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New Release Round-Up 03-15-24
Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well - Interscope Records/MCA Nashville
The music on Deeper Well, the seven-time Grammy winner’s fifth album, is almost chimeric. Rolling acoustic guitars, puffy clouds of strings and synth, warm bass punctuations, layered harmonies, moments of Celtic melody and plenty of room on the tracks for Musgraves’ silvery vocals. On the bright, almost folky title track, the 30-something songstress surveys her life and priorities, recognizing what feeds her, drains her and even examines the childhood she’s left behind on her way to now.
Saturn returns, cardinals embody a dead friend, love is given and taken, streets rush by, belongings are packed and old chapters deserted, new love blooms, jade bracelets serve as talismans, deep lessons emerge, small details define everything, the woods are a refuge and New York City serves as the same gleaming beacon as Oz.
ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
The Black Crowes - Happiness Bastards [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Clear LP]
The Dandy Warhols - Rockmaker [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Black & Clear Color-In-Color LP]
Boeckner - Boeckner! [Limited Edition Orange LP]
Firewind - Stand United [Limited Edition Trans Natural/Black Marble LP]
Deadmau5 - > album title goes here < [Transparent Light Blue 2LP]
Noah Kahan - Cape Elizabeth [Aqua 12]
Tierra Whack - WORLD WIDE WHACK [Limited Edition Baby Blue LP]
21 Savage - american dream [2LP]
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE - Everything I Thought It Was [LP]
Joe Henderson - Power To The People [Jazz Dispensary Top Shelf Series LP]
DRAGONFORCE - Warp Speed Warriors [LP]
Eliza Mclamb - Going Through It [CD]
Scott Stapp - Higher Power [Solid Viola LP]
Gouge Away - Deep Sage [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Baby Blue / Black Mix LP]
Spoken - Reflection [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Ocean Floor 2 LP]
John Smith - The Living Kind [LP]
Necrophobic - In the Twilight Grey [LP]
Justin Moore - Greatest Hits [Red Smoke LP]
Charles Lloyd - The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow [2 LP]
Barbara Mandrell - Precious Memories: 20 Hymns and Gospel Classics
Pillar - One Love Revolution [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Flaming Orange LP]
Coil - Moon's Milk (In Four Phases) [Transparent Orange 3LP]
Bas - We Only Talk About Real Shit When We're Fucked Up [Transparent Red 2 LP]
Brat - Social Grace [White w/ Pink Splatter LP]
Brian Scarborough - We Need The Wind
Shelly Manne & His Men - At The Black Hawk, Vol. 1 [Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series LP]
For more information on these and other releases out this week, check out our New Releases charts by week section.UPCOMING RELEASES
Fletcher - In Search Of The Antidote - Fletcher/Snapback Entertainment
Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood - Anti
Aoife O'Donovan - All My Friends - Yep Roc Records
Charlie Parr - Little Sun - SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS
What's New 3-8-24
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.
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.
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.
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.
New Release Round-Up 03-08-24
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.
STILL LISTENING TO...
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.
ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY...
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]
Bolis Pupul - Letter To Yu [LP]
Alice Cooper - Theatre Of Death - Live At Hammersmith 2009 [Red 2LP + DVD + Numbered Ticket]
Konradsen - Michael’s Book on Bears [LP]
Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - BRSB [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Yellow LP]
Myrath - Karma [Transparent Red LP]
Various Artists - The Color Purple (Music From And Inspired By) [Purple 3LP]
Chief Adjuah - Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning [LP]
Azrael Raps Good X The Dirty Sample - Content
MØAA - 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]
For more information on these and other releases out this week, check out our New Releases charts by week section.UPCOMING RELEASES
Now Hear This! – March 2024
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What's New 3-1-24
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.


















