Here comes summer, school is out on happy days and the wild world of music is coming your ways so… what are we looking forward to here? I didn’t care less about Jenny Lewis but after her terrific turn at Governors Ball, I am wondering if this will be a biggie for her. Sinead O’Connor –because, well, because she is an enormously consistent recording artist, and Spider Bags who released the best album of 2012
June 24
A Sunny Day In Glasgow – Sea When Absent
Bad Suns – Language & Perspective
Bernhoft – Islander
Carsie Blanton – Not Old, Not New
City Walls Autumn Falls – Factory
Donovan Blanc – S/T
Ed Sheeran – x (multiply)
Eric Johnson – Europe Live
How To Dress Well – What Is This Heart?
Jess Klein – Learning Faith
John Mark Nelson – Sings the Moon
Magic Man – Before the Waves
Peter Frampton – Hummingbird In A Box
Peter Gabriel – Back to Front/Live In London (DVD)
Phish – Fuego
PHOX – S/T
Rachel Taylor (He Is We) – Come Alive EP
SomeKindaWonderful – S/T
SPEAK – Pedals
Strand of Oaks – HEAL
The Tall Pines – Black Ribbon (EP)
Vacationer – Relief
Wagons – Acid Rain & Sugar Cane
July 1
Beth Orton – Central Reservation (Deluxe)
Blank Paper – S/T EP
Chicago – XXXVI Now
Elton John – The Million Dollar Piano (DVD)
George Ezra – Wanted On Voyage (UK)
Jim Lauderdale – I’m A Song
Jonah Tolchin – Clover Lane
Levon Helm Band – Midnight Ramble Sessions III
Old Crow Medicine Show – Remedy
Pink Floyd – The Division Bell (20th Anniv. Box)
Sean Watkins (Nickel Creek) – All I Do Is Lie
July 8
Andy Bull – Sea of Approval (7/11 AUS)
Bright Light Bright Light – Life Is Easy
Cloud Boat – Model of You (UK)
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – CSNY 1974 (Live Box)
Eugene McGuinness – Chroma (UK)
John Mellencamp – Performs Trouble No More Live @ Town Hall
Jon Allen – Deep River
La Roux – Trouble In Paradise
Manic Street Preachers – Futurology (UK)
Sia – 1000 Forms of Fear
Steve Hackett – Genesis Revisited: Live at The Royal Albert Hall (CD/DVD)
Tim Bowness (No-Man) – Abandoned Dancehall Dreams
July 15
Bear In Heaven – This Is Over One Day Old
Big Wreck – Ghosts (6/10 CAN)
Charlie Simpson – Long Road Home
Dead Fingers – Big Black Dog
Fink – Hard Believer
Jason Mraz – YES! (w/ Raining Jane)
Jay Brannan – Always, Then, and Now
John Hiatt – Terms of My Surrender
Landlady – Upright Behavior (7/15)
Little Daylight – Hello Memory
Luluc – Passerby
Morrissey – World Peace Is None of Your Business
Puss N Boots (Norah Jones) – No Fools, No Fun
Slow Club – Complete Surrender
Stu Larsen – Vagabond
Trampled By Turtles – Wild Animals
Woman’s Hour – Conversations
July 22
Allison Weiss – Remember When EP
Colony House – When I Was Younger
Got A Girl – I Love You But I Must Drive Off This Cliff Now
Nell Bryden – Wayfarer
Yes – Heaven & Earth
July 29
Allman Brothers Band – 1971 Fillmore East Recordings (Box)
Angus & Julia Stone – S/T (Prod: Rick Rubin) (8/1)
Bebel Gilberto – Tudo!
Eric Clapton & Friends – The Breeze: An Appreciation of J.J. Cale
Jenny Lewis – The Voyager
Marc Broussard – A Life Worth Living
New God – Firework
The Tins – Young Blame
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Hypnotic Eye
July TBA
MT – What We Are
August 5
Arkells – High Noon
EDJ (Fruitbats’ Eric D. Johnson) – S/T
Spider Bags – Frozen Letter
Spoon – They Want My Soul
The Empty Hearts – S/T
The Rosebuds – Sand + Silence
August 12
Brian Setzer – Rockabilly Riot
Childhood – Lacuna (UK)
HEK – Please Tease Me
Lucero – Live From Atlanta
Sinead O’Connor – I’m Not Bossy I’m The Boss
August 19
Bahamas – Bahamas is Afie
Benjamin Booker – S/T
Dirty Loops – Loopified
James Taylor – TBA
JJ – V
Kimbra – The Golden Echo
Liam Bailey – Definitely NOW
Luke Sital-Singh – The Fire Within
Orenda Fink – Blue Dream
Say Yes – S/T
The Bad Plus – Inevitable Western
The Magic Numbers – Alias
Twin Atlantic – Great Divide (UK)
Various – Look Again To The Wind: Johnny Cash’s Bitter Tears Revisited
August 26
Billy Childs & Guests – Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro
Brad Paisley – Moonshine in the Trunk
Cold Specks – Neuroplasticity
Cymbals Eat Guitars – Lose
Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull)- Thick as a Brick Live in Iceland (DVD)
J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.) – Tied To A Star
Merchandise – After the End
Shovels & Rope – Swimmin’ Time
The New Pornographers – Brill Bruisers
Ty Segall – Manipulator
September 2
Anthony D’Amato – The Shipwreck from the Shore
Blonde Redhead – Barragán
Circa Waves – EP
Counting Crows – Somewhere Under Wonderland
Maroon 5 – V
The Kooks – Listen
The Pierces – Creation (UK)
September 9
BANKS – Goddess
Crow Moses – Horse Heaven Hills
Interpol – El Pintor
Justin Townes Earle – Single Mothers
Lewis & Clarke – Triumvirate
Loudon Wainwright III – Haven’t Got the Blues (Yet)
Tennis – Ritual In Repeat
September 16
Jerry Douglas – Three Bells
My Brightest Diamond – This Is My Hand
Nick Mulvey – First Mind (U.S.)
Tweedy – Sukierae (Jeff Tweedy & Son)
September 23
Gossling – Harvest Of Gold (U.S.)
Imelda May – Tribal
Jackie Evancho – Awakening
Lenny Kravitz – Strut
September 30
Kat Edmonson – The Big Picture
Mary Lambert – TBD
Beyond
Allen Stone – TBA (Summer)
Annie Stela – Whiplash Blues (TBA)
As Animals – S/T
Ben Ottewell (Gomez) – Rattlebag (TBA)
Charlene Soraia – Love Is The Law (TBA)
Dear Plastic – The Thieves Are Babes (TBA)
Deluka – BONDS EP (TBA)
Don Henley – Cass County (TBA)
Ellis Paul – Chasing Beauty (TBA)
Empires – Orphans (TBA)
Erlend Øye (Kings of Convenience) – Legao (TBA)
Haroula Rose – Here The Blue River (TBA)
Jo Hamilton – Fractals (Late Summer TBA)
Jonah Tolchin – Clover Road (Summer TBA)
Kite Club – Fresh Air for Humans (TBA)
Madi Diaz – Phantom (Fall TBA)
Marianne Faithfull – Give My Love to London (Sept. TBA)
Megan Washington – There, There (Sept. TBA AUS)
Miranda Lee Richards – Echoes of the Dreamtime (TBA)
Natalia Zukerman – Come Thief, Come Fire (TBA)
Peter Himmelman – The Boat That Carries Us (TBA)
Rich Robinson (Black Crowes) – The Ceaseless Sight (TBA)
Sara Lowes – The Joy of Waiting (TBA)
Sara Swenson – Runway Lights (Summer TBA)
Sasha Siem – Most of the Boys (TBA)
Scott Matthews – Home Pt. 1 (TBA)
Stevie Nicks – 24 Karat Gold: Songs From the Vault (Fall)
The Flaming Lips – With A Little Help from My Fwends (Sgt. Pepper Tribute) (10/28)
The Good Natured – Prism (Summer TBA)
The Vespers – Sisters and Brothers (TBA
Toby Lightman – Every Kind of People (TBA)
Wakey! Wakey! – All It Takes Is A Little Love (TBA)
Whitehorse – Leave No Bridge Unburned (Feb. 2015)
Winterpills – Echolalia (Covers) (TBA)
