Updates + Additions

New Releases

“Hurry Up Tomorrow,” The Weeknd – new release date: Jan. 31

“New Dawn,” Marshall Allen – Feb. 14

“ARBORESQUE,” ARTEMIS – Feb. 28

“Hey Country Queen,” Mackenzie Carpenter – March 7

“The Open Up,” Frog Eyes – March 7

“Foxes in the Snow,” Jason Isbell – March 7

“Bucolic Gone,” LAKE – March 7

“Horses,” Tobacco City – March 7

“Heaven On My Mind,” TobyMac – March 7

“Wiggle Up, Giddy Up!,” The Wiggles – March 7

“Consentrik Quartet,” Nels Cline – March 14

“Moonlight Concessions,” Throwing Muses – March 14

“1350 (Live),” UPPERROOM – March 14

“Poet of Motel 6,” Kinky Friedman – March 21

“is,” My Morning Jacket – March 21

“Once More With Feeling,” The Adventures – March 28

“Evenfall,” Sam Akpro – March 28

“Letters From the Atlantic,” Butcher Brown – March 28

“Little Death Wishes,” CocoRosie – March 28

“Forever Is a Feeling,” Lucy Dacus – March 28

“Patience, Moonbeam,” Great Grandpa – March 28

“Backflips in a Restaurant,” grentperez – March 28

“Glory,” Perfume Genius – March 28

“Big Dog,” Bria Salmena – March 28

“End Beginnings,” Sandwell District – March 28

“Once Upon a Mattress (The 2024 Broadway Cast Recording),” Sutton Foster, Michael Urie, Brooks Ashmanskas, et al – March 28

“For You,” Yukimi – March 28

“Slipper imp and shakaerator,” Babe Rainbow – April 4

“Tripla,” Miki Berenyi Trio – April 4

“Jellywish,” Florist – April 4

“Fell In Love With a Cowgirl,” Parmalee – April 4

“Crave,” Kills Birds – April 11

“Neon & Ghost Signs,” Rialto – April 25

“Bloodless,” Samia – April 25

“Money & Power,” Ally Venable – April 25

New Music Friday: Jan. 17, 2025

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Reissues

“Grand Man,” Rusty Williams – Feb. 14

“Rise Above It: A Souled American Anthology,” Souled American – Feb. 21

“The Moon Is In the Wrong Place (Deluxe Edition),” Shannon and the Clams – Feb. 28

“The Standard School Broadcast Recordings,” John Lee Hooker – Feb. 28

“Clear Lake Auditorium,” De La Soul – March 7

“Close to the Edge (Super Deluxe Edition),” Yes – March 7

“Stompin’ at the Savoy – Live / Seal in Red,” Rufus and Chaka Khan – March 14

“Everything (Deluxe Edition),” Climie Fisher – March 21

“Jingle Jangle Morning: The 1960s U.S. Folk-Rock Explosion,” various artists – March 21

“Motor City Is Burning: A Michigan Anthology 1965-1972,” various artists – March 21

“Live in the U.S.A. 1978,” Sex Pistols – April 25

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Vinyl

“The Second Time Around,” Etta James – Feb. 14

“The Great Kai & J.J.,” J.J. Johnson / Kai Winding – Feb. 21

“Today!,” Mississippi John Hurt – Feb. 28

“Blues & Ballads,” Lonnie Johnson – Feb. 28

“Virtuoso,” Joe Pass – Feb. 28

“Son Con Guaguancó,” Celiz Cruz – March 7

“Thelonious Himself,” Thelonious Monk – March 28

“The Musings of Miles” and “Walkin’,” Miles Davis – April 18

Just Released

(Surprise releases + more)

“cupid,” wolfacejoeyy (Hear here; wolfacejoeyy)

“Skin Deep,” Katy Tunbridge (Hear here; Katy Tunbridge Music)

Sometimes I wonder where I've been / Who I am / Do I fit in

New Songs Playlist

(Click on title to stream)

Time Waited, My Morning Jacket
Bury Me, Jason Isbell
Intergalactic Dance, Ora the Molecule
every amnesia movie, Califone
Keep Me Satisfied, Jungle
Sad Makeup, Yukimi
Can’t Say No, The Wombats
Wax & String, Shannon and the Clams 
Metal Detector, Gus Englehorn
Blue Left Hand, Oracle Sisters
Stormy River, Gino Vannelli
Drive, Jason Boland & The Stragglers
Pure, Benthos
Mortal Wound, The Veils
Weightless, Jimmy & The Veil feat. Andrew Michael Wells 
Heading for the End, Lucette 
Swimmer / Wet Dog, Dead Gowns
Mountain’r Lower, Blood Lemon
Slingshot/Hypersleep, Henge
After Later, Brock Geiger feat. Sam Gendel
Oh Yeah!, Slamdinistas 
Pretty Boys Don’t Die, Huxlii 
Awaken, numün 
Evergreen, Ian Flanigan (“The Voice” finalist) 
Autumn, Tobacco City 
The Fence, Erik Flaa
Runaway, fuzzandstatic
You Have You, Sarantos 
Reverence, NERiMA 

R.I.P.

Linda Nolan (The Nolans)

P. Fluid (24-7 Spyz frontman)

Buck White (patriarch of country music group The Whites)

Jackie Farry (music industry veteran served as tour manager for Elliot Smith and the Lemonheads in the 1990s)

Sam Moore (soul legends Sam & Dave)

This Week In … 1985

(Source: Billboard)

No. 1 Song – “Like a Virgin,” Madonna 

Biggest Mover Within the Top 40 – “Method of Modern Love,” Daryl Hall & John Oates (from No. 35 to No. 26) 

Highest Debut (No. 90) – “Gotta Get You Home Tonight,” Eugene Wilde 

Biggest Movers Within the Hot 100 – “Knocking At Your Back Door,” Deep Purple (from No. 76 to No. 64) | “Rockin’ At Midnight,” The Honeydrippers (from No. 80 to No. 68) 

Shoulda Been a Bigger Hit – “Two Tribes,” Frankie Goes to Hollywood (peaked at No. 43) 

No. 1 Album – “Purple Rain,” Prince and the Revolution

In U.K.

(Source: Official Charts)

No. 1 Song – “I Want to Know What Love Is,” Foreigner 

No. 1 Album – “Alf,” Alison Moyet

In Canada

(Source: RPM)

No. 1 Song – “Do They Know It’s Christmas?,” Band Aid

No. 1 Album – “Volume One,” The Honeydrippers

Dedicated to Ginny and Winnie. We miss you, girls. 

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