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
Shaboozey - Where I've Been Isn't Where I'm Going [LP]
Clara La San - Made Mistakes [LP]
Maximo Park - Stream Of Life [Indie exclusive eco splatter vinyl]
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness [RSD Essentials Blue & Black LP]
Bolt Thrower - Realms of Chaos [RSD Essentials Yellow & Black LP]
October Drift - Blame The Young [Indie exclusive tri-colour ]
Mal Waldron with Eric Dolphy and Booker Ervin - The Quest (Original Jazz Classics Series) [LP]
Bring Me The Horizon - POST HUMAN: NEX GEN [2 LP]
Ezra Collective - Dance, No One's Watching [Deluxe 2 LP]
Michelle - Songs About You Specifically [Clear Vinyl] (Red)
JD McPherson - Nite Owls [Indie Exclusive Blue, Black and White Splatter Signed LP]
Dizzy Gillespie - Live in Chester 1957 [RSD Essential Indie Exclusive Orange & Blue 2 LP]
The Montclairs - Dreaming Out of Season [RSD Essential Indie Exclusive Half White & Half Blue]
Christian Lee Hutson - Paradise Pop. 10 [Indie Exclusive DUCKYYELLOW LP]
Sophie - Future Classic [Indie Exclusive Clear 2LP]
Hector Lavoe - De Ti Depende (It's Up To You) [LP]
Marlowe, Dylan - Mid-Twenties Crisis
Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue - [2 LP]
Daughtry - Shock To They System (Part 1)
AC/DC - Flick Of The Switch (50th Anniversary)
AC/DC - Fly On The Wall (50th Anniversary)
AC/DC - Blow Up Your Video (50th Anniversary) [Colored Vinyl] (Gol)
AC/DC - Black Ice (50th Anniversary)
AC/DC - Live At River Plate (50th Anniversary)
AC/DC - Power Up (50th Anniversary)
Telenova - Time Is A Flower [Colored Vinyl]
Fernandez, Alejandro - Te Llevo En La Sangre (Deluxe Edition) [2 LP]
Draco Rosa - Reflejos De Lo Eterno [Canary Yellow LP]
Tara Lily - Speak In The Dark [LP]
Denzel Curry - King Of The Mischievous South Vol. 2 [Indie Exclusive Opaque Silver LP]
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