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Now Hear This! June 2023
Jack Johnson
In Between Dub
RepublicBuy Now In Between Dub features 11 remixes of some of Johnsons most celebrated tunes. Includes two takes from the late reggae legend Lee Scratch Perry plus a Subatomic Sound System dub from Perrys band, as well as remixes from Dennis Bovell, Scientist, Mad Professor, Nightmares on Wax, and more. Deer Tick
Emotional Contracts
ATOBuy Now Deer Ticks first new body of work since 2017 adds an even greater vitality to their feverish collection of timeless rock-and-roll. Produced by Dave Fridmann, the 10-song set features guest musicians like Steve Berlin (Los Lobos) and background vocals from Courtney Marie Andrews, Vanessa Carlton, Kam Franklin, Angela Miller, and Sheree Smith. Brandee Younger
Brand New Life
VerveBuy Now Over the past 15 years, Brandee Younger has worked relentlessly to stretch boundaries for harpists. In 2022, she broke new ground by becoming the first black woman nominated for a Grammy for Best Instrumental Composition. An ever-expanding artist, the album builds on her already rich oeuvre, transcending genre and expectations. Raul Malo
Say Less
Thirty TigersBuy Now From midnight in Havana to the beaches of California, hear Mavericks frontman Raul Malos full range of musical influences on display as he explores a wild variety of textures from surf guitar licks, lush earthen tones, spaghetti western to big band jams and more, accompanied occasionally by his Mavericks bandmates. Brandy Clark
Brandy Clark
Warner RecordsBuy Now An 11x Grammy-nominee and CMA Award-winning artist, Brandy Clark is one of her generation's most respected songwriters and musicians. Produced by 9-time Grammy winning Brandi Carlile, the album showcases Clark's versatility with eleven songs that span the emotional spectrum, including the first single, "Buried." Leftover Salmon
Grass Roots
Compass RecordsBuy Now Grass Roots showcases a different side of Leftover Salmons potent brew of bluegrass, rock 'n' roll, folk, zydeco and jazz and blues by presenting a series of covers from some of music's most influential voices including the likes of Bob Dylan, Link Wray, David Bromberg, and more. Featuring guest appearances from Billy Strings. Alison Brown
On Banjo
Compass RecordsBuy Now Grammy winner and Banjo Hall of Fame member Alison Brown is one of the world's foremost banjoists and composers. In her hands, the banjo is equally at home on the front porch or at symphony hall. Here Brown explores all the corners of the instrument's potential with guests Anat Cohen, Stuart Duncan, Kronos Quartet and Steve Martin. Rob Grant
Lost At Sea
InterscopeBuy Now An accidental recording artist, Grant has never had a lesson on any instrument in his life, but when he sits down at a piano, something magical happens. He enlisted an array of talent to contribute to the making of the album including daughter Lana Del Rey, Jack Antonoff, Luke Howard, Laura Sisk and Zach Dawes. Bailen
Tired Hearts
FantasyBuy Now Bailens second album beats with empathy, vulnerability, and resolve as they learn how to dream in the face of lifes uncertainty and in the process, move forward aware, resilient, and hopeful. Tired Hearts delivers a dazzling set of songs that navigates the space between the hearts expectation and the heads sober reality. Dropkick Murphys
Okemah Rising
Dummy Luck Music / PIASBuy Now Dropkick Murphys remain true to their Irish-rooted punk sound but pay proper tribute to Woody Guthrie's genius. At a time when some are trying to delete history, it's hopeful to see The Muphys bringing Guthrie's poignant lyrics to life. It's a reminder that some things are worth fighting for and have been from the beginning of time. Lauren Daigle
Lauren Daigle
AtlanticBuy Now The self-titled album marks the launch of a new creative chapter for the two-time Grammy-winning, Louisiana-bred artist. While holding on to her Christian roots, Daigle embraces the major label signing to Atlantic and welcomes co-writing duties from Natalie Hemby, Shane McAnally and others to help create 10 soulful and uplifting songs. Laura Cantrell
Just Like A Rose: The Anniversary Sessions
Propeller Sound RecordingsBuy Now After a nine-year hiatus, Laura Cantrell, a familiar presence in the international Americana & Roots music scene, is back with her latest studio album. This new collection, originally intended to commemorate the 20th anniversary of her debut, was expertly crafted with the help of renowned luminaries like Steve Earle, Buddy Miller, and Rosie Flores. Matchbox Twenty
Where The Light Goes
AtlanticBuy Now The multi-platinum, superstar hit making pop-rockers return with their fifth studio album and first new release in over a decade. Punchy tunes like Dont Get Me Wrong and the title track encapsulate the DNA of Matchbox Twenty, perfected after 30 years of music-making. Y La Bamba
Lucha
Tender Loving EmpireBuy Now Lucha explores multiplicity - love, queerness, Mexican American and Chicanx identity, family, intimacy, yearning, loneliness. Its a battle cry for acceptance with sonically sprawling tracks documenting the parallel trust the artist has built with herself to allow the songs to guide how they should be sung and sound. Rival Sons
Darkfighter
AtlanticBuy Now Darkfighters palpable 70s hard rock pedigree is agreeably refurbished by Scott Holidays use of daring, Jack White and Tom Morello-ish tones while frontman Jay Buchanans voice is agile, gutsy and raucous. Suited and booted, twice Grammy-nominated, and here benefiting from the up-front production of Dave Cobb, Rival Sons sound stadium-ready. Avenged Sevenfold
Life Is But A Dream
WMXBuy Now Life Is But A Dream is a is a brilliantly deranged, LSD-soaked psycho-metal musical that brings together so many different sounds, it's almost overwhelming, from jazz to grunge to electronic to psychedelia. Best served as a whole to truly appreciate its musical breadth and sonic depth, it marks their boldest statement and most revolutionary work to date. Graham Nash
Now
BMGBuy Now The Crosby, Stills & Nash and The Hollies alumnus mixes the personal and the political on his first new album in seven years, with moving results. The material is softly lit and effortlessly assured, conveying the calming and caressing sound that all so frequently added its soothing sobriety to CSN and CSNY. M. Ward
Supernatural Thing
Anti RecordsBuy Now Supernatural Things songs sound freshly pulled from the ground, with a little earth sticking to them. Wards lyric delivery has that slight rawness the ear loves, and his voice has quiet dignity and great tenderness. This is an open-hearted, inviting album. Featuring First Aid Kit, Shovels & Rope, Neko Case, Jim James and others. Chayla Hope
Damn, Feelings
Misra RecordsBuy Now Damn, Feelings is a distillation of what makes pop such a potent force with its 80s synths and funky rhythms of New Jack swing as well as the bold production and teary-eyed joy of 2010s dance-pop. But the common denominator is always Chaylas rousing vocals, alternating between cool and collected pop anthems, naked balladry and low, raspy fireworks. Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors
Strangers No More
Magnolia MusicBuy Now For over 20 years, Holcomb has brought his audience together, turning shows into celebrations of community, collaboration, and contemporary American roots music. Strangers No More celebrates that sense of togetherness while expanding the mix of timeless songwriting, modern-day Laurel Canyon folk, amplified Americana, and heartland rock & roll. LISTEN HERE LISTEN HERE Christine and The Queens
Paranoa, Angels, True Love
Because MusicBuy Now The follow-up to 2019s Redcar les adorables toiles (prologue), Paranoa, Angels, True Love is both more sprawling than Redcar twenty tracks spanning nearly ninety minutesand more unified. Letissier has described it as the second part of an operatic gesture inspired by Angels in America, and it is structured, somewhat showily, in three movements. But the album feels less like an opera than like the score for a film epic, a patient and pleading unfurling of atmospheric sounds. And though the new album is not a neon-fueled ode to sweating out heartbreak, there is still enough here that might summon one to dance. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
Weathervanes
Thirty TigersBuy Now Weathervanes is a collection of grown-up songs: songs about adult love, about change, about the danger of nostalgia and the interrogation of myths, about cruelty and regret and redemption. Life and death songs played for and by grown ass people. Some will make you cry alone in your car and others will make you sing along with thousands of strangers in a big summer pavilion, united in the great miracle of being alive. The record features the rolling thunder of Isbells fearsome 400 Unit, whove earned a place in the rock n roll cosmos alongside the greatest backing ensembles, as powerful and essential to the storytelling as The E Street Band or the Wailers. -
New Release Round-Up 06-09-23
Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit - Weathervanes- SoutheasternRecords
A Jason Isbell record always lands like a decoder ring in the ears and hearts of his audience, a soundtrack to his world and magically to theirs, too. Weathervanes carries the same revelatory power. This is a storyteller at the peak of his craft, observing his fellow wanderers, looking inside and trying to understand, reducing a universe to four minutes. He shrinks life small enough to name the fear and then strip it away, helping his listeners make sense of how two plus two stops equaling four once you reach a certain age -- and carry a certain amount of scars.There is something about boundaries on this record, Isbell says. As you mature, you still attempt to keep the ability to love somebody fully and completely while youre growing into an adult and learning how to love yourself.Weathervanes is a collection of grown-up songs: Songs about adult love, about change, about the danger of nostalgia and the interrogation of myths, about cruelty and regret and redemption. Life and death songs played for and by grown ass people. Some will make you cry alone in your car and others will make you sing along with thousands of strangers in a big summer pavilion, united in the great miracle of being alive. The record features the rolling thunder of Isbells fearsome 400 Unit, whove earned a place in the rock n roll cosmos alongside the greatest backing ensembles, as powerful and essential to the storytelling as The E Street Band or the Wailers.They make a big noise, as Isbell puts it, and he feels so comfortable letting them be a main prism through which much of the world hears his art. He can be private but with them behind him he transforms, and there is a version of himself that can only exist in their presence. When he plays a solo show, he is in charge of the entire complicated juggle. On stage with the 400 Unit, he can be a guitar hero when he wants, and a conductor when he wants, and a smiling fan of the majesty of his bandmates when he wants to hang back and listen to the sound.Niall Horan - The Show-Capitol
Niall Horan's `The Show' - his third solo album and first since 2020's chart-topping `Heartbreak Weather' - will be released on June 9, 2023. Preceded by its lead single "Heaven," the album matches the pure emotion of his globally beloved past work with a powerful new element of soul-searching reflection. Each vinyl copy of `The Show' includes a randomly selected print of a letter handwritten by Niall about a song from the album.Jenny Lewis - Joy'All- Blue NoteRecords
Jenny Lewis fifth solo album, Joy'Allarrives June 9th. JoyAll finds the singer-songwriter embarking on a new era, in a new town and on a new label, as she joins the iconic roster of Blue Note/Capitol Records. While JoyAll pulls from a bounty of sonic inspiration from classic soul to 90s R&B, as well as country and classic singer-songwriter records the albums rich, intimate and warm live sound is the hallmark of eight-time GRAMMY-winning producer Dave Cobb. Recorded at Nashvilles historic RCA Studio A, JoyAll includes new single Psychos and the previously released single Puppy and a Truck.ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
For more information on these and other releases out this week, check out our New Releases charts by week section.
Milky Chance - Living In A Haze [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Ocean Blue LP]
Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors - Strangers No More
Janelle Monae - The Age of Pleasure
Christine And The Queens - PARANOA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE
Freddie Gibbs - $oul $old $eparately [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Neon Yellow LP + Flexi Disc]
Ultra Q - My Guardian Angel
Dream Wife - Social Lubrication [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Deluxe Red & Black LP]
Squid - O Monolith
Youth Lagoon - Heaven Is A Junkyard
King Krule - Space Heavy [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Clear LP]
TEKE::TEKE - Hagata
My Morning Jacket - MMJ Live Vol. 3: Bonnaroo 2004 [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Thunderdome (Cloudy & Clear) 2LP]
Jess Williamson - Time Ain't Accidental [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Hot Pink LP]
Tears For Fears - The Hurting [Half-Speed LP]
Extreme - Six
Oceans Ate Alaska - Disparity
James - Be Opened By The Wonderful [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition White 2 LP]
Rob Grant - Lost At Sea
& More .....UPCOMING RELEASES
Queens Of The Stone Age - In Times New Roman...-Matador
In Times New Roman..., the 8th studio album from Queens Of The Stone Age is raw, brutal & rough around the edges but with a refinement that reveals itself further with each successive listen and QOTSA founder Joshua Hommes lyrics are as witty and withering than ever. The results are instantly identifiable; QOTSAs sonic signature, expanded and embellished with new and unprecedented twists in virtually every song, a live in-a-room recording that showcases a band at the height of their creative powers. In Times New Roman... is a party for the obscene and the clean, the outcasts and the weirdos, and anyone and everyone in between. One of the most important bands in recent rock history is B A C K but its no exaggeration to call this album a devastating rebirth."Sammy Rae & The Friends - Chapter One- NettwerkRecords
Singer/songwriter, bandleader, and human being Samantha Bowers first began writing songs at age 12 while taking piano lessons and listening to Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel and Freddie Mercury playing on the family stereo. By 16, she developed a love of jazz and began to study the great female vocalists of the century (mainly Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James and Sarah Vaughn). She and her eight-piece group make music that has elements of pop, soul, funk, rock and jazz and focus on themes like coming-of-age, defiance, and self-expression. Their genre blending performances are high-energy, honest and quirky, influenced by the great performances of those childhood classic rock heroes.
Music Releases 06-09-23
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Movie Releases 06-13-23
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie [Movie] | The Super Mario Bros. Movie | New Blu-Ray: $39.98 |
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The Popes Exorcist [Movie] | The Popes Exorcist | New Blu-Ray: $34.99 |
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