New Releases: March 26, 2021
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New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| AJR | “OK ORCHESTRA” (new single: “My Play”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW  |
(S-Curve) |
| The Antlers | “Green to Gold” (their first album in seven years; new single: “Solstice”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(ANTI- / Epitaph) |
| As Everything Unfolds (British melodic post-hardcore band) | “Within Each Lies the Other” (See here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Long Branch) |
| Budderside | “Spiritual Violence” (producer: Jay Baumgardner; mastered by Grammy Award-winning engineer Howie Weinberg; guests: Carla Harvey, Phil Campbell, the Musyca Children’s Choir; new single: “Zen”; See here; Download; Apple Music; Deezer) » BUY NOW |
(Motörhead Music / Silver Lining Music) |
| Caleborate | “Light Hit My Skin” (first single: “What U Want”; Hear here) » BUY NOW |
(TBKTR / AWAL) |
| Citizen | “Life in Your Glass World” (first single: “I Want to Kill You”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Run For Cover) |
| Clark | “Playground in a Lake” (guests: cellist Oliver Coates, Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor on clarinet, Rakhi Singh on violin, Kieran Brunt, Budapest Art Orchestra, Peter Pejtsik, etc.; new single: “Small”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Deutsche Grammophon) |
| Death From Above 1979 | “Is 4 Lovers” (first single: “One + One”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Spinefarm) |
| Brigitte DeMeyer | “Seeker” (new single: “Salt of the Earth”; Hear/read here; Download) » BUY NOW |
(BDM Music) |
| El Michels Affair | “Yeti Season” (new single: “Murkit Gem”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Big Crown) |
| Evanescence | “The Bitter Truth” (their first album since 2011; producer: Nick Raskulinecz; new single: “Yeah Right”; Hear here; Read here; Target-Exclusive CD, with two extra songs; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(BMG Rights Management) |
| Damon Fowler | “Alafia Moon” (producers: Fowler, George Harris) » BUY NOW |
(Landslide) |
| Fretland (founded by Hillary Grace Fretland) | “Could Have Loved You” (first single: “Could Have Loved You”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Soundly Music) |
| Genghis Tron | “Dream Weapon” (the Brooklyn group’s first album in 13 years; producer: Kurt Ballou; new single: “Dream Weapon”; See/read here; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Relapse) |
| Luke Haines | “Luke Haines In … ‘Setting The Dogs On The Post Punk Postman'” (guests: Peter Buck, Julian Barratt; Vinyl; Read here) » BUY NOW |
(Cherry Red) |
| Ben Howard | “Collections from the Whiteout” (producers: Howard, The National’s Aaron Dessner; new singles: “Fall Out” and “Follies Fixture”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Republic) |
| SG Lewis (U.K. songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist) | “times” (new single: “Feed the Fire”; See here; Vinyl; Download, released on Feb. 19) » BUY NOW |
(Casablanca / Republic) |
| Liquid Tension Experiment (supergroup comprised of Mike Portnoy, John Petrucci, Jordan Rudess and Tony Levin) | “LTE3” (their first album in 22 years; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(InsideOutMusic) |
| Suzi Quatro | “The Devil In Me” (first single: “The Devil In Me” and “I Sold My Soul Today”; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Steamhammer / SPV) |
| Esther Rose (New Orleans-based singer-songwriter) | “How Many Times” (producers: Rose, Ross Farbe; See/read here; Cassette; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Father/Daughter) |
| serpentwithfeet | “DEACON” (new single: “Fellowship”; See/read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Secretly Canadian) |
| ’68 | “Give One Take One” (new single: “The Knife The Knife The Knife”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Cooking Vinyl) |
| Smith/Kotzen (Iron Maiden’s Adrian Smith and The Winery Dogs’ Richie Kotzen) | “Smith/Kotzen” (producers: Smith/Kotzen; mixed by Kevin “Caveman” Shirley; See/read here; Red/Black Smoke Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(BMG Rights Management) |
| John Smith | “The Fray” (producers: Smith, Sam Lakeman; guests: Sarah Jarosz, The Milk Carton Kids, Bill Frisell, Lisa Hannigan, Courtney Hartman; new single: “Eye to Eye”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Smith) » BUY NOW |
(Commoner / Thirty Tigers) |
| Dr. Lonnie Smith | “Breathe” (recorded live at Jazz Standard in New York City in 2017; includes a cover of Timmy Thomas’ “Why Can’t We Live Together” with guest Iggy Pop) » BUY NOW |
(Blue Note) |
| String Noise | “Alien Stories” (Download) » BUY NOW, “Giga Concerto” (with Deerhoof’s Greg Saunier and the International Contemporary Ensemble) » BUY NOW |
(Infrequent Seams) |
| Tomahawk (led by Mike Patton) | “Tonic Immobility” (the rock supergroup’s first album in eight years; first single: “Business Casual”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Ipecac Recordings) |
| Tower of Power | “50 Years of Funk & Soul: Live at the Fox Theater • Oakland, CA • June 2018” (two CDs, 22 songs; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Artistry Music / Mack Avenue) |
| Tune-Yards | “sketchy.” (new single: “Hold Yourself”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(4AD) |
| Carrie Underwood | “My Savior” (her first inspirational album; guest: CeCe Winans; new single: “Softly and Tenderly”; Hear here; Read here; White Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Clear Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Capitol Nashville) |
| Xiu Xiu | “OH NO” (14 duets, featuring Sharon Van Etten, Chelsea Wolfe, Twin Shadow, Owen Pallett, Alice Bag, Liz Harris, etc.; new single: “A Bottle of Rum”; See here; Solid Cream & Solid Scarlet Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Polyvinyl) |
| Sara Watkins | “Under the Pepper Tree” (producer: Tyler Chester; guests: Nickel Creek, I’m With Her; new single: “Pure Imagination”; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(New West) |
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| First Aid Kit | “Who by Fire: Live Tribute to Leonard Cohen” (recorded over two nights in March 2017, when the Swedish duo performed a pair of tribute concerts to Cohen at Stockholm’s Royal Dramatic Theatre; See here; Read here) » BUY NOW |
(Columbia) |
| FITZ | “Head Up High” (the Fitz and the Tantrums leader’s full-length debut solo album; producer: Ryan Daly; new single: “Somebody Sometimes”; See here; CD out April 16; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Elektra) |
| Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra | “Promises” (Hear here; See here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Luaka Bop) |
| Freestylers | “Other Worlds” (guests: Plump DJs, Blapps Posse, Tenor Fly, Mad Doctor X, Scarlett Quinn, etc.; new single: “Happiness”; See here; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Mama’s Pie) |
| The Juliana Theory | “A Dream Away” (on its first album in 15 years, the emo/alt-rock band from Greensburg, Pa., reimagines its past songs; Hear here; Read here) » BUY NOW |
(Equal Vision) |
| Julia Stone | “Sixty Summers” (her first solo album since 2012; producers: St. Vincent, Thomas Bartlett; guests: The National’s Matt Berninger and Bryce Dessner; new single: “Dance”; See here; CD and Gold Vinyl out April 16; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(BMG Rights Management) |
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Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Global Village Trucking Company | “Smiling Revolution” (remastered two-CD anthology; Hear here; Read here) » BUY NOW |
(Esoteric Recordings / Cherry Red) |
| Harpers Bizarre | “Come to the Sunshine: The Complete Warner Brothers Recordings” (four-CD box set includes all four original albums plus eight bonus tracks; Read here) » BUY NOW |
(El / Cherry Red) |
| Lamb of God | “Lamb of God (Deluxe Edition)” (2020 album; with two bonus tracks and a live version of the album, “Live in Richmond, VA”; See/read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Epic / Legacy) |
| Level 42 | “The Complete Polydor Years Volume 1 1980-1984” (10-CD box set; Read here) » BUY NOW |
(Robinsongs / Cherry Red) |
| Dua Lipa | “Future Nostalgia (The Moonlight Edition)” (2020 album; with eight bonus tracks, including new single “We’re Good”; See here; Vinyl; Download, released on Feb. 12; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Warner) |
| L7 | “Wargasm: The Slash Years 1992-1997” (three-CD collection includes the albums “Bricks Are Heavy,” “Hungry for Stink” and “The Beauty Process,” with 11 bonus tracks; Read here) » BUY NOW |
(HNE / Cherry Red) |
| Joe Strummer | “Assembly” (16-song compilation of curated singles, fan favorites and rarities, including three previously unreleased versions of classic Clash tracks; liner notes have been written by lifelong Strummer fan Jakob Dylan; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Dark Horse / BMG Rights Management) |
| Tame Impala | “InnerSpeaker (10th Anniversary Edition) [Vinyl]” (2010 debut album, featuring “Solitude Is Bliss,” “Lucidity,” “Expectation” and “Why Won’t You Make Up Your Mind?”; four-LP box set includes an unearthed side-long jam, new mixes of tracks off the original album, instrumentals, and a deluxe 40-page booklet; mixed by Dave Fridmann; See here; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Modular Recordings / Interscope) |
| 3 Doors Down | “The Better Life (20th Anniversary Edition)” (2000 album, featuring “Kryptonite,” “Loser,” “Duck and Run” and “Be Like That”; remastered, with four bonus tracks, and a second disc titled “The Escatapwa Sessions,” containing early home demo recordings; See here; Download; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Republic / UMe) |
| Various artists | “Directions in Music 1969 to 1973” (10-song compilation, subtitled “Miles Davis, His Musicians and the Birth of a New Age of Jazz”; Hear/read here; Vinyl) » BUY NOW | (Ace) |
| Various artists | “Everybody Makes a Mistake: Stax Southern Soul Volume 2” (20 songs; Hear/read here; Vinyl) » BUY NOW | (Kent / Ace) |
| Various artists | “Jon Savage’s 1972-1976: All Our Times Have Come” (two-CDs, 44-song collection of power pop, pub rock, glam, krautrock, punk, etc.; Hear/read here) » BUY NOW |
(Ace) |
| Neil Young | “Young Shakespeare” (“After the Gold Rush”-era live album and concert film, recorded at the Shakespeare Theater in Stratford, Conn., on Jan. 22, 1971; See/read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Reprise) |
Next Week: April 2, 2021
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