I wanna tell you about my other life here because
1. You aren’t gonna read it
Amd
2. It is kinda interesting.
I’ve spent the last three days working on an advertising campaign trying to sue GM because of those ignitions that exploded in their cars and obviously it leaves the TV Cable networks in an iffy position because automobiles are one of their biggest clients so I am spending the last two days arguing with Standards And Practices.
All of which is my explanation as to how I ran out of time this Friday afternoon and decided to go Direct Current despite having post on:
1. The current future of Music Fests
2. Some thoughts on Perfect Pussy and the savage cool.
3. A friend of mines new album which I’ve been wanting to write about all week.
But they all took more concentration than I can apply right now. If nothing else in the world, arguing with S&P is more headache inducing then, well, then not arguing with S&P for one.
So right now I am debating whether to scalp a tix to Perfect Pussy next Saturday or not bother or go to sleep or… any way here is some more upcoming releases. Knock yourself out but don’t turn on the ignition while you’re doing it:
The Ghost Wolves – Man, Woman, Beast (5/27)
Peter Murphy – Lion (6/3)
John Fullbright – Songs (5/27)
Passenger – Whispers (6/10)
O.A.R. – The Rockville LP (6/10)
Alice Boman – EP II (6/3)
Young and Sick – S/T (4/8)
Samuel Cooper – Treehouse (4/8)
Slow Club – Complete Surrender (7/14)
Jake Bugg – Messed Up Kids EP (5/12 UK)
The Felice Brothers – Favorite Waitress – (6/17)
Carrie Elkin & Danny Schmidt – For Keeps (5/13)
Rae Morris – Do You Even Know? EP (5/5 UK)
Sylvan Esso – S/T (5/13)
Yann Tiersen – Infinity (5/20)
The Black Keys – Turn Blue (5/13)
Amy LaVere – Runaway’s Diary (5/27)
Sleep Party People – Floating (6/2)
Amaya Laucirica – Sway (4/18 AUS)
Glass Aniimals – Zaba (6/10)
Justin Nozuka – Ulysees (4/15)
Cowboy Mouth – Go (6/10)
Bridie Jackson & The Arbour – New Skin (May TBA)
Rhodes – The Morning EP (5/11 UK)
John Illsley (Dire Straits) – Testing the Waters (5/26)
Laurel – To The Hills (4/7 UK)
Field Study – Feverland (4/8 U.S.)
Stumbleine feat. Violet Skies – Dissolver (4/8)
Folly & The Hunter – Tragic Care (4/8 U.S.)
March 25
Ages and Ages – Divisionar
Circa Zero (Andy Summers, Rob Giles) – Circus Hero
D’Angelo – Live at The Jazz Cafe, London
Desert Noises – 27 Ways
Faces On Film – Elite Lines
Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (40th Anniv. Deluxe Edition)
Future Islands – Singles
Jimi Goodwin (Doves) – Odludek
Beth Hart/Joe Bonamassa – Live In Amsterdam (DVD)
Holy Holy – Pacifica (3/28 AUS)
Jim Oblon – Sunset
Johnny Cash – Out Among the Stars (Unreleased LP)
London Grammar – If You Wait (CD U.S.)
Mr. Little Jeans – Pocketknife
Robbie Hecht – S/T
Seahaven – Reverie Lagoon
Simone Felice – Strangers
The Belle Brigade – Just Because
The Callstore – Save No One
The Colourist – S/T
The Hold Steady – Teeth Dreams
Tokyo Police Club – Forcefield
Various – Bob Dylan In The 80’s Vol. 1
Various – MusiCares Tribute to Bruce Springsteen (DVD)
Various – The Walking Dead Season 4, Vol. 2 (EP)
Wilco Johnson/Roger Daltrey – Going Back Home
April 1
A. J. Ellis – Bury the Devil
Arc Iris – S/T
Ball Park Music – Puddinghead (4/4 AUS)
Cloud Nothings – Here & Nowhere Else
Coves – Soft Friday (UK; US: TBA)
Dan Croll – Sweet Disarray
Dan Sultan – Blackbird (4/4 Aus)
Desert Noises – 27 Ways
Hozier – From Eden EP (UK)
Johnny Two Bags (Social Distortion) – Salvation Town
Kaiser Chiefs – Education…and War
Kate Havnevik – Residue (Rarities)
Leon Russell – Life’s Journey
Manchester Orchestra – Cope
Nathaniel Rateliff – Falling Faster Than You Can Run
Nickel Creek – A Dotted Line
Novo Amor – Woodgate NY EP
Orcas – Yearling (4/4)
Peter Mulvey – Silver Ladder
Pylo – The Woman EP
S. Carey (Bon Iver) – Range of Light
Saintseneca – Dark Arc
Small Black – Real People EP
The Bamboos – Fever In The Road
Timber Timbre – Hot Dreams
Various – Looking Into You: A Tribute to Jackson Browne
White Hinterland – Baby
Whitehorse – Éphémère sans repère EP (CAN)
April 8
Carlene Carter – Carter Girl
EMA – The Future’s Void
Fatherson – I Am An Island (UK)
Field Study – Feverland (U.S.)
Folly & The Hunter – Tragic Care (U.S.)
Joan Osborne – Love & Hate
Katie Herzig – Walk Through Walls
Laurel – To The Hills
Liam Finn – The Nihilist
Moxie Raia – TBA
School of Language (Field Music) – Old Fears
Shook Twins – What We Do
Sohn – Tremors
The Honey Trees – Bright Fire
The Mary Onettes – Portico: (Dig: 3/4)
Thus:Owls – Turning Rocks
Wallis Bird – Architecture (UK)
Young and Sick – S/T
April 15
Afghan Whigs – Do To the Beast
Amatorski – From Clay Figures
Bobby Bare Jr. – Undefeated
Bruce Springsteen – American Beauty EP (4/19)
Dinah Thorpe – Lullabies & Wake Up Calls
Emerson Hart (Tonic) – Beauty In Disrepair
Horse Thief – Fear In Bliss
Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) – Homo Erraticus
Ingrid Michaelson – Lights Out
Jessica Lea Mayfield – Make My Head Sing…
Justin Currie – Lower Reaches
Justin Nozuka – Ulysees
Marika Hackman – Deaf Heat EP
Matthew & The Atlas – Other Rivers (UK)
Needtobreathe – Rivers In the Wasteland
Paolo Nutini – Caustic Love (UK)
Ramona Lisa (Chairlift’s Caroline Polachek) – Arcadia
Rodney Crowell – Tarpaper Sky
Sohn – Tremors
The Bee Gees – The WB Years 1987-1991 Box
The Secret Sisters – Put Your Needle Down
Thee Oh Sees – Drop
Vaudeville Etiquette – Debutantes and Dealers
Woods – With Light & With Love
April 22
Black Prairie (Decemberists) – Fortune
Dwight & Nicole – Shine On
EELS – The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett
Fear Of Men – Loom
G. Love & Special Sauce – Sugar
Hedley – Wild Life
Keb’ Mo’ – BLUESAmericana
Little Daylight – TBA
Little Feat – Live in Holland 1976
Margot & The Nuclear So and Sos – Sling Shot to Heaven
Sharon Corr – The Same Sun
The Madden Brothers (Good Charlotte) – TBA
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart – Days of Abandon
To Kill A King – Cannibals With Cutlery (U.S.)
Tom and Hebron – Zoyugo
April 29
Archie Powell & The Exports – Back In Black
Ben Watt – Hendra
Brigitte DeMeyer – Savannah Road (4/29)
Broken Twin – May
Caitlin Park – The Sleeper (5/2 AUS)
Chris Robinson Brotherhood – Phosphorescent Harvest
Curtis Stigers – Hooray For Lovers
Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz) – Everyday Robots
Dave Keller – Soul Changes
Edward David Anderson – Lies & Wishes
Fiona Bevan – Talk To Strangers
Ghost of A Saber Tooth Tiger (Sean Lennon) – Midnight Sun
Hafdis Huld – Home
Little Hurricane – Gold Fever
Pink Mountaintops – Get Back
Prefab Sprout – Crimson/Red (U.S.)
Rodrigo y Gabriela – 9 Dead Alive
Sam Morrow – Ephemeral
The Currys – Follow
The Howlin’ Brothers – Trouble
The Old 97’s – Most Messed Up
Tommy Malone (Subdudes) – Poor Boy
Wye Oak – Shriek
Zoe Muth & The Lost High Rollers – World of Strangers
April TBA
Imogen Heap – Sparks
Neil Young – A Letter Home
May 6
Ben Harper/Ellen Chase-Verdries – Childhood Home
Current Swell – Ulysses
Gregg Allman & Various Artists – All My Friends (CD/DVD)
Gruff Rhys – American Interior
Jenny Scheinman – The Littlest Prisoner
Kina Grannis – Elements
Leisure Cruise (Dave Hodge, Leah Segal) – S/T
Lily Allen – Sheezus
Luke Elliot – Provisions
Lykke Li – I Never Learn
Natalie Merchant – S/T
Nikki Lane – All or Nothin’
Pacifika – Amor Planeta
Papercuts – Life Among the Savages
Rachel Taylor Brown – Falimy
Rae Morris – Do You Even Know? EP (UK)
Ray LaMontagne – Supernova
Roddy Frame (Aztec Camera) – Seven Dials (UK)
Sarah McLachlan – Shine On
The Horrors – Luminous
Thomas Dybdahl – What’s Left Is Forever (US)
Tiny Ruins – Brightly Painted One
tUnE-yArDs – Nikki Nack
Willie Watson – Folk Singer, Vol. 1
Wooden Wand – Farmers Corner
May 13
Amen Dunes – Love
Braid – No Coast
Carrie Elkin & Danny Schmidt – For Keeps
Collin Herring – Some Knives
Jake Bugg – Messed Up Kids EP (UK)
Jeremy Fisher – The Lemon Squeeze
Jesse Denaro – Dear, Love
Joseph Arthur – Lou (Lou Reed Tribute)
Kris Delmhorst – Blood Test
La Sera – Hour of the Dawn
Mirah – Changing Light
Molly Beanland – Night Dreams
Little Dragon – Nabuma Rubberband
Nick Mulvey – First Mind
Owen Pallett – In Conflict
Rhodes – The Morning EP (5/11 UK)
Swans – To Be Kind
Sylvan Esso – S/T
The Black Keys – Turn Blue
The Trouble With Templeton – Rookie
Tom The Lion – Sleep
Tori Amos – Unrepentant Geraldines
Walter Martin (The Walkmen) – We’re All Young Together
May 20
Bry Webb – Free Will
Coldplay – Ghost Stories
Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes) – Upside Down Mountain
Haley Bonar – Last War
Hundreds – Aftermath
Jolie Holland – Wine Dark Sea
Kenny Wayne Shepherd – Going Home
LCD Soundsystem – The Long Goodbye: Live @ Madison Sq. Garden
Nightmare & The Cat – Simple
Oasis – Definitely Maybe 20th Anniv. Ed.
Smoke Fairies – S/T
Syd Arthur – Sound Mirror
Yann Tiersen – Infinity
May 27
Amy LaVere – Runaway’s Diary
John Fullbright – Songs
John Illsley (Dire Straits) – Testing the Waters
Little Barrie – Shadow
Madison – The Bright Light EP
Miniature Tigers – Cruel Runnings
moe. – No Guts, No Glory
Sharon Van Etten – Are We There
Teleman – Breakfast
The Ghost Wolves – Man, Woman, Beast
May TBA
Bridie Jackson & The Arbour – New Skin
Erlend Øye (Kings of Convenience) – Legao
Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence
Megson – In A Box
June 3
Alice Boman – EP II
BANKS – Goddess (Full Length Debut)
Echo & The Bunnymen – Meteorites (4/28 UK)
Howling Bells – Heartstrings
James – La Petite Mort
JD McPherson – TBA
Kan Wakan – Moving On
Matisyahu – Akeda
Peter Murphy – Lion
Sam Smith – In the Lonely Hour
Sleep Party People – Floating
The Donkeys – TBA
The Pierces – Creation
The Shoe (w/ Jena Malone) – I’m OK
June 10
Bob Mould – Beauty & Ruin
Cowboy Mouth – Go
Glass Aniimals – Zaba
Got A Girl – I Love You But I Must Drive Off This Cliff Now
Jose James – While You Were Sleeping
O.A.R. – The Rockville LP
Passenger – Whispers
Beyond
Allen Stone – TBA (Summer)
As Animals – S/T
Ben Ottewell (Gomez) – Rattlebag (TBA)
Charlene Soraia – Love Is The Law (TBA)
Dan Wilson – Love Without Fear (TBA)
Dear Plastic – The Thieves Are Babes (TBA)
Deluka – BONDS EP (Spring TBA)
Don Henley – Cass County (TBA)
Ellis Paul – Chasing Beauty (TBA)
Empires – Orphans (TBA)
Glass Towers – Halcyon Days (6/17)
Haroula Rose – Here The Blue River (TBA)
Jonah Tolchin – Clover Road (Summer TBA)
Kite Club – Fresh Air for Humans (TBA)
Lily Allen – Sheezus (TBA)
Little Daylight – TBD (7/15)
Miranda Lee Richards – Echoes of the Dreamtime (TBA)
Morrissey – World Peace Is None of Your Business (Summer)
Peter Himmelman – The Boat That Carries Us (TBA)
Rich Robinson (Black Crowes) – The Ceaseless Sight (TBA)
Sasha Siem – Most of the Boys (2014 TBA)
Slow Club – Complete Surrender (7/14)
The Felice Brothers – Favorite Waitress
The Good Natured – Prism (Summer TBA)
The Vespers – Sisters and Brothers (TBA
Tiny Ruins – Brightly Painted One (TBA)
Toby Lightman – Every Kind of People (TBA)
The Vespers – Sisters and Brothers (TBA)
Wakey! Wakey! – All It Takes Is A Little Love (TBA)
Winterpills – Echolalia (Covers) (TBA
