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Jesse Dayton
Mixtape Volume 1
Blue Elan
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| Equally steeped in Texas/Louisiana blues, old-school country and punk-rock, Jesse Dayton is the music world's best-kept secret – hiding in plain sight as a guitarist for Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Social Distortion, the Supersuckers, and L.A. punk pioneers X. Mixtape Volume 1, is a series of 10 cover songs (Jackson Browne, Gram Parsons, Neil Young, and more) that he thoroughly makes his own. |
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The Regrettes
How Do You Love?
WB
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| How Do You Love?, the sophomore LP from L.A. power-pop outfit The Regrettes chronicles the rise and fall of a relationship via 18-year-old frontwoman Lydia Night – from that first rush of butterflies, through a destructive break-up, to ultimately finding peace and closure. The music? Think Best Coast meets The Strokes. Good luck getting these out of your head. |
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Jane Bunnett & Maqueque
On Firm Ground/Tierra Firme
Linus Entertainment
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| Jane Bunnett and Maqueque has evolved from a side-project to support and honor the new generation of young women jazz players and composers, to a Grammy-nominated, critically-acclaimed band that is in demand internationally at major Jazz festivals. On Firm Ground/Tierra Firme finds Jane Bunnett and Maqueque in full-flight, refracting Afro-Cuban jazz traditions to their stunning originals and a John Coltrane classic. |
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Lala Lala
Sleepyhead
Hardly Art
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| Lala Lala’s Sleepyhead is an auspicious – if, at the time, criminally overlooked – debut. Unlike 2018's critically-acclaimed The Lamb, Sleepyhead is a rawer, more punked-up album with fewer lyrical metaphors obfuscating it's intimate, direct emotionality. Album standout "Fuck With Your Friends" was a breakthrough moment for songwriter Lillie West – and the first song she ever wrote. Originally released as a limited-edition cassette, Sleepyhead deserves your undivided attention. Again. |
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Reignwolf
Hear Me Out
Reignwolf Music
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| Hear Me Out finds Reignwolf mastermind Jordan Cook re-energized and ready to rock. Reignwolf doesn’t take the Greta Van Fleet route and regurgitate old Zeppelin riffs – Cook crafts his own memorable guitar licks. In fact, much of Hear Me Out brings the Blues into a grittier musical universe laced with hints of Industrial and modern Alt-Rock. This is an album that certainly embraces the darker side of Blues, sounding tortured yet eager to make amends. |
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Bat For Lashes
Lost Girls
Bat For Lashes
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| Lost Girls is an album full of romance, an homage to Los Angeles, to being a kid in the 80s, to films that changed her life. Lost Girls sees Bat For Lashes – aka Natasha Khan – dreaming up her own fully formed parallel universe, creating an off-kilter coming of age film in which gangs of female bikers, horny teenagers, and a powerful female energy casts spells and leave clues for us to follow. |
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ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD OST
Various Artists
Columbia
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| Personally curated by Quentin Tarantino himself, the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is a love letter to the music of 1960s-era Hollywood. Featuring over 20 standout tracks from Paul Revere & The Raiders, Deep Purple, and Neil Diamond, the album creates a true time capsule of a golden era of filmmaking. The vinyl is housed in a double gatefold jacket with a 11" x 17" map of Hollywood. |
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Raphael Saadiq
Jimmy Lee
Columbia Records
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| Jimmy Lee is a deeply personal journey of discovery and a rumination on contemporary life. Raphael Saadiq – the Grammy Award-winning musician, songwriter, and go-to collaborator/producer for some of the biggest names in R&B – takes us on a walk through his elements, from Oakland to Rikers Island. Inspired in part by his brother's struggles with addiction, there's pain, there's pleasure, and of course consequences – all of which inform the songs and stories this brilliant work so richly reveals. |
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The Lumineers
III
Dualtone
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| The Lumineers' new album III is audacious: every note, every syllable, and every moment of silence in between is emotionally charged. It's darker in tone than previous albums and is presented in three chapters –each one focused on a member of the fictitious Sparks family, who span three generations in the album's storyline. III's concept began while the band was writing in the Catskill mountains, where producer Simone Felice (The Felice Brothers) works his magic. Mixing raw emotional themes with their ear-catching melodies, and expressive vocals, III moves masterly in artistic directions not yet traveled by the band. "This collection of songs worked out in a beautiful way,” says multi-instrumentalist, Jeremiah Fraites. “I feel with this album we've really hit our stride." |
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Herb Alpert
Over The Rainbow
Herb Alpert Presents
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| As one of the worlds most renowned and celebrated trumpet players (Miles Davis loved him), Herb Alpert returns with Over The Rainbow. “This project started like all of the other albums that I have recorded throughout the years, including the Tijuana Brass projects. I am always looking for good melodies to play and if it is a familiar song that I am working on, I’ll try to do it in a way that it’s never been heard before,” says Alpert. Over The Rainbow boasts a roster of pop, classic and international hits. The first song on the album is “Skinny Dip,” a funky original co-written and produced by Alpert, followed by 11 covers, including “Ain’t No Sunshine,” the title track, and “What A Wonderful World.” |
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Tanya Tucker
While I'm Livin
Fantasy
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| Produced by (and co-written with) Brandi Carlile and Shooter Jennings, While I'm Livin' marks Tanya Tucker's first release of all new material since 2002's Tanya. "It's a musical biography of sorts," says Carlile, "about Tanya's real life and the places she's seen… And it's narrated by the greatest country-and-western singer this side of Johnny Cash." Indeed, "The Day My Heart Goes Still" reflects on Tucker's enduring love for her late father, while "Mustang Ridge" recalls her hardscrabble childhood in central Texas. While I'm Livin' also contains some well-chosen covers including "The House That Built Me" (a track made famous by Miranda Lambert). The album's cornerstone, "Bring My Flowers Now,” speaks to the importance of showing appreciation to those we love before it's too late. |
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The Coalition of Independent Music Stores (CIMS) is a national level organization comprised of the best independent record stores in America. CIMS was founded in 1995 with the goal of uniting like minded independent store owners, giving them a more powerful voice in the music industry. The stores that make up CIMS are all very different, but we share the same desires – to be the heart of our communities, to super-serve our customers, to support and develop artists, and to share our love of music.
For more information about CIMS and the stores in our organization, please visit cimsmusic.com or find us through social media with the #cimsmusic hashtag. And please remember to always shop local by supporting your neighborhood record store.
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