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Weekly Album Release Parties! 15 May 2012

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matt
– May 9, 2012Posted in: Weekly Album Release Parties!

This week commences the return of the D! Tenacious D comes back with their 2nd, in my opinion (…since the Pick of Destiny was a weak ass movie soundtrack) album. Best Coast is also out with a new album of their classic surf vibe just in time for summertime cruising.

Adam Lambert-Trespassing
Beach House-Bloom
Best Coast-The Only Place
Cherri Bomb-This Is The End of Control
Cookie Duster-When Flying Was Easy
Fixers-We’ll Be The Moon
Garbage-Not Your Kind of People
HEALTH-Max Payne 3 [Soundtrack]
Hot Water Music-Exister
Killer Mike-R.A.P. Music
Lisa Marie Presley-Storm and Grace
mewithoutYou-Ten Stories
MV & EE-Space Homestead
Niki & the Dove-Instinct
PHILM-Harmonic [Slayer's Dave Lombardo, War's Pancho Tomaselli and Gerry Nestler of Civil Defiance]
Saint Etienne-Words and Music by Saint Etienne
Santana-Shape Shifter
Shadows Fall-Fire From The Sky
Simian Mobile Disco Unpatterns
Squarepusher-Ufabulum
Stephane Wrembel-Origins
Sugarman 3-What the World Needs Now
Tenacious D-Rize of the Fenix
The Cribs-In the Belly Of The Brazen Bull
The Nighthawks-Damn Good Time!
Violens-True
Willie Nelson-Heroes

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Weekly Album Release Parties! 8 May 2012

By
matt
– May 2, 2012Posted in: Weekly Album Release Parties!

Cliffs: Silversun Pickups, all you need.

Alex Clare-Lateness Of The Hour
ALO-Sounds Like This
Count Your Lucky Stars-Old Wounds: Warmth in the Winter of 1914-1915
Damon Albarn-Dr. Dee
Dana Buoy-Summer Bodies
Daytrader-Twelve Years
Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury-DROKK: Music Inspired by Mega-City One
Glenn Frey-After Hours [of The Eagles]
Heavy Blanket-Heavy Blanket [Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis project]
Heavy Cream-Super Treatment
Here We Go Magic-A Different Ship
Keane-Strangeland
Kindness-World, You Need A Change of Mind
Led Er Est-The Diver
Off!-Off!
PS I Love You-Death Dreams
Rita Wilson-AM/FM
Sara Watkins-Sun Midnight Sun
Silversun Pickups-Neck Of The Woods
Video Love-Mon Ange

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Jack White-Blunderbuss (Now Streaming!)

By
matt
– April 22, 2012Posted in: Specials

Stream the new Jack White album here!

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Weekly Album Release Parties! 17 April 2012

By
matt
– April 14, 2012Posted in: Weekly Album Release Parties!

SWV is still making music apparently! I thought they went away in the mid 90′s. Good for them. Other than that, Dragonforce, Mr. A-Z himself (Jason Mraz), Neon Trees, and Our Lady Peace all have new albums coming out…good stuff.

A Censored Sunlight-The Origin
Allo Darlin’-Europe
Battles Dross-Glop
Dar Williams-In The Time Of Gods
DragonForce-The Power Within
Dry the River-Shallow Bed
Eric Hutchinson-Moving Up Living Down
Future-Pluto
Hank Williams III-Long Gone Daddy
Hollow Earth-We Are Not Humanity
Horse Feathers-Cynic’s New Year
Jason Mraz-Love Is A four Letter Word
Joyce Manor-Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired
Lightships-Electric Cable
Loudon Wainwright III-Older Than My Old Man Now
Maps & Atlases-Beware And Be Grateful
Moonface-With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery
Neon Trees-Picture Show
New Build-Yesterday Was Lived & Lost
Our Lady Peace-Curve
Primal Rock Rebellion-Awoken Broken
Rebecca Pidgeon-Slingshot
Spiritualized-Sweet Heart Sweet Light
SWV-I Miss Us
The High Strung-?Posible o’ Imposible?
Train-California 37
Yann Tiersen-Skyline

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Prelude to Blunderbuss: Jack White-Sixteen Saltines

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matt
– April 14, 2012Posted in: Songs We Must Have

Jack White releases the video for Sixteen Saltines, which has my musical boner at half mast in anticipation for possibly one of the best albums of the year. Will it be as good as I’m building it up to be, I hope so. Until the release, scheduled for April 24th, we will have to hope that the singles released so far are as good as the album will be.

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Band of Skulls-Sweet Sour

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matt
– March 24, 2012Posted in: Album Reviews

For their second album, Sweet Sour, Southhampton, England’s Band of Skulls brought over their classic bluesy garage band sound for your listening pleasure, but they may have lost some of the magic in baggage claim. The comparisons to the White Stripes, the Kills, Black Keys, are inevitable in this genre of music, Band of Skulls was an appropriate addition to the likings of the fore mentioned after their unbelievable first album, Baby Darling Honey Face. It was an unbelievably good album, light, fun, fresh, and hard not to nod your head to every track. If it were a car, it would have been a Lotus Elise.

Their new album, Sweet Sour, has a harder, darker, heavier, and slower sound altogether. They traded in their fresh sound in for an over produced blah. It may have more glamour, but in the production it lost its soul. If Sweet Sour were a car, it would be a Maybach Benz, big, heavy, too much spent on production, ugly, and handles like driving a motor home.

Sweet Sour is an appropriate name for the album. Its really a mixed bag, some tracks are great, while others are boring, really boring, I guess those might be the sour tracks. On the whole, the album isn’t a complete loss; there are a few enjoyable moments (Sweet Sour, Wanderluster, You’re Not Pretty But You Got It Goin’ On). I was hoping for another album that you could produce more Mustang commercials with (see below if you don’t get it), instead we got an album that you can produce slow motion car crashes to.

Hopefully for the next album they recall their mojo from the first album, and pretend the second album never happened.

 

(Mustang commercial)

Here are some other ETS you might be into:

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Weekly Album Release Parties! 27 March 2012

By
matt
– March 21, 2012Posted in: Weekly Album Release Parties!

Madonna has a new album, just stating facts. Other than that, check out some of this stuff:

Amadou & Mariam-Folila
Before Their Eyes-Redemption
Caveman CoCo-Beware [Fat Possum label release]
Cowboy Junkies-The Wilderness [4th in the Nomad series]
Gift Of Gab-Next Logical Progression
Hurt-The Crux
Janus-Nox Aeris
Justin Townes Earle-Nothing’s Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now
La Sera-Sees The Light
Legacy-With Peace In Mind
Lionel Richie-Tuskegee
Madonna-MDNA
Mark Stewart-Politics Of Envy
Mati Zundel-Amazonico Gravitante
Miike Snow-Happy To You
Paul Weller-Sonik Kicks
Rocket Juice And The Moon-Rocket Juice And The Moon [New band with Damon Albarn, Flea and Tony Allen]
Rusko-Songs
Shinedown-Amaryllis
The All-American Rejects-Kids In The Street
The Mars Volta-Noctourniquet
Zeus

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Weekly Album Release Parties! 20 March 2012

By
matt
– March 14, 2012Posted in: Weekly Album Release Parties!

Its an American Idol miracle! Two artists (Adam Lambert and Casey James) in the same week. Other than that, some much better stuff I’m sure.

Adam Lambert-Trespassing
Anti-Flag-The General Strike
Brad Mehldau Trio-Ode
Casey James-Casey James [American Idol contestant]
Choir Of Young Believers-Rhine Gold
Daniel Rossen-Silent Hour/Golden Mile
Diggy Simmons-Unexpected Arrival
Lee Ranaldo-Between the Times & the Tides
Lost In The Trees-A Church That Fits Our Needs
Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s-Rot Gut, Domestic
Melanie Fiona-The MF Life
Nedry-In A Dim Light
Odd Future-The OF Tape Vol. 2
One Direction-Up All Night
Paul Van Dyk-Evolution
Sharks-No Gods
Tanlines-Mixed Emotions
The Shins-Port Of Morrow

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Weekly Album Release Parties! 13 March 2012

By
matt
– March 6, 2012Posted in: Weekly Album Release Parties!

Oh snap! New music from the Ting Tings, Decemberists, and Delta Spirit! Good week.
Delta Spirit-Delta Spirit
Demdike Stare-Elemental
Elephant & Castle-Transitions
Grinderman-Grinderman 2 RMX
Hands Like Houses-Ground Dweller
I See Stars
Krzysztof Penderecki & Jonny Greenwood-Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima / Popcorn Superhet Receiver / Polymorphia / 48 Responses to Polymorphia
Lucero-Women & Work
Meat Loaf-Hell in a Handbasket
One Direction-Up All Night
Say Anything-Anarchy My Dear
Shooter Jennings-Family Man
Soulfly-Enslaved
The Decemberists-We All Raise Our Voices to the Air (Live Songs 04.11-08.11)
The Ting Tings-Sounds From Nowheresville
Tiger! Tiger!-Them Where They Bleed
Vijay Iyer Trio-Accelerando
Xerxes-Our Home Is A Deathbed

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Weekly Album Release Parties! 6 March 2011

By
matt
– February 29, 2012Posted in: Weekly Album Release Parties!

I think I’m losing it. I’ve only heard of 3 of these people.The Boss, Kaiser Cheifs, and Monica. What do you recommend and why?

Andrew Bird-Break it Yourself
Ava Luna-Ice Level
Bowerbirds-The Clearing
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band-Wrecking Ball
Elfin Saddle-Devastates
Every Time I Die-Ex Lives
Fireflight-Now
Fort Remeau-Kingdoms
Good Old War-Come Back As Rain
Kaiser Chiefs-Start The Revolution Without Me
Lovedrug-Wild Blood
Magnetic Fields-Love At The Bottom Of The Sea
Miniature Tigers-Mia Pharaoh
Mona-Mona
Monica-New Life
Nite Jewel-One Second Of Love
Now, Now-Threads
Pond-Beard Wives Denim
Scott Matthews-Gallantry’s Favorite Son
The Demolition String Band-Gracious Days
The Men-Open Your Heart
Tim Fite-Ain’t Ain’t Ain’t
Todd Snider-Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables
White Rabbits-Milk Famous
Xiu Xiu-Always

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